Broomfield has joined Superior and Vail as the latest cities to ban Medical Marijuana (MMJ) Centers.
The key paragraph from TheDenverChannel.com:
On Tuesday, the City Council voted 8-2 on a ordinance prohibiting businesses that sell or grow medical marijuana as well as ones that make tinctures, baked goods or other “marijuana-infused products.”
An interesting read about the choices that Boulder County has made to restrict MMJ locations. Not as short-sighted or draconian as other municipalities that have restrictions on Medical marijuana locations in Colorado.
The opening paragraph from the Colorado Daily:
County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a new set of land use rules for “medical marijuana centers,†which limit the operations to districts in the unincorporated county that are zoned for business, transitional, commercial, light industrial and general industrial uses.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word:
A new category under the existing retail and personal service use category called medical marijuana center, which includes dispensaries and growing operations, was created. The MMJ centers are allowed only in areas zoned as transitional, business, commercial, light industrial and general industrial.
Get out your tape measure: Medical marijuana centers must stay 1,000 feet from licensed child-care facilities, education facilities with children younger than college age, and drug or alcohol treatment centers. Medical marijuana centers must also stay 500 feet away from one another.
Home grown, that’s the way it should be: The rules still allow MMJ patients to grow in their homes for personal use, and haven’t changed the rules that allow legal caregivers to grow marijuana in their homes.
Wow! Scott McInnis completely misses the boat on Medical Marijuana in Colorado.
According to an article in the Colorado Springs Gazette:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, if elected, would ask President Barack Obama to re-examine lenient federal policies on Colorado’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry.
“If I was governor I would call the president and say, ‘What are you doing?’†McInnis said after a Colorado Springs event Thursday.
Seriously? Has he read the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Has he studied U.S. history? You know, the part about the States forming the federal government? Federal law does not trump State law. He wants to “invite the vampire of Federal Government” into the people’s house? Wow, just wow. One would expect him to say just the opposite, to tell the Federal government to butt out of Colorado business.
You know, Amendment 20 of the Colorado Constitution that serves as the cornerstone to Medical Marijuana rights in Colorado. But according to McInnis, “The reason it all started is because of Obama.”
Huh?
Perhaps McInnis should read this article from Cannabis News which clearly makes the point that medical use as defined by Amendment 20 means the acquisition, possession, production, use, or transportation of marijuana or paraphernalia. Banning dispensaries is clearly not in the spirit of Amendment 20.
Update: Perhaps McInnis needs one of these Yes We Cannabis T-Shirts?