:(:(:(I was up in Ned.on tue.and spoke with Katheen.She said she is closing the disp. on Aug 31.:(:(:(:(
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:(:(:(I was up in Ned.on tue.and spoke with Katheen.She said she is closing the disp. on Aug 31.:(:(:(:(
sad real sad....what reason did she give for her going to close down?Quote:
Originally Posted by ottistoys
The paper work involved to stay legal went into wanting to know alot of personal info which she does not want to provide.She also mentioned the dept.of rev,wants to install cameras in each disp.
LOL but the pharmacies, which are serving up crap that is killing people, are fine. Gotta love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ottistoys
Actually, pharmacies are also required to have cameras.Quote:
Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
State cameras? Or just private cameras? I can understand them requiring private cameras.Quote:
Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
All private cameras. Liquor stores do as well. Our town also requires them to be in MMCs.Quote:
Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
I do not believe Kathleen (or perhaps the OP mis-characterized her statement ) when she says the Department of Revenue wants to install cameras in every MMC. Or hell, maybe they want to but they won't. Kathleen is very.... colorful... and tends to spin exaggerated conspiratorial fantasies. I think it more likely that the DoR or Ned or B County is only requiring that cameras be installed for security reasons.
Still, if any other dispensary owners have heard from the Department of Revenue on this matter, let the rest of us know.
It's far too early to say what OBM will do. Lets just say the situation is in flux. I sure hope what ever happens Kathleen is successful, she deserves it. She is a true advocate and pioneer in the field, for mmj and hemp before that.
Big Ups to Kathleen!
The DOR wants either auditors coming by every two weeks or access to cameras live feed 24/7. That is in the grow ops anyways. I bet dispensos are the same.
:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by HarvestHouse
The numbers don't add up... They've only asked for 27 employees, including administrators, and $2 million. Visiting every grow site and MMC in the state every two weeks is not possible. I really think there has to be more (or less) to this story. That seems like a strange thing for the DoR to do, but I don't know why it would be all that objectionable.Quote:
Originally Posted by canaguy27
[QUOTE= That seems like a strange thing for the DoR to do, but I don't know why it would be all that objectionable.[/QUOTE]
Highpopalorum--Not that objectionable? :( What kind of American are you? No other business is the US has 24/7 live feed cameras that are recording and watched by ANY government agency. Talk about big brother. But hey, that's okay with you. Wanna buy a dispensary?
Matt Cook, the leading king pin at the dept of rev., has stated numerous times both publicly and privately that there WILL be cameras in ALL dispensaries and grows.
The state constitution protects CAREGIVERS- NOT medical marijuana centers.
To clear up FACTS
This is THE MOST INTRUSIVE, UN AMERICAN license application ANY AMERICAN has ever been asked to fill out. Ask ANY attorney who has read it if they themselves would sign it for ANY reason. And if they lie to you and say yes, hell, offer them your dispensary and ask them to follow through. It won't happen.
The state 'medical marijuana center' (an entity NOT protected in the Colorado Constitution Article 18 section 14) application requires owners to give up ALL state and federal privacy rights. Your signature means you also give up your right to un warranted searches and seizures. Owners must list ALL assets including private accounts, stocks, bonds and shares that have NOTHING to do with one's dispensary, AND childrens names, ages and address of residence. Owners must list all tattoos, piercings, scares and birthmarks. Owners must even provide a copy of their high school diploma.
This 'application' is REALLY a VOLUNTARY SIGNED CONFESSION saying one is BREAKING FEDERAL LAW and one gives them a nice neat organized list of their assets, including where HHS can find your children, that the feds will conveniently seize. Who needs more than 27 employees when the owners do all the work for them and then voluntarily sign it over AND pay them a fee on top of it.
And since one gives up their rights of privacy, the CO dept of rev. can send it over to the feds whenever they want. And if you are clueless to the fact that the feds will ruin your life, read what happened last week:
DEA Flouts Medical Marijuana Ordinance By Raiding First Applicant
DEA Flouts Medical Marijuana Ordinance By Raiding First Applicant | NEWS JUNKIE POST
Kathleens colorful? What I am is a NON pharmaceuticly sedated American.
Only an idiot would 'apply'. Or a pharmaceutical company (or someone like Josh Stanley, Peace in Medicine, Budding Health) who has bought their way in.
