[iBogart]

Reduced plants counts, chemical markers to track plants, and home and business inspections by the state, our fight for our right is hardly over.

Maine MMJ patients, store sue state over inspections of patients’ homes, stores



The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — The owners of a medical marijuana shop and two medical marijuana users are suing to stop Maine from implementing new medical marijuana regulations next month.

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court targets a new rule that allows the state to provide same-day inspections of medical marijuana providers and to inspect a user’s home with a day’s notice.The lawsuit contends such warrantless searches violated the Constitution.

The rules are due to go into effect on Feb. 1.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Ricker Hamilton are critical of the leeway granted to medical marijuana providers.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday by Justin Olsen and Nancy Shaw of New World Organics in Belfast and two patients, a cancer victim and an injured military veteran.

https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/1...lawsuit/97144/

[iBogart]

Chemical bio markers to track cannabis by law enforcement coming to Colorado?

SB18-029

Development of Marijuana Tracking Technology

Concerning the development of marijuana tracking technology.

Session: 2018 Regular Session

Subjects: Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement
Higher Education
Liquor, Tobacco, & Marijuana

The bill requires the institute of cannabis research at Colorado state university - Pueblo (institute) to develop marijuana tracking technology (technology). The technology must include an agent that is applied to a marijuana plant, marijuana product, industrial hemp, or industrial hemp product and then scanned by a device. The scan, at a minimum, would indicate whether the marijuana or hemp was cultivated, manufactured, or sold by a licensed marijuana business or registered hemp cultivator. The institute shall select a vendor to develop the technology. After the technology is developed, the state licensing authority must be satisfied that the technology provides an effective means of tracking marijuana. After the state licensing authority determines the technology is an effective means of tracking marijuana, it shall promulgate rules that require the technology to be used by licensed marijuana businesses, and the commissioner of the department of agriculture shall promulgate rules that require registered industrial hemp cultivators to use the technology. The technology that scans the marijuana must be made available to law enforcement and the department of revenue.

The bill clarifies that the gray and black market marijuana enforcement grant program could award grants to law enforcement agencies to purchase the marijuana scanning technology.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-029

[TychoMonolyth]

Guess your war's not over huh?

[Gypsy Nirvana]

WTF!.....Sheeesh, whatever will they come up with next to complicate the whole legalization process with added potential criminality?

....And this you can be sure of. Whatever 'tracking technology' for cannabis is developed, some bright spark will find a way to get around that system. The only good use for it would be if you lost your bag, and could somehow track it down before someone else toked it all up. Kinda like the way you could find your own phone (some people track their kids and pets too) via GPS just in case they get lost....

[purplepassion]

Maine is now lost in a sea of lobbyists, our cg store is also pushing a lawsuit. Ours is against the monopolies created by the state with dispensary awarding. There are only 8 licenses, it's been 8 years since they've been issued and the program grew by over 58,000 patients and 3000 caregivers since then. Maine's going Overgrow or Die as an ethos. Exciting times here

[theJointedOne]

That is horrible.

God speed, truly.

[dank.frank]

OVERGROW PROHIBITION. OVERGROW REGULATION.



dank.Frank

[p0opstlnksal0t]

In Maine you can still be a mmj card holder and be unregistered correct? I'm glad I haven't applied for any cg or mmj status yet

[iBogart]

I know this will sound overly paranoid, but I get the sense that after they kill the black market, they're going after the plant using all sorts of ungodly technology.

Ok, imma put the pipe down for the rest of the night.

[FunkBomb]

I recently read that medical patients in the states of Hawaii and Pennsylvania have to turn in their firearms or face charges. With all this Orwellian madness the black market is not going anywhere but up.

-Funk