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02-10-2011, 02:03 AM #20shackhouser
New draft bill will essentially kill off caregivers in Colorado
I agree with some of you that the Centers need to be regulated as this is just the natural course of any industry that provides something mind-altering/medical to people. I don't think anyone believes it would just remain hands off forever nor would we want it to. However, if they want to enact zoning,taxes,POS,video, all that fancy stuff and change the name from dispensary to center, that's between those businesses and the state. If u want to get into that game, that's your choice and u will have to deal with regulation. The Colorado Constitution really doesn't directly apply any protections to a medical marijuana business. It does however, have very clear wording about patients and primary care-givers. I do not believe that the Amendment that passed meant to define a care-giver as someone who provides health care services to a patient. When the Amendment passed, we had no dispensaries in Colorado so in order to obtain medication, one had to rely on a care-giver model. There's no way they meant that you could only have medication if someone also wiped your nose for u. The laws are being trampled on right now due to explosion of centers, dispensaries,etc..Why not make the clinics wipe peoples noses for them before they walk out the door??? Why would a care-giver do anything different for a patient except maybe provide discount or FREE meds for people who dont,can't, or won't grow their own?? This whole hoopla going on right now has EVERYTHING to do with the centers and eliminating the care-giver model. That is not what the Colorado Amendment ever intended.....All you have to do is read it and nowhere will u find the word MMC,Clinic,Dispensary,Center..... NOWHERE.....










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