The bill would require medical cannabis caregivers to:

- Obtain a license from the state if they have two or more patients
instead, lets leave the caregiver model as-is. It works.

- Develop health care plans for their patients
What for? to drive up costs? Because someone is meticulous, has the space and capability, and is healthy enough to do the work required to grow - does that mean they are qualified to come up with a plan for a patient? The patient already has a doctor recommendation.

- Offer more services than selling marijuana to patients
More to raise the cost of medicine for so many who may already be unable to afford more traditional medicines + health care

- Pass criminal background checks
Why? Every caregiver in the state to go through a background check - to take care of a husband or wife or aging parent? We aren't talking about nursing home care, we are talking about someone who can grow good quality medicine. If no patient contact is to be required by the state, there is no need to be concerned with background.

How about requiring the bud be grown in a legal medical marijuana state? Let's not embargo, we may someday want to export..

The bill would also:
- Require an additional medical review board to look at all applicants from patients who are under 25 years old.
Why? Concerned some younger folks may be using cannabis instead of alcohol? Hell, Boulder would be a much better place if all the college students smoked instead.

- Create a licensing system for large-scale medical cannabis production
yes. let's do it. charge a fee.

"I fully expect well over 50 percent of the dispensaries will go out of business," he said.
What a tool. Let market forces take care of that, not bullshit regulations. More than half will be out of business on their own in the first year...

Hopefully someone gets some sensible regs proposed which protect the patients instead of raising prices & adding unneeded bureaucratic BS.