Become a Patient Cultivator for DharmaRx.org

Do you produce medicinal cannabis for your own needs? Do you occasionally produce more than you need? Would you like to share your excess with other patients, and legally recover your costs of production? Or would you like to learn how to grow your own medicine, and perhaps a bit more to share with other members of your community.

What was once a deep, dark, grey area of the law has been thankfully clarified by AG Brown’s August 2008 Guidelines. Since the passage of Prop. 215 in 1996, and the subsequent legal battles that have allowed legitimate medicinal cannabis dispensaries to become part of the California landscape, little has been done until recently to address the source of the cannabis offered by the dispensaries. AG Brown's 2008 guidelines provide systems and procedures for individuals and collectives to legally produce medicinal cannabis for other members of their co-op or collective.

One of the prime functions of DharmaRx.org is to facilitate production of clean, high-quality cannabis medicine by members of our cooperative community, to be used by other members of our community. This is in accord with AG Brown’s “closed loop” guidelines and is seen by both AG Brown and the DharmaRx community as the best way to provide patients with their necessary medications. If you are currently producing high-quality medicinal cannabis and would like to become a member patient / cultivator, just call or e-mail and tell us about the meds you produce. To quote a wonderful quote originated by a SoCal dispensary: “We support small organic family farms”.

DharmaRx.org Cooperative Production Program – Patients Helping Patients

Something new for members of our community. We will help you get started growing for yourself and other members. Here’s how it works:

Attorney General Brown’s guidelines emphasizes that he wants a “closed-loop” system within the collective. In other words, all medicine consumed by members of the collective should be produced by members of the collective. Therefore, dharmaRx.org is instituting a program wherein experienced members of the coop will help set up, teach, and oversee small organic gardens for members who have the desire and capacity to grow for themselves and other members. Beginning growers will be shown all the fine points of medical cannabis production by an expert who will provide hands-on help thru all phases of set-up, production, harvest, etc.

The cannabis produced in the garden will be shared by the patient / cultivator and the coop. The cultivator will be reimbursed for time, materials, effort, and initial investment into the garden according to the procedures described in California law. Due to the sensitive nature and the pioneering aspects of this program, it will be instituted slowly and very carefully as procedures are developed for efficiently managing the program and keeping it exactly like AG Brown wants.

If you have the time, inclination, place, and financial capacity to set up a small organic garden for yourself and other member patients who cannot grow, write us a detailed letter explaining your situation, experience and anything you feel might help us in picking several members to help us develop, refine, and institute this program.