Quote Originally Posted by Zedleppelin
My position is based on almost 10 years in this industry as a patient, dispensary owner and a caregiver, and before that almost 20 years as an advocate, so if thats how you define ignorance then so be it. I spoke with an owner/friend yesterday about this very subject and it seems what 1284 has done at this point is put the smaller centers in a position where they cannot obtain quality meds and the ones that can are getting them on the black market. Since the beginning of Sept I have had more dispensaries call me looking than before, and one asked if I knew where to get 100 lbs, so what does that say? All these centers are desperate and willing to break the law to survive. Maybe as time goes on these centers grows will eventually satisfy the market but right now they are not.
I hesitate to engage you because I've been banned for 'wishing a bust on others' when discussing legal vs illegal in one of the brighton bust threads (I think it was that thread), but I'm really curious about this subject. Oh well if I get the ban hammer again. Here goes. *fingers crossed*

Are caregivers who keep growing for their 5 patients increasing plant count? Are they running massive undercurrent or other hydroponic systems? Are they still doing business as usual? It seems like you have experience with this industry prior to A20, are things back to that environment with caregivers/growing/etc? With all of this tracking of medicine 'from seed to sale', isn't it going to be difficult for MMC's to obtain medicine illegally? Am I missing something? Are you suggesting that MMC's are either going through caregiver product or illegally obtaining their inventory? Just some? I don't have MMC experience like you say you do, how is that possible after 1284/109?

Feel free to ignore this post, it's pretty apparent you despise patients/new growers like myself. I don't mind being ignored or banned or whatever. I come to this site because it has great information, especially local stuff. It's still easy enough to access either way. I can't say enough that I'm not trying to piss off the mods or other posters here, I'm just trying to have an open discussion.