hb10-1284 set to be voted on tomorrow

[MMDInsuranceCo]

Tomorrow from 1:30 to 7pm the Colorado House will come together at the state capitol building in Denver to vote on HB10-1284.

The bill creates the medical marijuana licensing authority in the department of revenue. Much of the language of the bill treats dispensaries as liquor stores or cabarets, a stance that patients and caregivers donâ??t relish.

The bill is forty-five pages long. Here are some of the highlights or lowlights depending on where you stand:

â?¢ A primary caregiver may serve no more than 5 patients on the registry at one time, unless the department allows more patients due to exceptional circumstances.
â?¢ Imposes a one-year moratorium on the opening of new medical marijuana centers.
â?¢ Make a request by January 1, 2012, to the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration to consider rescheduling, for pharmaceutical purposes, marijuana from a schedule 1 controlled substance to a schedule 2 controlled substance.
â?¢ Health and Sanitary requirements; Practices designed to avoid an undue increase in the consumption of medical marijuana.
â?¢ Local Licensing: A decision approving a medical marijuana center license may include a limit on the number of patients the center may serve in order to meet the needs and necessities of the neighborhood.
â?¢ The medical marijuana licensing authority determines the licenses already granted for the particular locality are adequate for the reasonable needs of the community based on the testimony and evidence of the medical needs and necessity of the potential customers for the approval of the license at the proposed location for the sale of the medical marijuana.
â?¢ Would not allow a natural person with a misdemeanor to obtain a license to operate a medical marijuana center.
â?¢ This article does not prohibit a political subdivision of this state from limiting the number of medical marijuana centers that may operate in the political subdivision or from enacting reasonable zoning regulations applicable to medical marijuana centers based on local government zoning, health, and safety laws for the distribution of medical marijuana.
â?¢ A medical marijuana center shall be a Colorado nonprofit corporation, but need not be designated as a nonprofit corporation by the Federal Government.
â?¢ What constitutes â??Significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patientâ?�; except that the act of supplying medical marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia, by itself, is insufficient to constitute â??significant responsibility for managing the well being of a patient
â?¢ Two or more primary caregivers may not join together for the purpose of cultivating marijuana

After the vote tomorrow, look for a follow-up article. Until then, check out a letter to the Colorado House and Senate by local medical marijuana advocate and attorney Robert J. Corry Jr. here.

Call your local Representatives and Senators, whether for or against the bill. House 1-800-811-7647 Senate 1-888-473-8136

Colorado House to vote on HB10-1284

MMDInsuranceCo Reviewed by MMDInsuranceCo on 03-22-2010. hb10-1284 set to be voted on tomorrow Tomorrow from 1:30 to 7pm the Colorado House will come together at the state capitol building in Denver to vote on HB10-1284. The bill creates the medical marijuana licensing authority in the department of revenue. Much of the language of the bill treats dispensaries as liquor stores or cabarets, a stance that patients and caregivers donâ??t relish. The bill is forty-five pages long. Here are some of the highlights or lowlights depending on where you stand: â?¢ A primary caregiver may Rating: 5

[copobo]

is this current? the bill to be voted on has all of these provisions?

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

If this passes it will only prove that our ELECTED representatives don't give a shit about the patients of Colorado. This bill is bad for patients, caregivers and dispensaries. The only people it will benefit is the conservative assholes who are trying to shut this whole industry down....

[Vancefish]

If this passes it will only prove that our ELECTED representatives don't give a shit about the patients of Colorado. This bill is bad for patients, caregivers and dispensaries. The only people it will benefit is the conservative assholes who are trying to shut this whole industry down....

Agreed! As I've said before. This bill will essentially make MMJ illegal again. It has more loop holes then a slinky. Yet somehow I still hear people thinking it's acceptable as a compromise.

I think it'll turn patients back to the black market. Thus loosing the taxes our cities REALLY need right now(overspending I think)

[mmjman]

Down with HB-1284 and any kind of further regulation. I'm sick and tired of the endless regulation and taxation of everything on the planet. Enough already!

