The part where you need your doctor, not a pot doctor to dole out recommendations. NO HMO Doc will prescribe it. That is why the pot doc thing happens here. They are not part of an HMO and don't have that restriction.

I even asked my doctor if he would not long ago and he refused and told me his HMO (Anthem) would not authorize it and kick him out of the system if he did......

In the full story you'd see that CA will most likely legalize for recreation in 2016.
A legal framework is necessary to regulate it as an agricultural product
and keep the Feds away.

Seriously and I am on the ground floor of the movement.

For far too many reasons to go into here.

One thing California people can't stand, in my experience, is the implication that they're somehow behind the times.

Seriously, I think Legalization is coming. You guys need to get the assorted stakeholders on the same page, then it will happen.

Everyone is afraid after what happened with Richard Lee, who funded the last measure and then was promptly busted and had his shit seized by the Gov't. Oaksterdam U. All of that. Others have suffered the same fate as well.

Keeping in mind thatthe CO measure was a mandate demanding the legislature have something in place by a certain date, there were really no specifics in the bill, just a mandate.

And the Wash bill is pretty simple as well, so much of the industry is completely undiscussed, that it will cost the taxpayers greatly arguing over all the stuff that is not in the bill. it also has a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE, giveaway in regards to stoned driving. I wake up at that level. Since 1968 or so.

At least the CA measure above will first test the effects before setting limits.

I can tell you that in terms of actual facts on the ground, so far Washington is working just fine.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/us/washington-marijuana-70-million-tax-dollars/

This issue will show it's complexity as well. IN CA the complexities are already in place.

yeah, you may have trouble getting everyone on the same page.

Alls I'm saying is, you guys can make it work with a concerted effort. It's working just fine in other states.

(Also, regarding Washington's law- I haven't seen any evidence that there's been a huge uptick in arrests for people driving with the THC limits set in the law; my hunch is drivers aren't getting tested for it unless there's a good reason, i.e. they're clearly intoxicated)

The walk in place is connected with the pot doc part and shares the same exam rooms.
Te doc bounces back and forth.
I think the pot side pays for his ability to have an independent clinic and his freedom to practice as he wishes.

And I gotta have an HMO.

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Here's the thing.. with above regulations (Which most say are not going to be that bad) you need to have your pot doctor be your everyday doctor. And with Obamacare that means an HMO or something like that.

And that is why the pot docs are the way they are now.

What is more telling is that it took close to 20 years for them to come up with something.