Is this the way the people that don't want mmj and have high ranking positions are fixing there problem?
Make it so unbearable to be a mmj worker or business then no one will step up to do it.
Letting so many businesses get started (taking there license's fees) just to shut them down with overwhelming regulations and bans.Making all the dispensary's clump together in small geographic locations.Letting the feds and IRS tread on there citizens.Then they can say we gave them a shot and they failed.
All we can do is speculate, but I don't think you are too far from the truth here. It was pretty clear to me when this got going good in the first round of apps that what they wanted to do was push out any little dispensary and try to get just a few bigger ones. They didn't want us disp competing against each other to let the cream rise to the top - they wanted to run a lot of us out of business and they wanted to make sure that the survivors were the ones that had deeper pockets for them to put their hands into.
That is why the moritorium came about as well as second year hike in lisc fees. Shut down and consolidate. Make it a few bigger dis instead of letting folks be entrepreneurs and build a quality business over teh course of time.
I was stoked when I started a disp, made myself willing to fill out the app, but didn't feel real good about the app process and eventually it got to the point with the continuing regs and moving gardens all over the place to comply with counties pissed me off and I gave the whole thing the finger.
Like I said, I won't even file with the State for a patient lisc anymore, even though I have a real deal condition that I use Sweet Lady Jane for. This can kiss my fuckin' ass. I don't need to pay the state for a lisc to get hooked on physically addictive narcotic pain pills, so I sure as fuck don't need one to use a less harmful substance to deal with 24hr/day pain. No more money from me, no more compliance with bullshit regs that don't have any foundation in reason.
A lot of us have survived just fine for a lot of years doing our thing without the mmj cover.
A lot of us will continue to do so as my goal is the removal of the
illegal mj prohibition imposed by our federal government. All the Stae did was sanction Al Capones. The state will not defend us against the tyranny of the federal government. Neither our AG nor Governor has any fuckin' balls to hold our State Constitution up to the face of the federal government and tell them to fuck off and leave the citizens of Colo alone, as it ain't the federal governments business what goes on here concerning weed produced and consumed within our borders.
I don't think they want to get rid of all disp, otherwise it wouldn't be under the control of the Department of Revenue. The State and Denver & Boulder are already hooked on the fees and tax money they are taking in from this. They won't want to lose that revenue. Colorado, like our federal gov and many other states, is pretty much bankrupt - they need every penny they can take from us. They won't shut it down, but they think government needs to run the industry. I think this and most of the county bans are tied directly to the stigma attached to weed. Like it is a gateway drug, worse than alcohol, etc. That is still a battle we stoners must fight.
Romer is a big douche bag. The only thing this issue was to him was political capital. He has his eye on bigger things, politically, and has considered running for Gov, like his daddy, and no doubt US Rep or Sen. That is
ALL Romer was doing with this - getting his name out there. Getting his name plastered all over the media like he was some sorta fuckin' champion of the people, saving the citizens of Colorado from those evil disp.
Romer is a political whore and could give two fucks about any negative effects his bill had on people. MMJ is nothing more than political capital for him to use
for his own personal gain. Politicians are politicians, regardless of party and although exceptions on both sides of the aisle, the vast majority of them, whether dem or repub, are selfish a-holes whose real purpose with everything they is to serve their own self interest and political gain.
They don't give a fuck about us, they only care about doing whatever it takes to get re-elected and elected to higher offices. That is half the reason for all of these fucking ridiculous regs.
