Below is a list of what actually was added to Colorado HB10-1284 on Tuesday April 27. Some changes are livable but others not so much... The bill will now be voted on by the full Senate. Mile High NORML is urging patient rights supporters to contact their state senators and urge them to vote No on HB1284.
L.105 -- withdrawn, Romer is planning on offering it at appropriations (this is one with the $35,000 fee)
L.106 -- withdrawn (would have required centers with 300+ patients to have massage therapist etc onsite)
L.107 -- Adopted (requires 2yr residency)
L.108 -- withdrawn (1000ft school ban)
L.109 -- withdrawn, Romer would like to offer it on the floor after he works with people on this, Newell is interested in it (edibles waiver)
L.110 -- withdrawn (excess product to nonprofit)
L.111 -- withdrawn, Romer wants to debate this one on the floor (under 21 ban in dispensaries)
L.112 -- Adopted (allows state charter banks, added in credit unions, to accept deposits)
L.113 -- Adopted (technical clean up; the second part of amendment moves violations under the criminal code)
L.119 -- Adopted, proposed by Foster, clarified language around local municipalities denying a renewal, struck lines 9-12 of amendment that dealt with public notice and hearings
L.120 -- Adopted, department of health amendment (clean up amendment, redefined caregiver and when patients card can be revoked - if knowingly went to a doc to get a recommendation and that doctor ended up losing right to recommend)
L.121 -- Adopted, proposed by Foster, state moratorium on licenses make local moratorium until state law is in effect, Newell voted no on this amendment.
"There are MANY substantial issues with HB1284, as passed by the House. You MUST take action to meet with your State Senator and his/her staff IMMEDIATELY and urge them to vote NO on this bill. This bill contains many unconstitutional provisions that amend or modify the Constitutional rights guaranteed to you by Amendment 20. More importantly, this law will make it close to impossible for most of you to continue to help your patients." Attorney Lauren Davis
"Let's hope legislators can understand even more basic economies of scale. With 100,000 voters now registered as patients and another couple million who believe strongly in medical marijuana rights, lawmakers should think twice before dismantling the dispensary industry." Attorney Rob Corry
Showing posts with label Colorado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colorado. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Ken Gorman Marijuana Legalization Memorial Rally
Ken Gorman was a marijuana activist who was shot and killed in his home on February 17, 2007 when he interrupted a burglary inside his marijuana garden and his killers have never been brought to justice. We remember Ken the best way we know how. By continuing his monthly rally at the capital. A rally that has been a proud part of our community in Denver for the last 15 years
Join us this Saturday March 27 and every last Saturday of the month after from 3-5pm @ Colorado State Capitol Building on the West Steps. Its conveniently located at the corner of Colfax and Lincoln in Denver. Signage and Costumes are always welcome!
Join us this Saturday March 27 and every last Saturday of the month after from 3-5pm @ Colorado State Capitol Building on the West Steps. Its conveniently located at the corner of Colfax and Lincoln in Denver. Signage and Costumes are always welcome!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Colorado MMJ Patients/Caregivers URGENT CALL TO ACTION: House Bill 1284
Lauren C. Davis, co-counsel
(303) 634-2253 fax: (888) 319-1805
Dear Patients, Caregivers, and Supporters,
We are asking you to take action
1) Mark the date on your calendars
2) Get the word out
3) Pack the room
But you cannot wait until then to make your voices heard. Lawmakers, lobbyists for large dispensaries and law enforcement are already in the back rooms making deals. You need to contact your local State Representatives IMMEDIATELY to arrange face to face meetings.
Meet with your elected officials directly or their staffs, but you must act
This scary proposal:
- creates a bloated, multi-million dollar state licensing authority that will wipe you out of existence
- imposes a year-long statewide moratorium on new dispensaries and grow operations
- prohibits people convicted of any felony or drug misdemeanor, including simple possession of a joint, from being a caregiver
- allows local governments to ban medical marijuana facilities altogether
- re-imposes a Five Patient per caregiver limit
- obliterates your constitutional right against self incrimination
- violates your First Amendment rights
- provides that you can lose your medical marijuana license if any of your employees or agents violates any of the voluminous regulations or the law
- provides that patients can lose their licenses if their caregivers violate the law
- requires you to notify the State every time you hire or fire an employee, partner….
And these are just some of the horrors.
Caregivers need to educate lawmakers on why they cannot do it all. You successfully convinced the Board of Health why the mere provision of medical marijuana for a patient IS a significant responsibility. Now you need to get out there and convince your elected officials.
Caregivers who grow need to educate lawmakers about the difficulties of growing medical marijuana - the issues of strain nutrition, lighting, watering, pests, plant disease, etc.; why you need to be allowed to work with other caregivers to best help your patients (or if you ever want to go on vacation again); the hours and money involved, etc.
