Chris Romer: "The Department of Revenue will regulate it with guns,"

[RockwellHG]

Whoa, they are REALLY pushing it....



ACTION ALERT:
Patient Rights Under Attack in Colorado


There are now two law enforcement bills working their way through the Colorado state legislature that would seriously harm medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in Colorado. Both of these bills have seen strong support from legislators, both Democrats and Republicans.

Law enforcement bill #1 (SB109) would destroy the confidentiality of the Registry by allowing the government to use patient records to determine â??suspiciousâ?� activity by physicians. It allocates over $1 million of patient registration fees to prosecute these â??suspiciousâ?� physicians.

The bill's sponsor, Senator Chris Romer (D-Denver), promised the Cannabis Therapy Institute repeatedly that he would use patient registration fees to create 24/7 access for law enforcement ot the Registry so that police could confirm whether a patient was legal after business hours and on weekends. This has been the #1 patient concern for years and would prevent many patients from being arrested and taken to jail simply because the Registry offices were closed. Instead, Romer wants to use patient fees to prosecute those patients' physicians, allowing unprecedented access to the
formerly confidential Registry.

Law enforcement bill #2 (HB 1284) is a 49-page regulatory monstrosity that seeks to eliminate 95% of existing dispensaries. It creates a state medical marijuana licensing board run by the Department of Revenue. Dispensaries would have to get a state license, a local license, and a cultivation license. Dispensaries would be subject to warantless searches of their premises Law enforcement would be able to come in as often as they wanted to count and weigh a dispensaryâ??s cannabis and search through patient records to make sure the dispensary didnâ??t have â??too muchâ?�. Law enforcement would be able to track patients as well, to make sure they weren't purchasing "too much" medicine. HB1284 would create a new class of law enforcement official, the â??medical marijuana enforcment investigatorâ?� that would be in charge of these warrantless searches.

Senator Romer, one of the co-sponsors of HB1284, discussed the bills at a meeting of the Medical Marijuana Business Alliance on April 15, 2010 at the Loews Hotel in Denver. His comments were shocking to the audience.

Romer described the new regulatory regime. "The Department of Revenue will regulate it with guns," he said. "Auditors with guns will be in your dispensary every 5 to 7 days" to count and weigh your medicine. Since you will be seeing so much of your auditor, Sen. Romer said, "Your auditor will be your best friend. Yes, he will have a gun, but that will be OK." Romer repeated the phrase "auditors with guns" dozens of times in his 20 minute speech, almost seeming gleeful at the thought. Romer also said that the progress on HB1284 has been stalled because "weâ??re trying to figure out exactly how many auditors with guns we will need."

The big bombshell fell when Romer was asked how much a state dispensary license would cost. He replied that the fee would probably be around $50,000 a year, maybe more.

This is the future of medical marijuana: the Law Enforcement Model to Medicine. Readers in other states should be wary as well. Law enforcment all over the country will be using Colorado's regulatory regime as a model for their own state's regulations down the road.

TAKE ACTION NOW!
Call or email your local House and Sentate
Members and ask them to:
VOTE NO ON HB1284 and SB109

House Offices: (303) 866-2904
Senate Offices: (303) 866-2316


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Cannabis Therapy Institute
P.O. Box 19084, Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 877-420-4205
Web: Cannabis Therapy Institutue - Medical Cannabis (Marijuana) Research, Education and Advocacy in Colorado
Email: [email protected]
More information and email addresses on our website. Please make copies.

Updated April 16, 2010

RockwellHG Reviewed by RockwellHG on 04-16-2010. Chris Romer: "The Department of Revenue will regulate it with guns," Whoa, they are REALLY pushing it.... ACTION ALERT: Patient Rights Under Attack in Colorado There are now two law enforcement bills working their way through the Colorado state legislature that would seriously harm medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in Colorado. Both of these bills have seen strong support from legislators, both Democrats and Republicans. Rating: 5

[copobo]

none of our elected officials give a flying fuck about the Constitution or the will of the voters.

