Vending?

[copobo]

For example, say The Releaf Center had a massive crop failure. We may have a lot of crop, but not much of it is usable. Why would another shop want to keep us in business? Or why wouldn't they price gouge?

if you have your shit down, and if you are in business for the primary purpose of supplying other MMCs (which would be THE business model to be in, IMO) why wouldn't you? Developing good business relationships and a dependable supply chain is how business works.

copobo Reviewed by copobo on 08-12-2010. Vending? Where have all the vendors gone? It's been awfully quiet around here lately. Rating: 5

[SoCoMMJ]

if you have your shit down, and if you are in business for the primary purpose of supplying other MMCs (which would be THE business model to be in, IMO) why wouldn't you? Developing good business relationships and a dependable supply chain is how business works.

The problem is that it cant be your primary purpose. You can only sell 30% or your volume.

[TheReleafCenter]

if you have your shit down, and if you are in business for the primary purpose of supplying other MMCs (which would be THE business model to be in, IMO) why wouldn't you? Developing good business relationships and a dependable supply chain is how business works.

If demand is higher than supply, which I argue it will be, then they'll need to be selective about who they wholesale to. They're also constrained by the 30% rule.

If Coke found out that Pepsi couldn't produce any soda, would they wholesale to them or watch them go down in flames?

[copobo]

The problem is that it cant be your primary purpose. You can only sell 30% or your volume.

really? I thought it was that you could only BUY 30% of your volume?

[copobo]

If demand is higher than supply, which I argue it will be, then they'll need to be selective about who they wholesale to. They're also constrained by the 30% rule.

If Coke found out that Pepsi couldn't produce any soda, would they wholesale to them or watch them go down in flames?

that would be handled by the market (price) if we're really running like businesses. the strong survive...

[SoCoMMJ]

really? I thought it was that you could only BUY 30% of your volume?

There's this:

(4) NOTWITHSTANDING THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION (3) OF
THIS SECTION TO THE CONTRARY, A MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENSEE MAY
PURCHASE NOT MORE THAN THIRTY PERCENT OF ITS TOTAL ON-HAND
INVENTORY OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA FROM ANOTHER LICENSED MEDICAL
MARIJUANA CENTER IN COLORADO. A MEDICAL MARIJUANA CENTER MAY
SELL NO MORE THAN THIRTY PERCENT OF ITS TOTAL ON-HAND INVENTORY
TO ANOTHER COLORADO LICENSED MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENSEE.

Additionally your plant count will be based on patient count. So you would have to supply them as well off of your numbers. Wholesaling would be great, but they eliminated it by design.

[senorx12562]

I don't really believe that HB10-1284 is working wonders for anybody. Not for centers, not for caregivers, and not for patients. Our wonderful legislators dumped this same mess on everybody in the industry. Yes the industry needed some regulation, but not this mess.

Somehow you twisted a good thing of selling to our patients at wholesale prices into a strange perversion of stealing patients from you. I look at it more as, why would I sell to my own patients at a higher price than I would sell to another dispensary for?

But I guess maybe I should change that and charge more ??? Or maybe not be in business so patients can pay more where the MMC has to pay growers wholesale before they mark it up? Not sure what you are looking for here.

We are well aware that 1284 sucks, but we're past that and dealing with it.

I'm curious about your statement that the industry "needed" regulation. Based on what? The potential danger of the product? How about bicycle shops? Do they need regulation?
What about hair-braiding? Ice skating rinks? I challenge anyone to come up with justification for government interference with cannabis, medical or not, at any level.

[SoCoMMJ]

I challenge anyone to come up with justification for government interference with cannabis, medical or not, at any level.

We can start off with accountability of product that is destined for sick people. A good number of dispensaries would buy from random vendors that brought product to the back door. It was paid for with cash, got marked up, and then went out the front door.

What if there was a problem with the product from contamination... how could you identify the source it if everything was paid in cash and nothing was tracked ?

Your challenge was too easy...

[Ocotillo]

Where have all the vendors gone? It's been awfully quiet around here lately.

When folks say "vendors", does this mean you can buy a blunt, joint, baggie, brownie, etc from a vending machine out there in CA? If not yet that would be a great idea. Is this possible? Thanks. Cheers.

[Ocotillo]

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What the heck IS that thing in your avatar pic? It's been driving me crazy for months!!!!! A baby bird? A mouse? An obscene body part? :what: