I agree that all should have access to it if they want it, along with grow rights. I think the situation in WA is with the recreational law passing, medical growers and their grow rights are being disregarded (or an attempt to that regard). Growing licenses are being sold (bringing in corporations) and in limited supply (cornering the market), and in a similar fashion to AZ, they will have established a monopoly on a plant (higher prices), with profits going to the government (taxes) and big corporations ($ makes $). I could be wrong because I live in the desert and not the NW, but this is what I gather is happening there.
Free the weed!
Hey Greywind, here's how it stands as of this week:
The producers (growers) fall into three tiers that they can apply to grow at. Tier 1 is under 2,000 sq ft. Tier 2 (what we've applied for) is 2,000-10,000 sq ft. Tier 3, over 10,000sq ft.
WA state has capped the canopy growing space at 2,000,000 sq ft. There are currently applications in for over 800 growers, totaling in about 10,000,000 sq ft of requested growing. Once the application window closes next week, the growers are all vetted and licenses issued, the state will scale down everyone's requested growth by a percentage to meet the 2mil state cap.
This means that while we've applied to grow for a maximum 10,000 sq ft, the state will likely come back to us and say that we can only grow a max of something much less. This will hurt MANY growers across the state and likely the smaller and middle sized ones the most. We will have to see how we handle the first year. I truly hope that operations such as ours can survive and we don't see a trend to only big Tier 3 growers.
