Marijuana: Englewood MMCs not serving minors, but many bars, restaurants did

Sergeant Contos's quotes about being trained to know if a person is under the influence of MMJ is ironic since Englewood just passed a new law to ban MMJ from being kept in the passenger area of a vehicle.  Englewood claimed they needed another tool to prosecute drivers who may be impaired, since the cops could not tell if they were impaired or not.

Englewood is overstepping their home rule powers to place restrictions on a state issue.  These restrictions are in direct violation of Amendment 20.  I will not be surprised when they lose another major court case against the ACLU.  They lost a multimillion dollar case when they tried to destroy the Alice in Wonderland mural at Heading West.

This new laws applies to everyone passing through Englewood and can be punished with 360 days in jail and a $1000 fine.  It only bans MMJ from the passenger area .... Apparently, as long as I am still coherent, my valium and morphine pills can be in the passenger seat beside me or dribbling down my chin without consequences.

Very nice point. The biggest threat to the sale of marijuana from Colorado dispensaries to minors is definitely bootlegging. I believe last I saw, the number of minors with their red card is around 30. And that is parentally regulated(or is supposed to be). Therefore, the kids who decide they want marijuana, and don't have a black market dealer, would either have to ask someone they know with a red card to buy it for them, or stand in front of the dispensary and 'bootleg' - ask strangers to purchase the product for them. Bootlegging works great for alcohol. Unsuspecting drunks, with an offer of a couple of virtually free beers, are much more likely to stop and help the kid than a patient going to a Colorado dispensary for medicine. As far as store owners selling to minors, the camera equipped(by law) front check-in lobby that virtually every Colorado dispensary has between the front door and the medicine room prevents any of that activity. Unlike a bar or liquor store, where the bartender/liquor store attendant is generally your unsupervised credential checking secretary who can decide not to ID you for whatever reason.Once again, great article, keep up the good work!! 

The awesome thing about Ms Roach moving to a community that banned dispensaries means that the grows and dispensing is now happening throughout that community. There is probably a caregiver within 150 ft of her house and across the street from the school her kids are going to go to.

This is the road to making all hydroponic set ups including tomato and oragano will be illegal. I know that the DEA has gone into illegal grows that do produce mold. Try and explain that to the MMED when they audit you. I suppose that the anti-cannabis zealots probably think we are also using miracle grow for our ferts!!!!

Simply AMAZING the ignorance involved here.

Everybody needs to contact their representatives both state and federal and tell them to back off. We all need to unite to stop the BS!!!!!

Anti-drug lobbyists are more of a danger to MMC's than anything else.

http://www.republicreport.org/... 

Ya know I've always wondered ever since I was a little kid.... If drinking and driving are illegal... Why are there parking lots in bars...?  

What's to stop the local constabularies from parking within sight of a bar parking lot, recording the time of patron entry and exit into and out of a bar, and then pulling over the driver of said vehicle on reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause...? 

I say save the children and serve them. if it wasn't for medical marijuana my son would be dead. what about the save the children. that is what I'm trying to do save my child and the hundreds of thousands of other children that can benefit from cannabis!

In addition these same bars and restaurants continue to enable impaired drivers on the road.  More than ever, people continue to drive up to these places, go in, get impaired, then drive off.  Yeah, I know about the DUI laws, but they don't seem to be working.  Check you local news for more information.

So wait now. Wawawawawa waaaaaaaaait. Cannabis and all of it's history of NOT killing people and by all means actually being healthy for you, you know with the CB1 and CB2 and and he whole endocannabinoid system and all. Our symbiotic relationship with cannabis can only be beneficial. Anyway, prohibitionists beat the 'oh what about the children? who's going to save the children?' drum every chance they get and man oh man if you're ever caught with drugs and minors anything, anywhere you are done. Straight to jail, do not pass go and do not collect $200. To the pokey with ya. Nighty night, keep your butthole tight. Right? But now if I were to sell alcohol, you know, alcohol? The drug that kills what...just under 100,000 American citizens every year and is directly linked to about 70% of all homicides and domestic violence in the US. Oh Alcohol, you've been bad. But sell something addictive and deadly to minors and you get what?, a fine? loss of license? really? that's really it? No jail time? Pardon my language here but WHAT THE MOTHERFUCK!!??(face palm). Oh mama are we as a society in some serious trouble. Bless and be well all.

Josephhttp://303organics.com/  

I've been making this point for months, but I'm glad you got around to covering it, MR.

Thanks, as always, for weighing in. ;)

"They could have repercussions that range from a suspended probation type of sentence all the way up to the most extreme, revocation of their license."

Does anybody know the penalty for an MMC selling cannabis to someone without a license?  I'm pretty sure the "most extreme" penalty for the alcohol crowd is the "least extreme" penalty for MMCs. 

Michael, you hit this one out of the park.  Excellent work, my friend.  Great work by Englewood on their due diligence and by publicizing the businesses that sold alcohol to underage consumers.   Keep up the great work!

¡Claro que sí!