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There is now a company in Lansing, Michigan that teaches you how to legally grow and sell medical marijuana. There’s also a medical marijuana grower’s school in California. From the HydroCollege web site:
Welcome to HydroCollege, here at HydroCollege we teach Michigan residents who are interested in useing or growing marijuana for medicinal purposes how to become legal to do so or possibly become a Michigan caregiver and be able to grow from 12 to 60 plants in your house and also be able to carry 2.5 ounces to 12.5 ounces and provide marijuana to others. My name is Danny Trevino and i am the instructor of HydroCollege. I started HydroCollege on Jan 12th 2009 and i am the first medical marijuana college in Mi and was in the television news for it www.myspace.com/hydroworldlansing if you want to view the video.
I started HydroCollege because people kept coming in to HydroWorld Hydroponics my medical marijuana store and they didnt know how to grow effectively even though they bought a book they still needed to know some hands on approach.
There are important questions for the half-baked institutionalist. 1. How did the Federal gov’t prevail over the states for so long on medical marijuana when the regulation of medical practices resides with the states and voters supported it? 2. What governance mechanisms had to loosen up so that HydroCollege could legitimately operate? 3. How long will it take for mom ‘n’ pop medical marijuana dealers to be run out of town by medical professionals?
Around a year ago, medical marijuana “dispensaries” (as they are called here) started expanding massively in LA. As various storefronts were closing, they moved in. The timing makes it hard to say how much this growth was based on a change at the federal level to stop raiding dispensaries, and how much this reflects the recession and unsatisfied demand for slightly more legitimate weed.
On a local level, most of these new dispensaries are operating under temporary “hardship waivers” while waiting for a full formal review that never happened. Ironically, most of the things the LA city council has tried to close the loophole have violated pot sellers’ due process and been rejected by the courts. There is a lot of local variation in California to license pot dispensaries, despite state law. It’s a governance mechanism most noticeable in LA over the last year, as local officials realized (too late) that they had a responsibility to govern.
As to your third question Fabio, there are a few storefront medical offices near UCLA that advertise they specialize in medical marijuana consultations. On the front window, facing the street: “You have the legal right to marijuana if you suffer from one of the following symptoms!” The rest of the window is filled with common ailments, such as headaches and anxiety, which give the impression that anyone could walk into the office and walk out with a medical marijuana card. Then they could walk next door and fill their prescription!
Noah
March 1, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I was thinking that the professionals would move to increase licensing requirements for the storefront places. Hasn’t happened yet?
fabiorojas
March 2, 2010 at 1:24 am