READ HB1284. It re-categorizes MMJ from schedule 1 (no known medical use) to schedule 2, which sounds maybe positive that the government is going to acknowledge it has medical value (aside from the federal patent 6630507 on cannabis or the federal medical program that has been mailing pot through the mail to patients for over 30 years). HOWEVER-read what schedule 2 drugs are. They are drugs that CAN ONLY BE DISPENSED BY PHARMACIES--NOT MEDICAL MARIJUANA CENTERS ( things created by the CO Dept of Rev., which HAVE NO PROTECTION in STATE or FEDERAL law).
to read more on the Federal cannabis patent::(
Medical Marijuana,US Government holds key patents for Marijuana as drug treatment,US Patent 6630507
The BIG BOYS have taken over and the mom and pop can kiss it goodbye.
Join the army of caregivers! :thumbsup: I hate to see one of the very few good dispensaries out there get taken down by the government, and thats exactly whats happened. The only difference is this dispensary is doing it on their own terms, much rather see it go like this than like what just happened in cali with the DEA.
You're edibles were the only edibles I thought were actually worth buying out of the 10-15 different dispensaries I tried. So many people vouched for you're edibles I just had to drive all the way up into the mountains to try some. And the bachlava was more than highly potent, it was delicious! Well worth the money imo. :jointsmile: The other dispensaries edibles wouldn't even produce a noticable buzz , especially the freebie the releaf center gave me for being a first time customer.
Kathleen you are my hero!
Live free or die trying!
Kathleen I will miss you !!! :(
Peace
You would certainly know more than I, but I don't believe you when you say the DoR wants to monitor your business 24/7. I believe you are exaggerating. I meant that it is not objectionable to have to install cameras for security reasons. (tons of businesses are required to do so - pharmacies, liquor stores, banks, etc etc.) The reason why this is required is because these businesses, like yours, are more likely than others to attract crime.
An exaggeration.Quote:
This is THE MOST INTRUSIVE, UN AMERICAN license application ANY AMERICAN has ever been asked to fill out.
No it doesn't. That is a federal classification.Quote:
READ HB1284. It re-categorizes MMJ from schedule 1 (no known medical use) to schedule 2
Source this, please. It certainly isn't in Amendment 20, which I just reread. Amendment 20 provides some exceptions to criminal law for patients and caregivers, but no exceptions to civil liability, or privacy, or local regulation, or health codes or any of the other stuff you're complaining about. Besides, you're not a caregiver, but a MMC. (If you don't want to be regulated, do as Turbo suggests and become a caregiver.)You should have to pay taxes as well as comply with other state and local ordinances like other businesses do. We can disagree about what the state can reasonably require of you in terms of fees, private information and compliance. We may not have found the perfect level of regulation, but we're getting there. Challenge the law in court if you don't like it, and perhaps some of the hard edges will be knocked off.Quote:
The state constitution protects CAREGIVERS- NOT medical marijuana centers.
EDIT2: I like your medicine, though.
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Originally Posted by TurboALLWD
We are ALL covered as legal caregivers under the Colorado Constitution Article 18 Section 14. If we weren't we would ALL be in jail right now. Our senators and legislature have sold us out and UN constitutionally altered the constitution language by limiting the number of people we can care give for.
This is, from the mouth of the best MMJ attorneys, the most intrusive application language in the country.
I understand schedule 1 and two and 3 and 4 are all federal classifications. But CO and OR have reclassified them in their state language.
First off it isn't called Amendment 20--it is Article 18 Section 14 of the CO constitution. It was Amendment 20 when it was on the ballot. The voters passed it. Some other future initiative will be called Amendment 20.
"Besides, you're not a caregiver, but a MMC. (If you don't want to be regulated, do as Turbo suggests and become a caregiver.)You should have to pay taxes as well as comply with other state and local ordinances like other businesses do" High P.
Another sheep misleading the rest. If I was not a caregiver I would be in jail. Everyone with more than 5 patients would be. When the state passes regulation that creates MMC's I can only be an MMC if I apply. I have not chosen to apply as I will not apply for something NOT COVERED in the CO constitution.
I have paid taxes, even before the state said it was required. Because No shit, every retail sale requires taxes. Zoning is the way caregivers can be legally regulated. I suppose you agree with the unconstitutional local banns, another thing that will be proven in the court of law.
"We can disagree about what the state can reasonably require of you in terms of fees, private information and compliance." High P
If you actually consulted an informed attorney, the fee's can be whatever the dept of rev wants. We do not have control or 'rights' on fees. Yes, we can say they are outrageous.
