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Denver Medical Pot Dispensaries Apply for Licenses
Posted by CN Staff on February 08, 2010 at 14:42:28 PT
By The Associated Press
Source: Summit Daily News
Denver --  Medical marijuana dispensary owners lined up before 7:30 a.m. Monday to apply for operating licenses.Penny May, Denver's director of excise and licenses, said her office had processed 22 licenses by 11:30 a.m., with many more to go. May said as of a week ago, 477 sales tax licenses had been issued to medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver.
The application includes a background check with fingerprinting. Owners pay a $2,000 application fee, the cost of the background checks and a $3,000 annual license fee, and must not have have been convicted of a felony or served a felony sentence in the last five years. If the application is denied, the $3,000 license fee will be refunded.Any person who manages or owns at least a 10 percent share of a dispensary must apply for the license in accordance with a City Council ordinance passed last month. All medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver must submit applications by March 1 to continue operating legally.Olga Skuratovich, who owns the Metro Cannibis dispensary, said she thinks the fees are a little high. For comparison, it costs about $3,000 to $4,000 to obtain an alcohol license in Denver.“I think a lot of people who are just starting out and who don't have really a lot of financial freedom are not going to be able to be in this business because of the cost,” she said.According to the ordinance, only those dispensaries that have been operating since before Dec. 15 and apply for a license by March 1 will be allowed to operate in a residential area or within a 1,000-foot vicinity of a school, child care establishment or other medical marijuana dispensary.The ordinance also sets minimum requirements for security at the dispensaries and requires a floor plan to comply with other recent regulations.“The regulations change daily, really, so you never know what to expect,” Skuratovich said.Source: Summit Daily News (CO)Published: February 8, 2010Copyright: 2010 Summit Daily NewsURL: http://drugsense.org/url/xmnLKfQQContact: http://drugsense.org/url/yBSkElsLWebsite: http://www.summitdaily.com/home.phpCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml 
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on February 08, 2010 at 15:20:53 PT
I just came to post this story...
This is interesting if it's still regulated to be non-profit. If it's non-profit, the cost of thousands of dollars will be passed onto the consumer and it's wierd because cannabis should not be so expensive.It's also interesting that a person has to pay thousands and can not be allowed to make profits while a person may make profits if they sell deadly booze.And what's going to happen when RE-legalizing cannabis gets on the election ballot again? Will dispensaries owners be against RE-legalizing cannabis because it threatens their business and investment? It's all tweaked. My Father would be happier if We would all simply love one another and leave people alone. Leave sick people alone. Leave people alone who come home after work and smoke a pipe. Then cannabis would be safe from rapists.And isn't that what's going on? People and government are raping and abusing the plant cannabis.
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