What is considered a collective/cooperative? Specifically in San Jose, CA?

So I want to grow at my aunt/uncle's house in San Jose, CA and they are totally cool with it on one condition: since they are both employed by the state or county governments they want it to be 100% legal. What I mean by 100% legal is that I have to do a bunch of research and find out what I need to do in order for my grow set up to be legal. Through my research I found that all collectives, cooperatives, and dispensaries must register with the city which involves getting building permits and tax forms and a bunch of other stuff that would make a 1 person grow setup with maybe 4-5 plants max worth all the time and money I would have to spend.

So my question is whether or not my 1 person 4-5 plant (potential) grow setup would be considered a collective or a cooperative? I would prefer someone who actually lives in San Jose or the South Bay who has knowledge on the subject but I'm definitely desperate for information at this point so I will accept anything and everything.

Three or more people are needed in order to be considered a collective in the state of CA. You growing less than 6 plants constitutes as a patient grow. Which is legal if you are a qualified patient.

A cooperative collective is a dispensary. That's the type of no profit you try to set up and get a resale license for. So if you don't have store front. Then no more than 5 patients per collective grow and all you need is copies of patients recs. Check with your local ordinance. Some cities or counties require members of said collective to reside in the same place as the plants. Yhey also have different plant limits. The cooperative law sunsets in 2019 most likely. 1 year from when the commercial recreational licenses are available. Which they guess 2018 is when they will be issued. Hopefully we can get cchi on the ballot in the midterm elections. We didn't get enough signatures for the 2016 election. Looks like we're getting auma the sean parker initiative which is incoherently written and full of lengthy contradictions.

Also in 2010 people vs kelley. Patrick K kelley case. The Supreme Court ruled that there are no plant limits and plant limits are unconstitutional.

hyroot said:

A cooperative collective is a dispensary. That's the type of no profit you try to set up and get a resale license for. So if you don't have store front. Then no more than 5 patients per collective grow and all you need is copies of patients recs. Check with your local ordinance. Some cities or counties require members of said collective to reside in the same place as the plants. Yhey also have different plant limits. The cooperative law sunsets in 2019 most likely. 1 year from when the commercial recreational licenses are available. Which they guess 2018 is when they will be issued. Hopefully we can get cchi on the ballot in the midterm elections. We didn't get enough signatures for the 2016 election. Looks like we're getting auma the sean parker initiative which is incoherently written and full of lengthy contradictions.

Also in 2010 people vs kelley. Patrick K kelley case. The Supreme Court ruled that there are no plant limits and plant limits are unconstitutional.

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Correct. General advice to patients is to not exceed 99plants (federal). However... It seems they are cracking down some... CCHI is the best initiative to vote in favor of! AUMA is stupid as shit.

The real deal is that nothing really can touch prop 215. I am interested to see how the court cases against the new licensing laws hold up. Technically... 215 should be held up and anything trying to alter it should be shot down just like SB420 was in the Kelley case.

Solid advice is that IF you are a qualified patient you can grow a personal amount. That amount varies person to person/patient to patient. Keep your plant counts as small as you reasonably can and still satisfy your needs. Be ready to justify excessive production to the courts. Under prop 215 patients can exchange excess medicine for donations (on materials etc..) on a patient to patient bases.

The real intent of 215 was to make medicine available cheaply to those that need it, not for it to cost 20$ a gram at dispensaries. Technically a bunch of 215 patients getting together and exchanging medicine and plants is a "collective". Once it becomes all about money (as it is right now) big business sticks their sticky fingers in it. God forbid normal people make a living right?

Don't know about growing but San Jose strikes me as not very friendly to dispensaries. I believe the city forced a bunch of them to move out of "respectable" neighborhoods into scuzzier zones.