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Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived
    #14422607 - 05/08/11 11:38 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

For immediate release, May 8, 2011

Contact: Cannabis Therapy Institute
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Colorado House Bill 11-1261, the THC/DUI bill, has been revived, with only
3 days left in Colorado's 2011 Legislative session. This is sad news for
medical marijuana patients, who will become targets for increased THC/DUI
arrests and prosecution and suspension of their drivers licenses.

HB1261 had been amended by the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 18 to
create a task force to study whether there was scientific evidence that THC
causes impairment. However, on Friday (5/6) the Senate Appropriations
Committee removed the study language from the bill, reverting to the
version of HB1261 that passed the House on March 23.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2011A/csl.nsf/BillFoldersHouse?openFrameset

The bill now needs only to be voted on by the full Senate twice (Second and
Third Readings) to pass. The 2011 Colorado Legislative Session ends at
midnight on May 11. All bills will be decided one way or another by this
time.

Senator Morgan Carroll (D-Aurora), the chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee who sponsored the study language, confirmed to CTI by email that
the original bill was back in play. Senator Morgan Carroll wrote: "It is
true.  They pulled out the amendment we put on in judiciary, it is back to
the original bill, and it appears we do not have the votes (in the Senate)
to kill it."

HB1261 seeks to ban patients from driving privileges by setting a limit on
THC in the blood that most patients will always exceed. Any driver with an
amount of THC over 5 nanograms/milliliter in their blood will be considered
impaired and guilty of DUI per se and subject to loss of their driver's
license and other criminal penalties. This will greatly impact patients,
because many of them will test over that limit due to their chronic use,
but not be impaired.

For example, Westword reporter and marijuana patient William Breathes had
his blood drawn to prove that a patient would be above the 5ng/mL limit
even when sober. His THC blood content, after 16 hours of fasting, was 13.5
nanograms, well over the 5ng limit. Yet he was completely unimpaired.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/04/thc_blood_test_pot_critic_william_breathes_3_times_over_limit_sober.php

*Business Owners and Caregivers Unite to Defeat HB1261*
The Cannabis Therapy Institute is calling for a phone and email campaign to
the General Assembly, lead by every MMC applicant and caregiver in the
state, on behalf of their patients. Since this bill is a direct attack on
the MMC customer base, CTI hopes that MMC business owners who have stayed
out of cannabis politics for the whole year, will use the last three days
of the session to mount a last-ditch campaign to defeat this bill. Please
copy info@cannabistherapyinstitue.com on any emails you or your patients
send, so that you can get full credit for participating in the campaign to
kill HB1261. Patients support businesses that support patients!

Email the General Assembly and ask the to VOTE NO on HB1261 or amend it to
the Senate Judiciary Committee version, which asked for a study to prove
there was scientific evidence that THC causes impairment.

CONTACT GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Click here for spreadsheets and email lists:
http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/advocacy/contact.colorado.state.legislature.html

Make sure you copy info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com on any email
correspondence you send or receive.

TALKING POINTS
- HB1261 is unfair to medical marijuana patients and will force patients
back on prescription medications that do not have nanogram levels and are
not routinely tested for by the police.
- HB1261 will require a "forced blood draw", forcing anyone suspected of
driving under the influence of THC to submit to a blood draw forced by the
state. Currently, alcohol levels can be tested through urine, breath or
blood. But under the THC/DUI bill, the nanogram count can only come from a
forced blood draw.
- The sponsor of HB1261, Rep. Claire Levy (D-Boulder) admits that she
cannot point to one single accident caused solely by marijuana and that the
research on setting a nanogram limit as evidence of impairment is "all over
the place."

WATCH LIVE ONLINE
HB1261 is scheduled for a debate on the floor of the Senate on May 10,
starting sometime after 9am.  You can watch live video:
http://www.coloradochannel.net/

GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOME PAGE
http://www.leg.state.co.us/

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP MEETING
Wed., May 11, 2011
Casselman's Bbatman returnsar and Venue
2620 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
Legalize 2012 Monthly Networking Meeting
Medical Marijuana Legal Panel
7:00pm to 9:00pm: Legislative Wrapup: The legislative session ends on May
11. Find out what the new laws mean for you. Get the opinions of Colorado's
top attorneys, including Danyel Joffe, Craig Small, Ann Toney, Leonard
Frieling and Rob Corry!
Free and open to the public.


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Phone: 877-420-4205
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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: batman returns]
    #14422632 - 05/08/11 11:43 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Disgusting. No doubt about where this senator gets her campaign funding.


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14422919 - 05/09/11 01:35 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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5-HT2A said:
Disgusting. No doubt about where this senator gets her campaign funding.




