[HeadMed]

Wow, I'm torn.

I'm working on getting my costs down, but I ain't that low yet. I'm already at $65+ just for nutes! Every month I get savagely bent over furniture by Eddy(son), and before the fucker leaves he takes another $120 outta my wallet.

Not to say that the profit margin if you were selling wouldn't be huge. If their paying $250 a ticket for a trip to Oz., you could do alright.

Like I said, I'm torn.

As a contractor, I understand the $ value of time, and LIABILITY. When you take it upon yourself to do something instead of hiring someone else... all you've done is save money on time and transfer of risk. Materials should be about the same, and so is energy cost (per work unit generated).

When you pay someone else to do something, you;

1) Buy back the time you would have invested to do it your self. (How much do you get paid an hour? How many hours do you sit around thinking about your grow?)

2) Transfer as much of the risk as possible to the other party. It's no longer your responsibility to make sure it's grown and handled well... It's someone else's. It's no longer you and your assets on the line if some dingle berry with a stick up his ass wants to bust a grow op...

It takes brains, and love to dedicate the time and energy to grow yer own. It take giant hairy balls to open a dispensary. That guy's not trying to keep his mouth shut and taking space out of the closet. He's walking into city hall, shaking the chief of polices hand, looking him in the eye, and saying "I'm here to sell pot mother fucker... And I ain't gonna be a bitch about it and keep it quite... I'm gonna rent a space and put a big fucking sign out that says "BUY POT HERE"!!!!... and so heres all of my personal information, where I keep all my money (what I can't hide from you), and where you can come arrest me and take my shit.".

And like you said Racefan... pounds... pounds dude... Thats mucho no bueno should shit not go right.

I'm okay with someone getting paid for that....


But I'm torn ... Remember

Dispensary's are for patients. It's medicine... I'm lucky that I have it... It's keeping me from being sick. But I know people who truly could not survive without it. I'm not talking uncomfortable... I;m talking dead because their body is already so damaged from prescription drugs that they can;t take anymore.

I just met a lady who had her fucking leg cut off be cause she had taken so much ibuprofen it damaged her circulatory system and liver. Theres nothing left for her.

The idea that in the US, where we're supposed to be the best at freaking everything, anyone would have to pay for medicine of that nature... not mater the cost to produce, sickens me.

Theoretically, these are co-operatives. Meaning, you donate for what you need... everyone combined can provide for everyone...not everyone has money, and not everyone has pot. Make a club and we will donate what we have more than we need of, and take what we need.

I have found that most of the operators I've met were very concerned with the patient. If they ain't my kind of place.. I don't go in more than once. I would like to think that by paying street or more for an Oz. (buying less is a waste of money... unless your just sampling.), The operator is in a better position to help someone who needs it more than I. If I'm buying an Oz for any price, it's only because I can afford it.