Medical marijuana

Is there a better racket out there than the medical marijuana racket? Maybe the Reverend Racket. But back to the medical weed thing. These people make mega-millions. All tax free. The average price of weed at a cannabis club is anywhere from $40 to $65 for an eighth of an ounce. Most sell single grams for $20, and at least one sells joints for $8-$15. Yes, joints. Part of what you're paying for is the exotic names of modern marijuana strains. Gone are the exotic imports of yesteryear such as Colombian Gold, Red, and Black. Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, Thai Stick, Bhudda Thai, Mixoacan, Jamaican Black Ganja, Lemon Lime from southern Arizona, etc. No, imported weed is hard to find and when you do, it's garbage from Mexico. The new strains of weed, especially those at cannabis clubs are of the mad doctor variety.

Many of these people grow their own weed. Some have hundreds, some have thousands of plants. Let's say that each plant conservatively yields 2 ounces at a couple hundred bucks an ounce, usually more. It's not hard to see how these guys make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, easily. Hell, the Indians in Humboldt make less and they've got a better product.

There are 6 cannabis clubs within 3 blocks of my house. The picture above on the right shows the closet one, which is a block away. Very low key except for the Rastafarian lookout posted on 14th st. between Rosemont and Guerrero St all day long. Two blocks away from the previously mentioned, on Valencia St. just north of Duboce Ave., is one that is way more blatant in its operation. I have watched on numerous occasions perfectly healthy teenagers in hip hop thug regalia step out of the place and sell the "legal" purchase of weed illegally to a waiting buyer. I have watched people come out of the place and just stand on the corner, where 2 busy streets cross, and fire up a joint and smoke until they get stupid.

I know numerous people who have absolutely no valid medical reason to smoke or buy weed. Yet they are valued card carrying members of San Francisco's cannabis clubs. This damages both the legitimacy and credibility of said pot clubs. Some of these places want you to spent over a hundred dollars on membership to their club, which only allows you to purchase of course, from their club. To get a medical marijuana patient card from the city and county of San Francisco through UCSF at SF General Hospital you need only provide medical records, and if you have Medi-Cal, $53. If you don't have Medi-Cal, it's $95. The card allows you to purchase medicinal marijuana pretty much anywhere in Ca. The one drawback here is that you have to wait 10 days for your card and most city clinics, such as where I see my doctors, charge you 25 cents a page to copy your medical records. I have probably a hundred pages in my medical records for the last 10 years.

Buying weed from a cannabis club does not guarantee that it is good either. I remember some I tried from a club called nightmare, which was weak. Super weak. Other times I've had some that was frighteningly good. Luck of the draw I guess. It would be nice if the government could decide it could make a profit off of weed and legalize as well as sell it. Cannabis clubs are the only consistent way to find good quality medication.