Okay, so I'm a medical marijuana user. My brother offered to help me with getting my card and setting up a grow site for us last year.
I'm up for renewal, and I registered myself as the grower and my brother as a caregiver. Our grow is set up on a sort of communal grow site, where more... "Industrious growers," also work. My problem is that I haven't ever seen it in the two years we've been trying to put this together.
My brother has been going back and forth setting it up, but hasn't told me much. He said he picked out a few plants, and they'll be putting them in the ground as soon as I have the official paperwork for the site.
At first, he said I'd be getting something monthly, around an ounce or so. That site fell through, so I got nothing.
Then that turned into once per season, I'd be getting about a pound and a half at the end... At this point, I thought it sounded like a lot, but he assured me it was perfectly fine and dandy.
Then he tells he it'll be about two pounds at the end of the season, and that I'm getting a total of 1/4 of the grow. This is when I started to worry. Why am I only getting a quarter of it when I'm the only patient? I figured he would have a portion to cover the cost of the grow, but I don't know anything about it at all.
When I asked him when I would be able to come help out this last weekend, and any time before that come to think of it, I was essentially blocked. "There won't be much for you to do," or "We're already working on it," or "Harvest time you can come help." Always something to that effect.
Any details I get are minimal, nothing actually telling. "I have a few different kinds set up," or "I need the cards before anything else happens."
Last year, I was also supposed to go and help at harvest, but he didn't tell me when the start of the season was, and I ended up having to BUY it from him somehow. Looking back, I believe that is what I call, "being swindled."
After all this, I was a bit hurt. We haven't always had a good relationship, and I thought this was some sort of peace attempt... And then I started doing the math.
2 lbs. = 32 ounces. The legal limit for a patient is 24 ounces at a time, I believe? So that's scary...
If that's only 1/4 of it, that means there's 8 lbs. I have no idea what's happening with.
8 lbs. = 96 ounces = roughly $24,000...?
I don't know if it's my paranoia, or I've caught onto a valid line of fishiness. I really don't want to think it, but I'm worried that my brother is taking advantage of my illness to make money illegally.
I know I would never need that amount of stuff. So, it's not for me.
If he's doing it for him, it's not personal use. He couldn't use that much in a year.
I know he has been going to the dispensary for things, but I always assumed it was for him... Now, I'm not so sure it's just for that.
The biggest hint here, however, is that I have yet to receive anything from him without having to hand over just as much money as I would pay at a dispensary. I've never seen this place where "we" supposedly have plants. I don't even know exactly where it is. He didn't ask me what I wanted, as far as plants go, either.
I don't want to jump in and throw accusations everywhere, especially since I don't know exactly what the law is on this... But this sounds to me like he's trying to do something terribly illegal that I have no desire to be part of. My name is all over it, and I don't like the idea of my card being revoked because he's being an idiot. Or worse, Feds knocking on my door. My mother-in-law would love that...
So I guess I'm just wondering what in the world I should do. I haven't given him his new caregiver card yet, because I don't know if I should... I tried talking to someone else who works at the site, and they said to talk to him about it. Big circle I don't want to run in.
I'm so used to feeling like everyone is out to get me, I don't trust myself too much on it. On the other hand, he's my brother and probably knows I'd doubt myself if I thought it was weird anyway.
Should I just tell him to cut the crap, or wait it out? I'm afraid of causing family problems, I'm afraid I'm wrong, I'm afraid somehow I'll lose 2 pounds of stuff that could last me quite a while... I'm also afraid of either one or both of us getting in trouble... So any thoughts would be nice to hear!
I'm up for renewal, and I registered myself as the grower and my brother as a caregiver. Our grow is set up on a sort of communal grow site, where more... "Industrious growers," also work. My problem is that I haven't ever seen it in the two years we've been trying to put this together.
My brother has been going back and forth setting it up, but hasn't told me much. He said he picked out a few plants, and they'll be putting them in the ground as soon as I have the official paperwork for the site.
At first, he said I'd be getting something monthly, around an ounce or so. That site fell through, so I got nothing.
Then that turned into once per season, I'd be getting about a pound and a half at the end... At this point, I thought it sounded like a lot, but he assured me it was perfectly fine and dandy.
Then he tells he it'll be about two pounds at the end of the season, and that I'm getting a total of 1/4 of the grow. This is when I started to worry. Why am I only getting a quarter of it when I'm the only patient? I figured he would have a portion to cover the cost of the grow, but I don't know anything about it at all.
When I asked him when I would be able to come help out this last weekend, and any time before that come to think of it, I was essentially blocked. "There won't be much for you to do," or "We're already working on it," or "Harvest time you can come help." Always something to that effect.
Any details I get are minimal, nothing actually telling. "I have a few different kinds set up," or "I need the cards before anything else happens."
Last year, I was also supposed to go and help at harvest, but he didn't tell me when the start of the season was, and I ended up having to BUY it from him somehow. Looking back, I believe that is what I call, "being swindled."
After all this, I was a bit hurt. We haven't always had a good relationship, and I thought this was some sort of peace attempt... And then I started doing the math.
2 lbs. = 32 ounces. The legal limit for a patient is 24 ounces at a time, I believe? So that's scary...
If that's only 1/4 of it, that means there's 8 lbs. I have no idea what's happening with.
8 lbs. = 96 ounces = roughly $24,000...?
I don't know if it's my paranoia, or I've caught onto a valid line of fishiness. I really don't want to think it, but I'm worried that my brother is taking advantage of my illness to make money illegally.
I know I would never need that amount of stuff. So, it's not for me.
If he's doing it for him, it's not personal use. He couldn't use that much in a year.
I know he has been going to the dispensary for things, but I always assumed it was for him... Now, I'm not so sure it's just for that.
The biggest hint here, however, is that I have yet to receive anything from him without having to hand over just as much money as I would pay at a dispensary. I've never seen this place where "we" supposedly have plants. I don't even know exactly where it is. He didn't ask me what I wanted, as far as plants go, either.
I don't want to jump in and throw accusations everywhere, especially since I don't know exactly what the law is on this... But this sounds to me like he's trying to do something terribly illegal that I have no desire to be part of. My name is all over it, and I don't like the idea of my card being revoked because he's being an idiot. Or worse, Feds knocking on my door. My mother-in-law would love that...
So I guess I'm just wondering what in the world I should do. I haven't given him his new caregiver card yet, because I don't know if I should... I tried talking to someone else who works at the site, and they said to talk to him about it. Big circle I don't want to run in.
I'm so used to feeling like everyone is out to get me, I don't trust myself too much on it. On the other hand, he's my brother and probably knows I'd doubt myself if I thought it was weird anyway.
Should I just tell him to cut the crap, or wait it out? I'm afraid of causing family problems, I'm afraid I'm wrong, I'm afraid somehow I'll lose 2 pounds of stuff that could last me quite a while... I'm also afraid of either one or both of us getting in trouble... So any thoughts would be nice to hear!