Kathleen, you may want to be careful... we've heard operating after August 1st if you don't apply could put you at risk.
Good luck to you. :hippy:
and I have them.
How about the dept of rev installs 24/7 webcams in your house, High P? You clearly seem fine with BIG BROTHER watching your every move.
State cameras.Quote:
Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
The free cookies we give out are for people of all tolerance levels. We got skewered for having free edibles that were too strong by the Denver Chronicle. You should try the mountain medicine bars/caramels/lozenges. I'll put them up against anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboALLWD
And no one is talking about how you have to sign over your POWER OF ATTORNEY to the state for TWO YEARS.Quote:
Originally Posted by onebrownmouse
Welcome to the forums, Kathleen.
i think your edibles are the bee's knees, too (especially those delicious pink and blue candies ;) )
fight the power!
Where can I get one of these applications?Quote:
Originally Posted by onebrownmouse
I've actually heard this from a couple different people but I have no proof, and it wasn't me first hand, so I left it alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by onebrownmouse
Here.Quote:
Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
re: cameras
Time will tell I guess? I'll [un]happily stand corrected the first time a dispensary owner points out a government-owned camera to me. We only have to wait two weeks.
Clearly if you re read this thread NO ONE mentions power of attorney.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheReleafCenter
It's a no wonder we are where we are at. Education not regulation.
the application can be found on the link off of Cannabis Therapy Institute dot comQuote:
Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
Call king pin Matt Cook and ask him yourself about the cameras.
Ed: NM!
Good for you Kathleen. I think all dispensary owners should refuse to fill out their invasive forms in protest and everyone should just ignore 1284.
The penalties of ignoring 1284 will be pretty harsh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zedleppelin
This is an excellent article, I haven't seen it elsewhere.
It does mention the webcams in dispensaries, but the writer also used mattcook as a source, so I'm unclear where that language is in the legislation that discusses camera's.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/bu...1&ref=business
Shit, maybe Kathleen is right on this one. (re: cameras) That article makes it appear so, at least. I'd be very interested to know where said cameras will be installed, at whose expense, what agencies have access and under what circumstances. Patient confidentiality is protected explicitly by A20, and this would seem a de facto, if not de jure, breach if the cameras are placed in areas where patients are recorded.
so what I want to know is if liquor stores and stores like walgreens etc. subject to the same camera Bull sheet since they are all the same in my eyes.
big brother is going to be watching all of us sooner then later....
camera's in lights and camera's in bathrooms sure to follow...with listening devices hidden in walls and bedrooms...
I might be over over thinking here but not by much.
I was in Releaf the other day, they said they had camera going offsite, and that they (the city or state?) could access them on request.
perhaps the camera requirement is just that the tapes are stored for some period of time? That's standard in a bunch of industries...but I don't know that it is government mandated or that they must provide warrantless access.
what do they think they are going to see on the cameras? people selling cannabis?! the cameras certainly aren't going to provide 100% coverage at any site. what's to accomplish, but intimidation and more cost?
They haven't accessed our cameras yet, we set up online backup/offsite storage to be compliance with Denver's ordinance.
I have spoken to people that have contacted cook. They will have cameras EVERYWHERE to monitor EVERYTHING. or you can get audited 2x a week.
But, as well all know Cook says one thing to this person and another to someone else.
Releaf your cameras that you have set up now are at denvers request???
Ok so lets compare the MMJ application to the application for a pharmacy. http://www.dora.state.co.us/pharmacy...pplication.pdfQuote:
Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
Then for a pharmaceutical wholesale license. http://www.dora.state.co.us/pharmacy...pplication.pdf
You really don't see a problem here?
Note this on the wholesale application.
But when it comes to distributing a plant you're SOL.Quote:
During the licensing process â?? and depending on the specific application â?? the Division will ask whether you have ever been disciplined in any state, arrested, charged, convicted, or pled guilty to a crime. An arrest, subsequent criminal conviction, or disciplinary action is not an automatic disqualification from licensure. Instead, the appropriate board or program will look at the facts surrounding the criminal conduct and disciplinary action to determine whether you are fit for licensure.
I don't have any felonies so I'm not just a bitter drug dealer, but apparently if I was just a bitter drug dealer there is always the possibility of selling pharmaceuticals.
No, Denver just requires that we back up off site. No government agency has ever asked to see our cameras, save for the DPD when there was an attempted burglary. Our security footage led to the arrest of three men who had broken into several Denver dispensaries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ebbandflowian