Hello Future Mass Caregivers and Patients!

Friendly Caregiver

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If you have plans of joining the medical community, welcome to the indursty! Add me as your friend, and ask questions abouts growing or licensing. I am currently an established caregiver in RI, hoping to move shop to MA in the near future. Always great to meet the people of the area. Peace.
 

Wiz1234

Member
Hi. Do you have any idea when you'll be up and running in MA (and able to serve patients)? It's hard to find anyone who's gonna be operational when the law goes into effect. Thanks.
 
No dispensarries will be open Jan. 1st. If you have a doctor's recemendation you can produce your own medicine or have a caregiver produce for you. I believe the MA DOH will be setting the rules and regulations in April or May

and that's when the dispensaries will start popping up.
 

epsonsalt

Member
I live in western MA and have been preparing for the law to go into effect. I will be interesting to see how the transition goes. I don't know if it will be as smooth as RI as a lot of towns here in MA are trying to ban dispensaries which basically means there will be a greater need for personal caregivers.
 

epsonsalt

Member
I have been doing a lot of reading online about dispensaries. It may be a bit longer than April or May. MA loves to drag things out plus all the towns want to have their say too. A friend who works in state govt was telling me if it is anything like getting gambling in MA after the law passed it may be a long while for dispensaries
 
I have been doing a lot of reading online about dispensaries. It may be a bit longer than April or May. MA loves to drag things out plus all the towns want to have their say too. A friend who works in state govt was telling me if it is anything like getting gambling in MA after the law passed it may be a long while for dispensaries
Very true. Although I think we will have some rules set for plant #'s and what "a 60 day useable supply" is in April or so.
 

Friendly Caregiver

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Hi. Do you have any idea when you'll be up and running in MA (and able to serve patients)? It's hard to find anyone who's gonna be operational when the law goes into effect. Thanks.

To be honest, my lease ends in RI in May, and I am giving Mass until May to sort out their program and give caregivers some room to work with in the legal sense, instead of throwing us all in a grey area controlled by both local police, state laws, and federal laws. I will however get my license in Mass, and be able to provide for patients in Mass as well. I have a residence in both states.

If in the mean time anyone needs clones now or in the future, I have very solid strains in my cloner.
 

bde0001

New Member
I live in western MA and have been preparing for the law to go into effect. I will be interesting to see how the transition goes. I don't know if it will be as smooth as RI as a lot of towns here in MA are trying to ban dispensaries which basically means there will be a greater need for personal caregivers.
thinking about what you just said, thats a good thing for patients that want to grow their own BECAUSE if so many towns ban them then more patients should be allowed to grow their own medicine under the hardship clause. Ya BOI!
 

bde0001

New Member
To be honest, my lease ends in RI in May, and I am giving Mass until May to sort out their program and give caregivers some room to work with in the legal sense, instead of throwing us all in a grey area controlled by both local police, state laws, and federal laws. I will however get my license in Mass, and be able to provide for patients in Mass as well. I have a residence in both states.

If in the mean time anyone needs clones now or in the future, I have very solid strains in my cloner.

hey, I know that dispensaries charge top dollar for their top quality buds. But what do you typically pay a grower for top quality nug?
 

Friendly Caregiver

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hey, I know that dispensaries charge top dollar for their top quality buds. But what do you typically pay a grower for top quality nug?
Hello Bde0001, I will only say this once because price is never discussed between my patients and I until we actually sit down, try plenty of medicine, and of several strains, and finally I usually let patients name their own price. But when meeting new patients and caregivers, you will always tell how reliable a patient is when they approach you; especially if they approach you demanding price of your product. For numbers? I think its the first time I put a dollar amount on RUI, but I usually accept donations of 180-250, depending on the financial status of the patient. Also, all greens that come out of my room are top quality. The ones that do not meet grade get turned into BHO oil.
 

epsonsalt

Member
To be honest, my lease ends in RI in May, and I am giving Mass until May to sort out their program and give caregivers some room to work with in the legal sense, instead of throwing us all in a grey area controlled by both local police, state laws, and federal laws. I will however get my license in Mass, and be able to provide for patients in Mass as well. I have a residence in both states.

