Quote Originally Posted by dieseldiva
Whoa, wait one minute matt. i think you need to look a little closer at the bill:

â?¢ "Higher Plant Count" recommendations in excess of 6 plants now recognized by Health Department. (page 65 line 25 - page 66 line 3)

First off, the higher plant count is in no way being recognized by the Health Department. This line only reiterates what Amendment 20 already says regarding patients or caregivers using the affirmative defense for any paperwork that has a higher plant count and that they need to prove why such greater amounts were medically necessary to address the patientâ??s debilitating medical condition. 1284 also adds in verbiage regarding the caregiver having to waive confidentiality of their records and the patient involved, but nothing about excess being recognized by the Health Dept.

I wonder why you think it is okay to highlight your own interpretation of a bill instead of just inserting a link for the bill and allowing other to read it for themselves. if someone read only what you wrote they would be sadly mistaken and misinformed. While HB 1284 is a monstrosity of a bill, your misconstrued statements far from help. If you truly consider yourself a legitimate advocate then you need to provide both sides of the issue, and stop making your opinions seem like they are legal facts based on any knowledge at all. Guess that is the problem with opinions, they are just like assholes, everyone has one.
I hope it did a lot of good for your ego to chide Matt for a crime you have committed as least as egregiously he did.

To be specific, the higher plant count section is pg 53 section e, not the pages you referred to. This amendment does far more than reiterate amendment 20. To quote 1284:
2 (e) TO POSSESS MORE THAN SIX MEDICAL MARIJUANA PLANTS AND
3 TWO OUNCES OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA FOR EACH PATIENT WHO HAS
4 REGISTERED THE CENTER AS HIS OR HER PRIMARY CENTER PURSUANT TO
5 SECTION 25-1.5-106 (6) (f), C.R.S.; EXCEPT THAT AMEDICALMARIJUANA
6 CENTER MAY HAVE AN AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS THE SIX-PLANT AND
7 TWO-OUNCE PRODUCT PER PATIENT LIMIT IF THE CENTER SELLS TO
8 PATIENTS THAT ARE AUTHORIZED TO HAVE MORE THAN SIX PLANTS AND
9 TWO OUNCES OF PRODUCT. IN THE CASE OF A PATIENT AUTHORIZED TO
10 EXCEED THE SIX-PLANT AND TWO-OUNCE LIMIT, THE CENTER SHALL
11 OBTAIN DOCUMENTATION FROM THE PATIENT'S PHYSICIAN THAT THE
12 PATIENT NEEDS MORE THAN SIX PLANTS AND TWO OUNCES OF PRODUCT.

On the other hand, amendment 20 does not explicitly allow someone to possess more than 6 plants, it simply allows an affirmative defense:
a) A patient may engage in the medical use of marijuana, with no more marijuana than is medically necessary to address a debilitating medical condition. A patient's medical use of marijuana, within the following limits, is lawful:
(I) No more than two ounces of a usable form of marijuana; and

(II) No more than six marijuana plants, with three or fewer being mature, flowering plants that are producing a usable form of marijuana.

(b) For quantities of marijuana in excess of these amounts, a patient or his or her primary care-giver may raise as an affirmative defense to charges of violation of state law that such greater amounts were medically necessary to address the patient's debilitating medical condition.
Kartel Reviewed by Kartel on . So we all become.."Infused Products Manufacturer"?? Hello! In a session that stretched late into the evening yesterday, the House approved HB1284 without any new amendments by a 46-19 vote. This means the bill is now off to the Governor's desk to be signed before becoming law. As has been widely reported by the media, there are a number of bad parts of this bill and many other parts that will be challenged in court in the coming days. However, there are also a number of very good new additions to Colorado's Medical Marijuana program: Rating: 5