Actually in 2009, on your form 990 you have to document your process for determining compensation. The IRS absolutely can jack you up (audit you) if you are overly compensating, and they find you are not fulfilling your obligations as an NPO. It depends on exactly what type of NPO you are and each situation is different. But I imagine cannabis dispensary gets the worst treatment of all and the most scrutiny. Having an argument, or rationale ahead of time will help, and during the audit process this can give you a "rebuttable presumption" but its still not going to be fun.



I don't see street prices as a reason, or influence upon what dispensaries should charge. In the same light I don't think pharmacies should charge the street price for oxycodone to keep people from buying it and reselling. The deterrent to this sort of behavior is the law imo.

He's just another f-ing politician. What else would you expect?

Now... Who actually opens up any business with no intention of making money? The very idea of a non-profit business is just stupid. Unless you are talking about a charity. Even then, most of what charities bring in goes into "operating expenses" and never makes it to those that need it.


They do v0ssman... That way, they can tax the sh*t out of it.

Cannabis shouldn't just be decriminalized, it should be completely legal for everyone. It is a plant!

Those TV preachers are just as corrupt as the politicians, except for the fact that every dime they bring in is TAX FREE! Religion is big business.

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Right on Snick,

I should have been more specific. Decriminalized doesn't necessarily mean legal and I want Cannabis totally legal. Religion has always been big business!

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You would think that anyone engaging in that business (buying and selling marijuana) would have the forethought to hire an excellent attorney, and an accountant, and a tax attorney to run through all the rules and regs with a fine toothed comb before they venture into something that could potentially ruin they're lives and bring negative press to the cause they claim to be fighting for. I have said before, it is up to us to work within new laws, and abide completely and absolutely with them, while fighting for the furtherance of the cause. As soon as someone steps outside the box then of course someone will be waiting to stomp them, thats the nature of the beast. However... if people are consistently following the letter of the law then there is no argument to be made for the further abolition of marijuana or the people that grow/indulge/medicate with it.

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The unfortunate thing is...

Even if you are squeaky clean and operate 100% within the law, the less than ethical D.A.'s and cops can invent any reason they choose to bust in your door, haul you to jail and confiscate your property.
Now, YOU are are the one facing an uphill battle, from jail, to vindicate yourself.

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All the more reason to have all the ducks in one squeaky clean row... to better drag the system through the mud with when you get raided. If there is no viable reason for what they did then more people should be publicly smearing the cops and D.A. through the mud on this issue. Regardless of the intimidation I'm sure they use on these people when they do get raided, they can't be afraid to stand up and speak out against abuse of power, and there needs to be viable media outlets to speak out too... I thought they were going to debate on the decriminalization of marijuana in Cali anyhow, what ever happened to that?

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I live in canada and I could be worse off but I still dont think it's a free country.

i agree totally...that is the main reason why they charge right at or a little above street price...not only that but usually their bud is just a little bit better than what i can get from the brotha next door so i dont mind driving to and paying a little bit more for medical quality...i can either get "them purps" from brotha man for 50 an eigth or something awesome like chem 4 or blue dream for 60 and a 20 minute drive to berekely...wanna ride with me? lol

and heres another thing...anyone who sells bud is going to make money...you have to ask yourself this...where do you want your money going? into furthering the criminal element in your neighborhood? or into the pocket of someone working behind a counter all day selling premium meds to people? again i ask...wanna ride with me?

all that being said...if you smoke alot the only smart thing to do is grow

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I think its wrong to assume that medical marijuana patients are acting in bad faith when purchasing medicine. We have laws to deal with those who divert medical marijuana to non patients.

If the price of street marijuana goes up, does that mean the medical marijuana dispensaries are going to have to raise their prices as well?

I think patients should have access to the best medicine at the most affordable price.