If in the mean time anyone needs clones now or in the future, I have very solid strains in my cloner.
What was the process like in RI to get a license? I am told until things get sorted out in MA a copy of a patients doctor's note is sufficient to be a caregiver? Is this true? Is there a particular reason you are choosing to leave RI? Won't your current patients be missing out?
 

bde0001

New Member
When you say grower do you mean caregiver?
do some dispensaries purchase product off " caregivers" ? if yes, than yes thats what I mean. I myself would benefit from mmj because of my nausea but I would also like to sell product I produce to dispensaries. But ofcourse i know that dispensaries buy low sell high. Though the prices that the rhode island dispenser estimated was pretty affordable. But from what i hear california medical dispensaries charge the same price as east coast blackmarket dealers charge ...which is high( top shelf= $20 a gram
 

Wiz1234

Member
Hello Bde0001, I will only say this once because price is never discussed between my patients and I until we actually sit down, try plenty of medicine, and of several strains, and finally I usually let patients name their own price. But when meeting new patients and caregivers, you will always tell how reliable a patient is when they approach you; especially if they approach you demanding price of your product. For numbers? I think its the first time I put a dollar amount on RUI, but I usually accept donations of 180-250, depending on the financial status of the patient. Also, all greens that come out of my room are top quality. The ones that do not meet grade get turned into BHO oil.
That makes a lot of sense. How can a patient get in touch with you on January 2?
 

epsonsalt

Member
do some dispensaries purchase product off " caregivers" ? if yes, than yes thats what I mean. I myself would benefit from mmj because of my nausea but I would also like to sell product I produce to dispensaries. But ofcourse i know that dispensaries buy low sell high. Though the prices that the rhode island dispenser estimated was pretty affordable. But from what i hear california medical dispensaries charge the same price as east coast blackmarket dealers charge ...which is high( top shelf= $20 a gram
I am not so familiar with California but from what I understand about the way the MA law is written, I don't think that this is a legal option initially. The intention was to have dispensaries grow and sell their own products under close state observation. I believe we are going to see a lot of grey areas in the initial law not to mention a realistic time frame for dispensaries to be in operation. Is your nausea brought on by a more serious condition? In Ma they area also trying to adhere to very specific medical conditions for doctors to give the mmj okay. When it comes to price, a patient will have the option of what and how much he is willing to pay, just look at Maine and RI. It may take a patient a bit of time but there are legit caregivers who are making quality meds available for reasonable prices.
 

Friendly Caregiver

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I am glad this conversation brought more people. A caregiver is a person who is licensed to grow for a patient. The only way to get a caregivers license is to file a form with the health department with a patients information and signature. Patients can also choose to add caregivers in their form when they file for their patients license, and the patient and caregiver on the form will both get their license relatively around the same time. Patients can have 2 caregivers (or "dispensaries"). The reason I say "dispensaries" is because of how fictional they are in Rhode Island. I cannot predict what they will do once they open, and IF they open. I cannot predict the prices in which they will purchase product. And I don't think anyone can really.
 

epsonsalt

Member
I am glad this conversation brought more people. A caregiver is a person who is licensed to grow for a patient. The only way to get a caregivers license is to file a form with the health department with a patients information and signature. Patients can also choose to add caregivers in their form when they file for their patients license, and the patient and caregiver on the form will both get their license relatively around the same time. Patients can have 2 caregivers (or "dispensaries"). The reason I say "dispensaries" is because of how fictional they are in Rhode Island. I cannot predict what they will do once they open, and IF they open. I cannot predict the prices in which they will purchase product. And I don't think anyone can really.
Thanks for the info. Is that for MA or for RI. Seems like it wouls apply to both given the absence of dispensaries
 

Nizza

Well-Known Member
i think its a bad idea to register to do anything until things are legal federally. you pretty much are blacklisting yourself when you are legally signed up to do anything with weed IMO at this point in time, and even though states are making it "legal" i think its best to stay quiet until things are legal federally.
 
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