Colorado Medical Pot Dispensaries Face Crackdown
Wed, Dec 14, 2011 5:31 pm
Back in October California’s US Attorneys threatened landlords who lease space to medical marijuana dispensaries with criminal prosecution and seizure of property. The dispensaries targeted in this crackdown were given 45 days to “discontinue the sale and/or distribution of marijuana,” or face the consequences, as state medical pot laws offer no protection from federal prosecution.
California has experienced growing pains after becoming the first state to embrace medical marijuana with prop 215 in 1996. As the state has struggled with regulating the booming industry, crackdowns and ordinances aimed at reigning in “pot shops” have become somewhat commonplace, particularly in Los Angeles.
Colorado, by comparison, has experienced less federal interference since amending the State Constitution to allow the use of medical pot in 2000. Nonetheless, federal authorities appear poised to crackdown on medical cannabis in Colorado for the first time on a large scale.
According to CBS4, warning letters – similar to those previously sent by US Attorneys in California – will go out to medical cannabis dispensaries that are located within 1,000 feet of schools (a distance that already factors into sentencing under federal law).
The targeted dispensaries will reportedly be given 45 days to either shut down or relocate.
In Colorado, many of the dispensaries located within 1,000 feet of schools have been approved under local laws. However, as the feds are fond of pointing out, federal law trumps state law.
Medical marijuana advocate and attorney Robert Corry believes “The federal apparatus here has better things to do … My reaction would be the federal government is essentially declaring war on the voters of our state (who) passed a Constitutional amendment.”
The letters have not yet been sent out and it is not clear at the moment when they will be issued.














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Republic
Dec 22 2011, 9:07 am
What did you do last night? I was chill'n at the house.
What are you going to do tonight? I'll be chill'n at the house.
Did you see Sally? We got chill and went to a club.
It seems to fit in all cases. So kick back and chill with a fatty. If you are light you need to get heavy and chill out.
I like it. Lingo can and will save your ass. It is harder to be busted if others don't understand what you are talking about.
zackabis
Dec 22 2011, 8:52 am
gstlab3
Dec 19 2011, 4:50 pm
I MIGHT EVEN BE HANGING OUT WITH THE GUYS CHILL'N OUT.
WORDS???
YEAH MAN I'VE GOT PLENTY OF THEM.
AT TIMES I JUST COME A OUT AND SAY IT.,
I'M HIGH AS HELL AND FEELING GOOD.," WHAT'S UP WITH YOU??"
I COULD BE CRUISING AROUND IN MY BRAIN OR I COULD BE DAY TRIPPING OUT AROUND TOWN TOO!!!!!
YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING DO YOU???
IT COULD ALL BE SOME FAKED UP CODE WORDS AND YOU CAN MAKE IT UP AS YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS GO.
I BET EVEN SOME YOUR COWORKERS HAVE WORDS TO USE WHILE ON THE JOB PLANING THEIR WILD AFTER WORK AFFAIR.
CODES AND SNEAKING AROUND AND LYING TO EVADE DETECTION ARE ALL PART OF THE GAME OF PROHIBITION.
THE BEST FORM OF EVASSIVE ACTIVITY IS ACT LIKE NOTHING SPECIAL IS GOING ON AND TO ACT NORMAL AS POSSIBLE EVEN IF THAT MEANS JUST HANGING OUT AND CHILL'N FOR AWHILE.
PEACE.
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!!!
Ben Dover
Dec 19 2011, 11:15 am
Are you heavy? I'm heavy, is he or she heavy. Great word. What can replace "high" or "buzzed"? What is a word that has a positive message and can act as a substitute word for the effect?
Republic
Dec 19 2011, 10:59 am
Why don't you quit being a jackass and calm down on your rhetoric. Marijuana doesn't get you nearly as fucked up as alcohol, as a non-cigarette smoker I would compare the effects of smoking one joint to smoking 2 cigarettes. I would further compare Marijuana more to Valium or Xanax without the side effects of death and stupidity then I would alcohol.