Not to be an asshole and call you out, but I think the senator you're talking about was simply the messenger in this instance. She said, (paraphrase) "We don't have enough senators on our side to kill it."

In any case, that's not what matters. I am a resident of this great state, but this is beginning a somewhat slippery slope in empowering the 'justice' (prison) system. I hope that the legislative bodies protect our freedoms.


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: mindspin]
    #14423009 - 05/09/11 02:31 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

wellllll thats downright fucked. they have fuckin PROOF that their ng/mL limit is retarded. how can they just IGNORE FACTS and impose some old as shit GUESSTIMATION limit pulled from their saggy grey haired asses?


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: shopdropper]
    #14423124 - 05/09/11 03:58 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

For example, Westword reporter and marijuana patient William Breathes had
his blood drawn to prove that a patient would be above the 5ng/mL limit
even when sober. His THC blood content, after 16 hours of fasting, was 13.5
nanograms, well over the 5ng limit. Yet he was completely unimpaired.

thats completely fucked.

Im moving to colorado in a week and a half,  and i have dreads down to my mid-back.  they're always going to think im high, and the forced blood draw pisses me off. im going to get it drawn multiple times a week if its as bad as i think it is.

fuck that shit.  after a month my arms would look like im a heroin junkie.  fuck. that. shit.


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived *DELETED* [Re: Amsu Jackal]
    #14423983 - 05/09/11 10:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: mikehauncho]
    #14424066 - 05/09/11 11:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

i can understand where they can think that weed can impair some people's driving limits.
some people it does and others it doesn't, plan and simple.
but there has to be a way to determine if a person is on it rather than it just being in there body system.
THC can last up to a month in some indivuduals.
JUST FUCKING MAKE IT LEGAL YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: Scudreloaded]
    #14424299 - 05/09/11 12:03 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

is fucking ridiculous how this fucking pigs and congress tards keep coming up with this ironically bills still to fucked the ones who CHOOSE a different lifestyle from them. its all tricky puzzle that cant be completed cuz they keep talking some pieces away. Maybe will get to set rules to this motherfuckers in the next realm.  :hypno:  :rules:

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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: LuigisDeathRace]
    #14429839 - 05/10/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

For immediate release, May 9, 2011

Contact: Cannabis Therapy Institute
1-877-420-4205

THC/DUI Bill Killed

The Colorado Senate voted on Monday night to kill HB1261, the THC/DUI bill,
in its entirety, scoring a huge victory for patients nationwide. According
to the Denver Post, the bill cannot be brought up again this session.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18028238

Earlier today, it looked like the bill was sure to pass. Sen. Morgan
Carroll said in an interview today that law enforcement was lobbying
heavily in favor of it. Sen. Carroll didn't think the Democrats had the
votes to kill the bill.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/05/thc_driving_limits_bill_back_william_breathes_blood_test.php

The death of the bill did not come easy, and its last minutes were filled
with high stakes political drama, as law enforcement lobbyists scrambled to
snatch up last minute votes on the Senate floor.

On the first attempt to vote on it, the bill was laid over until the fiscal
note could be presented. This gave the lobbyists more time. The Fiscal Note
was retrieved less than an hour later, and the Senate attempted another
vote on the bill.

First, they voted whether or not to insert the study recommended by the
Senate Judiciary Committee back into the bill, and reject ed the 5 ng
THC/DUI per se law. On a voice vote, the Senate voted to adopt the study
and reject the 5ng THC/DUI per se law.

This amazing reversal of the language was surprising even to the Senate
chair, who said "the chair is in doubt" as to which side won in the voice
vote. The Senate chair then asked the members against HB1261 to stand. The
chair then pronounced, "More than 18 having arisen, HB1261 fails."

About 15 minutes later, there was a last ditch attempt to revive the bill
by Senators Boyd and King by an Amendment from the Committee of the Whole
to reverse the vote that just happened. This time, the chair called for a
roll vote. The Senate voted 20 to 15 not to revive HB1261. So, now the bill
is killed, and cannot be revived any more this session, in any form.

"This is a huge victory for patients, who fought to uphold their rights
with hundreds of letters and phone calls," says Laura Kriho, spokesperson
for the Cannabis Therapy Institute, which led the fight against HB1261.

Kriho credits Corey Donahue, of a group called "Crazy for Justice", for
helping kill the bill. "Corey spent the whole day down at the Capitol today
trying to educate the Senators. His effort was an enormous help," says
Kriho. "The Senate got pressure from everywhere. Thanks to all those who
helped in this effort!"


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Re: Colorado THC/DUI Bill Revived [Re: batman returns]
    #14430132 - 05/10/11 02:38 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

YAY!:laugh:
It amazes me how stupid people can be. But apparently theres more smart people in this battle!:awesomenod:


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