I agree about the labor thing. It seems like the law is designed to make sure that growers can NEVER make a legitimate living......if you think about it, they are keeping a group of people that can make good money from buying homes, cars, etc, because they cannot qualify unless they have a confirmed income, which we do not allow to growers. Growers could be a great boost to the real estate world also, because there are so many renting right now, because they cannot qualify to buy a home.....seems silly.
I like the 2 tiered system. I kind of see it like this.....if completely legalized, then you can still qualify as a medical patient, and by doing that, get yourself better rates on your meds. If you just want to smoke for fun, then it is the market rate at that time. Something like that.
If it is just medical dispensaries that become legal, I would like to see them ALL be required to be non profit. I would like to see growers limited to a certain number of plants that we agree on, so that they can make good money, but if we need more meds, MORE people get jobs and money injected into the economy. The dispensaries should be for marijuana products only......not sold in liquor stores (this will just make the rich richer, and not create many more jobs). We want to avoid the association with liquor, as well.
This way, we have a large group of similarly sized growers, making it a more competitive market, and also insuring that we do not have the Walmarts of weed come in and start paying everyone CRAP just to hand their investors the profits that the workers made possible.