I wish all of my tax-money could go directly to the Dept. of Weights & Measures.

I think back when bags were measured by a number of fingers, IE: 3 finger bag, (showing my age). This seems much more accurate and acceptable.

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now i really cant wait!!! an extra bud in my bag!!!!

Somebody owes me .35 grams. A few times over.

Oh well, I'll take a very slightly short ounce over marinol any day.

Who cares. a third of a gram ooh. how about 4 grams or something. Thats a measly amount and any one excited should just relax, half a joint is nothing! Chill

Although the extra .35 grams is nice, if it's slightly over an ounce it could change a misdemeanor into a felony. That's why most clubs back when Prop. 215 first passed started capping it at 28.0 grams. We know the budtenders and farmacists like to give an extra pinch for luck, and we didn't want to create felony opportunities for the cops back then. Now it doesn't matter as much.

It's interesting to see my email to the MCD's show up on your blog.
The email was sent in response to a complaint I received and confirmed as valid. As MCDs now collect sales tax for all purchases, it only reinforces the idea that people should actually get what they pay for, that being one of the roles of Gov't and regulation.

C'mon, the goverment doesn't care whether medical pot smokers get shafted out of .35 grams per ounce! The only reason this is even coming up is because they are concerned that pharmacists are pocketing the extra .35 grams from every ounce dispensed and redistributing it illegally for personal profit.

This isn't about doing right by the medical pot smokers- it's only about cutting off another distribution channel for illegally obtained marijuana.

At about a bong hit a bag...I figure my 'guy' owes me a couple pounds, at least, for my business over the years.

The email, as I said, was in reply to a complaint, which, as these facilities are going through a permitting process SF has established, someone patronizing the facility has a right to complain to the agency regulating that facility. In this case it turned out the complaint was justified, and the practice widespread (as is obvious from the replies you've received on this blog).
If the facility was NOT going through the permitting process, however, I would not get involved in any way.

The whole issue is a bit complicated regarding State law, and State/local agency involvement. There has been quite a bit of discussion over the years about this issue (whether or not to treat the weighing of cannabis in an MCD as a retail weighing subject to State Ag. Dept's oversight). But that discussion is best left for others to sort out.

With some dispensaries charging $525/oz for meds thats $6.50 worth of meds at .35g. That could buy half a pound of good coffee here. We here in Oregon are appalled at the rates being gouged out of patients down south. We have no cash consideration here and no dispensaries and we are fighting to keep it that way, both for DEA and to keep those kinds of prices from flourishing. The DEA gets interested when there is an untaxed underground economy of large scale, hence all the busts there. The excuse they use is galling: We keep prices high to keep dealers away, no one could resell over what we charge! But you know if the same guy came in 5 times in one day buying ounces they would not bat an eye all the while chanting their mantra.

$525 for an ounce of Plant material!!! Now that is Criminal. Compassion my ass, thats highway robbery.

$522 for an ounce of good green sticky Indica and/or Sativa. For medical purposes that is grossly inflated. I can't believe they can reconcile for that high of price. That's black market price, granted a good one but it still ranks up there with the black market. In the midwest, right now, is some really good sativa. Not as aromatic or pretty but clean and effective $275 for one ouarter pound. Otherwise it's $80-$120 an ounce. Pounds go for $800-$900. Mind you this is what we call regs, mexican sativa. The exotic, which you can get like Kush, skunk, etc. you should really thank God that you can even get it. Where it is illegal and strictly enforced the quality goes down and the price goes up. In Iowa we won't have medical marijuana until pigs fly. And the ratio of pigs to people in Iowa is there are 6 pigs for every human being. Imagine all that methane, what an explosion that would be. Guess I'd better be careful when (If) I light up.

Patients do not pay for medicine here. That is, my caregiver offers effective, high quality meds (strains like Strawberry Cough, Arcata Trainwreck, Chocolate Chunk, Dutch Passion's White Widow, Skunk XXX, Crystal, Mango, Shiskaberry, God bud, Kali Mist, and Purple Erkle) for helping with $50 paid directly to the electric company once a month. (We are allowed to help with the costs associated with the grow excluding labor and rent but are not allowed to give "consideration" for the meds). If I want a strain, I place a "clone request" in a private forum and someone from the community gives it to me to give to my grower/caregiver to grow for me (all for free). My caregiver/grower makes medibles, another member of the community makes cannaoil capsules, hash and tinctures. All of these are available in the community for free (although many of us like to buy supplies for the bakers/growers/hashmakers, etc.).
We share with one another and when one of us is out, others give to that person with only one request-"pay it forward." It works, guys. It really, truly works.
Patients helping patients, donating and sharing grow equipment, teaching one another to grow (all for free, mind you), just because we can.
I am all for legalizing cannabis for recreational useage, but not on the backs of patients.
Rethink how you guys do things-you may find that many of the troubles that your community are going through right now will fade away.

By the way, one ounce is legally and technically 28.3 grams, not 28 grams. If a patient in California has to purchase their medicine at dispensaries, the very least the dispensary operator can do is not "short" them, especially at $500+ dollars an ounce. I don't recall my old black market dealers adding the extra 0.3 grams either, and I am certain that it had nothing to do with their shielding me from the potential felony associated with the extra third of a gram-since they always had more than an ounce with them when they delivered the $250 ounce to me of Super Silver Haze or Bubba Kush...

Glad I don't have to go back to that-helping one another is so much more rewarding-plus, the DEA isn't really interested in stealing the meds of patients who leave the commerce out of the equation. No money=no hassles.

Just a thought-it's pretty hard for anyone to justify those prices when it comes to sick and suffering people...Try as you like, but until you remove the HUGE profit margin from the picture, the sh*t is going to keep hitting the fan.

Dispensaries will not come to Oregon-we don't want the heartache and trauma associated with them and the greed (from the operators to the DEA) that they bring with them. You all can keep 'em.