Quote Originally Posted by cologrower420
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.
No If you take the license fee away they are illegal growers. Look at the new aps. They have a section to assign a caregiver and a seperate section to assign a MMC. The purpose of 1284/109 was not revenue generation. Yes, you can try to spin it that way but if all they wanted was the tax money they would have just cracked down on regulating caregivers not created MMC's.