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CO MMJ Rules Rewrite Seeks Efficiency, Simplicity
Posted by CN Staff on January 28, 2013 at 05:53:44 PT
By John Ingold, The Denver Post
Source: Denver Post 
Denver -- The idea was promoted as very Big Brother, but in a good way. When Colorado rulemakers drew up regulations for the state's medical-marijuana industry in 2010, they put in a requirement that video-surveillance systems in stores and growing facilities be able to connect to the Internet. The intention was that state auditors — day or night, in their office or on the go — could sit before a computer and remotely monitor every minute detail of a medical-marijuana business to ensure full compliance. Someone would always be watching.
Three years later, the state has quietly acknowledged it hasn't been looking.In a draft of new rules for medical-marijuana businesses, rulemakers have pulled the Internet-connectivity requirement for surveillance systems."It is not technically or financially feasible," state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division spokeswoman Julie Postlethwait wrote in an e-mail.In fact, the entire rule book is being rewritten to make it sleeker, more easily enforced and less ambitious. Postlethwait said experience — plus an executive order instructing all state agencies to improve their rules — prompted the rewrite."It's about figuring out more efficient ways to make it work," said Mike Elliott, the head of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association."We can see it now," he said. "We have a much better idea of what works and what doesn't work."That is a message for another set of rule writers to consider as they create regulations for the state's forthcoming recreational-marijuana industry.SnippedComplete Article: http://www.denverpost.com/news/marijuana/ci_22463392/Source: Denver Post (CO)Author: John Ingold, The Denver PostPublished: January 28, 2013Copyright: 2013 The Denver Post Website: http://www.denverpost.com/Contact: openforum denverpost.comCannabisNews  Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml 
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on January 28, 2013 at 07:23:01 PT
D.C. too.
Along with Hawaii, California, Oregon, Mass, Maine etc., there's also talk about RE-legalizing the superplant in D.C.Marijuana Politics Hit the Nation's CapitolVictory in D.C. would be a symbolic statement, and weed activists have been successful with the initiative process there before.http://www.alternet.org/marijuana-politics-hit-nations-capitol
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