[HighPopalorum]

Well... being a small town boy, I'll take the unpopular position: I think it's great that towns will be able to license, control and/or ban dispensaries all together. Local zoning and licensing is the only thing that keeps my city (and the West slope) from turning into a salted, paved, polluted three hundred mile long strip mall. I'm GLAD my city is able to regulate and tax local businesses, and glad this bill confirms us in that role. To my mind, the local option is one of the positive elements of the bill that should be weighed against the rest.

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

Well... being a small town boy, I'll take the unpopular position: I think it's great that towns will be able to license, control and/or ban dispensaries all together. Local zoning and licensing is the only thing that keeps my city (and the West slope) from turning into a salted, paved, polluted three hundred mile long strip mall. I'm GLAD my city is able to regulate and tax local businesses, and glad this bill confirms us in that role. To my mind, the local option is one of the positive elements of the bill that should be weighed against the rest.

You know what would be really great, maybe cities and states can tell us where we can and cannot live too huh?? Maybe they wil even give me one of those cool serial number tattoos and I can change my name from bryan to citizen #50394847. They will attach me to living domicile #02938 R and then they can tell me what woman to marry and procreate with too....

What ever happend to a free market? In a time of a failing economy and when commercial rentals are at their highest vacancy ever AND a defecit at the state budget is it really wise to start banning business?

This industry will NEVER go away, why not capatilize and legitimize it? This bill is a step in the wrong direction for everyone involved. Oh well, except for the tight assed closed mind conservatives who will throw a tantrum if they dont always get their way.


RELEGALIZE CANNABIS OR CRIMINALIZE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.

If public safety is the biggest concern, you must criminalize alcohol and tobacco to justify the continued persecution of cannabis, otherwise I demand the immediate legalization of cannabis, the release of all persons jailed for cannabis charges and compensation for time spent imprisoned.

[pepurr]

Law makers have a vested interest in making laws. What would ever become of our poor law makers if one day it was decided that a law has been made for everything in existence? They would start making laws concerning things that don't exist. :thumbsup:

Oops! They have already done that when they made laws to ban 'Killer Weed'. The problem with weed was non-existent, but they made a law anyway. :wtf:

Hey, who could blame them. In these tough times, it makes good sense to protect your job. Law makers do just that by thinking of ever more clever laws to debate and pass. Most of them don't make sense, but who cares? At least our beloved law makers have a job. :rastasmoke:

[HighPopalorum]

You know what would be really great, maybe cities and states can tell us where we can and cannot live too huh??

We do that already, and I'm glad we do. Zoning laws are left to the city and/or county, which is as it should be. While I probably wouldn't be bothered by a dispensary in my neighborhood, I'd most definitely be pissed if someone built a min-storage center or a brake pad factory. Local control gives citizens influence over how their communities look, the direction in which they grow, and what sorts of businesses are permitted in different areas. We also have a design and review board which must approve every commercial structure and most residential buildings in the city, once they've been licensed. None of this local control has prevented dispensaries (or other businesses) from thriving, but it has preserved a great deal of the town's character and charm.

[TurboALLWD]

Well said Bryan! :thumbsup: Some people just don't have a clue, they'll let any level of government walk all over them.

Well... being a small town boy, I'll take the unpopular position: I think it's great that towns will be able to license, control and/or ban dispensaries all together. Local zoning and licensing is the only thing that keeps my city (and the West slope) from turning into a salted, paved, polluted three hundred mile long strip mall. I'm GLAD my city is able to regulate and tax local businesses, and glad this bill confirms us in that role. To my mind, the local option is one of the positive elements of the bill that should be weighed against the rest.

45 pages of bullshit and you think that can be weighed against what you believe to be one single positive element? :wtf: Can't say I'm in agreeance with you there, come to think of it I've never agreed with you.