Initiative 28 looks like it will make it to the November 2010 ballot. Many in Oregon are wondering what dispensaries in Oregon will be like, and how they might differ from other states that already have dispensaries in place. John Sajo, Executive Director of Voter Power, offers some perspective on dispensaries under Initiative 28.
"Even patients with their own successful gardens are likely to buy starts at dispensaries or to obtain cannabis medicine preparations they can't make themselves such as hash, tinctures, lozenges, sublingual sprays, etc." He also says that patients could sample new strains or evaluate their own homegrown medicine side-by-side with labeled products from dispensaries as a benchmark. While it is difficult to predict how many patients will rely on dispensaries, he does note that it "will depend on the quality and price at dispensaries." If prices are low enough, more patients are likely to use dispensaries over growing their own medicine.
As to prices, he says, "I would guess prices might start in the $150-300/ounce range. There will also be lower grades available much cheaper." He believes that prices will primarily be affected by plant limits set by DHS: "If we can get DHS to set reasonable limits I think prices will fall signficantly and eventually we could see prices at less than $100/ounce." Under I-28, the initial plant limits for producers will be the same as the current limits for a grower, four patients worth, or 24 mature plants and 72 starts, with a total of 96 ounces of usable marijuana at any one time.
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Why do we need limits on it! Seriously farmers used to be required to have a farm full of CANNABIS!! 200 ACRES AND SOME MORE! This is crazy. Now its .. The people 5 plants VS. The Gov. ALL PLANTS ... bull .. lets stand up for our rights.
They dont have any clue they are already going to have the prices right up there with street prices and nobody is going to use them obviously if you have a card its not that hard to find a grower and if they are charging you 300 an oz that's illegal they can only be reimbursed what it cost to grow it and it doesn't cost that mush to grow an oz so why can the dispensaries charge that much ?
Maybe you should consider starting a networking service - as hundreds of patients would beg to differ with you on whether or not it is "not that hard to find a grower...." I will agree that $300 per ounce is excessive, but I think you are downplaying the struggle that hundreds (thousands?) of patients go through to find a reliable, qualified grower.
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