I thought I wanted rec here in Oklahoma. But after hearing your concerns I am not sure. I want the system to work for everyone. Just seems to me that there has to be a happy medium where it works for everyone. I am curious to know what changes should be made to make it work for everyone.
It’s a unique situation there in OK, the chicken is coming before the egg in some aspects. When my state went rec you saw an increase in its prevalence for the industry but a much greater interest from the state bean counters.
Those familiar with walking the line should see things get better, but stay ahead or on top of the current game of accountability, at least as far as the state is concerned. IE those businesses settup with a database for their business, to track product inventory, medical and recreational sales/customers each separately had a much easier time dealing with the changing local rules and taxes while also seeing a much wider clientele.
It’s not all unicorns pissing rainbows either, and it’s going to get strange fast. Instead of getting nasty letters, you’ll want to show up to pay memberships dues and bring your best homemade baked goods for the next local small business development town hall/potluck.
You will need to evolve and find a niche spot while serving the same old clientele. Your gonna wake up and find Kroger, Walmart and the gas station across the street starting to distribute CBD products.
IE, and given this forum, one thing some shops around here are having great luck with that is “new” but Fred Flintsone could of implemented, is selling a lot of clones ready to plant.
You could always find them for many years, but I’m seeing them go like basil plants recently. You can grow recreational legally in counties here that don’t allow dispensaries (even though those counties have the supermarket CBD kiosks…). They dont take much to sell for $40-60 to people who walked in, and healthy ones sell themselves. One supplier at a local shop here spends an extra $1-2 per clone - uses healthy cuts with lots of lineage/breeder info, good nutes/light, and uses rapid rooter plugs and some purty decaled popsicle sticks (compared to competition) and he must be selling out 50-100 clones a week for the past 6 weeks (springtime helps too).