Yessica...
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I'm new. Only been looking into any of this since June 13, 2014.
But from what I have seen, read, and heard - there are pro's and con's to both.
Pro's of MMAR
- a legitimate looking "card" from the government that gave you a Licence to Carry that was actually recognized by law enforcement.
- being able to grow your own medicine. THAT is the biggest positive I think. I really would like to legally be able to grow my own.
Pro's of MMPR
- if you don't have time to grow your own, or the capabilities, you can get it from a Licensed Producer who is NOT going to abuse the system and sell their products on the black market. (Hopefully)
- Compassionate Doctors can choose to give a patient a prescription, and not have the negativity of Health Canada towards MMJ getting in the way.
I understand that the government wants to regulate (ahem...make $$$) off of Medical Marijuana. And I get it. They are doing the same thing with gas, oil, cigarettes, alcohol, and other pharmaceutical drugs and medical treatments that are not covered by a Health Plan.
But what is happening currently under the MMPR, isn't working fully. It's too expensive. And you REALLY have to be a sack of shit to take the ability of a patient to receive their medicine at a low cost ($1.00 to $4.00 per gram I have read) and force them to pay ten times that much.
So - we gotta fix it. The patients and growers are really the only ones that know anything about any of this. And those who have chosen to become informed on their own.
The government clearly does not - or they would not have caused this big fuckin mess.
So - thoughts? Most of you have been doing all this A LOT longer than me.
I would be fuckin pissed though if I was growing "legally" for years, and then "they" told me it was illegal all of a sudden.
But from what I have seen, read, and heard - there are pro's and con's to both.
Pro's of MMAR
- a legitimate looking "card" from the government that gave you a Licence to Carry that was actually recognized by law enforcement.
- being able to grow your own medicine. THAT is the biggest positive I think. I really would like to legally be able to grow my own.
Pro's of MMPR
- if you don't have time to grow your own, or the capabilities, you can get it from a Licensed Producer who is NOT going to abuse the system and sell their products on the black market. (Hopefully)
- Compassionate Doctors can choose to give a patient a prescription, and not have the negativity of Health Canada towards MMJ getting in the way.
I understand that the government wants to regulate (ahem...make $$$) off of Medical Marijuana. And I get it. They are doing the same thing with gas, oil, cigarettes, alcohol, and other pharmaceutical drugs and medical treatments that are not covered by a Health Plan.
But what is happening currently under the MMPR, isn't working fully. It's too expensive. And you REALLY have to be a sack of shit to take the ability of a patient to receive their medicine at a low cost ($1.00 to $4.00 per gram I have read) and force them to pay ten times that much.
So - we gotta fix it. The patients and growers are really the only ones that know anything about any of this. And those who have chosen to become informed on their own.
The government clearly does not - or they would not have caused this big fuckin mess.
So - thoughts? Most of you have been doing all this A LOT longer than me.
I would be fuckin pissed though if I was growing "legally" for years, and then "they" told me it was illegal all of a sudden.
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