Why not continue to grow your own medicine under the MMPR?

Just thinking about what it would cost to grow your own medicine in the MMPR. Remember back in the day when the MMAR was that huge hurdle, having to expose yourself and all that red tape. Many even made large investments and did major construction for the MMAR.

The MMPR is not that much different, add zoning, more security, SOP's, storage and packaging. If you are a real grower already, with a PPL or a DGL, you are probably passing the MMPR hurdles already with a few exceptions, even many Black Growers will have this right already.

First your zoning is critical, look deep into your local rules, many times a small grow can be put within a greenhouse bylaw, or the current use may allow the rules to be used too.

The rest of the exceptions are about the illicit market, accountability, and consumer safety, they all cost money. Good growers already have been dealing with this since the beginning of their indoor grow and should welcome the opportunity to eliminate the peddling to our children and the profit for HA.

What are you going to stop growing because of some paperwork? Is another $50,000 really going to stop you from coming out of the legal grey and into the legal white? How much do you already have invested? Buildings, equipment, security, time, knowledge and the experience.

Put up some cameras hooked to a computer, dedicate a phone line, get rid of the ziplocks and buy some proper containers with a labeller, write your own SOP's, Probably a good idea for all growers as you will find it enlightening. And you'll need a Website, unless you are a subcontractor. Subcontractors will have to jump every hoop to becoming an LP, adding that middleman.

Don't you want to know what that strain you have been working on really tests out at anyway? Now with an accounting program and you can grow your own medicine as well as growing all the overage you want, selling it legally, all with no middleman or plant counts. stirring the pot

I get what you see as pro's to going to go with the new program but what about the end cost to the user? Why create another system to get weed for the same price from the neighbourhood vendors? I think the personal growing system for people from health Canada was good except through the paperwork process of getting a permit and seeing a specialist when so few wanted to be a part of the system. What I would have done different is I would have had hired a shitload of inspectors. They would go around to each place and sign them off as to a proper max plant count. Once that was done I would have those same people monitor these places for their allotted plant count on a regular basis. That in my opinion was where the conservatives failed on fine tuning the system. They were to in shock of how many people believed in their right to smoke medicinal weed. The numbers of permits shocked them all and so they pounced and came up with a new system that I don't think is that great. I mean who is prairie plant systems and why did they get the monopoly for so long? Were they somebody's brother in law in parliament or did they supply call girls to the important people in the back rooms? My hope is that we get an injunction in our up and coming court case again Harper. So we can continue to grow.

Anyone know when the court case is??

Don't think there is a court date yet.

Buckets are you talking about the short term transitional costs to the end user ($8.80/g)? Only solution is mass protest in every major city. Long term, production growing will lower prices for the end user.

Best things about the MMAR was how quickly and thoroughly it spread marihuana to every part of our society, kids being an unfortunate consequence though I suspect that was inevitable. Otherwise it was a total self digesting disaster on every level except for that "free meds bullshit", if you think that is okay.

Inspectors for a single individuals grow would just cost too much, if you passed the costs on, then growing would cost too much, HC would have done it if they could. Inspectors counting plants was not going to solve the illicit market. DGs were keeping plant counts in check for the most part, they were just producing three times as much marihuana as they were allowed to in 1/3 the time.

PPS just got their application and their shit together first (monopoly on nothing), I don't like it, but good on them. Not a conspiracy.

If conroy wins fantastic, it is still over for the MMAR. You think you'll just keep on growing in your basement with your 100 amp panel and your bug bombs. The fact that it is not cheap or easy to grow responsibly is the real issue for the personal production licenses, very few would pass a simple litmus test on responsible growing. Only the very conscientious need apply.

You have your hope, good luck with that, it is not enough for me.

I'll have to digest your points of view for a bit longer Kootenay Girl. I don't know what's going to happen. Your word responsible hit home to me. Conroy says he can apply for the court date before March but is still researching. I know he has 15 witnesses that they hand picked. You can google conroy and company and you'll find their website which they ask people to go and look at for the current updates.