Chamberlain Model Dispensary Opening February

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-we hope for prices this low, as in this economically blighted area of the state if anywhere, low prices for meds are desperately needed. In the Chamberlain model, prices are set not by dispensary owners or staff but by the med owners, because every transaction is consignment. (The Chamberlain model is found in Hon. Paul H. Chamberlain's decision in Isabella County Dec. 16). The dispensary never owns or sells meds. In Chamberlain's terms the dispensary participates in transfers. Patients and Caregivers must be club members ($5 month) and sellers must lease lockers ($10 month). Sellers get 80% of transfer price, less sales tax, which the dispensary remits to the State. At this site opening February meds to be stored must be brought in Mason jars. For info on placing consignment medibles please email.

[Croppled1]

I wish you the best of luck on this as increased competition on price can only be good for patients sadly the extreme profiteers are resistant as well as those holding on to the illegal market pricing . This combined with a positive outcome in the medibles case could pave the way for another great need quality medibles at affordable prices so patients can keep up cannabinoid levels while spending long periods of time in public , thus be more mobile with improved function and comfort . There is no doubt with experience the cost of growing Cannabis comes down if health allows one to properly care for their grow . You can grow good quality medical Cannabis for $20 a once in the current regulation enviroment with legal homegrows untilizing previously unused environmentally conditioned space . Only when the Goverment intervenes do you see costs rise dramatically like we have seen with unequal Marinol at $24 a pill in the 10ng strength .

[+Annnie]

I think it would better be called the Brandon and Matt Model as they are the ones who researched and studied and implemented the model .. Thanks Judge chamberlin for oking it.. It is better than the other models if you ask me.. YET it has not kept the prices down at all in the other Compassionate Apothocaries. Hopefully it will in detroit.. Gl to you and blessings to all MM patients and caregivers.

[brbud]

This has some potential...so much so that it should not be called a disp and lumped into the like.

[Seefdro]

I really like this model.... Except SW Detroit makes "me" a little nervous.

 

I would hope this location has some serious security.

 

Regardless, I like this.--- Nice to see the innovation here, copied or not!

 

 

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Will do a group reply and thanks to everyone.

 

Croppled1: I am not familiar with the 'medibles case.' Please explain and if u wud be so kind, provide a link to the pleadings. We have lined up meds, medibles and hard candy for the Feb. 1 open (don't feel yet there's a decision on point regarding the legality of making clones available--interpretation, legally we are scared to do so). However we can rethink any and all aspects as to legal risks. Being on the wrong side of the law is not in our genes or jeans, nor is being a test case. In that respect we are "chicken."

 

Annie: We freely admit it is the Brandon and Matt model. In a visit with Matt after Chamberlain's decision Matt was extremely helpful and very encouraging. We are opening on 1/4 shoe string (amd a frayed one at that) so to buy a franchise was just impossible. The judge's decision (God bless Chamberlain) tipped the scales to its being a reasonable risk to open. Finding space on Fort Street so near the SW City of Detroit Police Department also helped.

 

As to prices failing to fall at Compassionate Apothecaries. You've done more research than we have and envy you your mobility. We have hopes for low prices but cannot make promises. Those patients and caregivers who store meds with us set their own sales price--the Chamberlain model is consignment--so the price of the "bicycle" is never set by the store. The patients and caregivers--the growers and bakers and hard candy makers--set the prices at which transfers occur.

 

BrBud: Our store's name "Chamberlain Patient Lockers" is meant to differentiate us from any other model of 'dispensary.'

 

Seefdro: SW Detroit's destruction and depopulation makes us depressed, but Governor Snyder's State of the State address and Mayor Bing's plan make us hopeful. Until recently so much need so little help. Poor--no, terrible public schools, a former mayor who dealt not in goverment but in fraud. Maybe a 2nd bridge (Snyder) and a consolidation to amputate the hopelessly cancerous neighborhoods (Bing) will start a reversal?

As to security? We have extreme measures inside and out to ID "real" patients and screen out the non and nefarious. "Serious security" in your words. We intend to keep patients safe as doing that is just part of helping them.

 

Everybody: We need help--we need more strains. We open February 1, with hash plant meds, medibles and hard candy, all top-top quality from a grower operating way before this became legal. But we need variety. We need more strains. We'd like a couple dozen choices. Some maladies respond better to one strain than to others. We transfer as little as just 1 gram, so growers you don't need to risk storing a lot with us. We need lots of patients and caregivers to bring in just a little bit so patients can find the one that for them, gives them the greatest relief.

 

We don't have any seeds and we want to offer seeds.

[+Annnie]

In my opinion this is the model that will work for mi patients and caregivers.. Gl to you folks and i hope you succeed..

[BubbleBerryKush]

so basically its a consignment shop for meds....good idea, but I think the LEO will see it as a dispensary since the transactions are still the same, regardless of the fact that on paper the actually shop does not accept full owner ship on said medicine. The location is still in legal owner ship of said medicine (aka possession)....

 

good luck and I like the creativity..keep us informed as to how it goes

[MORE COWBELL]

@ 5$ a gram(FOR TOP SHELF) we will drive cross state :^)

[Brad]

While this model has been approved in Isabella county, it is by no means the law of the land. Brandon has done a remarkable job and had the courage to follow his dream, but this is not a settled issue. The prosecutor in Cheboygan county, and more importantly the judges, feel dispensing collectives are not legal and promised to prosecute anyone that opened one. But just 40 miles away we were able to negotiate a Regulatory Agreement with prosecutors to operate a dispensing collective in Otsego county. Each jurisdiction is still different and free to draft their own rules.

[anonymousgrower?]

I would only suggest you not charge a membership fee only make a commission. Be a club or whatever just don't charge a member fee your already taking 20%

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Devinegrower: We are doing our best to copy every aspect of the operation that Judge Chamberlain commented favorably upon and when you read the 8 pages (available on this board in "legal forum") will find he several times refers to club and membership as aspects of the entity in question that assures him the entity is servicing only MDCH currently approved patients and caregivers. That and his opinion that consignment does not equal and is not sales is the reason he tells the sheriff to leave it alone. There are many more aspects to the operation than Chamberlain mentions (notaries, divided rooms, etc.) but those items that Chamberlain took the trouble to write directly into his decision we will follow. Isabella County Attorney Burdick is appealing (for many reasons) but until Chamberlain is reversed (if ever) Chamberlain's specifics is our blueprint for Chamberlain Patient Lockers. In our view Chamberlain is long term viable, and has the advantage of being "patient friendly" in that the store does not set the prices, the compassionate community does.

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so basically its a consignment shop for meds....good idea, but I think the LEO will see it as a dispensary since the transactions are still the same, regardless of the fact that on paper the actually shop does not accept full owner ship on said medicine. The location is still in legal owner ship of said medicine (aka possession)....

 

good luck and I like the creativity..keep us informed as to how it goes

Judge Chamberlain never calls it a "consignment shop for meds" but that is an accurate description of his description and reason for approval of the operation. His opinion says that what the entity is doing is not sales and does not equal sales. Isabella County Attorney Burdick agrees with you that it still constitues sales and you have stated one of the (many) bases of his appealing Chamberlain's opinion.