This is the new dispensary. $300-400 will get you this entire set up.
The Michigan Supreme Court has issued the long awaited McQueen Ruling. There are no surprises, P2P, Farmers Markets, and Dispensaries have never been defined in the act as clearly as the self growing patient and the caregiver/registry desginated patient system. What is very unfortunate is that the court voided a very favorable opinion from the CoA- The Green opinion which allowed patients to help each other in times of need with free transfers as part of medical use.
Now is not the time to vent about how the SC got it wrong, or try and figure out ways to ‘game’ the system. 1 patient, 12 plants, 1 caregiver, 5 patients. That is the rule of law now. Go outside of it privately if you must, just don’t get caught doing it. It is my hope for my patients that the legislature will look into addressing the problems of supply, crop failures and folks that can’t grow for themselves and can’t find caregivers.
In the meantime, several facts remain. Caregivers have been able to grow enough to supply the dispensaries many of these patients depended on for their medication. That hasn’t change, they can still produce the meds. What is needed is to get those producing caregivers together with the patients in need, as the law clearly has envisioned that process from the start. We need to restart the compassion club system, where patients can learn to grow, or meet caregivers that will grow for them.
Rather than look for ways to game the system because you want to run a dispensary or farmers market, focus your energies on bringing caregivers and patients together. Start a club, not for meds, but to facilitate the introductions and have some political power to lobby your reps for a bill to help those patients that are in need.
Dr. Bob
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