I have been following this thread in silence, but here at home I am biting my tongue. This bill will effect each and every one of us, perhaps in different ways, but we all will feel it's effects.

I am in favor of regulation, although limited. A dispensary should be regulated like any other business. Since a dispensary's customer base is restricted, it should be regulated to make sure only those "allowed" are sold to. This is already in place. It should be regulated that a dispensary is clean, safe, and are dispensing what they claim. Much of this is in place, but some is subjective. If they claim to be selling Medical Marijuana, then it should not be the so-called legal bud. I have not seen this practice but I have heard a few concerns. It should be regulated so that a dispensary, like any other business, pays proper sales/income taxes, reports sales tax correctly, and is properly licensed (the Denver bureaucracy and cost seems excessive to me).

I have mixed feeling about zoning, and it looks like its going to extremes. Medical Marijuana is a legitimate business and should be treated as such. If the community is zone for residential only, that means MMJ as well. Banning MMJ dispensaries makes no sense to me. How and why are gentlemen's clubs, payday loans, and pawn shops better for a community than a dispensary. I really do not see the logic in this.

As far as quality, mold, pests, taste, and smell....well, I think the consumer will weed(ha ha) all of that out. If I found mold in anything I purchased (weed, produce etc), I would offer the place I got it from the opportunity to correct the issue. I would expect replacement of the product or a cash refund, an apology, and the assurance they would do everything in their power not to have it happen again (not purchase from that vendor perhaps). It anything like that happens again, it would be the last time they got my money and I would be letting as many people know as possible to give them warning.

I certainly do not want the Federal Government to be involved in quality control of my medical marijuana. With the horrors committed by the FDAs in-aptitude I have little or no confidence that they would do better with something like MMJ. No reason for me to believe that the state would do any better in quality control.

Like everyone else, this is my opinion. It concerns me that as a community we can not get together and decide what is best for us. It is going to make it very hard to get lawmakers on our side when we do not really know what we want/need. Unfortunately it will come down to who has the most money, like everything political in the USA.