Quote Originally Posted by Purple Daddy
Because they are operating illegally. NOWHERE in prop. 215 does it allow a person to set up a store front and sell "medication". BECAUSE there is no mainstream medical supply of canabis prop. 215 determined a person could, grow, posess and exchange with other patients who have a Dr. recommendation. How on earth thing have gotten to where they are is beyond me.
Your comments about Prop 215 are true as far as they go, but AB 420 did specifically set up the dispensary system we have in California.

Even though state laws allow it doesn't mean local/county ordinances haven't been put in place to regulate it. In Butte county they have made it virtually impossible to grow even with a Dr. recommendation.
You have a source for this claim? The Butte Co MMJ Guidelines have several provisions not compliant to recent California Supreme Court rulings, but those restrictions do not add up to making it "virtually impossible" to grow your own mmj.