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Big Changes Coming in Colorado's Marijuana Market
Posted by CN Staff on November 14, 2014 at 10:05:52 PT
By Jeremy P. Meyer, The Denver Post
Source: Denver Post
Colorado -- Look around you. These are the good old days of marijuana in Colorado. Things are about to change. Prices for pot assuredly will fall, more pot will flood the market, and legislative changes are in the offing for how physicians can prescribe pot for severe pain.Voters could eventually be asked to add a special tax onto medical marijuana, and there is even talk of repealing Amendment 20 to discontinue the medical marijuana model altogether, lumping all pot sales into the retail market.
"It is fluid. Everyone knew this was going to happen," said University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin, speaking about the evolution of legal pot in Colorado. "This is the first-of-its-kind regulation. We knew we weren't going to get everything right the first time."Clearly, big problems exist. Whether changes will come from market forces or from the legislature is yet to be determined. But one thing is certain: The state's caregiver model invites fraud.Now, a caregiver may grow up to six plants for up to five patients, or 30 total. But they can request a waiver to grow even more. Some are growing hundreds of plants.As of May, the state had registered about 5,000 caregivers. You do the math. Officials believe because of lax oversight, excess pot is flowing into the black market and likely across state lines.A bill will be introduced in the legislature next session to limit the number of plants that marijuana caregivers can grow for their patients and require caregivers to go through a more stringent approval process with state health officials.SnippedComplete Article: http://drugsense.org/url/RQPrb7P8Source: Denver Post (CO)Author: Jeremy P. Meyer, The Denver PostPublished: November 14, 2014Copyright: 2014 The Denver Post Website: http://www.denverpost.com/Contact: openforum denverpost.comCannabisNews   -- Cannabis  Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml 
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Comment #5 posted by The GCW on November 15, 2014 at 03:58:38 PT
Increasing medical benefits, rapidly increasing.
How Cannabis Was Used to Shrink One of the Most Aggressive Brain CancersBy Wai Luhttp://www.alternet.org/drugs/how-cannabis-was-used-shrink-one-most-aggressive-brain-cancers-0-Increasing medical benefits should be expected as cannabis becomes more widely RE-legalized.And the more We know about cannabis, the more We understand some of the motivations for selfish people to prohibit it.The business of curing cancer is huge. I'm hesitant to say it, but is there a chance someone in that booming industry would like to keep profits which may be reduced as cannabis replaces or reduces conventional therapy.-0-Around 1997 I believe about 25% of Americans were to experience cancer, that grew to about 33% today, which is basically ever American family, for example... So this issue alone pretty much effects Us all.
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on November 15, 2014 at 03:47:37 PT
Ending amendment 20 (remember vote 4-20?)
Another issue about ending 20, the law that RE-legalized medical use of cannabis:Keeping 20 may make it easier for citizens to use the plant in hospital type settings... Ending it may interfere...
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Comment #3 posted by keninsj on November 14, 2014 at 20:30:14 PT:
MMJ in Colorado
If I were a person using MMJ for medicinal purposes in Colorado, I would consider getting a hold of some seeds or clones for the strains that worked for me. The market will determine what is and is not sold over time, and your MMJ strain may not be available. Just because it is legal, doesn't mean you will be able to find the strain that works for your condition. I think MMJ growers are more in tune to what people who are using it for what ails them want.
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Comment #2 posted by The GCW on November 14, 2014 at 15:19:40 PT
Didn't read the whole... but...
"repealing Amendment 20 to discontinue the medical marijuana model altogether, lumping all pot sales into the retail market."OK.While cannabis is legal and citizens can grow it, there isn't a need to pay a doctor for the ability to use cannabis or pay government for protection from the police (EXTORTION).It's legal. Legal! If You wish to use it for medical reasons or any other reason, there is nothing to stop You.-0-Message to other states: Bypass the medical route and simply RE-legalize the plant and avoid having to come up with regulatory issues 2 times. Cannabis is going be be RE-legalized through out America anyway.Guaranteed.
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Comment #1 posted by observer on November 14, 2014 at 13:44:34 PT
Antediluvians and the Deluge
re: "Prices for pot assuredly will fall, more pot will FLOOD the market"For adults - who voted for legalization - that's a good thing. Like the way we see other goods and commodities which adults may buy and sell, like rice, corn, beer, flax, oxen, etc. etc. scarily "flood" your local supermarkets and farmer's markets, now. Boo! Flying Lizards - The Flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gchlYXIqE8Q 
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