When you're living with multiple disabilities, you often need different strains to meet your body's needs for pain relief, sleep, and work. The 7 plant rule is absolutely absurd, and there is no way it allows--even with a perpetual grow, as I do--for trying new strains that may give relief in multiple ways. Not to mention the cost of the doctor's recommendation and the licensing is upwards to $600 to be legal to grow those 7 plants.
Dispensaries are a joke, raided constantly and the home medical grower has no legal right to try many strains to find what works best with their body's needs. Growing can be a major challenge, due to the extremely low relative humidity. Mites love the dryness, and reproduce far faster than they do in even slightly more humid environments. Humidity has to be added, and filters are pricey. I have to change filters once a week in my veg and flower rooms, due to the high Ph and calcification. Filters run $10 for each room, per week.
RO water is an additional expense. Add organic soil, amendments, beneficial bacteria, quality nutrients, and even if you have a 'ghetto grow,' it's still pricey and a challenge. The current medical cannabis laws do not help me a single bit.
The law does not allow me to meet my own needs, to try new strains in order to find what works best with my multiple disabilities. I need Indicas for heavy pain and sleep, Sativas for being able to work at home during the day, mixed strains for when I need both brainpower and pain relief.
I can't imagine why anyone would choose to live here if they had the option to be in a more cannabis-friendly state. I don't have an option. My home is worth less than half of what I paid for it. I'm stuck here. California, Oregon, Washington--I'd love to live in any of those states rather than Nevada, especially Southern Nevada.