Not to be a downer but that sounds like the shittiest MMJ bill ever produced.

Way to cater to big business CT. Patients cant grow their own, $25K 5yr license fees to cultivate, pharmacists are the only ones that can distribute, and only a small number of dispensaries.

Sounds like Pfizer will be growing your dope

[blackosprey]

Iron Lion, you should take a look at the law for New Jersey. It is way worse than this one, and to top it all off, two years in and the program hasn't even helped one person.

Originally Posted by blackosprey

Iron Lion, you should take a look at the law for New Jersey. It is way worse than this one, and to top it all off, two years in and the program hasn't even helped one person.

That's sad, because it has so much potential to help all people not just the seriously ill.

And really under the CT law you would still be considered a criminal if you wanted to grow even one plant for yourself. So basically in CT if you cant afford to buy your herb at inflated retail prices you're up shits creek.

[Guest02345]

Originally Posted by Iron_Lion

Not to be a downer but that sounds like the shittiest MMJ bill ever produced.

Way to cater to big business CT. Patients cant grow their own, $25K 5yr license fees to cultivate, pharmacists are the only ones that can distribute, and only a small number of dispensaries.

Sounds like Pfizer will be growing your dope

while it maybe horribly written...its a foot in the door. things can be changed later on down the road

Originally Posted by toxic_hippie

while it maybe horribly written...its a foot in the door. things can be changed later on down the road

I suppose, but you know how that goes. And you're shoveling shit against the tide because you are already starting with a turd of a law.

Once local big pharma gets involved they will have the money and political power to keep it so that it favors them. The real kicker for me is that the common MMJ user will still be considered a criminal if they try to cultivate their own medicine. This bill really does nothing to help anyone. If you don't play by their many rules they will throw you in jail just the same.

It might as well still be illegal for most of CT. If I were a CT resident I would hope for a veto and try again with a bill that favors more people then just a very limited select few.

If you have ever seen the federal Medical Marijuana program I can see this being much like that. There is like 12 people nationwide that receive MJ from the federal governments facility at the University of Mississippi, the weed is awful. They take the whole plant, stems and all, grind it up into mulch, pre roll it and send it out in cans of 100 pre rolled cigarettes. Mexi shwag looks like a nicer smoke. A real shame compared to what Med MJ could be.

[Guest02345]

Originally Posted by Iron_Lion

I suppose, but you know how that goes. And you're shoveling shit against the tide because you are already starting with a turd of a law.

an airplane takes off against the wind.

but while i agree with you 100%...its also a step in the right direction. better to have something than nothing.

[Chunkypigs]

25K to apply for license, then you put up 2 million if they accept your application to be held in escrow by the state that will be revoked if you break any rules.....

[irobot sd]

With Connecticut passing a medical cannabis bill, approximately one third of the US population now resides in a state that has decided to act in favor of it’s citizens’ will, as compared to the remarkably recalcitrant federal government, which, moronically, still insists cannabis is a dangerous ‘narcotic’ and has no accepted medical value what so ever.

This!

[watts]

it's all about the money.

[Blckbrd]

At least all these states' implicit determination that cannabis has medical value flies in the face of the feds' dishonest classification and prosecution of cannabis as of no medicinal value.

Sets the stage for a great attack against the (un)scientific justification of the fed's ridiculous stance against mmj.

$25k non-refundable application fee, and, a liquid $2mil in a bank account as insurance money, and limited producers, certainly seems to favor the corporate investors. That's a lotta cash to lose to the feds when they come knocking like they do in CA and CO.