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Exactly. You can't designate them and take on patients.
It almost gives you motion sickness trying work through the nebulous and serpentine corridors of our current rules and regulations. If you want to grow, you have a personal limit of 6 plants, which is nothing close to a sufficient amount to do any involved breeding and strain exploration. So you're still dependent on outside sources for new varieties. But apparently its now illegal to sell clones and seeds (I don't know, just heard this)? So as a personal grower you're basically forced to be involved in international trafficking (mail-order!) on a regular basis, because your grow room isn't big enough to preserve strains, and you can't get things locally!
Now you could become a care-giver to up your plant limit and open more possibilities in the grow room, but the trend in legislation this year seems to be to decrease the rights and number of individual care-givers, while tailoring things to the larger MMC's. Other care-givers can correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you need to expect to lose money this way with the current regulations, and at best break even?
Sorry for the rant, just trying to understand it all.