I recently received an email from another patient that I became acquainted with while on MMMA web forum. He has related his horror story depicting exactly what I had warned against, was ridiculed for and banned from the organization for revealing.
As a patient, this person signed up, through one of MMMA Compassion Clubs with an organized effort of some Caregivers who formed a collective.
Their business model apparently was to offer each patient who signed up with them, one ounce of marijuana per month, free of charge. In return these 'compassionate caregivers' were allowed to grow Twelve Plants under the individual patients name.
The excess marijuana produced would simply disappear and, magically twelve new plants would be grown under the patients name. Now given that each caregiver can assist a maximum of five patients, that would mean they should supply each patient with one ounce per month, in exchange the caregiver gets to keep the remaining marijuana as payment.
Let us just look at this arrangement for a minute.
Even if this caregiver were very bad at growing marijuana and, produced one ounce of dried marijuana from each plant. That would translate in to twelve ounces. If the patient receives one ounce per month and, each harvest take 4 months, what happens to the other eight ounces of marijuana ? If the caregiver has five patients, that arrangement would translate in to 40 ounces or 2.5 pounds of marijuana.
Now I'm quite certain these folks are more adept at growing and could produce far more than one ounce per plant, more like one pound per plant.
The patient who wrote me concluded his email with this comment.
I think the MMMA should change it's name to: MMMCEA - Michigan Medical Marijuana Caregiver Enrichment Association.
This is due to the fact that this compassionate patient advocacy organization does not stand up for patients and their rights but, promotes the needs and interests of these Caregivers.
When I was a Moderator for that organizations web forum, I warned everyone about these developments in the works, nobody believed me. Rather I was hounded, defamed and stalked. I had mysterious people begin watching my house, have been followed around the Internet and challenged whenever I spoke out on this topic.
I'm sure some of that will follow once I push publish on this article too.
I am saddened that so many patients in Michigan are being taken advantage of by the criminal black marketeers. Our law was passed on Compassionate grounds, unfortunately those who are leading these efforts were fully aware of the direction they wished this movement to take all along.
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