Denver trying to pass ordinance to ban caregivers

[canaguy27]

Gee where's all these lawyers who promised lawsuits after 1284?? Are they are too busy collecting retainers from MMC's??

They are right where they want to be. Who do you think wins with all of this. Their BIG clients that PAY BIG MONEY. Things are going exactly like they want. They don't care about small time caregivers.

 

[tokinafaty420]

All over America............Its just all about the money to these fucks in office.And they are after that money like a hungry dog arent they?

What do you expect? The biggest advocates for MMJ centered the whole thing around the tax benefits to the local and state government. Same with the legalization push out in cali now. Everyone knows these people are after more tax dollars and the mmj advocates used that to their advantage and made it their main point.

 

[j-fly]

A Lawyer's job is too rip people off

 

[SGMeds]

I seem to remember the Corry's in a Westword article talking about suing the state, filing injunctions etc the day after 1284 was passed.

I've heard him speak since... basically said they have to wait until the State takes some form of action that causes harm to a patient/cg/mmc... at which point they can file suit.

 

[SprngsCaregiver]

I've heard him speak since... basically said they have to wait until the State takes some form of action that causes harm to a patient/cg/mmc... at which point they can file suit.

Sounds like a cop out... Havn't they already taken action by forcing caregivers to drop their patients to be compliant?

 

[GreenintheThumb]

I've heard him speak since... basically said they have to wait until the State takes some form of action that causes harm to a patient/cg/mmc... at which point they can file suit.

I can't get a fucking job this is effecting people right now.


And the problem is they're not really banning caregivers (which would be unconstitutional) but they're using zoning to eliminate them. Something that I fear may actually hold up in court.

 

[milehighmedical]

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[GreenintheThumb]

If your address isn't on any of your patients cards are you even legal?

 

[canaguy27]

po box is the way to go.

 

[StrictlyGateway]

If your address isn't on any of your patients cards are you even legal?

ABSOLUTELY!!! PO Box is perfectly fine.

i think this is the same woman that was trying to include all parks, churches, public restrooms, and about anything else she could in the original 1000' rules that denver made. they shot her down pretty quickly back then, not sure why this anti-constitutional bs is getting any airtime at all.

and yea, lawyers need a plaintiff in order to sue.

 

[cobcoop]

http://blogs.westword.com/latestwor...see_residential_grow_limits_as_a_hardship.php

Councilwoman Jeanne Robb, who's behind the plan, denies that and insists that she's open-minded about complaints. But she also feels something needs to be done.

Robb notes that she "supported our regulations for the dispensary model in our commercial areas, and even in some of our mixed use areas, because I thought it would get the growing out of our residential areas -- and I think it's more appropriate to have it regulated in business areas than to have unregulated home grows in our residential areas."

For Robb, this issue came to a head over a grow "just off 7th Avenue in our district. It had 68 plants, and it took me four to five months to finally get it moved out of a residential unit. I went to law enforcement, to the DA, to city attorneys, to building inspectors, and said, 'Why does it take us so long to enforce something that shouldn't be in our neighborhood?' And they said, 'Because everything is so unclear.' And I said, 'We need to have some limits.'"

Amendment 20, the measure that legalized medical marijuana in Colorado, allows a caregiver to grow six plants per patient. That's why Robb settled on a maximum of twelve plants per caregiver in residential areas. "I think that's pretty liberal, and it doesn't seem like a hardship," she says, especially considering that larger grows "create mildew and odor for neighborhoods, and that can be a problem. Police have had seventy complaints from residential grows just since March.

"I'm not saying they're evil, but they definitely impact neighborhoods -- just like someone who has too many dogs. I'm not trying to make a value judgment, but I strongly believe in protecting residential neighborhoods in Denver."