Don't need examples of either, really. Fact is still that those prices reflects the middleman profit margin not the true price that is paid to the grower. Veggie has said that he likes to lecture the dispensary owners. I choose to just stop vending to them and work only with the reasonable ones that keep their profit margins within reason and offer numerous benefits to their memberships, often including veteran/chronically ill discounts, and both they and I have been known to sometimes just pop freebies to those in need. Prop. 19 does nothing to reduce intermediaries between growers/farmers and clients, but opportunes more intermediaries and regulatory processing levels which potentially serve to increase cost or maintain existing ridiculous price levels. Granted, folk like myself and I daresay, Veggie, are probably few and too far between. Enabling the currently illegal large grow operations to legitimize is very much a threat to the small/medium grower who is trying to expand a small, but growing market of truly compassionate caregiving and services. We do not need commercialization of cannabis. Central distribution supply models also mean central wealth congregation. Economies-of-scale trade quality for quantity using questionable growing techniques and intensive production systems that are often responsible for the majority of major public health and safety disasters such as salmonella poisoning, drug recalls for poisonous defects or life-altering/threatening side-effects, off-shore drilling without effective safety inspections and/or responsible operational ethics, etc.