Personally, I would never get into a car with a drunk driver, I have however been in cars with people who smoked Marijuana before driving hundreds of times and no one ever wrecked or even got pulled over. Was it unsafe? I don't think so. Should people who are "high" drive cars? Not unless it is necessary. I see no harm in it, but I deal with it from a frame of knowledge and experience, not from a frame of lies and slanderous misconceptions.
The main difference between alcohol and Marijuana is Marijuana makes you realize if you can't drive. Even if you were drunk and smoked Marijuana, the Marijuana would make you question drunk driving. It might not keep you from drunk driving, but it would make you question the decision harder. Anyone who ever smoked Marijuana knows this. Studies have shown you are more likely to err on the side of safety while medicated.
The world is in the grip of fear fueled by government lies and mis-information campaigns aimed directly at keeping marijuana illegal.
So why add fuel to bonfire of lies by agreeing with anything those assholes in Washington say? Tell the truth and stop saying things that are inflammatory toward Marijuana.
You are making our job harder by using prohib lingo. Never use prohib lingo or agree with prohib rhetoric.
Dispensaries are just another store on any street anywhere in America. In MMJ states it is legal business. No children were every made alcoholics by seeing the liquor store parking lot. No kid ever started smoking because cigarettes were sold within 5 blocks of the school and no kids will start smoking Marijuana because the school bus drove past a dispensary.
To think otherwise is just foolish or being a prohib who is trying to cause issues where none exist.
Ben Dover
Dec 19 2011, 10:13 am
I have to agree it is stupid to feel children shouldn't see cars drive into to, then leave a parking lot. If what goes on inside isn't explained to them, how would they know what went on inside? It is just ludicrous to think seeing people in a parking lot does harm.
When I was young I had no idea what went on in a liquor store and no one told me. Once I was old enough to figure it out, I was old enough to know. I wasn't harmed by it in any way. As they checked I.D. I was unable to buy Liquor there so I didn't go there to get it. I was also unable to buy Cigarettes as they were behind the counter as well. I was able to buy all the weed I wanted as my friends sold it as it was not controlled at the same level and minors were involved in the market as adults used kids for dealers.
So who is protecting whom from what?
Flight 420
Dec 19 2011, 10:06 am
umm
Dec 18 2011, 7:32 pm
Good point Republic person!!!
April fool
Dec 18 2011, 1:49 pm
Republic
Dec 18 2011, 12:31 pm
Everyone acts like there is some sort of crazy shit going on, it is about as crazy as the Wal Mart. People go in and buy things and then go home. OH! NO! don't tell me children see people driving cars in and out of a parking lot! What has the world come to.
The government acts like seeing people move around is an issue. This from the same people who shoot protesters with rubber bullets and spray mace into the faces of people expressing their rights to freedom.
Why let them act like some obscene act is going on? It is a simple business transaction between adults. It is no different then selling cigarettes.
I don't see anyone saying cigarettes shouldn't be sold in stores within' 5 blocks of a school.
DispOwnerColorado
Dec 17 2011, 7:42 pm
anonymous
Dec 16 2011, 3:37 am
It's going to take one state to step up, get over the tyrannical threats and power abusing madness of the Feds and pass legalization. Reefer Madness is so damned ingrained into the minds of politicians and the elderly population that it's going to take total legalization to make them see that the sky will not fall, society will not crumble, and that this God given plant is not the devil's weed.
The Founders are rolling in their graves on how the U.S. has become a nation oppressed by the Federal rulers of tyranny.We never would have had a drug war under men like George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Ben Franklin and their fellow of peers of their day.They were all about personal freedom and liberty. What is taught in schools today is a twisted and perverted freedom, ...a delusional form of freedom. The war on terror, which has taught us how to be better slaves, how to get xrayed with cancer causing scans at airports and put up with TSA pat downs that act like they are 1940's Gestapo.
