Dude, I feel you on this. I live 10 miles from the border, and the state just south of me allows for rec grows. My state does not. The state likes the tax revenue too much.
I could become a provider for a patient and be allowed 35 plants (I think) but then I am barred from using any of the product I grow unless I get a medical card, which creates a clusterfuck of a situation for being a provider. Totally bass ackwards logic.
Can't expect beauracracies to function though, now can we.
That being said, it's the American way to do outlaw shit and disobey laws we don't agree with. Thomas Jefferson required civil disobedience in such cases.