Why Not...?

[GregS]

...come together with an agreed agenda to form something like a grange organization to assure quality product and service? Can and should we establish criteria to membership in that organization that require members maintain standards in order to remain in good standing?

Edited March 22, 2013 by GregS

[Celliach]

Any standards you set will come back and bite you in the donkey in the form of legislation that you don't want. Do you really want to agree with the powers that be that we need to be overseen?

[Wild Bill]

That sounds like an outstanding idea. A professional association for caregivers would counteract charges that caregivers are incompetent or  produce an inferior product.

 

A professional associations standards would not necessarily provoke new legislation. You would merely be saying that in order to maintain membership in the association you need to conform to certain requirements as to pesticides, molds, cleanliness etc.

 

No one would be forced to maintain those standards unless they wanted to be able to say, "Member of the Better Bud Bureau".

Edited March 22, 2013 by Wild Bill

[GregS]

Any standards you set will come back and bite you in the donkey in the form of legislation that you don't want. Do you really want to agree with the powers that be that we need to be overseen?

 

I am not talking about a public entity, but rather a professional organization. I submit that it would go a long way to eliminate legitimacy to any argument that patients and caregivers are in any way unqualified and dangerous. These kinds of efforts would go toward defusing that argument.

Edited March 22, 2013 by GregS

[GregS]

That sounds like an outstanding idea. A professional association for caregivers would counteract charges that caregivers are incompetent or  produce an inferior product.

 

A professional associations standards would not necessarily provoke new legislation. You would merely be saying that in order to maintain membership in the association you need to conform to certain requirements as to pesticides, molds, cleanliness etc.

 

No one would be forced to maintain those standards unless they wanted to be able to say, "Member of the Better Bud Bureau".

 

Am enjoying one with you in mind as we speak.

[Wild Bill]

I was a member of the Better Business Bureau when I owned my business. If nothing else it provides customers a starting point to find out if there have been any complaints against the company,

 

This would be particularly helpful to new patients who are still babes in the woods regarding procuring quality cannabis. They could at least have some assurance that their medicine is held to some kind of standard and not just something found growing next to the railroad tracks.

[GregS]

And imagine the position of Grange Inspector.

Edited March 22, 2013 by GregS

[Celliach]

I was a member of the Better Business Bureau when I owned my business. If nothing else it provides customers a starting point to find out if there have been any complaints against the company,

 

This would be particularly helpful to new patients who are still babes in the woods regarding procuring quality cannabis. They could at least have some assurance that their medicine is held to some kind of standard and not just something found growing next to the railroad tracks.

Something along these lines would work. I've been talking about this since Jan. 2009.

 

If we had a certified board that any CG can join, but will get kicked out of if they create problems for patients, it would cover what you're talking about, I think.

[GregS]

Where do you live WB?

[GregS]

It would be all about QA. Maybe we should call it BHO 4200 Certification.

Edited March 23, 2013 by GregS

[Wild Bill]

Where do you live WB?

In the belly of the beast, Oakland county.

[Bisharoo]

Howdy, neighbor!

[Celliach]

Just remember that anything you agree to as rules must be accepted by everyone, and must be something that everyone could live with, if it ever became the law.

[michaelscott]

Something along these lines would work. I've been talking about this since Jan. 2009.

 

If we had a certified board that any CG can join, but will get kicked out of if they create problems for patients, it would what you're talking about, I think.

How would you keep it from becoming more OPEC than BBB? I think it would create additional barriers to entry and eventually become a tool to keep prices artificially high.

 

Has quality not been getting better anyway?

[GregS]

I am in Northern Genessee, and there are a couple of other people I want to talk to.

[GregS]

Just remember that anything you agree to as rules must be accepted by everyone, and must be something that everyone could live with, if it ever became the law.

 

Yeah. We get that. You in?

[Bisharoo]

So far I think this is a good idea that could become a great one.  Why could something like a better business bureau for cannabis become law?   A professional association might be a good thing.

Peace..

[Celliach]

There are definitely a lot of problems with the idea. That's why I haven't done anything with it.

[GregS]

That does not answer the question.

 

Are you in?

[GregS]

I take that as a yes Bisharoo.

[Celliach]

If you make rules that people feel are too restrictive, and then say Rick Jones gets a hold of the rules list and decides that since it came from the MMJ community it would be alright to impose it on everyone. If that happens, whoever set this up would end up being the enemy. I don't want to be the enemy and I haven't yet figured out away to prevent it from happening.

[GregS]

We're going to have to establish rules for determining standards. Please brush up on Robert's Rules of Order. It will come to that.

[GregS]

We get it Celli.

[Wild Bill]

Maybe concrete suggestions for standards and practices would be in order.

 

We can certainly all agree on no pesticide or mold contamination.

[Bisharoo]

I am interested to know what it would look like.  What do you set as standards, and how do you set them?  Maybe these are some hurdles that can be overcome easily or with some/much effort?

Peace...