Personally I like to think of the 12 plant/2.5 ounce as transportation limits and may be at home if referencing 12 unquestionably flowering plants with medicinal value. LEO, courts and lawyers like to bastardize Section 4 of our MMMA to simply keep on keeping on with this criminalization game that they literally subsist on (clear Conflict of Interest). Section 4's title "Protections for Medical Use of Marijuana" alone not only tells a different story, it's clear directives are literally aimed at stopping these players actions, NOT a patient/caregiver right to act under this decriminalization Act. The language and repeated prohibitions of this section such as "There shall be a presumption that a qualifying patient or primary caregiver is engaged in the medical use of marihuana in accordance" and "shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner" is without a doubt the spirit of this section of the law IMHO.