Colorado Board of Health votes 6-3 to kill 5-patient limit for caregivers

Freedom_User · 07-21-2009, 04:57 PM

Colorado Board of Health votes 6-3 to kill 5-patient limit for caregivers

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(Denver Post) A proposal that would have effectively shut down medical-marijuana dispensaries was rejected Monday night by the Colorado Board of Health.

In addition to voting down a plan to limit medical-marijuana caregivers to five patients each, the board also refused to require that caregivers help patients with daily activities. The board did, however, agree to changes meant to prevent fraud — and left the door open to revisiting the cap on patients another time.

The decision, which came after 12 hours of testimony and deliberations, was met with a loud cheer from the 50 or so people remaining in the audience on the Auraria campus, which had numbered 500 at the start of the day. People stood up, jumped up and down and screamed.

Opponents of the changes, particularly the proposal to cap the number of patients a caregiver could have at five, said the proposals would have potentially cut off access for about 7,630 Coloradans registered as patients who can legally use the drug. Currently, caregivers sometimes take the form of dispensaries serving hundreds of patients.

This is a huge victory for the movement! Congratulations to all the activists in Colorado working so hard to protect medical marijuana patients. This shows you the good that can happen when 500 of us stand together and speak truth to power. Who knows how that vote would have turned out of those board members weren’t facing patient after patient telling them that without dispensaries, they’d have to support a criminal in a black market (a black market that shouldn’t exist and a salesman who shouldn’t be called a criminal, that’s a point for another time.) Dispensaries are safe today on the Front Range thanks to people like you who stand up for their rights.

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Congratulations to all the medical marijuana users in Colorado!!!

runamukk · 07-21-2009, 07:47 PM

great news

**dirtbomb** · 07-21-2009, 08:58 PM

I like it when sanity prevails for a change.

Maximus · 07-21-2009, 08:59 PM

America, fuck yeah! Comin again to save the motha fuckin day yeah!

DoobieBrother · 07-22-2009, 12:29 AM

haha, no doubt, Maximus. This makes me wanna pump my fist in the air and let out a nice victory cry.

I love it!

Lpwn_Ranger · 07-22-2009, 02:49 AM

+1 for Colorful Colorado!
Sometimes it's not too bad living in Denver.

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DoobieBrother Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 351 Grams: 3,266.47 Thanks: 161 Thanked 154 Times in 96 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	haha, no doubt, Maximus. This makes me wanna pump my fist in the air and let out a nice victory cry. I love it! __________________ We must do everything we can to keep Republicans out of office. If they ever regain majority, Republicans will erase everything we've worked for and put us right back where we started.

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