Marijuana raid: Feds seized 2,500 plants from Cherry Top Farms after following suspect's truck

This bust had nothing to do with that data base. They were tracking some Asian family for breaking the rules not once but twice. They went to sell to a dispensary and it just so happened that they all got in trouble. However, the dispensary owners were not brought up on charges. They got their goods confiscated but what was that dispensary buying things from an unlicensed group for??? The rules are pretty clear when it comes to center to center purchasing. Also, in the RULES it’s illegal to higher a grower under a contract. They have to be a W2 employee. So there are two things the Center did that are big no no’s in the eyes of Colorado regulation. The center is lucky they are not being brought up on those charges.

Ouch!

I support the Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project, but there is not much else I can do personally about the unconstitutional laws, except to continue to try to counter the torrent of disinformation about the legal status of medicinal cannabis in Colorado coming from our media, elected officials, bureaucrats, and the industry itself.

I agree but what are you planing on doing about it?

So what do you plan to do about this? I'm not an MMIG member just so you know. I would like to hear how you plan to change what they have enacted. Please enlighten me. You seem very educated to the facts and I would really like to hear what you and the others are planning to do about it.

I disagree -- In People v. Clendenin, a single judge (Loeb) on the Apellate Court wrote that "significant responsibility" instead means "responsibilities".  The General Assembly lept at the opportunity to direct the CDPHE to redefine caregivers' responsibility, and on the strength of Judge Loeb's opinion, it and the BOH pretended to require caregivers to perform tasks completely unrelated to the provision of cannabis or the exercise of professional judgment regarding it (somewhat analogous to requiring your doctor to do your shopping for you).  The point about CMMR, Sensible Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation, MMIG, and many dispensary owners is not that they drove the process of writing the unconstitutional laws, but that people and institutions that should have defended caregivers' constitutional prerogative to provide cannabis to patients instead cheered on the General Assembly's frontal assault on our Constitution.  They deserve all the obloquy heaped on their heads and more, and their infamy will not be forgotten as long as people use cannabis in Colorado.

Good luck getting what you want. It will be fun watching you guys try and make that point. They don't produce medicine in peoples basements. Sorry that would have never held up. Good luck though.

Robert, you're right. MMIG could have done more to support caregivers. However, I believe that the actions of the CDPHE and the Clendenin precedent ultimately subsume your argument. If you want to talk about unconstitutional depredations of caregivers, the discussion should start there and not with one lobbying group with limited reach. 

The only way anyone can claim that MMIG, its members, and predecessors did not destroy caregiving is by being totally ignorant of their role during the 2009 and 2010 legislative sessions of the Colorado General Assembly -- they weren't solely responsible, no, but they claimed to represent the medical cannabis community to our craven legislators and signed off on many of the unconstitutional depredations on caregivers; their guilt is great.

David, with all due respect, using MMIG as a straw man for caregiver woes is unfounded. They (MMIG) have no voice at the CDPHE, where restricitive rules are promulgated without  direction from the legislature. They weren't responsible for the Clendenin trial, which is being used as precedent to prohibit caregivers from making any profit off their hard work. They had no hand in the Denver City Council prohibition of caregivers in neighborhoods. 

Do some of their members have issues with the caregiver model? Absolutely, and this is on record. Did they single handedly take down caregivers in Colorado? Sounds like a stretch.

It is all so schizophrenic.  It is difficult to know, EXACTLY, what is allowed under the Constitution as opposed to the new regs.  Ask 3 lawyers - get 3 different opinions.  Get an inspection from one batch of govt lackeys and the next inspection contradicts it. Right here in Colorado we have govt officials trying to trash the caregiver model - with the help of the MMJ Royalty at MMIG - and we have other communities' governments relying on the Caregiver Model to support banning dispensaries.In any case, there are ways to deal with SNITCHES !!!David

Yes.  In the revisionist history favored by "the industry", evil John Suthers was just about to shut down all dispensaries before the General Assembly saved them, but this is a tissue of lies which has no basis in fact.  The issue here is history, not speculation about what might have been.  One thing is certain, and that is that the laws which created the Kafkaesque bureaucracy known as the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division and attempted to eliminate caregiving are unconstitutional.

I'm with you 100% on this one. Who is this ''truth'' guy and why does he think the last two years is so much better than the previous nine. He must be a warehouse owner scared people will leave and start growing good buds again.

TRUTH -  this "So you really think the Caregiver model would have held up forever???" talk is a joke.  Of course the caregiver model is the model "we the people: who lived in Colorado 11 years ago voted for.  It is in our constitution which means, yes, it will most likely remain there forever.  The constitution is the law of the land.  And I'm pretty sure no one is going to invest $250,000 or more to try to petition to have it removed and then run a campaign against sick peoples rights. 

And again, stop touting MMIG lies.  NO ONE has asked for no regulation of any kind ever, at all the hearings on record.  That is something MMIG made up to try to discredit non MMIG member intentions.  People asked that the constitution be respected.  In order to have a business, one needs a retail sales license from the state, just like evry other business in the state.  Caregivers had them and they paid millions into the state coffers for over 7 years according to the sec of states office.