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Colorado Medical-Pot Backers Form Trade Group
Posted by CN Staff on November 12, 2009 at 10:21:26 PT
By John Ingold, The Denver Post
Source: Denver Post
Denver, CO -- A group of medical-marijuana advocates — striving for legitimacy for their still-nascent industry — announced the formation of a new trade group Wednesday.The Colorado Wellness Association, its founders said, will formulate regulations for the state's booming medical- marijuana dispensary business, develop quality-control guidelines to protect patients, produce a regular magazine and perhaps even start an online medical-marijuana commodities market for dispensary owners to purchase their product.
"This industry is growing up," said medical-marijuana attorney Rob Corry, the new group's chairman.The founding of the association is another step by members of Colorado's broad medical-cannabis community in recent months to cast a mainstream light on what had for years been an in-the-shadows business. A group of medical-marijuana patients and dispensary owners in Boulder County have formed a similar group. Advocates have begun to lobby state lawmakers for regulations to better define and protect the industry.Wednesday's announcement came at the offices of Full Spectrum Laboratories, a recently opened Denver company that tests samples of medical-marijuana products and quantifies their potency. The lab not only provides quality-control assurances but also helps patients determine their needed dosage of the drug, lab founder Bob Winnicki said. Snipped Complete Article: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13768533Source: Denver Post (CO)Author: John Ingold, The Denver Post Published: November 12, 2009Copyright: 2009 The Denver Post CorpWebsite: http://www.denverpost.com/Contact: openforum denverpost.comCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on November 13, 2009 at 17:40:53 PT
Reactions Mixed After Breckenridge Legalizes Pot
November 13, 2009URL: http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/4724
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Comment #23 posted by Sam Adams on November 13, 2009 at 17:17:12 PT
great column
excerpt:An exhaustive investigation has revealed that a number of legitimate Boulder businesses are engaged in the sale of narcotics, amphetamines and a number of other dangerous drugs. Some of this drug activity occurs near schools, parks and day-care centers. Some of stores stay open 24/7, and brazenly and openly conclude drug deals in the presence ofminors.A review of police records reveals there have been repeated instances of burglaries and armed robberies at the stores by persons trying to get drugs. A partial list of the offending businesses include: Walgreens, Pharmaca, Safeway and King Soopers.
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Comment #22 posted by The GCW on November 13, 2009 at 16:44:36 PT
More in the Boulder Weekly
US CO: Boulder targets medical marijuana — and heads should roll Webpage: http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-295-boulder-targets-medical-marijuana-mdash-and-heads-should-roll.htmlPubdate: 5 Nov 2009Source: Boulder Weekly (CO)By Paul DanishBoulder targets medical marijuana — and heads should roll
Heads should roll. And for once, let us state whose: David Driskell, executive director of community planning and sustainability.
Charles Ferro, acting land use review manager. Brian Holmes, zoning administrator. Jane Brautigan, Boulder city manager.Messrs. Driskell, Ferro, and Holmes are the City of Boulder bureaucratic cobblers who wrote the 16-page memo on how to deal with medical marijuana dispensaries. Ms. Brautigan is the one responsible for bum’s rushing it to the Planning Board — the hearing is tonight at 6 p.m. at City Hall — and then on to the City Council, where I’m told it’s tentatively scheduled for consideration at next Tuesday’s meeting.The memo is a long list of, what are the words we’re looking for here, ah yes, “options” for “regulating” the dispensaries — or more plainly, for demonizing, delegitimizing, and driving them out of business, up to and including an outright ban.Cont.
