Fraud or Incompetence @ Health Department?

Dear Representative,

How Can Anyone in the Legislation Vote yes on 1284 with this kind of Fraud in the Health Department.
CALL7 Investigation: State Has Millions In Uncashed Checks - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver
To have over 5 million in funds laying around in unopened envelopes, funds that are supposed to be used to fund the State's Medical Marijuana Registry Exclusively! I believe this has been a conscious attempt by the directer of the Health Department to portray the Medical Marijuana Registry Program a Failure, to influence policy to fit his own political & moral agenda. I believe all involved in this should resign immediately. Again I urge you to urge your fellow Representatives to Vote No on HB-1284, you obviously do not have all the facts.

Sincerely,

Mark Rose RPSGT
Grateful Meds
Nederland Colorado
[email protected]


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Very nice. I think I'll use that as a template if you don't mind.

OK. I'll bite. What evidence do you have that the director of CDPHE is sabotaging the program to fit her own moral and political agenda? She's only been on the job a few months. I've neither read nor seen anything that would indicate her views on this issue, much less to indicate she's organizing a conspiracy of failure. On the contrary, the simple explanation that the MMJ registry is understaffed seems a more reasonable explanation for the backlog.

getting 5 million in uncashed checks into the bank would be top priority in any other agency or business. there is no way anyone, on either side of this issue, can trust the DOH.

1284 is a bad bill that puts authority and responsibility in the hands of an agency that is failing its role now. This regulatory framework will crumble FAST to the embarrassment of the state.

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Originally Posted by HighPopalorum

OK. I'll bite. What evidence do you have that the director of CDPHE is sabotaging the program to fit her own moral and political agenda? She's only been on the job a few months. I've neither read nor seen anything that would indicate her views on this issue, much less to indicate she's organizing a conspiracy of failure. On the contrary, the simple explanation that the MMJ registry is understaffed seems a more reasonable explanation for the backlog.

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What do you attribute it to? laziness not enough staff to open letters to pay for more staff? stupidity? I am all ears.:wtf:

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Originally Posted by HighPopalorum

. On the contrary, the simple explanation that the MMJ registry is understaffed seems a more reasonable explanation for the backlog.

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over 5 million in backlogged funds, hire some staff, they have kept it understaffed by design, we called for more staff 2 years ago and again in July of 2009. Maybe that emergency meeting back in July of 2009 should have been to address the staffing shortage in the department instead of trying to limit the numbers of patients one can be a caregiver for.
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What do you attribute it to? laziness not enough staff to open letters to pay for more staff? stupidity? I am all ears.:wtf:

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I attribute it to not enough staff, underestimation of demand and the newness of the program. Government hiring is significantly more complicated than you believe; it isn't a matter of opening envelopes, cashing checks and hiring people. The const. restrictions on that money further complicate the problem of hiring. FWIW, the account is flush with money, much of which will now go to the DoR to administer the new dispensary regs. (I also believe our patient fees will drop sixteen or seventeen bucks this year.)

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I attribute it to not enough staff, underestimation of demand and the newness of the program. Government hiring is significantly more complicated than you believe; it isn't a matter of opening envelopes, cashing checks and hiring people. The const. restrictions on that money further complicate the problem of hiring. FWIW, the account is flush with money, much of which will now go to the DoR to administer the new dispensary regs. (I also believe our patient fees will drop sixteen or seventeen bucks this year.)

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Having worked for the VA for several years I am aware of the process on a federal level. You forget the program has been going for 10 years and always had problems that should have been addressed like 24 hour access for law enforcement to verify cards, they have always had a fat budget since the program pays for itself. It's incompetence on managements part not to address these issues until they are over run. These folks need to be replaced and get a real management team in there to clean up this mess.:D

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These folks need to be replaced and get a real management team in there to clean up this mess.:D

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There will be in July; most of that new bill is devoted to setting it up and funding it. It just takes regulatory law a while to catch up to reality. I've been on the registry off and on for years, but there was never a backlog problem until last year when dispensaries appeared. Clearly, the state wasn't ready for dispensaries (from the standpoint of regulatory framework, not cultural acceptance etc etc.) and wasn't prepared administratively to address the much higher demand for cards. That's changing, thankfully.

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Originally Posted by HighPopalorum

OK. I'll bite. What evidence do you have that the director of CDPHE is sabotaging the program to fit her own moral and political agenda? She's only been on the job a few months. I've neither read nor seen anything that would indicate her views on this issue, much less to indicate she's organizing a conspiracy of failure. On the contrary, the simple explanation that the MMJ registry is understaffed seems a more reasonable explanation for the backlog.

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you mean to tell me there is not a person ther that can collect the ck's/cash that came in that day and drop it off to the bank?better yet make the bank come pick it up as does normal biz does??