The media runs 24/7 with non-stop bullshit on security , safety , war, ect. Tennessee now has TSA on the interstate with checkpoints supposedly looking for terrorist related activities. Their just the beta-test for going nationwide. The Feds are taking their power to new levels.We are heading into a super Orwellian nightmare. We now have a bill where the military can detain an American on U.S. soil, without charge, and make them disappear with the National Defense Authorization Act.
I believe we are long over do for the second American Revolution / Civil War to break away from what we are heading into. If nothing is done to stop where we are heading as a nation we will end up being worse that 1940's Germany and Russia combined.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants...Thomas Jefferson.
We are at the point of it being too late for marches,protests, petitions , speeches, ect.... it's going to take some drastic measures and sacrifices, as in what the Founders would do under this mess we are living under to get back to real freedom.
gstlab3
Dec 15 2011, 4:45 pm
IT SURE LOOKS LIKE OUR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING A LITTLE SOMETHING AFTER ALL IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!
REMEMBER THESE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN AND STILL ARE THE INDOCTRINATION CAMPS FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES AND THEIR OVERLORDS THE COMMUNISTS.
THESE SAME PLACES THAT FAIL TO EDUCATE THEM IN THE STUDIES OF READING, MATH AND SCIENCE HAVE SOMEHOW TAUGHT THEM THAT ALCOHOL IS BAD AND MARIJUANA IS GOOD SAFE FUN WITH LITTLE OR NO CHANCE YOU WILL WRECK YOUR CAR MOMS AND DADS BOUGHT YOU.
OR WAS IT THE PARENTS THAT TAUGHT THEM THE TRUTH AND THOSE CHILDREN HAVE SPREAD THE WORDS TO THE OTHER CHILDREN AND OUT DOING THE GOVERNMENTS ILL FATED LIE FILLED PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN???
I KNOW THAT WHEN A SCHOOL SYSTEM LIKE THE ONE IN LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY SPENDS OVER $100 MILLION DOLLARS$$$$$ JUST ON BUSING "POOR/BLACK" CHILDREN TO THE SUPPOSEDLY BETTER WEALTHIER SCHOOLS AND THEN THEY HAVE ONLY %TEN% TO %TWELVE PERCENT% OF THOSE SAME CHILDREN ABLE TO GRADUATE THE TWO AND FOUR YEAR STATE HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS WE HAVE MORE THAN JUST A HUGE PROBLEM THAT GOES BEYOND WHO LITTLE JANEY AND JOHNNY SIT NEXT TO IN A CLASSROOM ACROSS THE STATE LINE IN INDIANA!!!!!
$$$100 MILLION DOLLARS ON BUSING LOUISVILLE CHILDREN INTO INDIANA AND FOR WHAT EXACTLY?!?!?
POLITICIANS NEED AN EXCUSE TO TAKE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY AND SPEND IT ELSEWHERE ON THEIR SELF INTERESTED PARTIES AND FRIENDS CORPORATE MONEY MAKING ACTIVITIES.
ALL THESE FALSE GOVERNMENT POWERS WITH THE STATE SANCTIONED LYING TO US AND DIVIDING US "WE THE PEOPLE"
IT IS ONLY HAPPENING BECAUSE THEY WANT TO CONTROLL US ALL COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY WITH FALSE MADE UP FAKE ASS BELIEFS AND BOGUS FALSE SECURITY GIVEN TO US BY THEM!!!
IT IS ALL DONE BY A CORRUPT ALL POWERFULL GOVERNMENT.
THIS IS NO SURPRISE TO SOME OF US AS HISTORY HAS SHOWN US TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT THIS BRINGS THE PEOPLE TOWARDS POVERTY AND TYRANY SOONER OR LATER AND AFTER AWHILE IT CANNOT BE AVOIDED AND IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN IN AMERICA AND NOBODY WILL ARGUE THAT POINT.
COLORADO, CALIFORNIA AND THE REST ARE BEING TERRORISED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THOSE PEOPLE AND GROUPS WHO CONTROLL IT WITH LAWYERS THROUGH THE COURTS AND THE CRIMINALS ON WALL STREET.
