Two Medical Marijuana Attorneys in Colorado reveal extreme restrictions in light of SB1284.
Seventy-seven pages of restrictions...wait till you read this.
Colorados preemptive measures to thwart federal law:
TRACKING THC
To hear Corry and Gard tell it, no matter which path a business takes, its carefully tracked inventory is tied back to the number of patients it has. It can have hundreds of patients, and the more one has, the more expensive the state fees — the categories are less than 300 patients, 300 to 500 patients, and more than 500 patients. (Gard says the cheapest license is $7,500, plus $1,250 for a grow operation, not including any fees required by local government, like the $5,000 charged by the city of Boulder.) But regardless of how many patients they have, operations are still limited to six plants and two ounces per patient.
“If you have an excess amount, you are required to destroy it,” Corry says.
And from the moment the seed is planted to the second it is sold to the customer at the cash register, its location and other identifying information is documented. The plant — and later, the package that the dried product is placed in — will sport a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag not unlike the ones affixed to merchandise at Walmart to track inventory and set off alarms at doorways.
According to Dan Hartman, MMED director, his inspectors will be able to enter a grow operation with a handheld reader and instantly compare the amount and ID numbers of the entire crop with the state’s database of what should be there. Alerts will notify regulators if there is any discrepancy between what is on site and what is in MMED records, whether it’s when the packaged product is scanned as it’s loaded onto the delivery truck or checked in electronically upon arriving at the store.
Video cameras will be rolling (only during work hours if approved alarm systems have motion detectors activated during off-hours) not only at the store, but at key points in the grow operation, including when it is weighed, before and after drying and packaging. Operations will have to keep 20 days of videotape stored and accessible to MMED at all times, with an additional 20 days of archived video, available on DVD or a hard drive, for instance.
The marijuana must be inserted in sealed containers with tamper-proof bands, no more than one pound per container, transported to the MMC (and documented on the driver’s manifest) within 48 hours, and weighed again at the center within eight hours.
http://boulderweekly.com/article-5717-are-edibles-the-future.html
not going home anytime soon.
Seventy-seven pages of restrictions...wait till you read this.
Colorados preemptive measures to thwart federal law:
TRACKING THC
To hear Corry and Gard tell it, no matter which path a business takes, its carefully tracked inventory is tied back to the number of patients it has. It can have hundreds of patients, and the more one has, the more expensive the state fees — the categories are less than 300 patients, 300 to 500 patients, and more than 500 patients. (Gard says the cheapest license is $7,500, plus $1,250 for a grow operation, not including any fees required by local government, like the $5,000 charged by the city of Boulder.) But regardless of how many patients they have, operations are still limited to six plants and two ounces per patient.
“If you have an excess amount, you are required to destroy it,” Corry says.
And from the moment the seed is planted to the second it is sold to the customer at the cash register, its location and other identifying information is documented. The plant — and later, the package that the dried product is placed in — will sport a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag not unlike the ones affixed to merchandise at Walmart to track inventory and set off alarms at doorways.
According to Dan Hartman, MMED director, his inspectors will be able to enter a grow operation with a handheld reader and instantly compare the amount and ID numbers of the entire crop with the state’s database of what should be there. Alerts will notify regulators if there is any discrepancy between what is on site and what is in MMED records, whether it’s when the packaged product is scanned as it’s loaded onto the delivery truck or checked in electronically upon arriving at the store.
Video cameras will be rolling (only during work hours if approved alarm systems have motion detectors activated during off-hours) not only at the store, but at key points in the grow operation, including when it is weighed, before and after drying and packaging. Operations will have to keep 20 days of videotape stored and accessible to MMED at all times, with an additional 20 days of archived video, available on DVD or a hard drive, for instance.
The marijuana must be inserted in sealed containers with tamper-proof bands, no more than one pound per container, transported to the MMC (and documented on the driver’s manifest) within 48 hours, and weighed again at the center within eight hours.
http://boulderweekly.com/article-5717-are-edibles-the-future.html
not going home anytime soon.
