The Medical Marijuana industry is becoming rather shady

I don't know about your respective states, but lately the MMJ thing in Colorado has begun to rub me the wrong way.

Every post on Craigslist has become an ad for sketchy 'clinics' advertising their 'great' deals on medical evaluations. When you contact them, they are beyond vague and simply just want to get you in the door so you can sign your caregiver status over to them.

And what do you get for it? A place that sells you the same stuff you can find 'on the street' for the same price. Excuse me?

And with dispensaries/clinics popping up all over the place in every town offering the same 'services' as already mentioned and/or essentially promising a card for people with no medical records, you can bet your ass that eventually this is going to cause some sort of political backlash and make things just that much harder for every non-corrupt person in the community.

...or maybe I am just in a bad mood...

I've been observing other MMJ states in anticipation of Illinois passing its laws and anecdotally, it seems like your observation is spot on. My partners and I intend to open a MCO here upon the passage of the law - and its a shame that so many shady people enter the market. But I'm not all that surprised.

Rather than focus on the negative, who's doing it right in your opinion?

Yeah, I've noticed the same kind of shady dealing with some collectives here in Southern California. When I first got my card I felt like I was still buying my meds from gang affiliated drug dealers only interested in making money, not working with communities interested in the greater good of all participating members which they all claim to be.

What sucks is all the non-medical users with medical cards who buy stuff from the clinics for just under street value so they can flip it at full price. Creates a huge profit motive at all levels that only serves to reduce supply, drive prices up and squeeze patients' wallets.

I'm sure there are good and honest groups of people out there who don't advertise though, just gotta find 'em. I pretty much only go to a single, private membership collective now because they keep the best medicinal strains in stock, and they work with me as a patient in need of care not as a customer looking for some over-priced shit popular on the streets.

I agree. I live in CO and it is getting out of control.

The last two dispenaries that I went to (two of the nicer ones, not the s**t bag ones) didn't even ask to see my card or ID!!!

That's right. I walked into one place, checked out a bunch of their meds, bought a Grand Daddy Purp clone and never was asked for anything.

Today I went to a pretty new dispensary in lodo, bought 2 Gs left and was never asked for anything.

It's nuts!