HighPop, if you only knew what Wanda, Josh and the rest of CMMR's true intentions were pre-1284 you might have a different view. Our dispensary was approached by CMMR before any legislation was introduced with the intentions of getting us to join CMMR. At the time the industry was exploding, dispensaries were popping up everywhere, and some were blatantly throwing it in the public's face by hanging huge signs with pot leaves, etc. I knew at the time there would be a backlash and things would not turn out well and that is why I got out of it when I did. It seemed to me dispensaries were the least protected under the law and they would be the first to get fucked when shit hit the fan. Apparently CMMR felt the same way, only problem was they were driven by huge egos. CMMR told me legislation was looming and Wanda was 'high up' in the political circles and that they had a lobbying and marketing group ready to go. I told them I was getting out of the dispensary business and planning on going back to being a caregiver, the response was 'good luck with that, caregivers are the ones ruining this business and that will be our main target'. I found that statement to be very strange considering the fact that every dispensary owner started as a caregiver.

Fast forward to now, it seems they got their way regardless of the fact that caregivers are supposedly protected under the constitution. But make no mistake, their intention was clearly driven by greed and their own survival and fuck everyone else. What I have a huge problem with is if it were not for the caregiver model that they shot down they would have never got where they were to begin with, once they had their foot in the door they worked diligently to shut everyone else out.