It just makes it tough for caregivers it doesn't do away with it,,you can still have your 5 patients but your plant counts start to get a little high and with all due respect, patients are a total pain in the ass, sorry guys but you are and 5 is a total ass whip.....the despensary owners are goin to start to fight like hell to squash mid size producers out and be vertically integrated by producing their own meds and it is really the only way for the state to close the loop on the tax and supply chain...despensaries love the caregiver and mid size producer the first year or so because they need you and then they will do everything they can to scale up and price you out..once your state throws the preverbial 99 plant federal threshold out the window it ramps up real real quick...it takes about a year for state and lawyers to figure out that 99 plants means absolutley squat to the feds these days, out here the threshold is in excess of 1000 plants with no paperwork at all before your recommended to the feds....as far as the state is concerned and the IRS for that matter, every caregiver out there is not payin their share of taxes...the only way for them to secure the tax dollar is have a closed loop...which is another silly deal because no banks or credit mercahant will take the accounts so it is still a cash business... caregivers aren't big fans of 1099's either and owners don't want to hand them out because of the paper trail both ways, but there in lies the problem with the state...get a couple 1099's for a couple hundred grand, caregivin and sellin to despensaries gets a whole lot less appealing all the sudden.
Don't worry about the first round of big despensary grows because most fail, despensary guys usually see no difference in a bangin 4 light grow and a 100 light grow and they fail myserably...100 lights, thats 100lbs minimum every 60 days in their minds..LMFAO...The whole time tellin ya that they are puttin you outta biz in a couple months and won't need you anymore but they'll buy what you have this time and then fail fail fail again, you have about a year after they get their grows goin before they get it all figured out.
The Cali and Colorado indoor and outdoor floods in with the quickness, especailly outdoor startin in late September..the Cali boys start rollin in with body bags full of killer outdoor that goes for 1000-1200/lb out there but 3000-3500/lb in 5-50 packs, usually anything over 20lbs gets down in the 1400-1600 range for outdoor, that goes till first of december. So remember that if you haven't sold yours by mid October your probably goin to want to sit on it till feb when the prices crawl back up or take volume prices in the ass.
Honestly now, If I owned a despensary in a new med state, i would pouch someone from Colo or Cali with some experience to come and setup and run your big grow right outta the chute....not to many big grows in non med states so not alot of experience and it is not the same thing, scalin up to 100 lights and 200 lights is a beast.. so if everyone is used to closet growin or even some 10 and 12k grows and even if it is the best you have ever seen in your life, they just don't have the skills to go big yet, it is a expensive learning curve to the max...check your ego at the door and get a grower with some real experience and a giant ego to get you in the game with the quickness..
IMO hit while you can and no matter how many rules and regs your readin now, they will ALL change about every 6 months for the next couple of years, its way way more productive to pay them no mind at all and blow and go for a couple of years and then as the dust settles, and they hit $160/oz at every despensary in town, you can decide where you want to align yourself either in the industry or in the private sector. In hindsight I would have done it way way bigger in the begginning and really blown it up and the scale back when all the regs started to get in place a little more
Go get a local "plant or botanical husbandry" permit real quick and without a fuse before it is a real big deal and look for warehouses in 1A industrial parks away from schools and parks...and no matter what make sure your at least 1000ft away from any school, church, daycare, public park, after school daycare, in house daycare ...save yourself some hassle and expense..there is no grandfather rule when it comes to schools and the like because they will make you move or shut you down and they may wait a couple of years to do it just when you get settled in..
Thats my mornin ramblins