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mcmanusj84
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Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program
#13267544 - 09/29/10 11:00 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25217585/detail.html
DENVER -- Colorado is proposing a first-in-the-nation system to track medical marijuana "from seed to sell," a state spokeswoman said.
State regulators propose a network of video surveillance systems where agents can remotely monitor medical pot farms, patient purchases, even the baking of marijuana brownies, said Julie Postlethwait, spokeswoman for the state Department of Revenue's new Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division.
The goal is to prevent people from using forged medical marijuana patient cards and to swiftly track down pot contaminated with mold or tainted marijuana food products and oils, she said.
"We want to protect the patient. This is medicine," Postlethwait said.
"This in the long run legitimizes and helps the industry," she added. "They're caregivers. They want to provide the best quality medicine out there."
Yet, medical marijuana advocates say the all-seeing surveillance system smacks of Big Brother watching patients and worry it will drive up the cost of pot for patients living on fixed incomes.
"There is no conceivable justification for this system," said Robert Chase, a leader of the Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers. "It does beyond the systems that we use to control opiate narcotic drugs, which are demonstrably much, much more dangerous."
"There are valid concerns about the Big Brother issue," Chase said.
He cited a state proposal to require cannabis to be transported in tamper-proof containers and make pot grower and dispensary employees provide fingerprints at each transfer in the supply chain.
"It's a highly intrusive process of having to give fingerprints and being under constant video surveillance. It invokes George Orwell's '1984,'" Chase said.
"The whole thing is preposterous," he said.
The state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division was created by legislation to strengthen the growing industry's oversight. It was passed by lawmakers earlier this year and signed into law by Gov. Bill Ritter Gov. on June 7.
The agency has formed a working group comprised of medical marijuana industry leaders, caregivers, patients, doctors and law enforcement officials who are drafting proposed rules to implement the new law, Postlethwait said.
The state views the surveillance proposal for medical marijuana as similar to its electronic monitoring of high-security casino cashier rooms.
The public can attend, but not address, the Medical Marijuana Work Group's hearings on Oct. 4 and Oct. 21 at 1881 Pierce St. in Lakewood, Postlethwait said.
The Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation will provided same-day broadcasts of the work group meetings at www.commr.org.
The public can speak on the draft medical marijuana enforcement rules at hearings, yet to be scheduled, later this year, Postlethwait said.
You can read the initial draft rules at the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division website. Link: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/Rev-Enforcement/RE/1251575119584
The percentage of people who use MMJ for illegal purposes like dealing has to be extremely low. I would imagine that the vast majority of patients are people who are either chronically ill or have a debilitating condition. Even if some of the patients are coming up with fake or over-exaggerated medical claims, they are still likely affecting only themselves. This is absolutely ridiculous and just another attempt to keep tabs on those of us who need/enjoy medicating alternatively
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Scudreloaded
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: mcmanusj84]
#13267768 - 09/29/10 11:44 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hmm.... Well first off. I'm from colorado, and though i've recently moved i have witnessed the growth of medical MJ cards. They're fairly easy to get, but i agree that they should be easy to get. I don't agree with this tracking program. I mean we don't track people whom get prescribed vicodin, or xannax or even ambien and the difference being that those are pills compared to a herb should mean nothing. Most caregivers i've meet have been keeping there product good quality, and not letting "poor-er batches" out. it just gets thrown away mostly only to be replaced with good product. many of the reasons people are getting the medical cards, though i wouldn't say are "debilitating issues" are still medical issues that pot seems to resolve for them. There are rules and things in place so you can't just pay a dr. to get a medical card and you get it. Most places are very legit... as for what amounts are getting thrown onto the black market..well if this substance was legal there wouldnt be a black market for it. It's something prohibition has generated, not the legalization of it. I've seen very few fake medical MJ cards because REAL ones are easily obtained, if one goes through the right steps. Most places keep very good track of there patients already. ...When our state first started getting medical MJ cards a few people told me they worried that it was just to get all the pot smokers on a list, and that eventually they'd just knock on there doors and get em. essentially "HERES MY ADDRESS, I SMOKE POT, COME GET ME" well it never turned into that. it became a very legitimate thing. this is some people's LEGITIMATE source of income, and why is the government trying to incur on something? do they not just grasp the concept? Doesn't this infrigne on the dr. and patiented privacy rights we all have? California dosen't have this. I'll agree some regulations should be in place if a state wants to do medical MJ via cards instead of just legalization, but not like this.. EPIC FAIL to the person who wants this.....There should possibly be something similar to the people who go into restaurants to see if there up to code, and if they aren't they're given a short amount of time to get up to code in order to be able to sell food. maybe something similar for weed? I'm not sure...But this tracking system is not the answer.... full legalization is within reach if people would PUT THE PIPE DOWN AND VOTE. Reading this sickened me... people are gunna smoke pot anyways..this is just a way for people who don't smoke/understand weed to try and control it.... ...lol.....there is no control....ever...theres too many variable in too many aspects of life to even count....just legalize it already...come on..even our presidents have smoked weed.... dumbass people out there never cease to amaze me
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: Scudreloaded]
#13267791 - 09/29/10 11:50 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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amen
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Scudreloaded
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: Shroom Queen]
#13268070 - 09/30/10 01:18 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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as i smoke a bowl lol
-------------------- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: Scudreloaded]
#13268147 - 09/30/10 01:45 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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omg wtf there taking employe fingerprints, guess we wouldnt want this product to fall into the wrong hands ~spark spark puff~
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: auronlives69]
#13268856 - 09/30/10 08:23 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Green_T said: Colorado to Come up With Marijuana Tracking System 09/30/2010 - Top News.co.uk
In order to exercise a check on the black marketing of huge amounts of pot, Colorado has expressed desire to establish a medical marijuana tracking system. It would be the first state in the country to take such an initiative.
As per the tracking system, there will be lot of interventions to curb the illegal use of the drug. The state could be fitted with video cameras and computers to notice the trade of pot. Taking fingerprints of patients consuming marijuana is also one of the plans. Another plan is to use radio-frequency devices to keep a check on pot. No specific plans have been decided so far otherwise.
The setting up of a medical marijuana tracking system has raised fear among patients and marijuana advocates. Since 2000, medical marijuana has been legalized in Colorado, but with the upsurge in the marijuana dispensaries, the lawmakers have been forced to make new regulations.
Matt Cook, the Senior Director for medical marijuana enforcement for the Colorado Department of Revenue, stated that as per the new regulations, no one would be allowed to buy marijuana in a bogus way through patient card and will be permitted the same after getting verification from the state, which would be done through video surveillance.
Green_T note: The ACLU is going to have a shit over this.
Follow up story taken from another thread that was deleted.
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: Wronguy]
#13269007 - 09/30/10 09:06 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Welp....everyone has been begging for legalization and regulation! Careful what you ask for....you just might get it! There is either going to be a mass exodus out of that state or it`s all going back underground.
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Re: Colorado Plans Medical Marijuana Tracking Program [Re: BlueIndian]
#13272319 - 09/30/10 08:38 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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sigh... every where there is medical mj, it seems they are putting in the framework for a big tobacco-esque industry. What I mean by that is small farmers are basically non-existent due to all the red tape. I wonder how long til big pharma and others really start trying to take over our industry too. Obviously no one will ever touch it while still federally illegal, but you can bet the second it's not the game will be on. It's up to us to keep the industry more like the wine industry than big tobacco or big pharma.
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