[SGMeds]

If any of you were on top of the game... not at the MED over the weekend... you missed a crazy 4-5 hour wait at the greyhound track!!! lol, yes, the MED of the DOR has it's main office at a race track... ;-0


Here's the Westword:


Every Colorado dispensary and associated business had to apply for a state license by August 1 -- which means we finally have a total number of Colorado pot shops willing navigate the state's new rules and fees. The tally: 717 dispensaries, 271 marijuana-infused product manufacturers and 1,071 grow facilities -- in total earning the state $7.34 million in fees.


Considering there's roughly 105,000 medical marijuana patients in Colorado, that breaks down to about150 patients for every dispensary in the state.


When the dust settles, the number of dispensaries may actually be slightly higher, says Department of Revenue spokesperson Mark Couch, since there's roughly one-hundred mail-in applications that have yet to be processed. In total, the department received slightly more applications than it expected, since it figured about half of the 1,100 or so dispensaries officials had guessed had opened shop would actually go through with the application process.


The numbers also shed light on the size of most Colorado dispensaries. All but 35 of the 717 dispensaries applied for a "Type 1" medical marijuana center license, meaning they serve 300 or fewer patients. Only fifteen applied for a Type 2 license, meaning they work with 301 to 500 patients, and twenty applied for Type 3, reserved for behemoths with 501 or more customers.
What's interesting is that there are more grow-facility license applications than the total number of dispensary and product-manufacturer applications, even though only dispensary owners or product manufacturers can own a grow facility. That's because several business owners appeared to own more than one grow facility, says Couch. "It protects them," he says. "If they have blight on a grow at one facility, they will still have another source for their crops."


Still, other questions remain, such as: How many businesses will make it through the application process and actually be granted the all-important state license.

[Tripsick]

Well i hope all 1100 are approved.
and i hope Cali does legalize it this year come November.. The more legal it is the faster this wall will come down.
What happens when there is 20+ medical Marijuana states at want point do the feds agree that it has medicinal value?

Isn't Colorado going to reschedule Cannabis to Schedule II? once that happens every doctor on in Colorado would write a script just like the do for Benzos and Opiates.

I know it needs to happen on a federal level but you have to work with what you got.

What the f$*k are these people doing? This new law is such a sham.
What is the overall scope of this new application process?
Is this deadline for this year only?
Will there be a state wide moratorium on any new facility or dispensary?

[cobcoop]

My basement is nice and cozy... That's where I'll be staying, only coming out for tacos and beer. Or tacos and no beer depending :/

Trip drugs are scheduled at the federal level, the bill references some half-assed, vague "request" to the DEA to reschedule cannabis. Too bad Congress is the body that schedules drugs...

I see two scenarios. They come down hard and start busting people, or we legalize it and the corporate machine rips it out of our hands, as they have already begun to do. Most of the fun has been dredged out of the cannabis sub-culture by profiteers IMO, and neither scenario seems particularly appealing.

Here! here! Har Har!^^

[Greenmopho]

Originally Posted by cobcoop

I see two scenarios. They come down hard and start busting people, or we legalize it and the corporate machine rips it out of our hands, as they have already begun to do. Most of the fun has been dredged out of the cannabis sub-culture by profiteers IMO, and neither scenario seems particularly appealing.

Watching "Beer Wars"...this is where I see our business going. There will be space for most connoisseur producers on the small level, but the big boys will pushing you out as far as distribution. The 501+ patient dispensaries will be pushing for that 90% market share...America, Fuck Yea!

The CO MMJ laws were written originally for Patient to Patient Caregiver to Patient, never for dispensaries, they(dispensaries and schwag dealers) destroyed the whole MMJ scene here in CO. It was perfect for 7yrs and now since last summer when this blew up with Obama's lies starting this whole mess...well look where we are now - fuct.

[mule420]

The dough my bro shelled out Holy shit!

[SGMeds]

Originally Posted by Tr33

The CO MMJ laws were written originally for Patient to Patient Caregiver to Patient, never for dispensaries, they(dispensaries and schwag dealers) destroyed the whole MMJ scene here in CO. It was perfect for 7yrs and now since last summer when this blew up with Obama's lies starting this whole mess...well look where we are now - fuct.

I have hope... it is in the Constitution... and needs to be challenged... 1284 that is. Open patient-patient & cg-patient distribution is the only real protection from the mass-produced, monetized crops. A CG can make a decent living... support a family... a patient can supplement their living... and a higher grade, boutique level market can form/be maintained.


On the flip side... I sold out, just to say. And from what the people around me have been saying... legalization & corporate monopolization IS the game plan. They speak rather passionately, so it really is a little sobering & scary.

[cobcoop]

Originally Posted by SGMeds

I have hope... it is in the Constitution... and needs to be challenged... 1284 that is. Open patient-patient & cg-patient distribution is the only real protection from the mass-produced, monetized crops. A CG can make a decent living... support a family... a patient can supplement their living... and a higher grade, boutique level market can form/be maintained.


On the flip side... I sold out, just to say. And from what the people around me have been saying... legalization & corporate monopolization IS the game plan. They speak rather passionately, so it really is a little sobering & scary.

SGMeds, a true coop would be ideal akin to what the folks at good karma are doing, in fact that is THE best model I have seen for both patients and growers. Don't see it happening here honestly, they have the taste of blood ($) and they won't give it up.

GMP- Great flick Paco turned me onto it. The parallels are uncanny.