Quote Originally Posted by MoHoGrow
I'm not sure I understand this really.

So if dispensaries want mmj patients to have access at prices (ridiculous inflated prices) the industry is used to in other states, i.e. $300/oz... then they will have to make their price $100/oz, and the patient is charged $300, $200 of which goes to the State?

Is that right?

Just ballparking, I would imagine a dispensary's cost of goods sold on an ounce of marijuana would be something like $50 or so. So now we have dispensaries making $50 on each ounce sold rather than $250 on each ounce sold.

If that is right, perhaps the upside to the whole thing is:

A. We see people getting into the dispensary business who aren't just money-hungry profiteers and perhaps come from a place of compassion. This is assuming that making $50 per ounce makes the business viable at all after the associated fees for licensure, inspections, license renewal, surveillance, security, etc. (Which I think is doubtful.)

B. If dispensaries become non-viable entities and everybody abandons their plans, or there are simply fewer dispensaries in AZ... then more of us can enjoy home cultivation because we won't be within 25 miles of a non-existent dispensary.
C. Patients need to boycott all dispensaries out of business, then we can grow our own or have a caregiver grow for us.