And how the hell is anyone supposed to be a caregiver? The state is literally eliminating caregivers, except for the caregivers who have patients outside the 25 mile radius. Which was designed by the state to encompass 98% of the population of AZ with how they did the CHAA's. So good luck finding those rural patients lol it's a fucking joke.
Read the post again. How can you be a caregiver for someone if you cant grow for them? All you can do would be go to a dispensary and buy it for them, big woop.
The state had very little to do with setting up this system which creates oligopoly for the dispensaries. They are merely implementing and enforcing (except not very well).Everything that seems unfair I.e 25 mile rule, Plant numbers, extreme gov. Oversight etc. Came directly from the assholes at marijuana policy project if you dont believe me then ask the lawyer whom they hired to write the initiative and help pass the amma because i did talk to her personally.
the 25 mile rule has been there the whole time everyone knows they cant grow or renew if there is dispensary.
The crafters of the AMMA achieved what failed to survive the voters' will in 96. FOURTEEN YEARS LATER consumers (real patients and not) stopped being criminals.
You are right, the reason they said they put the 25 mile rule in there was to help it pass. Since it passed by such a slim margin I guarantee you they are right and we would have nothing to bitch about (IE no AMMA/Prop203) had it not been in there the voters probably would have been swayed enough that it would have failed. It wouldnt have taken much, less than 1% i believe and we would have no MMJ in AZ.
Well they will basically be pushed out by the dispensaries as they open, and as their cards expire there will be less & less caregivers. That's basically what I was trying to say there.
That is the biggest load of bullshit. I discussed this exact point with the lawyer whom was hired by the mpp to craft and push the referendum through. There was absolutely no actual evidence to back this bullshit predication up. There was no polling on this issue, this was not discussed in a public forum. There was no actual proving of this bullshit idea. Furthermore there is no other similar case in any other state where home cultivation was the deciding factor for passage of a medical marijuana program. Anyone who says it would not have passed other wise is full of shit and is either a fucking moron or has an interest with dispensaries. Do you know that it was not even the state of Arizona or any opposition who even mentioned the idea of a 25 mile rule? Did you know that the mpp made sure such a rule was inserted without any urging or even mention from the state or opposition. Wake up the mpp and dispensaries and the money that got this amma passed does not give a shit about anything but their bottom line.
Calm down man, that's what I heard as to why they included that in the law. I believe from the MPP themselves in one of the emails they occasionally send out. I didnt say it was the iron clad truth. You obviously have inside knowledge on that issue I dont.
I don't doubt you guys or what the lawyer said. But seriously whats the hidden agenda behind "dispensaries monopolize the industry in AZ" why would MPP give a fuck? Unless they themselves are applying for a shitload of them, then it would make sense.
It is not mere finger pointing, it is trying to show the patients how they are seen by the dispensary prospective owners. The point here into show their perspective and attitude towards patients as well. I believe in capitalism just as much as you do maybe even more having lived as a socialist for a year. The problem here is that with the 25 mile rule the Amma becomes a socialist system. See when the government controls the means of production, that is the textbook definition of socialism. A market where only a few are allowed to produce and their operating bars others from producing is not a free market and is therefore not really capitalism. What iambic essentially arguing is the freeing of this market and the elimination of exclusivity in production, this will prove to create the best quality medicine, at the most reasonable price and the widest variety for patients to chose from. The problem js not that they plan on making money its how the wanna do it And prevent others from doing it.
I donated at least 1/3 of all monies collected which was not shit...