Tell me which ones you still think are good?!!

NOW is the time to get angry, people!

None of these Bills should go through. They ALL need to die and we need some better prep and research before legislative session 2011. It just isn't the right year.

If you think these bills passing will get your dispensary out of the gray area and keep you on-the-safe - you are DEAD WRONG. You will be smothered by the likes of RJ Reynolds and other corporate fat cats!

ROMER IS WAITING FOR THAT BIG CORPORATE MONEY!!! IT WILL BE HIS TICKET TO WASHINGTON!

He will lie to you and make you feel good and sell you right the fuck out!

DEWIG THE PIG! DON'T SUPPORT THE LIES!

[TheReleafCenter]

$50k is insane. Did April Fools come 14 days too late for him? Looks like prices are going up.

[FarmerSteve]

It is, and has been, inevitable that "Government" (which is merely another way of describing the purchased yes men that the corporations and special interests own) tries to get not only the tax money, but ALL the money from our God given Herb. Bastards and their greed. I've been saying this for YEARS. You can see the game plan coming from a mile a way.

Evil is SO predictable.

[GREENLEYORGANIC]

we need to figure out how to obtain enough copies of The Union: The Business Behind Getting High to send to each member of the Colorado Legislature

how can we do this???

[palerider7777]

lmao i've said it time and time again.no one wanted to listen,they call caregivers evil and greedy for charging a fee for their work and so on.these same people play right into the gov's hands.whatever......they will find out soon enough how good they really had it but by then it will be to late.

[neversummer]

$50k is insane. Did April Fools come 14 days too late for him? Looks like prices are going up.

If you raise your prices any more you should just close instead. Looks like the market will be going back underground is more like it! We really dont need mcdonalds and walmart type dispensaries, its really disgusting, yet they charge prices like they are mercedes, or lexus.

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

what country is this? sounds more like gestapo. maybe we need to uniform our employees (politicians, leo and justice dept) in long black boots and swastika arm bands and our people can yell zieg heil. traitors

meded so you can mededicate to mededitate

[Vancefish]

lmao i've said it time and time again.no one wanted to listen,they call caregivers evil and greedy for charging a fee for their work and so on.these same people play right into the gov's hands.whatever......they will find out soon enough how good they really had it but by then it will be to late.

I've been right next to you on ALL of this.

Our ENTIRE government, left/right, Dem/Rep, are ALL on a serious power trip. THEY all understand the ship is sinking, and as the saying goes,.. Better to rule in hell, then to serve in Heaven.

If you want to see what OUR country will be like in 20 years,... Take a gander at ANY small Mexican city. You see, It's far easier to collapse the US economy, then Merge us with Mexico. Then it is to improve Mexico's economy, to equal ours. The "official" plan is to create the North American Union (Which doesn't exist, just like the camps, Mass grave sites, and international tollway in Texas don't exist).

Add to that, while they destroy us. They can steal ALL our assets(Land, gold, silver, and of course our freedom).

Time for a MASS re-election. Time for ALL new blood in "office". Once in,.. Time for serious pressure from the masses to CONTINUE to do OUR bidding. NOT the bidding of the Big Banker families, and "royalty". Those people are out for YOUR blood, and could care less about our well being.

OUT WITH THE "OFFICIALS"!

IN WITH THE PUBLIC SERVANTS!

[cornbread]

Romer seems to be the only one kicking up dust here. But since he's elected, I'm sure he'll have to hit the campaign trail soon. Maybe he'll get defeated. Who knows? I wonder how the other 14 state's MMJ laws are working?

Of all conservative states, Florida has actually begun to kick MMJ around. The seniors are especially enthusiastic about the prospects of medicating with pot.

I think Romer's idea is cute if not taken from some old Hollywood movie. But it sounds like Elliot Ness in a fedora and raincoat coming in with a tommy gun and cigar in mouth - "Alright yous darty guys..."

I'm obviously not taking Romer seriously - nor is anyone else...