Monday: Denver City Council to Decide Rules For Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 09:06:06 PM EST
Tags: medical marijuana (all tags)

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If you're in Denver Monday night, consider stopping by the City Council meeting.

Here is the proposed ordinance, Council Bill 34, updated Jan. 4 (pdf), for licensing and regulating medical marijuana dispensaries. If adopted,according to Marijuana Policy Project, the regulations would:

enact location restrictions requiring dispensaries to be at least 1,000 feet from any school, child-care center, or other dispensary, with an exception to grandfather in most existing dispensaries;
prohibit patients from using their medicine on site;
limit hours of operation to 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; and
prohibit anyone with felony convictions in the last 5 years (including marijuana-related felonies) from opening a dispensary.

The regulations would not establish limits on the amounts of marijuana plants dispensaries can cultivate, which means cultivation operations would only be subject to existing zoning regulations. [More...]

Details and instructions for attending the hearing are here. Public comment is limited to 2 hours, speakers will be arranged in order of sign-up. There will be a television overflow room where you can watch the proceedings if the seats are gone. You can speak for 2 to 3 minutes. If you want to speak, arrive by 5:30.

The location is: Denver City Council Chambers, 1437 Bannock Street, 4th Floor, Room 451, Denver, Colorado.

Via Marijuana Policy Project:

Please attend Monday’s meeting to tell the council you support reasonable regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries, and voice any concerns you have with the specific provisions.

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The regs... (none / 0) (#1)
by kdog on Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 07:16:04 AM EST

seem kinda silly, but if they make the antis feel better about it I guess its not too much harm...unless you're an ex-felon with a meical marijuana business idea...that one rubs me the worst.

This limiting the employment opportunities of ex-cons has gotta stop sometime, considering our love affair with locking people up.

Pretty moderate, really. (none / 0) (#3)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 07:24:09 PM EST

Based on liquor store regs. I don't really like the no on-site consumption (interactions with others is a positive influence on health and happiness).

I do like the requirements for in-store security and product safety. People deserve a safe environment and product--otherwise it is no different that going down to Civic Center park to score.

Wait until we see what the State legislatures come up. I have a feeling those are going to draconian.


Yeah... (none / 0) (#4)
by kdog on Sun Jan 10, 2010 at 06:14:13 AM EST

nothing we can't live with, just wonder what the big deal is...like the 1000 ft. thang, where I grew up kids would walk past 1,2,3,4 bars on the way to school and back.

The no on site consumption is lame...what if someone has serious nausea and needs immediate relief? We're gonne make them needlessly suffer?

But the important thing is the chains are off...


: And I was right... (none / 0) (#5)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 11:40:28 AM EST

The fight to regulate the rapidly growing number of medical-marijuana dispensaries took a drastic swing toward shutting down the hundreds of
Colorado storefronts after state Sen. Chris Romer announced Sunday that a pending pot bill would reflect the wishes of law enforcement groups.
The attorney general, sheriff's organizations and police groups want a five-person limit on the number of patients a pot provider -- dubbed a "caregiver" -- can serve.
Nothing like serving the whims of LE.

Question (none / 0) (#2)
by jbindc on Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 08:05:18 AM EST

[E]nact location restrictions requiring dispensaries to be at least 1,000 feet from any school, child-care center, or other dispensary, with an exception to grandfather in most existing dispensaries

If a dispensary opens in a neighborhood or strip mall, or wherever, and it follows these guidelines, and then a few years later, someone wants to open a child care center in the same strip mall or in their house, do the child care center operators have a duty to make sure a dispensary is more than 1000 feet away? Or do they get to open up and then make the dispensary move? (Same philosophy as with child molestors - they move into a house not near a school and in accordance with the terms of their probation, then a neighbor moves in (not knowing a child molestor lives next door) and opens a day care center in their home, thereby making the molestor automatically violate his probation)

How does that work? Does anyone know?