The cost of medical marijuana is too high for patients. While I encourage medical marijuana dispensaries, I do however note that most people involved in these dispensaries are doing so only for proift and have no real desires to help medical marijuana patients at all.

Patients need to be allowed to grow their own marijuana and not just six plants. California allows a patient twelve (12) plants, and that still isn’t enough! In parts of California that have voted to raise the number of plants allowed, that number was raised to 99 plants! Why? Because it takes more than 6 plants to fulfill most medical marijuana users prescription.

Think of, or compare it to growing tomatoes. most people who grow tomatoes barely get a few tomatoes off the plant. marijuana grows very similar to tomato plants and most people who grow marijuana end up not getting much from the plant. This is often due to inadequate lighting or just the fact that most people are not the best with growing any kind of fruit or vegetable, and marijuana plants are no different.

BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder County Caregivers offers 16 glass jars of marijuana with names like Skinny Pineapple and Early Pearl Maui, priced at $375 to $420 an ounce. There are marijuana capsules and snacks made with cannabis butter, such as rice crispy treats.

Co-owner Jill Leigh urges customers to try a syrupy tincture she calls “the Advil of medical marijuana.” A drop under the tongue gives less of a high but the same pain relief as smoking, she says.

Leigh’s sales are legal — and taxed — under Colorado’s voter-approved medical marijuana law. Her marijuana dispensary and nearly 60 others serve a rapidly growing number of users with little oversight. Critics of the system say it’s prone to abuse and point to a growing number of younger patients. But a recent state effort to impose more controls failed.
More than 9,000 people are registered in Colorado to use medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation — up 2,000 in the past month.

The total is expected to rise to 15,000 by year’s end, according to the state health department, which blames the rapid increase on patient confidentiality guarantees and federal plans to stop raiding medical marijuana operations, which the U.S. government considers illegal.

Dispensaries are increasing the amount they charge and the rates of patients are increasing. Meaning, they are making more money than ever!

Meanwhile, the sick and dying, cannot afford to use marijuana that costs $375 an ounce! This is absurd prices based on the value of illegal street weed! We need to stand up for patients and stop standing up for profit!

A patient who uses cooked marijuana in its edible form, needs at least an ounce every couple of days. And at these prices, we are just making people rich and not really addressing patients pain or rights.

We need to stop letting these dispensaries make millions off dying people while basing their prices on illegal street value. Marijuana is cheap to grow, can grow very fast and yield a lot of medicine if grown properly – the prices these people are charging for medical marijuana seems as if they are selling gold!

I am glad to see dispensaries in the public, but I do not like seeing the amount of money they are making off people who can barely afford to live, let alone afford the cost of $400 an ounce, when they need at least 2 ounces a week.

Marijuana should be grown and given away, there should be large tracts of land designated to grow free pot for medical users who cannot grow their own, and stop restricting caregivers to small numbers of plants which keep the cost up! Let caregivers grow more plants and the price shall come down! If a caregiver wants to grow 500 plants to give weed away, we should allow it! Not restrict them to 10 plants which doesn’t fulfill a single patients prescription!