HippySmoke
Active Member
Hello patient's! Here's the breakdown of the situation, one that I feel many patients can relate and understand with.
A couple of year's ago I moved to a property that was comfortable with our license Cannabis use as long as no growing took place. It is understandable for the property owner to prefer that cannabis is not grown upon his property but it still makes things difficult. I know of a few patient's who are in the same boat as I am for as long if not longer than I have been and we're all fed up. We're legitimate medical user's and provider's and all of us feel paying street rate or higher at dispensaries for Medical Cannabis is gross abuse of the principle of the system. I can understand $325 an ounce for a recreational drug sure but that is recreation, honest medicinal use should not used as a major profit point in my humble opinion. And if one is going to be taxing to such a state then one should just be honest and not try to put "medicinal" into it and just call it a capitalist marijuana supplier instead of a medical dispensary... And yes I realize the economics of it as many top shelf grower's do not wish to donate their top grade for any less than $2800 to $3200 on the pound. Mainly due the to fact they are still taking enormous risk to supply the medication unless it is in excess from a legal grow for personal medical use. But it still comes down to the principle risk or not taxing sick people for being in pain just to increase capital gain's is highly unethical personally.
So my closing thoughts are; how does one find or a form a co-op/coalition in Washington State? What are the breakdown's of it? The law's can be tricky and I like to be sure I have the best understanding I can. I used to be much more familiar with the exact wording of the law, heck I remember when Gregoire snuffed an initiative by the voters for co-op's. But it has been a while, so any information provided is appreciated.
Ps. I am surprised there isn't a co-op finder system like the dispensary finder's on the web...
A couple of year's ago I moved to a property that was comfortable with our license Cannabis use as long as no growing took place. It is understandable for the property owner to prefer that cannabis is not grown upon his property but it still makes things difficult. I know of a few patient's who are in the same boat as I am for as long if not longer than I have been and we're all fed up. We're legitimate medical user's and provider's and all of us feel paying street rate or higher at dispensaries for Medical Cannabis is gross abuse of the principle of the system. I can understand $325 an ounce for a recreational drug sure but that is recreation, honest medicinal use should not used as a major profit point in my humble opinion. And if one is going to be taxing to such a state then one should just be honest and not try to put "medicinal" into it and just call it a capitalist marijuana supplier instead of a medical dispensary... And yes I realize the economics of it as many top shelf grower's do not wish to donate their top grade for any less than $2800 to $3200 on the pound. Mainly due the to fact they are still taking enormous risk to supply the medication unless it is in excess from a legal grow for personal medical use. But it still comes down to the principle risk or not taxing sick people for being in pain just to increase capital gain's is highly unethical personally.
So my closing thoughts are; how does one find or a form a co-op/coalition in Washington State? What are the breakdown's of it? The law's can be tricky and I like to be sure I have the best understanding I can. I used to be much more familiar with the exact wording of the law, heck I remember when Gregoire snuffed an initiative by the voters for co-op's. But it has been a while, so any information provided is appreciated.
Ps. I am surprised there isn't a co-op finder system like the dispensary finder's on the web...
