I don't believe that dispensaries [with the exception of dickhead Josh] supported any of this crap. All of the dispensary owners that I know fully support caregivers any way that they can. It really bothers me when caregivers project the image that dispensaries are the evil scourge of Medical Marijuana. We were caregivers too before all the shit got pumped down from the state. We had to make a choice. Send numerous patients to the streets, or suck it up and buy an MMC and OPCL license. Somehow choosing the latter makes us evil and out to kill off the caregivers ? Give me a break.
I believe the 70/30 rule was implemented in order to gain control of the sourcing of meds, more than the taxation aspect. If a caregiver was selling meds to a dispensary, nobody was paying tax on that transaction anyways [wholesale]. If a contaminated batch of meds came through somewhere, they need a way to track it back to the source.
Do we think that the Health Dept. is screwing over caregivers ? Of course they are. Nobody can deny that. But it isn't the dispensaries driving that.