Matt Cook from the Colorado Department of Revenue obviously has no clue about growing marijuana or anything else agricultural related. Cook “We plan to track the entire commodity from seed to sale,” said Matt Cook, senior director of enforcement at the Colorado Department of Revenue. “We will use a Web-based, 24-7 video surveillance system, and we will see virtually everything from the time a seed goes into the ground to the time the plants are harvested, cultivated, processed, packaged, stored.” The new chief of medical marijuana enforcement comes from a background of casino regulation and law enforcement including DEA training.
Experienced caregivers can tell right from this man’s first words about tracking marijuana “from seed to sale”, that he has no experience in marijuana cultivation. The USDA once tried to have a department devoted to certifying produce organic in the US, only to give up the effort as organic is impossible to regulate. Growing cannabis and having the Colorado Department of Revenue be in charge of regulation should prove even more disastrous. Taking care of one medical marijuana garden is difficult, there is no way that the tax man can find the super gardeners who are needed to inspect marijuana gardens, because that guy is already a pot farmer and will never jump in bed with the DOR.
Inspecting marijuana gardens is a no start by default because no reputable cannabis cultivator is going to let random strangers contaminated with mold and pests from other gardens into his / her garden. We admire your ambition to be the world’s biggest cannabis garden manager Matt Cook, but tracking a plant from seed to sale just doesn’t work. Today is the last day of marijuana without regulation in Colorado then it’s back to the good old vigilante days for all the ganja farmers in the high country. Gardeners work from seed to harvest, and the next step sale is someone else’s job. Leave the cultivation to the ganja farmer Matt Cook, you worry about the sales with the other pot clowns. Leave pot be!
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Jul 31, 2010 | Categories:CO MMj Details, Caregiver & Patient, Colorado Marijuana Laws | Tags: 2010, 5 patient limit, amendment 20, caregiver, colorado, cost of marijuana, data, department of revenue, dispensary, experience, HB 10-1284, matt cook, medical marijuana, medical marijuana laws, organic pot, regulation, seed bank, seed to sale, summit county | View Comments
FRIDAY! 420 Colorado day to celebrate the long waited arrival of the ACLU on the pot scene in Michigan. The ACLU finally draws the line on where they will put up a fight for medical marijuana patients’ rights when after over 50 Michigan communities have banned medical marijuana dispensaries and now 2 cities Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills want to ban medical marijuana use all together. You can’t ban a plant and a natural medicine silly clowns.
Organizations like NORML, and Sensible Colorado have been fighting cannabis prohibition for decades, but now seeing the National and larger ACLU getting involved could be a major step up in the battle for marijuana legalization. Medical marijuana spread quickly to the hundreds of thousands in Colorado, California, and now 12 other states who can legally use the drug, and now those proud users have a bull dog in their court with endless dollars and man power to protect the right of the marijuana patient. Thanks ACLU, and a happy 420.
The ACLU also defended the rights of a patient fired by Walmart this spring, however this is the first time that the ACLU is defending medical marijuana patient’s rights as a larger body. The right to grow and use cannabis is now an American Civil liberty, not just medicine for patients.
Jul 30, 2010 | Categories:CO MMj Details, Caregiver & Patient, Colorado Marijuana Laws | Tags: aclu, best place, best state, birmingham, bloomfield hills, bubble hash, cost of marijuana, county, data, dispensary, growing, legalization, medical, medical marijuana laws, michigan, national, organic pot, patient, purple wreck, regulation, seed, seed bank | View Comments
Colorado now has a bold new ganja warrior running for Governor who will put the current clowns in their place when it comes to marijuana. Tommy Tancredo calls marijuana “a social experiment that must happen”, according to Denver Daily News. Making it official yesterday, “I am going to seek the nomination of the American Constitution Party for governor of Colorado,” declared Tancredo in a one-sentence press release. His biggest opponent is that he is a write in third party candidate but says he will divide voters on the Republican ticket and come between candidates Maes and McInnis giving the Colorado marijuana community a good choice for Governor. Tom is tuff in his approach, and is quick to point the finger at Mayor Hickenlooper for letting the Denver town council step all over and shit on marijuana patients with new regulations of the industry.
It is good to see that on the eave of the law enforcement and the department of revenue seizing control of marijuana with their rubber law CO HB 10 1284, that there is a Constitutionally minded candidate running for governor of Colorado. The very people, the law makers and enforcers that should be defending our constitutional rights are trying to take them away, but Tancredo is in on the scene at the right time, and will defend the ganja consumers right to grow, use, and distribute medical marijuana. You are a ganja warrior Tom Tancredo for getting to the heart of the problem, and giving the people of Colorado back their constitutional right to obtain cannabis. Dispensaries are a social experiment in Colorado and they are certainly protected, legal, and here to stay. You have the High Country Caregiver vote of approval. With your help, pot will always stay fun in Colorado. See photos of medical marijuana and tell your friends about www.420.co.
This bud is for you Tom Tancredo, we hope you will motivate others to stand up for their right to grow some cannabis today. Tom Tancredo 420 Colorado Governor of Choice!
Jul 30, 2010 | Categories:Caregiver & Patient, Colorado Marijuana Laws | Tags: 5 patient limit, amendment 20, aug 1, caregiver, colorado, constitution, cost of marijuana, department of revenue, dispensary, doctor, HB 10-1284, july 1, medical, organic pot, patient, regulation, summit county, weed | View Comments
Medical marijuana is shaking out as July ends and the August 1st ‘you better have your application in’ deadline looms. We have appearances this week from Senator Romer advising that the price of pot is stabalizing or going down in the High Country. Romer clears up the 2 year residency rule and says that it only applies to those with a vest financial interest, and not line level employees. Romer also agrees says contrary to what Brian Vicente said that prices for pot are in fact going down, not up for patients. Romer maintains that the cost of marijuana was always intended to stabilize with CO HB 10 1284 in effect.
Caregivers can now rely on the Hi5 law, keep the numbers down and the plants BIG. Whether it by previous convictions, no less than 2, or the most invasive give up your rights application to open a center, there may not be many centers in Colorado very soon. At minimum 50% closure of the current medical marijuana dispensary system will send a wave which will stabilize with the caregiver using the Hi5 law. 5 patient maximum.
Ken Weaver gets the High Country Caregiver Ganja Warrior award for the week for making it onto the CDPHE board only to be blown out of the water by Denver Westword and exposed for past felony convictions and other less than perfect behavior. Ken made it onto the board though which shows how silly the CDPHE board of 10 is and who they will allow on board. In times of Amendment 20 vs CO HB 10 1284 who what will happen to patients who need medicine. The herb must go on! Plant a seed today. Upload some photos. No matter if you get it from dispensary, no matter if they call it a center, you and I we join together, for high atop the mountain come the herb.
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Jul 29, 2010 | Categories:CO MMj Details, Caregiver & Patient, Colorado Marijuana Laws | Tags: 2010, 5 patient limit, breckenridge, caregiver, colorado, cost of marijuana, Dispensaries, HB 10-1284, hi5, laws, legalization, marijuana photos, medical marijuana, medical marijuana laws, park county, patient, regulation, sign bill, summit county, weed | View Comments
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Jul 28, 2010 | Categories:Caregiver & Patient, Colorado Marijuana Laws | Tags: 420, 5 patient limit, amendment 20, breckenridge, colorado, cost of marijuana, dispensary, fun, HB 10-1284, Legalities, marijuana photos, medical marijuana, organic pot, park county, patient, regulation | View Comments
