Here is what I sent. :thumbsup:



Hello Judy,

My name is #### #####. I live in your district, and am writing to try and sway your vote on HB10-1284.

My story (in short) starts fourteen years ago. While building the joint #####/##### Jaycee, haunted house. I fell while carrying some heavy lumber. In turn, I ruptured a disk in my lower back. A week later I found myself unable to sit, stand, lay down or move without excruciating pain down my left leg. This pain after a few days turned my left leg numb from the knee down. I was sent to a chiropractor who after a few months of daily adjustments was able to get me walking again. During that time I was also given muscle relaxers and some opiate based pain killers (which did nothing except upset my stomach, and digestive tract. Plus made me slow, and unable to focus).

I tried a strong Indica strain of MMJ after receiving my recommendation in early December last year. This strain is only available through one of the many small, LOCALLY owned dispensaries. To which HB10-1284 is set to shut down. Herijuana (strain name), is available ONLY through Greatful Meds in Nederland. It is a strong Indica based plant which relieves muscle spasms extremely well. Plus helps me sleep without tossing and turning (which aggravates my back). At 6'3" and 155lbs, I've been told MANY times to eat more by doctors (mainly didn't eat do to the effects of most pain killers I was given). MMJ also solves that problem. Since December I'm up to 175lbs (my 17yo weight).

You may ask, WHY would this bill shut them down? Well, it's because that specific dispensary buys almost ALL of it's supply from small local growers. If HB10-1284 passes, this dispensary will be unable to legally buy anything from the smaller growers. They will have to more then triple their current growing operations (which is to much for a person, trying to ALSO run a store).

This also leads to my next point.

Lets say a 55 year old retired women is diagnosed with cancer(god forbid). As her chemotherapy progresses she looses her appetite. Her church friend introduces her to MMJ (A seed bearing herb, authorized by the bible). After getting her recommendation. As an avid life long gardener, she decides to try growing her own. So, she starts three plants indoors and grows all three out the way the books tell her is best. Then flowers them as she starts three more. Being a good gardener, who understands plants, she harvests the first three monsters she ever grew. After drying she finds out she has two and a half POUNDS of MMJ. (this could easily happen, most people don't grow that large though, from what I understand)

So now a 55 year old cancer patient, who has never broken the law to her knowledge. Plus attends church twice per week. Has THIRTY EIGHT ounces OVER what she can legally have. So, under the current situation she can take that to a dispensary for other patients to buy and use. Also giving her (the suffering patient) a small extra income on the side.

Under HB10-1284, She can't sell it, she can't throw it away(children or unauthorized people may find it), and worst of all, if caught with it, she could spend the next few years in prison!

This bill appears to many Colorado patients, to be a bill which not only causes many issues such as this, but also.

Raises prices on medicine, through overcharging of tax and licensing fees for dispensaries. (does a Walgreens have to pay SO much to open a pharmacy?)
Blocks home delivery for housebound patients.
Creates an ARMED gestapo for the MMJ community. (which again will be paid for out of the patients pocket with higher cost)
Ends many patients ability to get the strains they feel work best. (by only allowing HUGE well funded growing operations, which decreases quality and variety)
Essentially ends ALL small, well cared for (local) growing operations, in favor of BIG, out of state funded, growing operations.

As was best stated by Thomas Jefferson, "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."

This Bill will do just what the patients don't want. It is only supported by those few dispensaries backing Romer. While (as Chris Romer said) HB10-1284 will close up to 85% of the states dispensaries. Leaving only his backers, with essentially a monopoly on MANY regions of Colorado.

Please I urge you to vote NO, on HB10-1284. It is unconstitutional, Irrational, and harmful to the local economy as well as the patients. For these reasons alone, I implore you to please vote NO.

Thank you for you time
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