Quote:
|
Originally Posted by tASSy
i knew people who worked for this guy's operation. he kept records because he sold his edibles to the local cannibas co-operatives and had actual inventory to maintain where California residents with a medical marijuana card could go to obtain marijuana for medical needs a variety of forms, including food & drink. some patients cannot smoke due to their given medical condition. CA law says he has to maintain business records, but federal law can bust him with them. it's sort of like "dont ask, don't tell" in CA right now re: marijuana. 
edibles have a different "high" than smoking thc as well. someone mentioned above that they can make you a cookie that will fuck you up for 6 hours, and i have no doubt. edibles take longer to enter the bloodstream but once they do they stay, resulting in a longer "high" than smoking a bowl. 6 hours of pain relief from one cookie might be better for a patient than 6 hours of smoke inhalation. smoking = immediate effect, shorter lasting. and you can't get high from eating the plant remains straight, they need to be boiled into butter or in some other way *heated* for the thc to be released, giving off the high users are looking for.
|
You are on the right track.
California did reinstate the state issued medical marijuana card, along with web authorization and a 24 hour toll free line to insure the card in question is a valid card. The state now issues and manages these cards as required by the law that went into effect, and to ignore it they would be breaking the constitution of the state of California. All state police now recognize and abide by the rules if the person in question has a state issued card. No more confiscation or other issues. Even the highway patrol has went along with it.
Problem arises with the fact that there are now less than 5400 legal patients in California. I personally know this because I and my fiance have card numbers 53xx and 53xx, that were issued this month. With out such card you are still in violation of California law.
There is no legal limit to the number of plants one person may possess. However you are limited to eight ounces of dried bud per person.
A patient is permitted to have a care giver and may assign that to certain people that meet set qualifications. One person may be a care giver for more than one patient. There is no limit to the number of patients a care giver may have. This is where clubs and co-ops get fuzzy. The laws are not truly in place to keep them open unless they fall under a properly ran co-op. Thus the workers as well as the owner must either be patients and or authorized care givers. Naturally the amount of dried bud can not exceed the amount needed for the number of patients the club has. You would need two patients per pound of dried buds maximum that the co-op possessed to remain legal. The co-op would not be permitted to "sell" the material to the patients so to speak. Some compensation for growing, maintaining and the like may be permissible though.
As for ingesting over smoking, highs aside. For some patients they can not smoke the plant and must eat it. This is done through food stuffs, alcohol based tinctures, capsules and a few other methods. Not to mention some are concerned with inhaling smoke and potential lung damage. I know one person for instance that is on oxygen 24/7, so smoking is out of the question for that person regardless.