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Comment #21 posted by The GCW on November 13, 2009 at 16:38:03 PT
Cover story from the Boulder Weekly
US CO: Recent legal tangles leave medical marijuana dispensaries in hazeWebpage: http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-377-recent-legal-tangles-leave-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-in-haze.htmlAuthor: Jeff Doge & David AccomazzoPubdate: 12 Nov 2009Source: Boulder Weekly (CO)A busy week of legal developments has further muddied the already-murky waters of the law governing medical marijuana dispensaries.Owners of dispensaries in Boulder County and around Colorado have been scrambling to expand their services — adding everything from housekeeping to lawn-mowing — in an effort to conform to a recent court ruling that has modified the crucial definition of the “caregiver.”The Oct. 29 Colorado Court of Appeals decision upheld the conviction of Stacy Clendenin, the Longmont woman who was arrested in 2006 on charges involving the cultivation, possession and distribution of marijuana. Clendenin’s medical-marijuana defense hinged on whether she qualified as a “primary caregiver” under Amendment 20, which Colorado voters passed in 2000.The court ruled that, to qualify as a primary caregiver, “a person must do more than merely supply a patient who has a debilitating medical condition with marijuana.” In defining a caregiver’s “significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient,” the court ruled that such responsibility “involves more than being accountable for just one aspect of a patient’s well-being.” Cont.
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Comment #20 posted by Sam Adams on November 13, 2009 at 12:35:13 PT
question
>>>SWS- is it illegal to operate a smoking cannabis delivery system while stoned?I don't know but I'm about to find out!
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on November 13, 2009 at 12:29:50 PT
RevRayGreen
That sounds good. More good than not.When will the Board say what they are going to recommend?
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Comment #18 posted by Hope on November 13, 2009 at 12:20:51 PT
FoM, comment 10
Light bulbs. Sunrise after a long, long dark night. Daylight. A new day. A bright morning. It is light, it's growing brighter every day, and it is wonderful. It is so good to see this light shining and spreading into even the darkest regions that have rejected it for so long.Glory, Glory Hallelujah!Ok. I'll be calm now. I don't allow myself to get too happy about it all, to protect myself from getting too low when things aren't so great, but joy and relief bubbling over, day after day, is new to this road we've been on.All this smiling at the good news is different than all the grief we've been through over these years.It's getting better.
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on November 13, 2009 at 12:05:32 PT
This article
That testing lab thing seems like a wonderful, worthy service.
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on November 13, 2009 at 12:01:38 PT
Comment 8
Thank you so much, The GCW. That's a great letter.
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on November 13, 2009 at 11:35:09 PT
Sam
These are times of change more then any other time in reform history. Light bulbs are going on everywhere.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on November 13, 2009 at 11:33:10 PT
Fort Collins To Consider MMJ Moratorium
November 13, 2009URL: http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=102990
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Comment #13 posted by Sam Adams on November 13, 2009 at 10:39:48 PT
great stuff
fom thanks for posting those two legalization articles! what a thrill to see California in the US take over the world lead in cannabis legalization!from the Economist:"California, with its network of pot-friendly physicians, offers the most visible evidence of a tentative worldwide shift towards a more liberal policy on drugs. Although most countries remain bound by a trio of United Nations conventions that prohibit the sale and possession of narcotics, laws are increasingly being bent or ignored. That is true even in the United States, where the Obama administration has announced that registered cannabis dispensaries will no longer be raided by federal authorities."
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Comment #12 posted by RevRayGreen on November 13, 2009 at 09:42:04 PT
New Iowa story
this story was in the can bofore the AMA announcement this week.
KCRG Cedar Rapids-Should Iowa Endorse Medical Marijuana?
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Comment #11 posted by runruff on November 13, 2009 at 09:38:58 PT
SWS
SWS- is it illegal to operate a smoking cannabis delivery system while stoned?
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on November 13, 2009 at 05:50:11 PT
Gusciora Applauds AMA Shift On Medical Marijuana
By Michael DeLoreto November 12, 2009(TRENTON) - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Princeton) cheered the American Medical Association's (AMA) decision to change its long held policy regarding the classification of marijuana as a drug with no accepted medical use. The AMA recently adopted a resolution that recommends the federal government review the status of marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance.URL: http://www.politickernj.com/mdeloreto/34946/gusciora-applauds-ama-policy-shift-medical-marijuana
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on November 13, 2009 at 05:31:37 PT
From The Economist UK: Virtually Legal
November 12, 2009URL: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14845095&fsrc=rss
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Comment #8 posted by The GCW on November 12, 2009 at 23:52:48 PT
What about the children? Well....
