Profiting from Pot: Can a Dying CA Town Be Saved by Medical Marijuana?
source: http://on-msn.com/hFzzhQ
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"The struggling city of Isleton, CA has come to an agreement with a medical marijuana growers group to build the 4,000-square-foot nursery. In return, every month the city will get either 3% of the growers' profits or $25,000 -- whichever is greater, reports NBC's Garvin Thomas. That's at least $300,000 a year in new revenue, but estimates say it could end up being twice that much.
In addition, the growers have agreed to install security cameras anywhere in town that the Police Department requests and buy a laptop for each squad car, Thomas reports. It will also buy a new mainframe computer for the Police Department.
Thomas reports that instead of trying to write a broad medical-marijuana policy, Isleton simply decided to include the nursery in a developer agreement with the grower. It doesn't apply to anyone else".
While the revenue-sharing model from this story represents an interesting incentive for cities to get involved in future medical marijuana market development (and possibly full legalization), using that revenue to support increased monitoring negates the point of having such a market at all.
How could the town use the revenue in a more supportive way? Should such a profit-sharing model exist at all? Are there other ways for municipalities to be incentivized to cooperate with growers?
Post your thoughts.
In addition, the growers have agreed to install security cameras anywhere in town that the Police Department requests and buy a laptop for each squad car, Thomas reports. It will also buy a new mainframe computer for the Police Department.
Thomas reports that instead of trying to write a broad medical-marijuana policy, Isleton simply decided to include the nursery in a developer agreement with the grower. It doesn't apply to anyone else".
While the revenue-sharing model from this story represents an interesting incentive for cities to get involved in future medical marijuana market development (and possibly full legalization), using that revenue to support increased monitoring negates the point of having such a market at all.
How could the town use the revenue in a more supportive way? Should such a profit-sharing model exist at all? Are there other ways for municipalities to be incentivized to cooperate with growers?
Post your thoughts.
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