Hey operator, it's not Obama, it's the local cops. Have you read anything by Ed Rosenthal lately, if not, I would check out his website. He tells a recent story on his news feed about the cops busting a dispensary operating within the laws. They took a TON of money from them, the charges got dropped and the LAPD refused to return the money. They instead filed a complaint to the FEDS to try and get the dispensary in trouble (since they couldn't) I'll skip to the end. A judge in CA, overruled and gave the dispensary their money back. It's corrupt pig cops (the LAPD keeps 80% of forfeited money and wanted to keep the $180K for themselves) NOT the Obama administration.

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yes...as i already said that is how it has to be...and id rather pay the club than the street dealer...such is life...it should be legal for everyone and tax free then we wouldnt have that problem.

they do...the club sells clones for 12$ each...grow your own...thats as affordable as it gets.

again...the club making a profit is better for us than the street dealer making profit...every time...shoot theyre working behind the counter all day serving a bunch of pot heads like me...they DESERVE what they make...and if you cant afford it...just grow it

i agree with this, but. dont fool yourself. obama doesnt give a crap about us and our rights any more than any other politician/pig does...if he did he would enforce the opinion he claims to have about marijuana.

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"Those TV preachers are just as corrupt as the politicians, except for the fact that every dime they bring in is TAX FREE! Religion is big business""" Religion is an empire

This is kind of related, since this thread talks about 'profit' and MMJ prices.

Misinformation from American's for Save Access:
ASA Fresno Chapter - Promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research

What doesn't add up imho, is trying to is looking at retail prices to try and make a claim of profiteering. You have to look at... well, 'profit' it make a case for such a claim, not retail prices or gross sales.

And what is totally disingenuous is claiming that you can buy medical grade MJ for $5-10 per eighth.

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Medical marijuana providers use the excuse that they have a lot of expenses like lighting, utilities, security, etc., and so they have to charge that much to cover their costs of operations. I ask you though… Who actually has the greater operating expenses; those who grow legally or those who grow illegally?

Well golly Gomer, now you want to ask about expenses. Expenses are virtually the same I'd imagine, probably greater for legal sellers/growers due to extra adminstrative costs (adhering to local tax laws, obtaining a business license, advertising expenses (gee, real advertising costs money, and even a non-profit has to advertise), et cetera. I think it'd be self evident that a legal business has more operating costs.

Plus legal growers face the same potential of criminal charges. So a legal grower has the same need to have money in the war chest to mount a legal defense if needed. I mean way to gloss over the fact that MMJ is 'quasi-legal,' and that people do get arrested for it -- so anyone with brains will use many of the same tactics an illegal grower would use in order to keep a low profile.

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That brings us to wonder again why legitimate medical marijuana providers are charging six times or more what illegal growers are

9 out or 10 bunnies like pancakes on their heads. See I can make up statistics too.

As the old adage goes, "show me the street" where you can score high grade MJ for $5 per eighth... or an ounce for $40. When you resort to even one obvious outright fabrication to try and win an arguement, it tends to make a reader suspect everything you have to say.

And that's my $.02, but as Americans for Safe Access claims, it should only be $.002 ;)

I'm surprised people are getting down on the illegal sellers. Who in the hell has been supplying all of us with weed since it became legal? Who took all the risk, the real risk? Not the smokers but the smugglers and dealers. They've been bringing weed to the people too scared to do their own thing for decades.

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It seems to me that what these places need is attorneys who really know what they are doing to protect these businesses. Running things through litigation might be expensive at times, but if the governments open the door with some of the MMJ laws, we need to use that opportunity get what we need.

Peace and good luck all.

What we need is a government that follows the Constitution. The tenth amendment guarantees that the states are not to be ruled over by the Federal government"

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The states can do what the hell they want. State law trumps Federal law. Are we forgetting that we're a union of individual countries? We might not be countries in the same spirit as other small nations but the states have always had the power and the right to do what they please in regards to the Federal government. The Constitution reiterates this over and over.

What do you call ten thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

A damn good start!

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