California Attorney General Jerry Brown has ordered a crackdown on medical pot clubs that are selling the drug for big profits.
"The voters wanted medical marijuana dispensaries to be used for seriously ill patients and their caregivers - not as million-dollar businesses," Brown said.
This week, Brown issued an 11-page directive laying out guidelines that medical marijuana cooperatives must follow to comply with Prop. 215.
Among them: Sell only to legitimate patients. Operate as nonprofits. Buy pot only from fellow cooperative members at prices that cover cost, as opposed to professional growers out for big bucks.
Some medical marijuana dispensers, concerned that thuggish dope dealers are giving their business a bad name, welcomed Brown's guidelines - and the state crackdown.
"It's something many activists have been looking for since the medical marijuana law passed," said Kevin Reed of the Green Cross marijuana collective in San Francisco.
The ganja should be legal. Period. Compared to real dope like meth and heroin, it's lemonade. Marijuana is the major target of The War On Some Drugs because it's easy and politically expedient. Right now, weed has its foot in the door, but greed could screw it all up. I think its a sin for regular ol' dealers to try and masquerade as medical dispensers.
You folks who like pot for its non-medicinal (that's arguable - pot use may all be medicinal) uses, just keep gettin' it the way you always have and let the medicinal dispensers keep paving the way for reefer's eventual legitimization.
Don't fuck it up for everybody else.
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