THE PEOPLE GO OUT AND VOTE AND RIGHT AWAY THE PEOPLES VOTES ARE IGNORED AND IMMEDIATELY RUN THROUGH THE COURTS AT COST TO THE TAX PAYERS BY THOUSANDS OF THESE CORPORATE SPONSORED UNELECTED LAWYERS AND JUDGES?!?
!?!?!?WTF?!?!?!?!?
THIS IS NOT WHAT EQUAL AND FAIR REPRESENTATION LOOKS LIKE TO ME.,
DOES IT TO YOU???
I BET NOT.
WE NEED TO SEND A MESSAGE AND REMOVE THESE PEOPLE FROM THE SYSTEM ALL TOGETHER.
JUST OUT OF PURE MEANNESS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING REALLY BIG ABOUT IT ALL BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN LET TO GO ON WAY TOO LONG LIKE THIS AND IT IS TIME FOR SOME PAYBACK.
I KNOW I HAVE BEEN GREATLY INSULTED AND LIED TO WITH ALL TO OFTEN THE SAME BOLD FACED LIERS AND CROOKS IN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND IN OUR SCHOOLS AND ON THE WALL STREET CORPORATE SPONSORED TELEVISION THAT IS IN ALLMOST EVERY HOME SPEWING LIES ON THE MASS MEDIA OUTLETS.
WHY DO WE ALLWAYS GET SCREWED OUT OF MORE OF OUR RIGHTFULL FREEDOMS AND LIBERTY AND THE ALLMIGHTY DOLLAR BILLS???
WHY IS IT THAT ONLY THE GOVERNMENT GETS BIGGER AND BETTER TAKEN CARE OF AND THAT'S THE ONLY GROWING PLACE NOW DAYS FOR THE BETTER PAYING JOBS WITH MEDICAL AND WELL PAID RETIREMENTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE?!?!?!?!?
WHY AND HOW THE FUCK DID WE GET STUCK PAYING FOR IT ALL AND NOT HAVING A VOICE IN IT ABOUT HOW WE GET TO LIVE AND WHAT WE GET TO KEEP AND DO WITH OUR OWN CREATED WEALTH AND OUR OWN BODIES AND MINDS???
WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY TO TELL US WHAT TO DO OR WHAT WE HAVE TO PAY THEM JUST TO LIVE OUT OUR LIVES?!?!?
REALLY?!?!?
?!?WTF?!?!?!
THE STATES NEED TO STAND UP AND THE PEOPLE NEED TO RAISE SOME MORTAL HELL ON THEIR STATE LAWMAKERS AND IF THAT DO'NT DO IT.,
WE ALL SHOULD ALL GO MARCH ON THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT.,
GOOD OLD WASHINGTON D.C.
WE SHOULD DO IT EN MASSE ALL SUMMER LONG INTO THE PRESIDENTAIL ELECTION IN THE FALL AND WE SHOULD RAISE HELL ON THE CAPITAL HILL STOOGES WHO ONLY WILL WORK FOR THE CORRUPT WALL STREET BANKSTERS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER OF GLOBAL BANKING CARTELLS!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!!!
hey
Dec 15 2011, 1:22 pm
ftw
Dec 15 2011, 12:55 pm
stfu
Dec 15 2011, 11:32 am
Unknown 1
Dec 15 2011, 10:11 am
Ron Paul 2012!!!!!!
Unbelievable
Dec 15 2011, 9:30 am
We can't have that for obvious reasons, it helps you to be happy, saves you money and could, if not controlled, cost our overseers billions.
umm
Dec 15 2011, 4:33 am
Now thats addiction.
I have since found true happiness.
Charlie
Dec 14 2011, 10:00 pm
http://www.change.org/petitions/fight-addiction-end-the-war-on-people
scott
Dec 14 2011, 8:14 pm
RighteousOne
Dec 14 2011, 7:02 pm
DanKstA
Dec 14 2011, 6:50 pm
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