This is the most amazing expose' on medical marijuana centers.
Why hasn't the fact that they are not even legal here in Colorado if you interpret the technical and exact wording of the statute; been exposed until now?
"Marijuana centers were born out of Amendment 20, the language of which reads: “An Amendment to the Colorado Constitution authorizing the medical use of marijuana for persons suffering from debilitating medical conditions, and, in connection therewith, establishing an affirmative defense to Colorado criminal laws for patients and their primary caregivers relating to the medical use of marijuana.”
The amendment allows registered patients or their designated caregivers to cultivate and possess marijuana in small amounts to meet the patients’ needs. Referendums 1A, 2A, 2C and 2E would not change that — patients who truly need pot still would have access to it. Instead, the referendums would, effective Jan. 1, shut down the five marijuana centers operating in Routt County — three in Steamboat, one in Oak Creek and one in Milner.
Nothing in Amendment 20 provides for medical marijuana centers. Such centers began cropping up along the Front Range in 2008 as some interpreted the caregiver provision of the law to allow commercial operations to grow and sell significant amounts of marijuana on behalf of registered cardholders. In most cases, including in Routt County, the marijuana businesses began operating before municipalities could put rules in place authorizing or regulating them..."
(Steamboat Today Editorial Board)
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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I've been wondering when someone else would interpret the medical marijuana laws here in Colorado in the same way I did before they were passed.
There should not be a single MMJ center allowed in Colorado.
It's the law.
very interesting. i'll think on this one anon but right off the top of my head it sounds right. if it is, what kind of liability do the folks have in towns like glenwood springs that have allowed them?
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I have that similar view, hammerandnails.
Ultimately, the citizenry pays for lawsuits brought and all the administering of everything to do with medical marijuana.
We have so many needs that are a much higher priority and this one is not the money maker it was supposed to be. Not by a long shot.
Simplify.
Pharmacy environment is what should be administering MMJ. With no homegrow ability and only industrialized grow operations that are adhering to strict regulations.
And now the ATF has banned sales of firearms to marijuana users. Noticing that they are not limiting that to "medical marijuana" users.
Probably because it is so easy to fake an RX card.
We wonder what our council is going to do, if anything, in stopping all medical marijuana sales in 81601 until all of these very serious problems are worked out.
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