A recent Denver Westword article speculated on the reasons for the decline in registered marijuana patients in Colorado and pointed out that the fee for medical marijuana cards dropped from $90 to $35 on January 1, 2012, so many patients may just be waiting for the price break to renew.  High Country Caregiver wants to highlight some reader comments from the Westword article as to other reasons why patients wouldn’t register anymore.

One reader comment from ‘CAREGIVER’ to Denver Westword which got the most ‘likes’ says:

“I serve as a caregiver for lots of patients and am a patient myself.  We all have our recommendations, from our doctors, that are up to date, but none of us are registering with the state.  None of us trust that our information will end up in the hands of the DEA.  I know lots of other caregivers and patents in the same situation because they all to feel the same way.

We all feel it’s much wiser to simply operate like it’s illegal, but keep our doctor’s recommendations, in writing, up to date, just in case we need it.  That’s been working out fine for all of us so far!”

Other medical marijuana patients like PUBLIUS CEASAR point out the invasion of privacy on patients as a reason not to register:

“The reason I didn’t renew is because of the intrusiveness of the system. Tracking how much I buy, taking my picture, etc. I’m legal with just a doctors recommendation, why should I register?”

The CDPHE medical marijuana registry is crashing and drowning under its own weight for a variety of reasons, the chart below illustrates the demise of the CDPHE Colorado medical marijuana registry:

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The pot clowns in Colorado are out in force with the voting.  Dan Hartman, long time 420 pot clown and head of the medical marijuana enforcement division at the Colorado Department of Revenue goofed big time by publicly decrying voters to not vote out his medical marijuana dispensary scam.  Attorney General John Suthers publicly called out Hartman the pot clown as a civil servant trying to sway voters.  Hartman basically said that “if you vote out dispensaries, marijuana cultivation will continue uninhibited and local police and the MMED won’t be able to regulate it or do anything about it.”  Sure pot clown, High Country Caregiver knows you’re only in it for the gold.

In Denver the Vietnamese pot growing gangs are thriving, and Cherry Top Farms, a quazi licensed marijuana center decided to buy a truck load of weed from the Do family.  The Do family arrived at Cherry Top Farms 2500 plant warehouse grow with the DEA following and a major situation erupted and the Feds confiscated all of the weed and charged 4 or 5 of those at the scene.  The Do family will likely be up and running again soon as this is there usual course or action.  Warehouse grown weed in Denver is not recommended for human consumption, find a good caregiver, or better yet some outdoor grown weed.  It’s harvest time!

Rapping up the pre-Halloweed week, seed to sale marijuana tracking is here and it’s causing major stirs in the medical marijuana community.  The tracking will involve bar cods that have to be placed on all plants, seedling, etc… in the grow operation so that no dispensary has more than 6 plants per patient.  The system is expensive and will raise prices and lower quality of dispensary grown cannabis.

If you believe that Obama had something to do with the medical marijuana explosion of the past 2 years, today marks the end of medical marijuana in Colorado and California.  The Obama Administration has announced that all California medical marijuana dispensaries must close within 45 days.  The IRS is already seizing dispensary bank accounts and landlords from at least 16 dispensaries have received harsh warnings about getting their property seized.  The times are changing for the dispensaries, the ride has been a ruff one, and now medical marijuana dispensaries are as dead as a door nail.

What implications lie ahead for Colorado with medical marijuana?  California lead the way for Colorado and it’s 1000 or do medical outlets, and one would have to assume that Colorado medical marijuana is next for the feds to target.  Patients, caregivers, and dispensary owners beware, your medical marijuana card means nothing now.  The only good news will be that the previous underground market should now come back and the real smokers out there will still be able to get their herb.  Jah Bless!

Why is it that Colorado law makers and marijuana dispensary advocates insist that marijuana impairs ability to drive? There is no evidence to show that marijuana causes accidents or impairs ability to drive or do anything else for that matter. Ignore the pot clowns, Colorado is a great place to get high, have fun, and drive when you have to.

Go with marijuana, just google anything related to marijuana and you will see the rising trends of those who know the use of the cannabis herb. We learned this weed that even race car drivers can drive high, and of course Cheech and Chong can do it, so, so can you! It’s 4:20…..

If you put 100 marijuana activists in a room and try to figure out the state of marijuana in Colorado you will get 100 different opinions.  Patients and Caregivers have been forgotten about in our pot clown state, and the very people who should protect the citizens and their rights, mainly the lawyers and politicians are only trying to get famous writing more confusing laws which ultimately only hurts everyone especially patients.  Currently secret meetings are being held in Colorado to make driving with THC in your system a crime.  DUI is big business in Colorado for law enforcement, revenue, and defense lawyers, and motivation on all 3 levels is trying to bust you for being a patient once again.

