In the beginning it seemed quite simple.
There were State licensed dispensaries.
There were State licensed caregivers.
There were State licensed folks who were medically allowed to smoke and grow their own.
Then the State pulled out of their ass, a bunch of rules that that make little sense after passing the original medical marijuana law.
In particular, little one horse towns in Colorado were allowed to ban dispensaries; either by vote or just plain arbitrarily banned them.
What did the little one horse towns accomplish:
Other than losing a tax paying business, they accomplished nothing.
I still have my permit to smoke and grow and I can still purchase marijuana from my caregiver.
Sue the state's ass!
Oldcatman
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****Pot Lawyer Suing Colorado Over Regulations.
DENVER -- A prominent attorney who has represented medical marijuana dispensaries and patients in Colorado sent notice to the state's top prosecutor on Friday that he intends to challenge the nation's most sweeping pot oversight law.
Robert Corry, of Denver, has said many of the pot law's requirements are illegal, especially the grow-your-own requirement, which he compares to requiring grocery stores to raise the food they sell. The law governs how pot can be grown and sold, including requirements that dispensaries raise 70 percent of the pot they sell and can't be owned by former drug felons.
"No other business in America has a similar requirement," Corry wrote in his letter, calling the 70 percent mark "arbitrary."
Corry also asks Republican Attorney General John Suthers whether he can defend a law he has complained violates federal drug law and puts state employees at risk of federal prosecution. Suthers has been an outspoken critic of Colorado marijuana law passed last year.
"Given your belief, it would make sense for you to assess at the threshold whether your office would be the proper entity to defend" the drug laws, Corry wrote.
An assistant attorney general for the state, Geoffrey Blue, dismissed Corry's question.
"This office has an obligation to defend statutes passed by the legislature, and we will do so in this case," Blue told Corry in a response letter sent later Friday. Blue wouldn't speculate on Corry's specific objections to the law laid out in a seven-page argument.
"We disagree with your analysis in its entirety, and therefore do not believe there is any room for compromise on the issues you raise," Blue wrote.
If Corry files the lawsuit, it would be the first broad attack on last year's sweeping marijuana oversight laws. Corry served on a state task force charged with fleshing out regulations prompted by the law, but he has remained an outspoken critic of many of the law's provisions.
In particular, Corry has tried twice to challenge local dispensary bans allowed under the law. He also has a lawsuit pending against the city of Castle Rock. Corry argues that towns shouldn't be permitted to shut down pot shops that opened legally.
In a seven-page letter sent Friday, Corry attacks several other provisions of the new law. For example, Corry wrote that limiting caregivers to five patients "will cause needless human suffering."
Colorado's Supreme Court declined a January request by some marijuana advocates to hear arguments on whether parts of those laws violate the 2000 constitutional amendment that made medical marijuana legal.
The Associated Press.
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