new mmc rules posted

[copobo]

Tough, proposed marijuana rules posted in Colorado

Tough, proposed marijuana rules posted in Colorado
By KRISTEN WYATT
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 16, 2010; 8:08 PM

DENVER -- Marijuana sellers in Colorado could have to wear photo badges, and patients could have new limits on changing their primary dispensaries if tough, new rules are adopted next year.

The changes were contained in a 99-page list of draft rules posted online Thursday by Colorado regulators crafting the nation's most extensive rules for commercial marijuana sales.

The state revenue department is expected to adopt the new rules early next year and does not need approval by lawmakers.

The rules govern all aspects of the commercial sale of marijuana.

Colorado will dictate how growers can raise pot plants and how marijuana can be sold to the state's 116,000 marijuana patients.

The proposed rules include a four-page list of banned pesticides and other chemicals.

In addition, marijuana patients who want to designate a primary dispensary would have to stick with the selection for at least 120 days, though they could shop anywhere they like.

The 120-day rule was requested by pot shop owners who worried they could be penalized for exceeding Colorado's six-plants-per-patient requirement if a patient changed their dispensary designation before a plant could be harvested.

Other highlights of the proposed regulations include:

- Food containing pot would have to include a label listing all ingredients, plus a warning that the food includes marijuana "produced without regulatory oversight for health, safety or efficacy."

- Marijuana dispensaries would have to record all sales on camera. Commercial pot shops would have to keep the recordings 20 days.

- Marijuana dispensaries could be fined or shut down for selling pot after a new 7 p.m. closing time or allowing pot to be consumed on the premises.

- Law enforcement officers who seize pot plants in the course of an investigation wouldn't be obligated to keep the plants alive.

The proposed rules govern only commercial pot sales. A separate state agency is working on other new rules for marijuana patients, including guidelines for doctors to recommend pot.

Julie Postwaithe, a spokeswoman for the Department of Revenue's marijuana work group that crafted the proposed regulations, said the rules took months to draft with input by marijuana growers, patients and sellers.

"The industry had an opportunity to participate in these rules," she said.


the rules are here
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...&ssbinary=true

copobo Reviewed by copobo on 12-17-2010. new mmc rules posted Tough, proposed marijuana rules posted in Colorado Tough, proposed marijuana rules posted in Colorado By KRISTEN WYATT The Associated Press Thursday, December 16, 2010; 8:08 PM DENVER -- Marijuana sellers in Colorado could have to wear photo badges, and patients could have new limits on changing their primary dispensaries if tough, new rules are adopted next year. The changes were contained in a 99-page list of draft rules posted online Thursday by Colorado regulators crafting the Rating: 5

[HighPopalorum]

Photo badges? Why not wizard hats with their names embroidered on the brim? (Rasta hats would also be acceptable.)

[ottistoys]

Boy did we get FUCKED........................

[denverbear]

has anyone heard about the mmc's not being able to sell clones anymore...
if this fact or fiction....inquiring minds want to know.

[copobo]

that is true in Boulder... but that is due to boulder regs. can't grow on site at the retail mmc. which is really effen dumb. especially for Boulder.

[quetzal]

Thanks for posting this copobo...

Will these regulations and controls on growing apply to care-givers also, or only commercial operations?

Photo badges? Why not wizard hats with their names embroidered on the brim? (Rasta hats would also be acceptable.)

Lol

[quetzal]

I can see this setting some centers apart:

No licensee, for the sale of medical marijuana shall sell, transfer or give away any medical marijuana that does not contain a label with a list of all ingredients, including all chemical additives, including but not limited to nonorganic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that were used in its cultivation and production.

[denverbear]

I can see this setting some centers apart:

a clone is not medical marijane yet so I wonder if that is a way to keep selling clones.