Quote Originally Posted by cologrower420
Let's talk taxes for a moment, and perhaps you'll see where I'm coming from.

You see guys like mattcook, in charge of the department of revenue. You see our struggling economy, and you also see other states such as California struggling to survive.

Then, you see reports of large scale home growers such as barkowitz bragging about making a million bucks. Do you really think the department of revenue ignored that story? Don't you think it's feasible that they checked his income, it didn't match his story, they saw he was breaking federal drug laws, and busted him?

How can you ignore this? It seems apparent to me that this legislation maximizes the revenue generated for the state. It transfers the enforcement to the dept. of revenue instead of health (right?), it ensures revenue generation via licensing fees (right)? Seems to me, the large scale, for profit caregivers were not paying their fair share of taxes on the revenue generated. I don't remember every paying a drug dealer sales tax. Don't you see that the dept. of revenue saw all of these large scale private grows, realized how much money those growers were making (and the sales taxes they WEREN'T paying), and that the wording of this legislation ensures that?

I don't understand how you can possibly take the position that MMC's had something to do with this. MMC's/dispensaries/whatever term you want are spending money to remain compliant. I don't understand how you can say that they had a say or whatever anti-MMC argument you hold. It's just weird, and I still haven't heard a good reason to hate the good MMC's. It seems that you'd rather judge them all as bad instead of paying attention to the good ones.

Assuming you are correct and the 'rich kids' are the only ones opening MMC's moving forward, then hopefully no one buys their low quality product. Maybe they get lucky and hire the right grower, and it's the next releaf or wellspring. I don't have a problem with someone like that opening an MMC, assuming THEY FOLLOW THE LAW. What's wrong with competition if you're so sure of your quality? That's what I don't get about this seemingly adversarial relationship between home grows and dispensaries. It just seems that MMC's are the easiest target. It's been said before, there are VERY few people who are in this industry without blood on your hands.
If all they wanted was taxes then they would have just required CAREGIVERS to pay taxes and regulated caregivers, not created a new entity the MMC.

Compitition? LOL To me it seems that's what Matt Cook and his buddies are trying to get rid of. I have nothing against compitition but why do I need to have +/- 50K to compete? To me it sounds like they are the ones afraid of compitition. Hence the put the caregiver out of business strategy.
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