Caregivers that own dispensaries/ retail outlets must educate your lawmakers on the business aspects of caregiving and why you should be allowed to run your operation without government strangulation. Your business model will be wiped out of existence under this plan (all but those modeled on Harborside et.al. will be).
Patients – only you can help your lawmakers understand your plight. Why you don’t want the government to interfere in your selection of a caregiver; why you may want a caregiver who has a conviction for cultivation in his past; why you should not lose your medical marijuana rights if your caregiver violates the law.
Time is of the essence in this fight. This bill must be stopped. We will be sending out another email with additional talking points in the next few days. But schedule your meetings
To find contact information for your representatives, go to
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1165693060219&pagename=CO-Portal%2FPage%2FCXPStandardLayout Click on the search function that uses your zip code.
Forward this email, provide hard copies to your patients, and get the word out. You need to contact your State Representatives to convince them to VOTE NO on HB 1284 before it is too late. Remember, in our democracy, your elected officials work for YOU.
Gratefully Yours,
Lauren C. Davis
Robert J. Corry
Attorneys at Law
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Simple solution to everything... Grow your own!
SB-109 Moves Forward
The first attempt to un-lawfully reform Colorado's medical marijuana industry moved forward today out of committee and into the Senate after 200 people pack a large courtroom and 60 people, mainly patients, spent 2 hours sharing there life story.
The first bill, sponsored by Sen Romer is SB109, and it deals only with the doctors patient relationship. The 2nd proposed bull oops i meant bill, has no sponsor (now i understand that i'm rather new at all this and i missed most of civics class but how can a bill be introduced with no sponsor???) and has not yet been proposed, as of yet. It was cleverly drafted by the County Sheriffs of Colorado Association. This bill deals with a few really key things but most importantly, the number of patients that a caregiver is allowed to have. Right now there is no limit to the number of patients a caregiver can have, but the bill will limit that number to a 5 patient limit per caregiver, thus killing all dispensaries.
Today the Senate Health and Human Services Committee only took on the doctor patient relationship and didn't touch the dispensary portion of the bill.
For the record Mile High NORML DOES NOT SUPPORT SB-109 in its entirety.
Some serious items are need to be removed and or changed before it is something that patients and future patients will be comfortable with.
One of the new provision of the bill would have forced people under 21 to get the approval of two doctors before being allowed access to medical marijuana.Luckily this provision was later removed by the members of the senate committee.
Senate Bill 109 also would redefine the term "bona-fide physician-patient relationship" from Article XVIII, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution (Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law).
The new definition requires the patient to receive a full physical exam by a physician in order to obtain a Medical Marijuana Registry Card. In addition, "follow-up care and treatment" by that same physician would be required every year.
This will dramatically increase the cost of of a Medical Marijuana Registry card to the medical marijuana patient. Patients who are for the most part on a fixed income.
SB109
- Raises the costs to patients by requiring extra exams and record keeping
- Raises the costs to patients by not allowing their previous medical history to be used to determine whether they would benefit from medical marijuana
- Restricts the rights of patients to use their doctor of there choosing
- Is discriminatory, because no other medicine in the state or nation is regulated so
harshly
The committee finally voted to approve the bill, 6-1
Sen. Romer pledged to work with patients to address some of the affordability issues that this bill would cause. He acknowledged that the bill isn't perfect, but said, to the displeasure of the crowd, that it is the "the beginning of the end of the wild west."
The first attempt to un-lawfully reform Colorado's medical marijuana industry moved forward today out of committee and into the Senate after 200 people pack a large courtroom and 60 people, mainly patients, spent 2 hours sharing there life story.
The first bill, sponsored by Sen Romer is SB109, and it deals only with the doctors patient relationship. The 2nd proposed bull oops i meant bill, has no sponsor (now i understand that i'm rather new at all this and i missed most of civics class but how can a bill be introduced with no sponsor???) and has not yet been proposed, as of yet. It was cleverly drafted by the County Sheriffs of Colorado Association. This bill deals with a few really key things but most importantly, the number of patients that a caregiver is allowed to have. Right now there is no limit to the number of patients a caregiver can have, but the bill will limit that number to a 5 patient limit per caregiver, thus killing all dispensaries.
Today the Senate Health and Human Services Committee only took on the doctor patient relationship and didn't touch the dispensary portion of the bill.
For the record Mile High NORML DOES NOT SUPPORT SB-109 in its entirety.
Some serious items are need to be removed and or changed before it is something that patients and future patients will be comfortable with.
One of the new provision of the bill would have forced people under 21 to get the approval of two doctors before being allowed access to medical marijuana.Luckily this provision was later removed by the members of the senate committee.
Senate Bill 109 also would redefine the term "bona-fide physician-patient relationship" from Article XVIII, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution (Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law).
