These new rules are LAME!!
Perfect reason to NOT get a rec and to stay underground growing a few plants for personal use. Who wants to spend money at a dispensary! Spending money on bud is the reason most of us started growing on our own to begin with.
At the expense of sounding like oliver stone it's almost like the whole doctor's rec/short term home cultivation deal was a trap. Get a rec and now they know you use cannabis and are most likely growing it. They almost have probable cause to get a warrant for anyone with a rec???
Hehe. In theory what your saying sounds plausible. However, patients are pretty well protected in Massachusetts. The law has not been majorly tested in the courts, so a lot is yet to be seen.
There are a couple of other ways of approaching all of this though.
Dispensaries will not be active until easy early-mid 2014. Also, most counties in Massachusetts with a mid-major populace (in essence parts of or almost all parts of most counties) have enacted a moratorium of sorts.
These moratoriums do not allow dispensaries, and the regulations state the dispensaries are run so tightly that some people are beginning to rethink their options when it comes to opening a dispensary in Mass. Honestly, the money isn't there for most dispensaries in general, and with such tight regulation and restriction, it will be interesting to see who pops up and who lasts. Furthermore, people as well as the general establishment 'dislike' monopolies in any industry, and this one is sure priming to look like a potential.
This effectively puts everyone in the wind for a hardship cultivation for the very foreseeable future. Almost in time for legislation to be passed to make marijuana use legal in Massachusetts. Like 2014 or 2016.
This could be wishful thinking. I think it is in some ways. However.
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I typed a lot mroe, but ROllitup crashed on me and this was all that was left, the above. Too lazy to type more.
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