Quote Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
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.
They did require caregivers to pay taxes, because the old system didn't work. There weren't enough honest for-profit caregivers. There were too many barkowitz's operating and not paying taxes.

This has nothing to do with competition, and nothing to do with marijuana. It has everything to do with revenue generation for the state. Show me otherwise. You think mattcook cares about MMC's? He doesn't. His job is to generate revenue for the state of Colorado, and 1284/109 go a long way to create that revenue. I still don't understand why you don't think this is a tax issue.

If you take the license fee away, then MMC's are caregivers, right? So, can't we assume that the purpose of 1284/109 is revenue generation? Does it really change anything for patients? Not really, but it changes things for the growers who didn't pay taxes. That's my point.