Thanks We're ok on the $ I have been thinking of the issue of the $ Is it ok to make a profit and What your student said about it looks like a business As we know from other states the real key to hooking support is the tax benefits Local govts always lead in this It is easy to paint the pic of the contrast between what happens without places like the clinic And what happens with them Drug dealer with guns and other bad stuff V Good neighbor local business trusted by govt officials Paying taxes And paying employees who pay taxes Which do we prefer? That is the Q Ferndale didn't call Cooper and Bouchard in They nosed in on their own For their own reasons If they had asked the folks who gave the clinic their certain of occupancy Or the mayor Or fire chief Or city council Or the dept of community health folks who reviewed the mmj applications for pts who saw the clinic docs Everyone would have told Cooper and Bouchard This is a good neighbor biz Trusted and taxpaying Go find the bad guy street drug dealers and leave these guys alone! So work with this: This biz opens up Gets permits Has the mayor, city council, and fir chief in Visiting and using the publicity As positive about Ferndale They have books like any other business Operate in the open like any other biz Pay biz and income taxes like any other biz Operate like the other businesses Licensed and welcomed by the city officials Have security and carefully check the people they deal with using the tools available to them Now prosecutor Cooper and sheriff Bouchard Have made their own decision about this business They have decided if they call it a drug operation If they lie and cheat to get in and to make Purchases and sales of medicine If they send in masked troops armed with automatic weapons They can get some of their own publicity And make over the law Instead of doing the will of the citizenry they are supposed to serve Would we rather have Mmj patients Going out on the street? Buying from dealers who have weapons, crack and meth too? Having all of the money earned by the dealers and their employees Stay in the black market? No taxes paid? No good licensed trusted citizens to transact with? Should the guy like Ryan Who now works there Still be getting unemployment? Unable to work? Unable to pay his medical insurance? Unable to get mmj except for an illegal sale with a street dealer? Or would we rather have him as he is now? ( or was until Cooper and Bouchard stepped in to 'help') Employed Paying taxes Paying for his own health insurance and medicines at rite aid and at the clinic Working for a business that is not in back rooms On the street Underground Where, when the mayor or fire chief or city council comes by They all smile and shake hands And enjoy each other as good citizens of Ferndale Which do we want? Ferndale and the state of Michigan have declared this biz and these caregivers As trusted citizens Just like the guy with the liquor And they did not betray that trust They followed the law They required mmj cards And required id They kept business books and records They paid taxes Their employees paid taxes And nobody was having to interact with the Violent criminal drug dealer on the street Who is also pushing crack and meth and pills That is who we want Cooper and Bouchard to go after! It is Cooper and Bouchard who have betrayed the trust of the people Instead of going after the bad guys They decide to try and make These good citizens look like bad guys Because they don't like the mmj law They are the ones who forged documents They are the ones who lied They are the ones who bought and sold illegally They are the ones who acted like the thug drug dealer on the street They may not like it But the voters of Mi made this law and they have to support and protect it Not undermine it Their storm troopers have no place in a biz Properly operated for X months without any trouble at all The place we want citizens to be safe Getting their medicine Instead of out on the streets That Cooper and Bouchard ignored To make their media show Let me know if/when you want to do more. Reenactment of city fathers' visits might be fun! M Sent from my iPad
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