Take for example Breckenridge pot clown Sean McAllister.  McAllister law office claims to be a Marijuana advocacy group meaning they are pro-pot.  In reality McCallister law office is anti-marijuana, only defending dispensaries and threatening to narc on the very people they supposedly defend; the average pot head.  On the surface their agenda may appear true, and genuine but like everyone with a weed agenda in Colorado, there is a flip to this pot clowns’ agenda.  Know your pot clown and beware of how they are infringing on your right to use cannabis.  The very people who pretend to be helping patients in Colorado may actually be hurting patients, and ignorance is no excuse.  See this Westword article for a personal bio of some of the pot clowns who write the laws to get you in trouble and then get to defend you and take your money in the end.

High Country Caregiver, working hard to keep your pipe packed and keeping you out of the rat pack.  Have fun and get high today!

Know thy pot clown!

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Watch activist Robert Chase as he exposes the pot clowns in this video:

Geo Location on the iPhone 4 has led to High Country Caregiver’s very popular smoke shack map.  Every time a photo is taken with the iPhone 4 built in camera, the GPS in the iPhone adds data that can be loaded into Google Maps.  Google maps gives your 420 smoke location it’s own pin on Google Maps which you can right click on and save to or create your very own map.  This is how the maps are created on 420.co.  Once you create your Google Map, Google conveniently gives you code that you can copy and paste into your website or blog as TuTone does.  Geo Located photos will continue to be fun and cool, but as marijuana evolves, so does technology which is why iPhone and Apple are so great!

Blogs are popular, Facebook is great, but a web developer must see beyond the horizon to the next big thing!  youTube is falling behind a little, iPhone 4 came with a youTube app built right in for viewing videos, which has made youTube very popular, through user generated video content.  youTube has the edge above all others for displaying content on portable devises, but uStream has youTube beat when it comes to streaming live video.  The new uStream 2.0.1 App was released on 3.12.11, and allows users to stream live, and videos are saved to the uStream.com cloud, not the local iPhone devise, saving precious iPhone drive space, thanks to cloud technology.  The uStream app on iPhone 4 allows the user to stream live, partake in chat room conversation, and post to social apps all from the live recording screen.  The possibilities for the Colorado marijuana community are growing with technology just as our medicinal plant does.  What are some of the possibilities with the iPhone 4 to bring Colorado pot to the world?

• Ge0-Locate Smoke Spots
• Stream live legalization events
• call out the pot clowns at the State Legislature

Marijuana and the technology around marijuana continue to grow in Colorado.  It’s not just the growers and the suppliers of the drug that bring you your 420.  420 Colorado now streams marijuana events to you and leaves them available for viewing on TuTone’s uStream 420 marijuana channel for archival viewing of marijuana events.

Leo's Smoke Shack from iPhone 4 camera

This video is a good explanation for how the smoke shacks work, groups come and go, pack it up when it’s 420, and go on to keep riding.

uStream app does a fantastic job on the iPhone 4, with about 3 bars of coverage with AT&T. The movie below is from the Mushroom Shack at Breckenridge Ski Resort on Peak 10. Leo’s, Mushroom, then CJ’s is the 3 shack tour making your way north from Peak 10 to Peak 9.

Mountain Medical Leaf is one such dispensary in Loveland Colorado which is having a blow out / give away sale to move their inventory on to patients.  Jason Specht is the unofficial spokesman for an advocacy group Loveland Association of Wellness (LAW) who has been following the marijuana industry in Northern Colorado.  Encouraging patients to buy product is extremely challenging, and those sales aren’t garnering much income for the dissolving shops, Specht said.  “The problem is that these are shark-infested waters,” Specht said. “Everyone knows we’re in a tough spot, so they can get the product very cheap.”  Specht said dispensary owners will sell their product even if it’s not at a very competitive price.  “It’s just a matter of ‘some money is better than no money,’ ” he said. “That’s where we’re at with that.”

High Country Caregiver takes this opportunity to allow marijuana purveyors to continue to sling the herb as a caregiver.  Caregivers are protected by law, will never be voted out of work, and have the opportunity to reach a few select patients for individual care.  If you are among the 80% of dispensaries getting shut down in Colorado, all is not a total loss, as this is an opportunity to go back to your ganja roots and the patient – caregiver model of providing cannabis to the 100,000+ patients looking to buy your weed in the great pot clown state of Colorado.  inhale.co is a marijuana caregiver website 2.0 building program to help catalyze your caregiver business and make the transition from dispensary back to caregiver.  If you haven’t built a marijuana website yet, or if you need some HTML5 templates and marijuana design ideas consider inhale.co, take a deep breathe, you can do this!  Grow your marijuana business while your plants grow, all is not a loss and you’ll be back in the dope game in no time.  Jah bless the High Country and Colorado marijuana. 

Pictured below is some organically grown Purple Trainwreck, grown by a caregiver with lots of love.  If you are a patient in Loveland in need of a new marijuana supply, remember Amendment 20 and your caregiver.  When you pass the doochie on the left be sure to mention 420.co, notice the .co domain which we are just loving in the High Country.  Jah Bless!

Purple Erckle X Trainwreck