Photos from Seattle Weekly
If Seattle, WA can do it, why can't Ann Arbor?
http://www.seattleweekly.com/slideshow/seattles-first-cannabis-farmers-market-32673345/8/
From the article: "More than 600 people showed up Sunday for Seattle's first Cannabis Farmer's Market, held at the Little Red Bistro in South Lake Union. Market founder Jeremy Miller said he plans to bring the market to Seattle two more times next month (in addition to stops in Olympia and Tacoma)."
We have the perfect facility here in our beloved town, along with a "cannabis sensitive" culture. All that would have to be done is to designate one day per week at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market to help dispense needed medicines to those worthy individuals who have MMMJ cards, licensed by the State of Michigan. MMMJ patients could be assured they are receiving locally-grown, high quality medicines, and the Farmers Market could earn more by leasing stall spaces to local growers. It only makes abundant sense.
In fact Fuzzbollah is getting out in front of this issue early in Ann Arbor. In response to a February 4, 2011 article in the Ann Arbor Chronicle regarding the Ann Arbor City Council's continued deliberations on a licensing procedure for MMJ dispensaries and cultivation facilities, Fuzzbollah wrote the following:
"Definitely yes, more compassion is what is needed. MMJ does provide significant pain relief, and without the many side effects of prescription drugs. Not every patient or caregiver is going to be able to produce the high-quality high-cannabinoid concentration medicines that are needed by state-licensed MMJ patients. What happens when the caregiver or grower/patient messes up their crop? Are they supposed to go without their meds, and suffer in pain? Or not be able to follow through with chemotherapy – in the case of many cancer patients – because they can’t keep their food or chemo drugs down?
There must be an outlet, a compassionate outlet and option for those times when a patient cannot get their medicine through the usual channels or because their crop has failed for whatever reason. With some of the communities around Ann Arbor, and the whole rest of the state for that matter, placing all sorts of impediments in the way for MMJ consumers to obtain their medicines, Ann Arbor is likely to be a place where many will come. This reeks of opportunity.
I agree some kind of regulation of the market will be necessary. We don’t want criminal elements controlling the MMJ marketplace. Quality control can be huge issue. Perhaps MMJ sold in A2 should be tested for cannabinoid content so the patients can understand which variety is best for their particular condition, and to ensure they are getting the best – and not getting burned. One way for MMJ patients to have a say in all this is to have MMJ patients appointed to the proposed licensing board. I can also see the day when A2 has its own MMJ Commission. If marijuana is legalized outright in the future, these controls could prove beneficial as they will already be in place.
Maybe there should be a MMJ day at the Farmers Market!"
