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Medical Pot Shops May Have To Wait A Year Before New Requirements Become Clear
Sep 2nd
CENTRAL CITY, Colo. — Don Boring owns a grocery store, a liquor store and now, a medical marijuana dispensary. The main difference among them is that he has to produce his own pot inventory.
Colorado set a Sept. 1 deadline for dispensaries to show they grow at least 70 percent of the pot they sell – the first requirement of its kind in the 14 states, along with Washingon, D.C., that have medical marijuana laws. Lawmakers added the requirement to Colorado’s new law in hopes of keeping small-time caregivers from growing pot in their basements to sell to dispensaries. More >
Couple In Court On Charges That Growing Medical Pot Amounts To Child Abuse
Aug 25th
Two caregivers charged with felony child abuse for supposedly growing medical marijuana in the house where their kids lived are having their preliminary court hearing today.
Joseph Lightfoot and Amber Wildenstein were each charged with one count of child abuse for operating a marijuana grow operation in their home in which three children Ń aged 7, 9 and 11 Ń also lived. Although Lightfoot and Wildenstein are both medical marijuana cardholders and are permitted by law to grow a select amount of marijuana, it is a felony to grow the plant if kids are around. A Colorado Revised Statute says that a person commits child abuse if they manufacture a controlled substance Ń which marijuana is still considered Ń on the premise of where a child is found, resides or lives.
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Medical Pot Fees Are Helping The State’s Budget
Aug 23rd
DENVER — Gov. Bill Ritter is using $9 million from medical marijuana registrations to help the state meet a $60 million fiscal emergency.
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New Mexico’s Medical Pot Regulations Threatening Patients’ Access To Marijuana
Jul 17th
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Len Goodman can’t grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.
He is one of just 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for all of the state’s 2,000 registered medical marijuana patients, and his customers routinely wipe out his supply. Once a strain of marijuana is harvested, dried and cured, he sends an announcement that patients can place orders, and the pot is usually gone in 24 hours.
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First Colorado City BANS Medical Pot Dispensaries
Jun 17th
own leaders in Superior passed an ordinance Monday evening prohibiting any medical-marijuana facility from setting up shop in town, becoming the first municipality in Boulder County to ban the dispensaries outright.
Trustees voted 6-to-0 in favor of the ban, which will take effect in about a month. Trustee Debra Williams was absent.
Superior appears to be the state’s second town or city to permanently ban medical marijuana dispensaries since the Colorado Legislature passed a law last month regulating the industry and allowing municipalities to outlaw the facilities. Vail was the first to enact a ban on June 1.
Lawmakers bar cities from banning medical pot
Mar 23rd
DENVER — A House committee wants to bar Colorado communities from banning the use of medical marijuana.
The House Judiciary Committee said Monday communities already have the power to license and zone medical marijuana providers and a ban is unnecessary. Lawmakers said they aren’t sure if the laws apply to home rule communities like Denver.
The committee rejected a proposal that could have allowed veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder to be able to use medical marijuana, saying lawmakers shouldn’t be making medical decisions.
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DEA Chief: ‘We’ll Continue To Investigate Medical Pot Operations We Find Suspicious’
Mar 18th
Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Denver field division of the DEA, lately hasn’t been too fond of the mainstream media. Much of it has to do with how reporters covered the case of Chris Bartkowicz, a Highlands Ranch man who was arrested by DEA agents last month after he revealed his marijuana grow operation on a local news station.
Afterward, Sweetin was quoted as saying, “The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody. They’re violating federal law.” That was enough for some people to label him a rogue agent, one who wasn’t respecting new federal rules regarding state medical-marijuana laws. Since then, Sweetin says folks have filed complaints against him, threatened him with lawsuits, even sent him death threats.
