In rhode island there are currently 2 dispensaries only. They cannot supply even 25% the customers. They carry maybe 8 strains total. They claim to sell ounces but noone ever seems to walk out with one. Everything is $60 an eith... the only way the doors stay open is frombuying meds off cardholders. They pay 2000 lb and you hve to wait 30 plus days to get paid. They test your meds and put it on the shelf with way higher labels....
They screwed the cardholders which are the people who were lined up to be legal and recieve checks for meds to pay tax on. Dspensaries cannot pay cash at all. They claimed to pay 26-28 a lb before opening doors so the patients would not pay more than $250 ounce. Needless to say, hen doors opened they changed everything they said and ounces after taxes are around 460...
After full year of getting only 4 cut downs due to mold and bugs and shitty yields due to hiring all employees at $12 an hour including growers, Even though they report payng 1.29 million to employees. They have now successfully had the cardholder laws changed to reduce growing plant counts and any place with more than 1 cardholder they must report to state police and get inspected.
To sum it up the dispensaries nickle and dime all patients with fake markup labels on meds, they report using mold meds to make edibles and oils, they wont support the people who keep there doors open, they pay employees garbage but board members everything and they do all this openly and not give a crap because they can. They are all polititians and owned by state police chiefs. They dont make enough money because cardholders have bigger, more succesful grows. Not for long after law change.
Sorry for the rant but its so obvious that this whole thing is about nothing but money and only people with political pull will succeed. When people support dispensaries they are working against everyday people rights to grow. It starts small but they begin taking rights away little by little and people are ok with it because they dont ththink its as bad due to how open thngs are becomming.
Hopefully, in wa and co the normal people are actually getting aproved for the stores and have a fighting chance for few years good buiseness before big corps take over.