I have to respectfully disagree and argue for the dispensaries on a couple of points.
ripping off patients: 100% markup is the bare minimum for any kind of retail store. For other retail industries, such as clothing, the markup is 250-300%. The dispensary has a lot of overhead to run the place. Weedmaps, for example, if you want to be feature listed, will cost you over $5k a month. Some of the dispensaries that are making a lot of money are often cutting side deals, off the books, which is most likely illegal. I have seen the books of some 100% legit dispensaries and they are barely making it.
renaming strains: it's a pure marketing thing, but I do find it a bit offensive especially if you have grown something from seed or bred the strain yourself. I have to agree with this point.
consignment: i'm on the fence with this one. In almost all inventory-based business, net-30 to net-90 is common with wholesaler/manufacturer to retailer. If this is truly going to evolve into a legal business, net-30 will have to be commonplace. Right now, all the dispensaries that do consignment will often pay back in 7 days or less.
selling meds with mold, mildew, toxic chemicals: isn't that more of a grower problem than a dispensary problem?
A lot of dispensaries are very "liberal" when it comes to the stated taxable sales and the amount of sales tax they pay to the Board of Equalization, but that's common practice with almost all small businesses. As for fronts for organized crime, this is a symptom of the drug war and the current "grey area" of semi-legalization-whatever-the-fuck that we're in.
IMO this infighting I see between grower and dispensary and sometimes between grower to grower (ie socal indoor growers versus old school emerald triangle growers) is self defeating if your overall goal is to see the eventual decriminalization of marijuana and the end to this ridiculous "war" on drugs. This is my prespective; think globally, act locally.
Respectfully