Looking For Links To The Benefits Of Dispensaries And CG & Patients Growing

[buddydro]

A WI politician that I visited with requested more information on two subjects:

The need for having dispensaries.

The need for caregivers and patients to have the ability to grow for themselves.

Get this - she appeared to be against both options??? Go figure

Anywho - please hook me up with any good information that you are aware of. I bet she does not think that I am coming back to see her!

Thanks in advance.

buddy

 

[buddydro]

Specifically

Specifically

Specifically, I'm looking for links to:


articles

editorials

persuasive or well written threads, posts, etc.

Thanks in advance.

buddy

 

[buddydro]

Help Please

Help Please

C'mon - nobody has anything for me?

 

[buddydro]

wrong forum?

wrong forum?

Maybe I posted this request in the wrong forum? I'll try something different I guess.

 

[DoobieDuck]

The need for having dispensaries. The need for caregivers and patients to have the ability to grow for themselves.

Buddy have you tried our search feature? I don't personally know of any links for you but let me offer my opinion, as a patient that is a member of a collective, grows for himself, and visits a dispensary once in awhile. Have your friend consider MMJ as a serious part of my doctor prescribed daily treatment for my pain. I have had two cervical spine surgeries with hardware... This harmless plant allows me to cut back on my dangerous narcotics intake.

I need a dispensary to be able to aquire my medicine when my grows aren't producing. Also dispensaries provide a variety of strains that offer different kinds of relief for me, including hashish. The ability to aquire and try these varieties allows me to search for the best one for each of my specific health issues.

The ability to grow for myself..I guess I might answer with a question, Why Not? It allows me to provide medicine for myself at a very low cost to my family. If I am able to grow a few plants in my garden alongside my tomatoes etc durring the summer the cost is very minimal and the bennifits unmeasurable. Growing also provides me therapy as working in my garden frees my mind of depression caused by enduring consistant pain.

Many thanks to your polititian for thier service, I like to ask people how they would feel if I was a close family member of thiers, thier mother, seriously hurt in a vehical accident, getting much needed relief from using cannabis? Would they feel differently about medical marijuana? Would they even question these things? Thanks for your questions..DD

 

[buddydro]

Thanks doobieduck

Thanks doobieduck

Buddy have you tried our search feature? I don't personally know of any links for you but let me offer my opinion, as a patient that is a member of a collective, grows for himself, and visits a dispensary once in awhile. Have your friend consider MMJ as a serious part of my doctor prescribed daily treatment for my pain. I have had two cervical spine surgeries with hardware... This harmless plant allows me to cut back on my dangerous narcotics intake.

I need a dispensary to be able to aquire my medicine when my grows aren't producing. Also dispensaries provide a variety of strains that offer different kinds of relief for me, including hashish. The ability to aquire and try these varieties allows me to search for the best one for each of my specific health issues.

The ability to grow for myself..I guess I might answer with a question, Why Not? It allows me to provide medicine for myself at a very low cost to my family. If I am able to grow a few plants in my garden alongside my tomatoes etc durring the summer the cost is very minimal and the bennifits unmeasurable. Growing also provides me therapy as working in my garden frees my mind of depression caused by enduring consistant pain.

Many thanks to your polititian for thier service, I like to ask people how they would feel if I was a close family member of thiers, thier mother, seriously hurt in a vehical accident, getting much needed relief from using cannabis? Would they feel differently about medical marijuana? Would they even question these things? Thanks for your questions..DD

I will be using your analogies and your suggestions. Good stuff, it's what I'm looking for. I need to edit my request list to include personal stories!

Thanks again.
buddy

 

[PharmaCan]

In addition to what DD said, you might also want to point out that dispensaries give the state more control over the distribution process. (Not that we want that, but it sounds good.) If mmj is going to be taxed, sales tax or whatever, it creates a structured environment for collecting those taxes. Another concern is that you want the mmj market to be for mmj patients, not the general public. Having a structured distribution system mitigates those concerns.

You might want to point to California and the how the ambiguity in the CUA has caused so much consternation and court cases and so on, primarilly because our distribution model was not clearly defined. (On this subject, you can find a lot of references and articles right here on this forum.)

You also might want to point out that every ounce of pot that is either legally grown at home or legally distributed thru a D, is one less ounce that drug cartels will be selling in your state. If a legal mmj production and distribution model is established, one that fits the needs of the mmj community, then this will not only significantly reduce the demand for cartel drugs, but it will also free up law enforcement assets to allow them to go after the cartels and their drugs. A structured production and distribution model allows for easier policing of the mmj industry to weed out the inevitable bad apples that are going to crop up from time to time. Finally, point out that it is more in the interest of the state to provide a workable and well-defined production and distribution model than to have to play catch-up or clean-up after the fact. Once mmj is legalized, it will be distributed. What would be better, having the state provide the distribution model, or just let the market run amok?

Make sure you use the terms like "distribution model", "structured environment", "structured distribution system" - things like that - politicians understand that kind of talk because it is what they see in their staff reports.

As far as home growers are concerned - You are going to have essentially two types of home growers; those that grow only for themselves, and those that grow some extra to put it into the distribution chain and pick up a little cash in the process. The former is basically a harmless group, and well defined by DD, the latter, really comes under the definition of "Cottage Industries". You should be able to find plenty of documented studies of how cottage industries can contribute to the overall economy, and to the income and sales tax revenues. These studies can be used as a persuasive tool. Home growing is happening everywhere, doesn't it only make sense, if mmj is to be legalized, that the home growing that is in fact going on right now to get mmj into the hands of legitimate mmj patients, be mainstreamed into the structured mmj system? The home growing is not going to stop just because a law changes. Why waste law enforcement assets on an operation that is producing a legal product?

Home growing is an integral part of the mmj system. It's there, it exists, it will continue to exist. The home growers really want to become legal participants in the mmj production and distribution model. All the state has to do is provide realistic guidelines in the legislation and most home growers will willingly comply with them. (Of course, at some point YOU have to define what are realistic guidelines - and make sure the guidelines are realistic for small to large home grows and that recognize that plant number isn't necessarily all that significant, depending on the grow style.)

...just my $.02

PC

 

[buddydro]

I sure might want to point those things out!

Thank you so very much. Very well stated points. Excelllent.

buddy