While I'm thinking about it; the below is an email I sent to
[email protected] late yesterday. Feel free to email Paul with your concerns of fire as well.
Hi Paul,
Thank you for taking time to talk to me. Here are the figures I worry about. Keep in mind that they want to take Marijuana growing out of the hands of people who know what they are doing and put it into the hands of high morons who don't! While Iā??m not a grower; I do know the basics of growing should you need information on the process. I, also, have an opinion of why they are trying to pass HB 1284 should you like that as well.
No one really heard how many people are on the Marijuana Registry right now so I have to give you three sets and one worse than the other. These are bare minimum figures. You could easly tack on 2%-3% margin of error.
If there are 24,000 people on the registry right now that would figure down to:
144,000 Plants
4,800 Caregivers/Individual Grows
If there are 100,000 people on the registry:
That adds up to:
600,000 plants
20,000 Caregivers/Individual Grows
124,000 People on the registry:
744,000 Plants
24,000 Caregivers/Individual Grows
These Numbers don't include the 58,000 person backlog at the CDPHE who are still waiting to be legal. Those numbers are on top of the above numbers and break down to:
348,000 Plants
11,600 Caregivers/Individual Grows.
Now, sir, I'm not a Firefighter. The only thing I know about Firefighting is what a roommate of 6 months taught me (call 911). It seems to me that when you take a skilled trade like growing Marijuana out of the hands of the people who know how to do it and put it in the hands of people who don't, you're going to see a spike in the amount of grow fires.
Speaking of growing, the above numbers will only grow as the registry grows.
Please join me in being very worried. Yes, we must have regulation but not at the expense of the people.
Thankfully,
- just