Coalition Releases Guidelines for Responsible Regulation of Medical Marijuana Businesses

Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation, a affiliation of medical marijuana patients, providers and growers acknowledging amenable adjustment of medical marijuana, today appear proposed guidelines for acclimation medical marijuana berth businesses that would assure the bartering enterprises and their patients, and advance accessible safety.

The coalition’s guidelines abutment medical marijuana business regulations that set compatible accompaniment standards and accommodate for bounded ascendancy to ensure accessible input. The guidelines aswell absorb best practices aural absolute authoritative structures and accommodate accompaniment and bounded governments with able taxes and fees.

“Both citizens and assembly ambition reasonable regulations that accommodate safe, amenable acceptance to and use of medical marijuana,” said Matt Brown, controlling administrator of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation. “Colorado has a absolute befalling to be a archetypal for allusive medical marijuana regulation—protecting the accessible and ensuring that berth businesses can abide to accommodate bare casework to their patients.”

The Need for Responsible Regulation:
In 2000, Colorado voters anesthetized Amendment 20, a built-in alteration acceding the use of medical marijuana by bodies who are adversity from debilitating medical conditions. The alteration aswell creates exemptions to Colorado bent law for medical marijuana patients and their primary care-givers. One of the areas of Amendment 20 defective added accuracy is the role of medical marijuana dispensaries. Legislation to adapt the medical marijuana berth industry is accepted to be alien during the 2010 affair of the Colorado General Assembly.

Key tenants of reasonable adjustment include:
•Working aural absolute authoritative structures: There is no charge to actualize a accomplished new authoritative structure; absolute statutes and regulations for added businesses accommodate a starting point for medical marijuana regulations.
•Maintaining acute medical oversight: Oversight of doctors should break area it is today—at the Medical Board; standards should be set for approaching accountant medical marijuana healthcare training; and the accompaniment should aswell accept administration ascendancy to anticipate crooked prescriptions.
•Avoiding “one-size-fits-all” regulation: Lawmakers charge to axle non-commercial, as able-bodied as commercial-sized, dispensaries and growers, applying altered levels of adjustment based on consequence of operations.
•Generating adapted taxes and fees: Regulations should accredit sales tax transaction at both the accompaniment and bounded levels—as able-bodied as appoint specific, commercially reasonable fees to account accessible added costs of government for bounded law enforcement, bloom inspectors, etc.
•Setting accompaniment standards and attention bounded control: Statewide accord is a analytical basic of able regulation, but Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation understands that bounded control, including opportunities for accessible ascribe in zoning and siting processes, is aswell an important element.
•Ensuring accessible safety: Guarantee accessible assurance admitting the non-adjacency of accountant dispensaries and growers to schools and added facilities; and enabling law administration admiral to advance focus on actionable activities alfresco of marijuana with amenable regulations.

A contempo alleviative marijuana poll showed that Colorado voters overwhelmingly favor establishing state-licensed marijuana dispensaries for bodies who are adversity from debilitating medical conditions. By a allowance of 2-to-1, 64 percent of voters said they would accept proposals that would authorize state-licensed marijuana dispensaries to breed and accommodate marijuana to patients with doctors’ recommendations.

“From Iraq veterans, to humans with blight and AIDS, to Crohn's ache patients, we serve a association of humans that allowances abundantly from medical marijuana,” said Brown. “We ambition to ensure that the businesses that action this accepted and able analysis can be contributing, tax-paying, adapted associates of the business community.”

About Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation
Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation is a affiliation of medical marijuana patients and providers acknowledging amenable adjustment of medical marijuana. Formed in 2009, the affiliation is actively affianced with Colorado legislators and law administration admiral to authorize belief for the adjustment of medical marijuana in adjustment to accomplish a absolute aberration in people’s lives. For added information, appointment www.commr.org or alarm (303) 335-0834.

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