Cowles, like so many other cannabis prohibitionists asks, “What about the children and youth?” Well, after being lied to, deceived and harmed by America's ignorant cannabis laws, they have done their homework Now, those children and youth of the last few decades are the very people who are voting in large numbers to halt the nonsense. The more cannabis prohibitionists brainwash lies to children and youth, the faster cannabis prohibition will end....Citizens who wish to learn more about cannabis and how cannabis prohibition harms earth, families, public safety, public health, threatens global financial stability, causes violence, diminished rights, causes jobs to be shipped overseas, causes increased prison spending at the expense of education, causes increased alcoholism etc. may start by visiting websites by the Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org, Media Awareness Project http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/ , Cannabis News http://www.cannabisnews.com/ or the endless other sources working to end the senseless cagings. http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20091113/LETTER/911129984/1078&ParentProfile=1055 CommentComing soon to MAP-0-Referred:Webpage: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20091109/LETTER/911089996/1078&ParentProfile=1055
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Comment #7 posted by HempWorld on November 12, 2009 at 17:05:25 PT
OT Hemp Hotel in La Paz Now Open!
$37 Single Room, $49 Double, Per NightBookings and Video on Baja Mexico At Bottom Of 1st Page (after entry):
Hemp Hotel La Paz
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on November 12, 2009 at 16:07:23 PT
CBSNews: Pot Legalization: Already A Moot Point?
November 12, 2009 URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/12/blogs/coopscorner/entry5633651.shtml
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Comment #5 posted by RevRayGreen on November 12, 2009 at 15:33:58 PT
Grassley gets mowed........
down......"Well, not in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s book. Last week, Grassley introduced an amendment to Webb’s bill that would censor members of the Commission from even discussing “The decriminalization of any offense under the Controlled Substances Act or the legalization of any controlled substance listed under the Controlled Substances Act.”
When Jason Clayworth, writer for the Des Moines Register, asked if the amendment would also halt discussion on medical marijuana, Grassley had this to say: “Yes, the extent to which it would be decriminalization, the answer is yes.”
At the urging of fellow senators, Grassley eventually pulled the amendment. Nevertheless, his stance on our failing war on drugs was sent loud and clear: let’s not talk about it."
Grassley on drugs- The Northern Iowan
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on November 12, 2009 at 12:31:37 PT
DPA Conference Comes at a Crucial Moment
Drug Policy Alliance Conference Comes at a Crucial Moment for Drug ReformBy Anthony Papa, AlterNet November 12, 2009URL: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/143889/
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Comment #3 posted by Sam Adams on November 12, 2009 at 11:18:03 PT
colorado
Ah, this is beautiful. This is the Jeffersonian/Libertarian philosophy playing out right in front of our eyes.If consumers want regulated cannabis, they can now buy from vendors that are part of the voluntary association. My guess is that the voluntary regulation will do a FAR better job at delivering cannabis than a government-regulation scheme. Goverment-run schemes deliver schwag. They deliver FEMA New Orleans quality medicine
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Comment #2 posted by runruff on November 12, 2009 at 10:48:41 PT
Oh! The latest!
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/marijuana-1192731-growing-search.html
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Comment #1 posted by runruff on November 12, 2009 at 10:47:47 PT
LEO's make sure illegal pot gets burned!
Lane County will be safer tonight and the LEO's here will sleep better tonight too, [wink wink]!In Oregon we are starving in our budget crisis.Do you really think a profession cynic, such as a cop, will not capitalize on the value of the confiscated herb? Especially when they know all the best contacts!Their costumers are the judges and PA's and other cops and their wives and mistresses who are closet herbalist.
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