[Bud Spleefman]

Ughhhhh! Apparently something passed this a.m. in the House Appropriations Committee. This is an email I recieved shortly after... not good, at all!

ACTION ALERT:
Patient Rights Under Attack in Colorado

There are now two law enforcement bills working their way through the Colorado state legislature that would seriously harm medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in Colorado. Both of these bills have seen strong support from legislators, both Democrats and Republicans.
Law enforcement bill #1 (SB109) would destroy the confidentiality of the Registry by allowing the government to use patient records to determine "suspicious" activity by physicians. It allocates over $1 million of patient registration fees to prosecute these "suspicious" physicians.
The bill's sponsor, Senator Chris Romer (D-Denver), promised the Cannabis Therapy Institute repeatedly that he would use patient registration fees to create 24/7 access for law enforcement ot the Registry so that police could confirm whether a patient was legal after business hours and on weekends. This has been the #1 patient concern for years and would prevent many patients from being arrested and taken to jail simply because the Registry offices were closed. Instead, Romer wants to use patient fees to prosecute those patients' physicians, allowing unprecedented access to the formerly confidential Registry.
Law enforcement bill #2 (HB 1284) is a 49-page regulatory monstrosity that seeks to eliminate 95% of existing dispensaries. It creates a state medical marijuana licensing board run by the Department of Revenue. Dispensaries would have to get a state license, a local license, and a cultivation license. Dispensaries would be subject to warantless searches of their premises Law enforcement would be able to come in as often as they wanted to count and weigh a dispensary’s cannabis and search through patient records to make sure the dispensary didn’t have "too much". Law enforcement would be able to track patients as well, to make sure they weren't purchasing "too much" medicine. HB1284 would create a new class of law enforcement official, the "medical marijuana enforcment investigator" that would be in charge of these warrantless searches.
Senator Romer, one of the co-sponsors of HB1284, discussed the bills at a meeting of the Medical Marijuana Business Alliance on April 15, 2010 at the Loews Hotel in Denver. His comments were shocking to the audience.
Romer described the new regulatory regime. "The Department of Revenue will regulate it with guns," he said. "Auditors with guns will be in your dispensary every 5 to 7 days" to count and weigh your medicine. Since you will be seeing so much of your auditor, Sen. Romer said, "Your auditor will be your best friend. Yes, he will have a gun, but that will be OK." Romer repeated the phrase "auditors with guns" dozens of times in his 20 minute speech, almost seeming gleeful at the thought. Romer also said that the progress on HB1284 has been stalled because "we’re trying to figure out exactly how many auditors with guns we will need."
The big bombshell fell when Romer was asked how much a state dispensary license would cost. He replied that the fee would probably be around $50,000 a year, maybe more.
This is the future of medical marijuana: the Law Enforcement Model to Medicine. Readers in other states should be wary as well. Law enforcment all over the country will be using Colorado's regulatory regime as a model for their own state's regulations down the road.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Call or email your local House and Sentate Members and ask them to:
VOTE NO ON HB1284 and SB109

House Offices: (303) 866-2904
Senate Offices: (303) 866-2316

Provided as a Public Service by the:

Cannabis Therapy Institute

P.O. Box 19084, Boulder, CO 80308 Phone: 877-420-4205 Web: www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com Email: info@cannabistherapyinstitute. com

More information and email addresses on our website. Please make copies.

Updated April 16, 2010

This could have been printed on hemp paper.

funny how i warned a bunch of peeps of this a long time ago and they all said i was crazy and said it would never go down like this.. who's crazy now fukd up

[Bud Spleefman]

$50,000.00 for a Growers License? It almost sounds like Romer was drunk and being a smart-ass at that meeting! Auditors with guns?!!!! Riiiiiight!

less than four weeks left before you have to start again next year, Romer...
you sly, shit-eating fuckwad

[j-fly]

Fuck the government. Underground Resistance is strong. Its a war. Your either part of the empire, or part of the rebel alliance.

I am going to keep doing what i believe is right regardless of all these stupid bills.

[SnowGro]

Living in a Country that has waged an openly and clearly defined War on me most of my adult life.

"auditors with guns"

QFT.
Off the cliff with the accelerator matted.

[Surrender]

The governor won't sign 1284 without a local option. Expect them to sneak it in at the last minute.

It'll probably be a clause that says towns/counties must vote by next April on how to define and whether to allow dispensaries. All the moratoriums will be extended out to that date, courtesy of the legislature.

Most likely unconstitutional but we'll need a judge or two to agree.

[cobcoop]

Romer is grabbing at straws. Keep your heads up fellas weve come too far.

[funkfingers]

Auditors with guns.. HA! that's just what we need are more government officials with guns.
I know that makes me feel safer knowing their going to be giving a bunch of accountants guns that I'm paying for with my tax dollars.. I think our next goal should be to give the lifeguards at public pools harpoons, bring in those pesky kids during adult swim, that will show em.

[kumplocke]

Oh Bother, where is the KY?