You are a Mod on a Medical board and not even in the program any more?…lol….Medical will be gone in less then two years. The cost of the card is just to high in Oregon to keep the program going.
Not sure if I'd feel differently if I weren't a grower in a place where I couldn't buy legally if I wanted to though...This is the very reason Medical is going to be gone soon, the only ones that will stay in it are the ones working it. The average guy that just wants to buy pot wont go threw all that shit to get a card, he will just go get his at a legal club. SSI & Welfare people who only pay $20 for a card may stay in it, but what do those people do for any thing but take? As soon as most of the people that pay the $200 plus to get a card are out, the program will be shut down by the government. Wait and see.FWIW, I'm staying medical as 72 lbs of protection beats the hell out of 8 ounces of protection (though I can't imagine I'll ever hit 72#) Also medical gives me a bit more protection in my chosen growing spot as it can be argued it's in "plain view", toss in if the white house switches there's a chance there will still be medical even if recreational goes away... so, I'll pay the yearly protection tax
I've heard that before from others, but I'm not sure that prediction is what's actually happening. I was in a dispensary last week picking up clones, and that dispensary is going back to only selling to med patients. They said that the number of people applying for cards keeps growing every year, and they prefer that client base, so they are dropping rec sales.
FWIW If you're doing outdoor as a patient AND a grower, you're actually allowed to have 72 POUNDS on hand vs 8 ounces (12 pounds per outdoor plant, 8 pounds for indoor plant, or 48 pounds if you only grow indoor) Note that's for people that are their own growers, else patients are just allowed the 24Oz mentioned.
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Exactly, originally we (combination of the patient, the grower, and the caregiver) were allowed "only" 24 ounces in total (of either flower or hash/extract). With the other changes this year came the recognition that outdoor grows of marijuana produce much more than indoor, and that even indoor *could* in theory produce tons (8 pounds might require herculean efforts though.) They tightened the strings on people who garden for others to cut down on the grey market cannabis which... well, each person has an opinion on if that's a good thing or not. Possibly due to their involvement in said market... I'm pretty much ok with it IF patients were either guaranteed to be allowed to garden themselves / have their caregivers garden in their house (e.g landlords didn't have the right to evict patients for legally gardening in a safe manner) but shockingly, I wasn't consulted. I will admit after reading that section I had two different lawyers give me their take on things, as.... 72 POUNDS??!?!?! On the bright side, this means you don't HAVE to garden yearly. (For two years running I've been telling myself that this is my last year doing it mind youTHANK YOU!
I thought I read it all, but apparently by page 42 I was skimming at best. Or maybe "Effective 1 Mar 2016 per section 179" implies this was not part of the original law? I guess I haven't been keeping up.
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It depends, there's a valid argument to be made that raising the recreational limits would effectively kill medical (though us medical self growing patients have far less restrictions on us than recreational home growers). However, my money is on yes, the rec limits will be raised in the next few years. I'm personally hoping for something along Colorado's route of not limiting "home grown" except for how many plants one can grow (which I'll note hasn't appeared to hurt their retail sales.) Still, early days as long as next occupant of the white house isn't anti pot we're in for a fun ride.
The 1k ft from a school was for recreational suppliers not recreational home grows (at least after the round up bill went through) for home grows recreational it just needs to be out of public view (not the case with medical grows). Note that there are at least 2 bills making their way through our congress (mostly to tweak recreational bits, but also one segment of one bill is set to allow people on probation and what not to use medical cannabis just like any other perscription drug.) So, for now, if you're asking for home grown recreational, there is no such limitation if you're asking for signing up to grow recreational, you'll need to ask the liquor people (though be warned whatever they say MIGHT change depending on how this shortened session of the legislature goes.)
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