I agree with you. In addition I see these recommendations as a way to control the demand. Controlling the supply only gives them so much co.trol on the demand a real way of controlling the demand is controlling the patient numbers and the physicians who are writting the certification and theses are the main objectives of all these recommendations. Once dispensaries open they have complete control on the supply, there is so much regulation and red tape around supplying the medicine it borderlines the true definition of socialism which is when the government co.tells the mean of production. Also the governor has already started to fill the medical board granting physicians state certification to practise with her cronies. So the state controls the supply with the over regulated dispensaries which must be sanctioned by the state to begin with. Now they are attempting to control demand by restricting qualifying conditions, harassing and threatening doctors and certification centers and even proposing studies with the objective of finding negative effects to discredit the whole legitimacy of marijuana as medicine.
Now on to the law enforcement aspect of this all which is really the driving factor for this entire state let alone the amma. See this state is run and controlled by the private prison industry. These are facts not conjecture. Almost all of our state penal institutions are run and contracted through for profit companies. That means the companies are making money for every criminal that is processed into one of their institutions and the tax payer pays the bill. This is only the half of it the corruption at the state level goes all the way to the governors office. See she has an advisor whom was on one of the boards of these private prison companies. See since medical marijuana, arrests have plummeted I this state and so have incarcerations yet they tend to lag as their nature behind arrest rates. So now these companies are freaking out because they are forecasting losses from a decrease in incarcerations. So they go to the governor whom they have given much money to and they say look what the fuck this law is eating into our bottom line. The governor then whistles for her little dog will humble to do her bidding and know under the guise of making our state safer and other bullshit reasons they are attempting to sideline this law so only a very very few would have access to its protection. Wake up people you think that these republicans are about small government and states rights, they have been taking the electorate of this state for a ride fueled by hate and fear of change and the other while they persecute and incarcerate the poor, uneducated and minorities in this state and then make the tax payers foot the b all the while making the private prison industry millions. This is about money and the money is about locking people up. Oh and btw who do you think is contracted to run the detention ceneters where undocumented immigrants are detained with no rights or due process. No matter what your opinion on immigration, no onesbohld be profitting from deporting or detaining people but thats another thread so let's stay on topic.