Bay Area Medical Users: Read/Discuss a Dispensary Owner's Argument Against the Legalization Initiative

Honestly, all they really only care about is profit decline and the price of cannabis dropping.

Take away "medical cannabis" and out goes all of the education behind cannabis.

Because the MDs giving out recommendations are providing a TON of education for their patients during their 15-minute sessions.

First the education and information will disappear, followed by the quality of medicine, as more and more big producers shut out the small cultivators.

Legalization = lower quality cannabis. ORLY?

Have you been to Amsterdam? Presently, people still, for the most part, smoke in the shadows and respect the fact that the current Dutch policy towards cannabis regulation and control is a working social experiment. We don't want to get it wrong when we still have so much further to go.

So because the Dutch acknowledge that cannabis it still technically illegal, and act accordingly, we shouldn't legalize? What is that I don't even.......

The [dispensary] supports decriminalization, and approves and defends personal choice for all Californians. In addition, The [dispensary] opposes any legislation, rule or regulation that aims to limit or restrict, in any way, an individual's right to grow cannabis.

Then why do you say that, "The [dispensary] has been, and continues to be, adamant that cannabis is medicine, and should be used under a doctor's supervision and with a doctor's recommendation." Seems like a pretty clear example of a, "rule or regulation that aims to limit or restrict, in any way, an individual's right to grow cannabis."

Levying higher taxes, like those resulting from the Oakland measure, will result in higher prices for patients.

Funny how he mentions a tax that was passed UNDER EXTANT LAW. Local governments can pass these taxes regardless of whether the initiative passes.

However, such a sin tax only works to punish patients, the only members of the California adult population who currently are allowed to purchase cannabis legally.

The initiative actually states that tax proceeds can only be used for programs that ensure the safety and compliance of producers/sellers. No such programs exist now (ever tested a club's product for powderly mildew spores? Tested cuttings for spider mites? Hint: Don't.), so I'd say any levied taxes would be used to the BENEFIT of patients.

Proponents of legalization run the risk that people may not like what they see, and if the legalization-for-all social experiment fails, it could bring the medical cannabis movement down with it."

Glenn, is that you? I can't hear you because I'm busy sliding down this imaginary slippery slope that somehow un-writes California law......

Yeah and if it succeeds medical marijuana could revolutionize medicine and be available to everyone who requires it. This guy is only looking at one side of the coin. He is assuming that society won't like the experiment and then jumping to conclusions about what consequences this will have. I could do the same thing by assuming society will love it and jump to conclusions about how it will lead to amazing things for everyone.

Neither is a good way argue marijuana legalization. Also, if this guy thinks the medical marijuana movement can succeed while restricting legalization at the same time he is mistaken IMO. The fact remains that the tide is moving towards legalization and if the government wants to stop this they will also have to attack medical marijuana. Regardless of what this "experimentation" will result in it will happen, and people like this guy should not be the ones spreading fear of it.