Colorado Health Department to crack down on patients and caregivers

[JackTheBongRipper]

"Starting Monday, the Colorado Health Department will send out letters to doctors who recommended the elevated plant counts and the patients who benefit, requiring them to provide more documentation on the need for the extra plants." Here's the link... http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/ci_25443826?source=rss

 

[BadDog40]

The Dept of Health is now nothing more than lackeys for dispensaries. MMIG and their lobbying group has been pushing for years to kill off caregivers, these are the people that helped Romer write 1284 and now this. Out of the more than 80 people that spoke at the hearing Friday only one spoke in support of these new regulations, a dispensary owner. This is their idea of legalization....put anyone in jail who they feel are a competition to them. They would love nothing more than to kill off Amendment 20 altogether and that is their ultimate goal.

 

[SnapsProvolone]

Just look at how alcohol was overegulated by taxation after prohibition ended.

Money always protects other money. It's how our governnrnt was designed to function. Big tobacco is a prime example.

The democratic government we have is able to listen to those with money to lobby.

 

[lvtokerr]

This should have been posted earlier so people knew to show up.

 

[SnapsProvolone]

Woulda been pointless. It's just another step towards eliminating personal growers right to grow. They'll get there in time.

 

[joe macclennan]

It's just another step towards eliminating personal growers right to grow. They'll get there in time.

YUP! nationwide......unfortunately

some folks would rather think the world is still flat

 

[thay5212]

Unfortunately the people who get hurt the most are the people who aren't in a position to do anything about it. This is a sad, sad country we live in, where fighting injustice requires capital beyond the scope of possibility for many. Innocent? oh, well ok that sounds good, we'll believe you as long as you have 20k to throw away for lawyer/court fees.

I see no reason to even bother with a card, its just another joke set in place to give us the illusion of enhanced freedom to use the medicine we choose to, why give up any slight bit of privacy that I do have left. I'm going to use it, and grow however much I need for myself no matter what some scum bag in a $5,000 suit tells me I can or can't do because he has a financial interest one way or the other.

The whole system is a bone on a rope.

I say we just fund a lobbying group for equally ridiculous things, such as limiting the number of cashews in planter's mixed nuts to 3 whole and 3 half cashews.

Yes, that's fucking stupid, so is a stranger telling me or my doctor to prove my needs for medication, in an effort only to push me to have to purchase it at already high prices with high taxes as well.

Proof for the need for the billions of dollars yearly spent on opiate painkillers that are passed out like candy by doctors please.

Grow on.

- Thay

 

[mountaingirl2]

they5212. That was pretty damn funny. I have been growing for 5 years and I cannot even count how many times I have been legal and then the next day I am a criminal. I don't even keep track anymore. Jail is not an option though as I do not think they will let me bring my cats, I'm pretty sure sushi is not on the menu and Orange is not my color. Just gotta laugh. It will continue to be a situation where they (establishment) tries to screw us and we go around them) Look at it as a game. The only guarentee here is that once the pharmaceutical companies figure out how to patent and make money on our beautiful plants, it will be taken off of the list as a schedule 1 drug.

 

[GreenPeak]

patents are already held by several pharmaceutical companies and even our own government, they have had them since the late 90's.

 

[SnapsProvolone]

So, I've spoken to a few of the more reputable prescribing physicians out here in Colorado. They are still handing out high plant counts.

They tell patients "If you get a letter from the state to call them." They say that a copy of this letter is sent to them. What the letter would say, nobody had an answer.

There was mention of a class action suit due to unconstitutionality. They cite the position "physician is the one qualified to determine necessity, not the state"

 

[ttystikk]

So, I've spoken to a few of the more reputable prescribing physicians out here in Colorado. They are still handing out high plant counts.

They tell patients "If you get a letter from the state to call them." They say that a copy of this letter is sent to them. What the letter would say, nobody had an answer.

There was mention of a class action suit due to unconstitutionality. They cite the position "physician is the one qualified to determine necessity, not the state"

This is the single most SANE idea I've heard. You mean, actually let the doctors do their jobs? Without telling them HOW? Revolutionary!