Okay? How about you qualify those claims? You aren't saying anything concrete or substantive. I'm open to your arguments, but you have to actually make them.
California model is/was largely unregulated home grows, just like MMAR. Colorado model is/was carefully-regulated commercial grows. The only real, significant difference between Colo. and MMPR is Colo. allows 6 plants per person recreational. That's the comparison I'm making. If you have a substantive argument to show why that's not a valid critique, great. Let me read it.
Fair enough, I will give it a shot from memory.
California...
Patients do not have to register with the State ( obviously they don't register Federally ). Nothing like the MMAR.
Patients could very easily get a licence. Same can't be said for the MMAR.
Medical Growers did / do have regulations in place from the State, the key one being plant numbers. I don't know why you say that California is largely unregulated? In Canada under the MMAR the government wouldn't apply a plant grow cap...we all have theories on why Canada allowed this to happen.
Patients can buy from dispensaries in bud, concentrate, or edible form...not an option under the MMAR
So...I don't see the California model even remotely similar to the MMAR Canada model.