With respect, I do not think that my point is getting through.
My point, more specifically, is that there is nothing special about what MJMJ brings to the table which would allow it to franchise anything.
If one of the thousands of B&B's, which already exist in a particular state in which marijuana were to suddenly become legal, wanted to convert its operation to a marijuana-ready operation, that B&B WOULD NOT NEED MJMJ to help it convert their operation.
Any such B&B would simply need to (i) add marijuana to its menu; and (ii) if a license were needed to have marijuana on its premises, get such a license.
Why would an already-existing operation need Joel and MJMJ to accomplish that ?
As far as your analogy to McDonald's selling Bic Mac's, you are well aware that that analogy has absolutely no relevance at all to MJMJ. Period.
