Medical Marijuana Public Hearings Scheduled
Public Hearings regarding Douglas County’s Zoning Resolution Amendments for Medical Marijuana Facilities will be heard by the Douglas County Planning Commission on Monday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the County Commissioner’s Hearing Room and by the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m., also in the Commissioner’s Hearing room. Public testimony will be taken at both meetings. The hearing room is located at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock.
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All of the County’s staff involved in this project should be commended for their important work and cooperation with the municipalities in the counties to ensure a consistent approach that will work in harmony with each other. I think more citizens would have provided feedback had their been more media coverage on this topic, or mass email notices issued by the county. I hope the county commissioners staff will send out a media alert and mass email about this proposal being heard by them at the 4/13 meeting.
The Sheriff’s Public Safety Advisory Council has already issued a Resolution in support of the DEA raid in Highlands Ranch and should also be addressing this zoning topic at their next meeting too.
Amendment 20 was a sheep in wool’s clothing – it was horribly written, on purpose, to allow enough wiggle room to allow its creeping into full legalization of marijuana. The only viable long-term solution is a 2-prong approach: (1) A petition drive to put up a ballot proposal to repeal Amendment 20; (2) A simultaneous petition to put up a ballot proposal for a replacement medical marijuana amendment that is more precisely drafted by a consortium of interested parties who are not corrupted by their financial or political ties to a for-profit or complete legalization of marijuana lobby and thoroughly vetted and supported by Colorado law enforcement, municipalities, counties, and the Colorado Medical Society.
While I believe that Amendment 20 was passed by the people of Colorado due to their spirit of compassion for those individuals suffering with truly debilitating and serious medical conditions, I believe the advocates and lobbyists for Amendment 20 sold a bad product that should be recalled, as it has resulted in a situation that was never intended. The dispensary model was never approved by the citizens of Colorado, and the current state assembly is developing legislation that would authorize that model in contradiction to the caretaker model approved in Amendment 20. Their removal of the “opt-out” provision of HB 1284 is a slap in the face to the citizens of Colorado, and that should not been forgotten in November.
Korynparker, Sorry, but I’m going to take exception to your blog. All the zoning board did was to recommend that we keep dispensaries and grow operations out of sight and therefore out of mind. It did not appear to me that they had done the necessary research that should have been required prior to making their decision. They didn’t even recognize that a dispensary and a grow operation were two seperate things, even though it was pointed out by a doctor who spoke out at the meeting. Then, when it was all said and done, one member of the board didn’t even vote at all! How in the world can you abstain in a vote of that magnitude?
You say Amendment 20 was a sheep in wool’s clothing? (That’s funny, because all sheep are in “wool’s” clothing!) The fact that the law was poorly written is valid. However, you go on to say that it was intentional. Do you know that to be fact or is this just intended to be an inflamatory statement like the rest of your blog? What are you afraid of? If you would do your research, you would easily discover that MMJ is an extremely safe and wonderful drug that should be available to anyone who needs it, and that decision should be made by a doctor and his or her patient.
More than 16000 people die in this country each and every year due to overdosing on asprin and asprin type medications. (not to mention the people who die of other medications) In all of history, the number of people who have reportedly died as a result of a marijuana overdose is zero. Are you aware that there are German scientists who have discovered that by injecting certain cannaboids (found inside of marijuana), directly into a lymphoma (cancer) tumor, that they can not only stop the growth of the tumor, but that they can effectively kill these tumors? Our researchers and scientists can’t even test this plant because it is considered a Schedule 1 narcotic. There have been more than 15,000 papers written by researchers world-wide on the benefits of MMJ and yet, you think Ammendment 20 is a bad deal for Colorado.
There are currently 14 states that have legalized MMJ with many more voting on the issue this November. California has had MMJ for many years and is in fact going to have an issue on the November ballot that if passed, will legalize Marijuanna for ALL adult users for both medical and recreational users..
Can this drug be abused? Certainly! Should it be used by developing children? Absolutely not. (unless prescribed by a doctor!) However, you can say the same thing about alcohol and tobacco. We know that those items are harmful, yet we turn our heads so that big business can continue to profit. The benefits of Marijuana more than outweigh the risks. It’s time to realize that prohibition does not work. It’s time that the truth be told. It’s time to recognize that even the AMA has decided to get behind this issue and recommend it’s use. It’s time that we allow doctors to prescribe treatments and medications that they believe in. It’s time to recognize that AARP has done a nation-wide survey and discovered that 74% of the population is in favor of legalizing marijuana. It’s time to actually educate ourselves as to the facts of this issue. It’s just time.