The new definition requires the patient to receive a full physical exam by a physician in order to obtain a Medical Marijuana Registry Card. In addition, "follow-up care and treatment" by that same physician would be required every year.
This will dramatically increase the cost of of a Medical Marijuana Registry card to the medical marijuana patient. Patients who are for the most part on a fixed income.
SB109
- Raises the costs to patients by requiring extra exams and record keeping
- Raises the costs to patients by not allowing their previous medical history to be used to determine whether they would benefit from medical marijuana
- Restricts the rights of patients to use their doctor of there choosing
- Is discriminatory, because no other medicine in the state or nation is regulated so
harshly
The committee finally voted to approve the bill, 6-1
Sen. Romer pledged to work with patients to address some of the affordability issues that this bill would cause. He acknowledged that the bill isn't perfect, but said, to the displeasure of the crowd, that it is the "the beginning of the end of the wild west."
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Marijuana advocates blast lawmakers at Denver rally
We had to rebound quick and I think we did. Since our ass kicking the other night at the Denver City Council (13-0 vote to regulate dispensaries in city limits) we couldn't stand around and let State lawmakers change and or regulate any part of Amendment 20 and the Colorado Constitution.
The State would love to CAP all caregiver limits to 5 patients thus attempting to wipe out the dispensary business and several other individuals who have invested there life savings into so 250 marijuana advocates expressed there anger today over lawmakers and there decision to regulate.
Denver Post Coverage:
Marijuana advocates who rallied across the street from the state Capitol today had sharp words for lawmakers considering regulations for Colorado's booming medical-marijuana industry.
"Keep your grubby hands off of medical marijuana!" activist Robert Chase shouted toward the Capitol.
Fox 31 Pics
About 200 advocates attended the rally — which was timed to begin once Gov. Bill Ritter finished giving his State of the State speech. Many of the speakers at the rally blasted legislative proposals to strongly regulate or effectively outlaw the state's growing number of retail medical-marijuana dispensaries. A number of speakers urged cannabis advocates to contact elected officials to lobby for their cause — though they often cast the relationship between advocate and lawmaker as an adversarial one.
"We deserve a seat at that table," prominent medical-marijuana attorney Robert Corry said. "And if they don't give us a seat at that table, well, I've got a flame-thrower we can use to deal with that table."
Marijuana advocates blast lawmakers at Denver rally
AP Coverage:
Medical Marijuana Advocates To Rally At Capitol
DENVER (AP) ― Medical marijuana advocates want to let Colorado lawmakers know what they think about proposals to regulate or limit the booming pot industry.
Advocates rallied on the Capitol's West Steps at 11:30 a.m. Thursday — just as Gov. Bill Ritter should be wrapping up his annual State of the State speech inside the building.
Lawmakers are considering legislation to prevent dispensaries from paying doctors who determine who can become legal medical users of marijuana in Colorado.
Another proposal could limit the number of people a medical marijuana caregiver can supply. Attorney General John Suthers supports that approach.
Medical Marijuana Advocates To Rally At Capitol
The State would love to CAP all caregiver limits to 5 patients thus attempting to wipe out the dispensary business and several other individuals who have invested there life savings into so 250 marijuana advocates expressed there anger today over lawmakers and there decision to regulate.
Denver Post Coverage:
Marijuana advocates who rallied across the street from the state Capitol today had sharp words for lawmakers considering regulations for Colorado's booming medical-marijuana industry.
"Keep your grubby hands off of medical marijuana!" activist Robert Chase shouted toward the Capitol.
Fox 31 Pics
About 200 advocates attended the rally — which was timed to begin once Gov. Bill Ritter finished giving his State of the State speech. Many of the speakers at the rally blasted legislative proposals to strongly regulate or effectively outlaw the state's growing number of retail medical-marijuana dispensaries. A number of speakers urged cannabis advocates to contact elected officials to lobby for their cause — though they often cast the relationship between advocate and lawmaker as an adversarial one.
"We deserve a seat at that table," prominent medical-marijuana attorney Robert Corry said. "And if they don't give us a seat at that table, well, I've got a flame-thrower we can use to deal with that table."
Marijuana advocates blast lawmakers at Denver rally
AP Coverage:
Medical Marijuana Advocates To Rally At Capitol
DENVER (AP) ― Medical marijuana advocates want to let Colorado lawmakers know what they think about proposals to regulate or limit the booming pot industry.
Advocates rallied on the Capitol's West Steps at 11:30 a.m. Thursday — just as Gov. Bill Ritter should be wrapping up his annual State of the State speech inside the building.
Lawmakers are considering legislation to prevent dispensaries from paying doctors who determine who can become legal medical users of marijuana in Colorado.
Another proposal could limit the number of people a medical marijuana caregiver can supply. Attorney General John Suthers supports that approach.
Medical Marijuana Advocates To Rally At Capitol
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
