That's fucked. So what about dispensaries? Are they closing those as well? How the fuck are they gonna stay open without caregivers?
Dispensaries are taking the hardest hit. The VAST majority of locals don't want any kind of canna-bizness in their area, period.
Those will stay open be cause the state will take tax revenue from them. They only want to shut down the stuff they can't make money on like your home grow
Where will they be staying open? I don't think you've been following how it's been shaking out across the state very closely. I've been doing my best, but the long and the short of it is that it's a clusterfuck. There will be
very few dispensaries left in California at this rate. There will be possibly four or five areas where cannabis can be
legally cultivated for sale to those few dispensaries. I'm not sure where testing facilities or distribution centers will be located outside those areas that are embracing the whole MMRSA set-up.
The places that aren't fully banning all activity are usually only allowing personal cultivation and they're putting some strict rules and guidelines around
that. So I'm really not sure where the state is going to get these tax monies, let alone where they're gonna be grown. People keep insisting that Big Ag is gonna take over, yet everywhere there IS Big Ag, all forms of cannabis, including cultivation, are banned, often completely and entirely.
Why do you think a state of the art facility with degree-holding professionals would be subpar to some shit grown in a garage by some dude? I just don't see the logic or the evidence behind the claims.
Me, either. I call bullshit on that claim, too. I don't know a single cash cropper who's not pushing the plant and the boundaries. I know a few who are doing things legally and are setting themselves up to participate in MMRSA, and these cats have already spent years educating themselves on things like pesticides, water usage, viticulture, all areas.
I'm telling you, Sea; I really think that the majority of the currently banned cities will reverse those bans, in favor of regulation, in the not too distant future (probably after we vote).
It seems to me that they were just like "If we don't do anything, we just defer to state regulation. If we just ban it for now, we can always go back and admend it later."
(And yea, it is a pretty gnarly clusterfuck right now, lol)
I REALLY hope you're right, especially as we're facing relocation and the areas where we're looking at have fully banned all activities. The only 'hope' I can actually make out in the distance is AUMA. And we know how pissed off that whole thing gets growers!
