Yes, too bad for Dispensaries.
Try a collective instead.
unless you mean a private collective (no store), there's no difference. at least according to the LAPD.
Yes, too bad for Dispensaries.
Try a collective instead.
You have used your paperwork to gain entry into 100+ clubs? Hope you haven't vended to all of them. You do realize that with the new ordinance, clubs are going to be submitting lists of their vendors and how much they bought to the LAPD, right? Good luck dude.
unless you mean a private collective (no store), there's no difference. at least according to the LAPD.
wow. who would want to submit to voluntary inspections by LAPD?
unless you mean a private collective (no store), there's no difference. at least according to the LAPD.
really? this was never addressed.
in fact, the new ordinance in LA states "4 or more associating together" is a "Collective" and hence subject to their jurisdiction.
so if you are growing and have more than 3 recs, with or without a storefront, in LA County, you are now a collective and operating illegaly.
By the time that happens, I'll be up and running, and it won't be in LA. I grew up in LA and I hate it! Northern Cali is the place to be.
I'm done with LA, and i'm working on gathering my own patients together now.
really? this was never addressed.
in fact, the new ordinance in LA states "4 or more associating together" is a "Collective" and hence subject to their jurisdiction.
so if you are growing and have more than 3 recs, with or without a storefront, in LA County, you are now a collective and operating illegaly.
P.S. because the retards at the city council never even talked about collective grow or non storefronts or privates. That's why i hope the whole thing gets thrown out in court. You can't amend state law at the county level. We have a constitutional right to associate collectively. LA city council tries to amend that with arbitrary numbers.
Absolutely wrong!
Maybe to the common officer, but to a judge and jury and prosecutor, the difference lies in the way the Corporation is created. MOST LA clubs are opened as storefronts with seller's permits and nothing more. You need a Not For Profit status in your incorporation. Then you can be set up as a legit collective and you WILL BE protected, regardless of what some dumb LA cop says or thinks.
Setting your club up as a not-for-profit collective is just the minimum barrier to not getting shut down tomorrow, and most clubs have already taken that step. That merely entitles you to do battle against LA's draconian new regime. Hopefully some lucky club will be the one that wins and gets the whole thing thrown out in court.
I beg to differ with your opinion on that. I think most clubs are set up as storefronts and have no Not For Profit status, and that's why the LAPD claims that most are operating illegally. I think about 200 statewide may be set up as Not For Profits but that leaves about 600 that are not. That's just a guess though. What makes you think so many are set up this way? Do you know this for a fact?
I know a lot more about this than you. LAPD is making claims about their actual profits, not their status. Most clubs at least have enough brains to register as not-profits, even the shittiest lawyer or even consultant would tell them that.
They can make "claims" all day, if they wish.
Also, i'm not going to argue with you about anything, but please don't assume you know much more than me about this. You might be slightly more informed on certain matters, but don't jump to conclusions.
If a club sells pot, they are a dispensary, regardless of how they are set up, legally. The business model is flawed. Pot clubs are being run like businesses, and they need to restructure into a collective model. The reason they are set up like businesses and not collectives, is because they are mostly crooked, criminal infested little holes in the ground and crackholes in alleyways. Even saying you are taking in "donations" instead of sales, is not enough, in itself. The structure has to be changed, the entire business model.
I know a lot more about this than you. LAPD is making claims about their actual profits, not their status. Most clubs at least have enough brains to register as not-profits, even the shittiest lawyer or even consultant would tell them that.
You're wrong, don't know what you're talking about, and obviously have an agenda. Most of them aren't crackheads any more than the counterperson at a CVS pharmacy.
Nothing wrong with people making a profit.
Nothing wrong with people making a profit, agreed. In the rest of the world of business. But the people who circulated the petitions for prop 215 did not write it up to intend to create a proliferation of "for profit" pot clubs on every corner. It also says nothing about making profits of any kind anywhere in prop 215, or anything about storefront clubs. Re-Read the initiative.
You can be for profits all day long, but you don't come into someone else's home and rearrange stuff and you can't take legislation and twist it to your liking either.
You should also look up the definition of "Profit" in law and financial dictionaries. Money can be made, but not in the way it's currently being made and not as excessively as it is.