NEED MEDS BUT CAN'T AFFORD EM?

If any Legal Card Holder is in need of Meds and unable to pay, please check out this group. I just learned of them and I think their work is truley amazing and def worth recognizing. Here's a little bit about them...


The Stone Soup Groups are organizing here at Cannabis Compassion at Cannabis Compassion (Powered by Invision Power Board) . Each US State that has legalized medical cannabis has it's own private forums to network amongst themselves, as well as access to growing, cooking, and use of cannabis information, and discussion forums posted here. We think you will find us to be a good group promoting self-sufficiency and mutual aid in growing our own medicine. So far we have developed a California and Colorado Stone Soup Group, and are planning Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland and Michigan to participate in these Grassroots building of The Stone Soup Groups.

If you are a leader and have the deepest of compassion for your fellow MMJ patients join us, speak up, and let's make Soup. If you simply need help speak up, join us. You have something specil to offer. Bring what you can. Get what you need. Let's make soup. To become a member just register with us and show us your desire compassion for The Stone Soup Group in your State.

The California Stone Soup Concept in Context--by HappaGuy======
Context:
The prices set in competition with the recreational black market for marijuana by essentially commercial dispensaries and growers are unaffordable to the majority of qualified medical marijuana patients in California. The government has gotten on the gravy train charging us $103 for annual State MMJ Cards after the doctors have taken their annual $150 for prescribing something safer than aspirin, and only then can we pay the dispensaries $360 per ounce for this God-given green mercy. We can do better than this. It doesn't have to be this way. Marijuana is not that hard to grow. It can be done because it IS done. My caregrower HBAM provides at $60 per ounce -- prepaid.
Concept:
Bring what you can, get what you need.

We are a statewide mutual aid network of patients helping patients.

We MMJ patients have got to be our own heroes. Those who can should grow for themselves, and others, and/or pool resources with other patients to do so, operating without financial profit. Personal grows almost always yield a surplus. Please contribute that surplus to patients in acute need who cannot presently grow. Help any willing and able patients to set up their own grows, share their surplus, and teach others to do the same. Help provide for the health, safety, and housing of one another as well, as required by Prop 215 to qualify as a caregiver. By building a statewide mutual aid network of patients, we can more effectively share resources and support one another. This website provides a board where Soupers my find others in their area to help or be helped and/or cooperate.
Can we in this way see to it that no qualified California patient goes without for lack of ability to pay? Let's experiment. Let's cooperate. It CAN be done because it IS done. It's fun. It's what our state medical marijuana laws intend.


The Colorado Stone Soup Group Dream/RealityAfter the voters passed Amendment 20 in 2000, nobody would have thought that a patient in need would have to go without their medicine.
Dispensaries have cropped up all over the State, and if you can afford $85 per 1/8 or $400-$500 per oz, you’ll have no problem finding half decent medication.

BUT WHAT IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD THAT?

Enter the Colorado Stone Soup Group. This group is just starting to form in all areas of the State. It will help patients/caregivers network to get the medicine to the patients at no cost.

How?

By the “Pay It Forward” concept!
Bring what you can, get what you need!

What is that you ask? Well it’s where anyone with extra “stuff” ie: equipment, medication, knowledge, helps someone else in need that’s looking for help.
If you’re willing/able to learn there are people that will teach you to grow your own medicine. Can’t grow for a good reason, someone maybe able to help you out with medicine.
This website provides a board where Soupers may find others in their area to help or be helped and/or cooperate.

In this way we can see to it that no Colorado patient in need goes without because they can’t afford to pay.

We are patients helping patients to become self sufficient,
So what can you bring to the soup bowl?

Stone Soup Story
Adapted from the Brothers Grimm folk tale by HappaGuy


They were desperate times in the village. There was famine across the land, and in every village those who had any food at all hoarded it away so that while many had enough of something, all lacked this or that.

One day a wandering stranger came to to the village. The shutters of the burghers - already shut up tight against the spying of hungry neighbors - shut up tighter still with the approach of the stranger, but not so tightly that every household in town did not have one eye upon him at every moment.

The stranger was, of course, hungry like all the rest, but he didn't let on a bit. He started a cooking fire near the village square and over it he set his pot filled with water, and while it boiled he made a great show of selecting a few stones from the countryside about. At last, with great ceremony, he chose one of these few, dropped it into the now briskly boiling pot, and sat by waiting as one expecting a delightful feast.

This excited a flurry of suspicious interest behind the shutters of the houses, and as the water boiled so did the curiosity of the villagers, until at last one of the children was sent to ask after the stranger and his curious doings.

The child asked "Please sir, why are you boiling that rock?"

The stranger replied "Why don't you know?! I'm making a nice big pot of delicious Stone Soup."

The very suggestion of food rattled the well-exercised skepticism of the villagers, and another stepped out her door.

"Stone Soup? Whatever do you mean? You're daft!"

The stranger replied cheerily "You've never heard of Stone Soup?! It's delicious! It's our favorite food where I come from. I love it!" Another villager stepped out and said "How do you make it? You haven't any food!"

The stranger replied "Ahh but I have the most important ingredient, this very fine stone. This stone is enough to make gallons, and your country has some of the most delicious stones I've ever seen. But you know, it IS ever so much better with a bit of a garnish. A potato. Maybe some carrots..."

Everyone thought "eating stones!? He's mad!"

But the mention of "gallons of soup" was enough to bring out more villagers and there was soon a small and famished and curious crowd gathered about the strangers briskly boiling pot. One old man, glancing nervously to either side at his astonished neighbors, confessed " well here I've got a bit of potato and an old carrot. If I might share in your meal sir I will gladly add it to your pot. And so it was done.

Said the stranger "Ahh this will be an especially tasty batch of Stone Soup I'm sure". And to the villagers, who had not smelled hot food during all the months of famine, it did smell like a miraculous feast. All nodded in agreement.

The stranger suggested "But you know, it's missing a little something. In my homeland it is customary to add a little salt, and even some celery on feast days."

And another villager, a young widow desperate to feed her children, said "sir, I have neither salt nor celery but this piece of fatback I've been saving for Christmas dinner. Please take it. Might my children eat with you?"

The stranger laughed heartily. "Of course! Where I come from, all children eat free. Add but a little of your pork and I gladly invite you to dinner." Soon the mayor had offered one portion but the villagers knew of his hoard and demanded three, and so the Mayor had a place at the table. Soon celery was found, and salt, and pepper and spices and all manner of ingredients until the boiling pot was filled to the brim and rich with fat, meat, and vegetables and savory with spices. Bread was even baked openly for the first time in many months, and everyone in the village had a fine meal.

Eventually the famine passed, but ever after, the villagers started their soup with a pebble in the pot, and an extra place was always set for wandering strangers, who were welcomed to supper.


The Beginning.
From here it is up to you to have hope, and believe in yourselves. You who are in need, have a support system in place now, filled with experts to advise new growers. We have this nice stone boiling - anyone want soup??

LETS MAKE SOUP!

GREAT post Joint girl! I am going to copy this into the Cannabis Activist ~ Idea Interchange and come back to check this to keep both threads current...My magic buttons do a lot! If you have anything you need to be added in the future to either thread, let me know and I will do it soonest....

So glad you are here babes!

Peace

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