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Newsflash: Corporate MMJ market hand-off in California in full effect

Mikell

Dipshit Know-Nothing
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Poor bastards. Now you can smoke that lovely corporate weed they shill on us up here.
 

Payaso

Original Editor of ICMagazine
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Many will fall in line and do what is needed. Others will bail, change is upon us.

Legalization may change all this within a short time... still waiting for the outcome myself.
 

stoned-trout

if it smells like fish
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I was looking at websites with info on AB 266 and came across California State Senate Bill 643. I'm not certain how these two relate, but my impression is that the senate bill is what is being worked on as the final document.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_643_bill_20150406_amended_sen_v98.pdf

They're trying to get rid of the "pot doctors" and require you to use your personal physician for a medical marijuana recommendation. in what can and can't be done. If passed the medical market will be tightly regulated but not in an overly onerous way. But the "wild west" days will be over.

. No collectives though.
most personal doctors will not prescribe marijuana even for folks like me with real issues..my own doctor will not prescribe marijuana nor will any of my specialists..i have a real need and an ailment or 2 listed in the original prop 215 list ...
 
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Oakhills

They are offering multiple licenses based on canopy size. This seems to be a good thing. What's the problem with this bill?

One may be denied a license for cultivation. One may not transport seeds, clones, etc., so they will have to be delivered by a "transporter"

It's good for many things, but there are some ridiculous things in it.
 

stoned-trout

if it smells like fish
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all my grows are personal to me so I shouldn't need a liscense...lol.... if the fees are reasonable is my question...either way I will do my own thing just like before it was legal..if not too expensive I will get a liscense or 2....yeehaw..the so called vague areas are where we will get screwed later on...so the price of marijuana will rise again ...back to the shadows and do like I did before prop 215 existed...
 

sdd420

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I've probably already said this but Jerry Brown is anti cannabis. He doesn't believe in medical either. I don't like how he looks down on us and he will screw us . Unless there is a strong reason for him to back us where it is to his advantage somehow just sayin looks like we need to focus on 2016 legalization . No Dr from Kaiser will write a rec so let's hope that doesn't change
 

MrBelvedere

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This text of the new bill is funny:

(aj) “Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit and includes the plural as well as the singular number.
 

Lyfespan

Active member
I've probably already said this but Jerry Brown is anti cannabis. He doesn't believe in medical either. I don't like how he looks down on us and he will screw us . Unless there is a strong reason for him to back us where it is to his advantage somehow just sayin looks like we need to focus on 2016 legalization . No Dr from Kaiser will write a rec so let's hope that doesn't change

real drs have a federal script pad, you can not prescribe weed from those. until this gets regulated there will be no kaiser weed scripts.
 

EsterEssence

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I read on SF gate, that it will go into effect in 2017, giving voters a chance to vote on something else.
 

Grow Tech

I've got a stalk of sinsemilla growing in my back
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I just googled ab266, and read it at sfgate, couldn't figure out how to link it...

Dude...come on...you can do it. Highlight the entire url in your Web browser, copy ( ctr C if your at a PC) then bounce back to icmag, get your cursor in the quick reply box and paste ( ctrl v if you're on a pc).
I've looked at sf gate alot over the last couple days and I'm not seeing 2017
 

Grow Tech

I've got a stalk of sinsemilla growing in my back
Veteran
Thank you for the link. Here's the section you mentioned-

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom stated in a release that regulating medical cannabis paves the way for adult-use legalization.

“Thanks to the leadership of the Legislature and the Governor, we are now part of the way there. The new regulatory framework is effective 2017, giving California voters ample time to achieve the long-overdue second step next November. I have every hope and expectation that voters will strongly support a legal system of responsible adult use that improves the status quo by protecting children, improving public safety, and preventing further environmental degradation.”
 

Uchi Mata

Member
So here's what I understood the last time I read it (probably before the latest version)...

-Personal home growing is not changed (governed by Prop 215/SB420), but you can't "donate" your excess so you have to eat the overhead costs.
-Caregivers are limited to 5 patients (and still can't profit).
-Dispensaries and growers are now allowed to make profits.
-Dispensaries and growers have to get state and local licenses.
-To get a license, you have to demonstrate that you were in compliance with regulations for some period of time BEFORE the law passed.
-Local governments can still ban outright and pass regulations.
-Local governments know exactly who's growing legally, where they're growing, and how much.

1. Seems designed to enable some serious corruption. Way too much power and knowledge in the hands of local governments.

2. Will cause a serious increase in prices due to limited supply along with a decrease in quality due to lack of competition.

3. Will benefit nobody except the current big players setting up for the rec transition (current large growers, dispensary owners, and unions), people willing to take advantage of the fact that the black market will become extremely profitable again, and local officials who get the bribes and kickbacks.

Looks like some bullshit.
 

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