New draft bill will essentially kill off caregivers in Colorado

[Zedleppelin]

http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/Medi...0Caregiver.pdf


iii) â??Significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patientâ?� means, IN ADDITION TO THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, assisting a patient with daily activities, including but not limited to transportation or housekeeping or meal preparation or shopping or making any necessary arrangement for access to medical care or NON-MEDICAL MARIJUANA services or provision of medical marijuana. THE ACT OF SUPPLYING MEDICAL MARIJUANA OR MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA, BY ITSELF, IS INSUFFICIENT TO CONSTITUTE â??SIGNIFICANT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING THE WELL-BEING OF A PATIENT. (C.R.S. § 25-1.5-106 22 3(b) (1))


A PRIMARY CARE-GIVER SHALL HAVE SIGNIFICANT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING THE WELL-BEING OF A PATIENT WITH A DEBILITATING CONDITION. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A PRIMARY CARE-GIVER AND PATIENT IS TO BE A SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP THAT IS MORE THAN PROVISION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA. (C.R.S. § 25-16 1.5-106(3)(viii)(i)) SERVICES BEYOND THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA THAT MAY BE PROVIDED BY THE PRIMARY CARE-GIVER INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO, TRANSPORTATION, HOUSEKEEPING, MEAL PREPARATION, SHOPPING, OR MAKING ARRANGMENTS FOR ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE OR NON-MEDICAL MARIJUANA SERVICES. IF PATIENTS DO NOT REQUIRE CARE-GIVER SERVICE OTHER THAN THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, THEN THE PATIENTS SHALL NOT DESIGNATE A PRIMARY CARE-GIVER.

Zedleppelin Reviewed by Zedleppelin on 02-08-2011. New draft bill will essentially kill off caregivers in Colorado http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/Medicalmarijuana/Memo_Draft%20Primary%20Caregiver.pdf iii) â??Significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patientâ?� means, IN ADDITION TO THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, assisting a patient with daily activities, including but not limited to transportation or housekeeping or meal preparation or shopping or making any necessary arrangement for access to medical care or NON-MEDICAL MARIJUANA services or provision of medical Rating: 5

[copobo]

war on the poor!

[Zedleppelin]

Correction, this is not a bill but a draft of rules for The Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee to consider and implement.

[copobo]

check this out man

Cannabis Therapy Institute: Colorado Dept. of Revenue Reveals Draft Rules for Medical Marijuana Industry

watch the videos of the hearings.

[canniwhatsis]

There still trying to push that huh?

How are patients who can't afford $400 an oz supposed to get a hold of their meds?

[TheReleafCenter]

Still reading, but the oddest part of this is so far is where they describe where a primary caregiver can't use medical marijuana.

[HighPopalorum]

Caregivers can't use a patient's oxycontin either. :thumbsup:

[TheReleafCenter]

Right, so why did they need to specify a caregiver can't operate a motorboat while high?

1 7. PROVIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA IF THE PATIENT DOES NOT HAVE A
2 DEBILITATING MEDICAL CONDITION AS DIAGNOSED BY THE PERSON'S
3 PHYSICIAN IN THE COURSE OF A BONA FIDE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT
4 RELATIONSHIP AND FOR WHICH THE PHYSICIAN HAS RECOMMENDED
5 THE USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA

I'm not sure how the state expects a caregiver to verify the nature of a patient/doctor relationship. Looks like a reasonable challenge could be made here.

SUCH CARE-GIVER CHARGES
10 SHALL BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE CARE-GIVER SERVICES RENDERED AND REFLECT
11 MARKET RATES FOR SIMILAR CARE-GIVER SERVICES AND NOT COSTS ASSOCIATED
12 WITH PROCURING THE MARIJUANA.

This appears to be their answer for simply inventing services. You're still able to find a service that people charge ridiculous amounts for... I'd go with fortune telling. And that's only if you can't find a way to appropriately compensate yourself through cost. They still don't prevent you from charging a reasonable amount for labor as a factor of cost.

SERVICES BEYOND THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA THAT
18 MAY BE PROVIDED BY THE PRIMARY CARE-GIVER INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE
19 LIMITED TO,

The "include, but shall not be limited to" gives you some wiggle room.

[canniwhatsis]

Under "Definitions" it say's this.

THE ACT OF SUPPLYING MEDICAL MARIJUANA OR MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA, BY ITSELF, IS INSUFFICIENT TO CONSTITUTE â??SIGNIFICANT 21
RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING THE WELL-BEING OF A PATIENT. (C.R.S. § 25-1.5-106 22
3(b) (1)) 23

Then later it say's this too.

IF PATIENTS DO NOT REQUIRE CARE-GIVER SERVICE OTHER THAN THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, THEN THE PATIENTS SHALL NOT 22
DESIGNATE A PRIMARY CARE-GIVER. 23

Those 2 lines bother me. That FORCES able bodied patients to go to MMC's and pay out the nose, and if they don't have the funds, they don't get the meds.

[porone]

Yup they want us all behind bars.Reefer maddnes is alive and well