Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
Well, you're absolutely right about one thing: the court will decide. We won't have long to wait.

This is tangential, but what do you think would happen if 1284 was sent back to the legislature? I haven't digested the new committees, but one new chair stands out: Bob Gardner, who makes no secret of his desire to close all MMCs: "I don't think the dispensary model is appropriate." He was overruled the first time around, but now he will be the one holding the gavel in those committee hearings. He has a plan to sell MMJ through prescriptions and pharmacies, a de facto death penalty for MMJ in Colorado. I think you would be mistaken to celebrate the end of 1284, because the legislature is much more hostile to marijuana than it was a year ago. There are some unknowns (DelGrasso) and of course Summers, but my read is that a new Republican bill would be more restrictive than the current one.
Nice how you try to sway it that my petition is going to bring a worse response from the legislature. You just don't get it--NO statute can override our constitutional RIGHTS. As far as patients and caregivers see it this hb1284 IS as bad as it gets.

As far as it getting worse for MMC's--the legislature's have already got their prohibition language to "correct the flaws in HB1284" for months now. There are already "10 times the mmj lobbyist from 2009 at the capitol". They are NOT lobbying patient rights, but MMC rights--which are not protected by the constitution. The legislature listened to the 10 to one public comment against 1284 and passed it anyway. They are not on team patient/caregiver. Never have been. It was we the people of Colorado who voted for mmj. Politicians don't get to ignore that. The only means left for patients are the courts, and the courts will decide in the end anyway.

If the Supreme Court throws this out, the patients will know the top judges in CO want them to suffer for 2-3 more years as we will just file in a lower court and appeal our way back up to the Supreme Court and they will be forced to make the ruling then.

I am hopeful, and so are my attorneys, that they see the urgency for patients and see the future takings lawsuits that will inevitably bankrupt the state(unfortunately it is the money that talks) and just rule now.