I doubt that there will ever be a dispensary near me, thankfully. I'm in a pretty small populated part of AZ.
And Silasraven... google a little bit. Basically Feds in a lot of the states are cracking down on dispensaries. In Cali, they were given 45 days to close shop. Building owners and landlords were told their places would be seized and they would be arrested if they allowed dispensaries to continue. Banks who had dispensary accounts closed their accounts and were threatened by the Feds and now the IRS is going after big dispensaries. One dispensary was caught with two 16 year olds smoking inside. There is much more to it, but that is the short version. Check the stories out.. They are pretty interesting and seem like they brought it on themselves. Hope they had a bunch of cash stashed in their mattresses and they are on a flight to some countries that the US has no interests in. I know I would be, if I was a prior dispensary owner.
Dispensaries took advantage of their positions and charged astronomical prices which obviously is not really helping a legal patient at all. I read an article about one dispensary who was making 12,000$ a day in Cali. Pretty crazy..