New Caregiver Law

RMCG · Oct 10, 2010

Thanks TK.

Anyway to expand on this thought in my Zoning Laws thread?

Anything you can think of to do ~right now~ for a caregiver that wants to play in an commercial space before these ridiculous zoning regs come down?

Just curious if they are going to bust Suzy Homemaker because she has too many tomato and pepper plants in her backyard garden and doesn't have a 'plant husbandry permit'.

Knuckleheads. The whole lot of them.

Dorje · Oct 10, 2010

I don't understand how a caregiver could afford a commercial space for 5 patients unless they each buy a lb per month...

RMCG · Oct 10, 2010

As towns and counties further increase zoning/land use restrictions on MMC
s and caregivers, exemptions will come in to play.

TyKaycha · Oct 10, 2010

Dorje said:
I don't understand how a caregiver could afford a commercial space for 5 patients unless they each buy a lb per month...

I've rented small commercial space before (though not for growing) for just a couple hundred. The space wasn't much larger than a 2-car garage. So I think it's doable.

Dorje · Oct 10, 2010

TyKaycha said:
I've rented small commercial space before (though not for growing) for just a couple hundred. The space wasn't much larger than a 2-car garage. So I think it's doable.

It's not the rent, it's the requirements for building permits and the need to submit drawings stamped by engineers and architects.

I know that in the city of Boulder, temporary structures and electric services won't be allowed too much longer, so unless the space you rent requires no modifications as far as electric, structure or ventilation it will not be possible to use it without pulling permits. I don't think too many spaces would work for a grower without at least some modifications that would require building permits.

TyKaycha · Oct 10, 2010

Ahh! True that.

Mr.Sputnik · Oct 10, 2010

Most people ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

RMCG · Oct 11, 2010

Mr.Sputnik said:
Most people ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

;)

RMCG · Oct 11, 2010

Dorje said:
I don't understand how a caregiver could afford a commercial space for 5 patients unless they each buy a lb per month...

JeromeGarcia · Oct 11, 2010

OK - if you do not like the law, or proposed law, the solution is simple. Make a new law. This simple act is part of almost all governments - save dictatorships.

How do you do this you ask??? 2 ways. 1 - find a 'champion' on the governing board of the municiplatly of where you are tryin' to make the change. 2 - draft an ordinance - introduce it to the muncipality via the approriate methods and then have the citizens vote on it.

Method 1 is easier.

Any questions?

JeromeGarcia · Oct 11, 2010

So.... if I did not like the regulations that, say a Town Council passed - I would have 30 days from the passage of said resolution to get 5% of the registered voters in that municipality to force said resolution to a vote of the citizens, or, I could draft a new regulation/"resolution"/initiative and have the citizens vote on that....

bionicelectroni · Oct 13, 2010

TK is right- we can charge. Are they going to regulate the amounts we can charge?

RMCG · Oct 13, 2010

I believe it states 'compensated' for the cost of growing it.

Mr.Sputnik · Oct 13, 2010

CEO's of non-profit hospitals are compensated well all the time, like $700,000 a year. It is to remain competitive in the market. If a CEO from a non-profit will make more at a for-profit hospital he will leave, so the non-profit has to pay him a competitive salary to stay with them. The same idea can be applied to caregivership. If it wasn't compensating you fairly in accordance with the market, you wouldn't do it. Whatever dispensary owners pay or are making is what you should pay yourself. It's when you go above that number is when you run into trouble. the stae doesn't want caregivers undercutting the MMC's like crazy or the state will loose revenue and come down on you. The same goes for the CEO, they can't receive $1mil as it's too much compensation for their position in the market.

You are entitled to a "fair compensation" in other words, and a fat mattress :banana1sv6:

Texas Kid · Oct 21, 2010

Got word today from the Weld County narcotics task today that the DA would not be persuing any charges against me....yea!!

29 plants in the ground that were 6ft round minimum and some where reallly big, 9 rockin 15 gallon plants sittin on the ground, a flower room with 12 buckets kickin, a veg room with 15 plants in ebb and flows ready for the buckets, 4+ lbs hangin, 4+ lbs in the bags, 500+ml of finished oil and 30+ lbs of trim/bud to process into oil.

Paperwork saved my ass!!!

Tex

sky high · Oct 21, 2010

Texas Kid said:
Paperwork saved my ass!!!
Tex

FUCKIN' >>WORD<<!!

While you are wayyy beyond in sheer volume, I still cringe everytime I see someone here say "all you need is a rec, no card"....cus in the end, the PRINCIPLE is the exact fucking SAME THING...big or small.

Gotta pay to play....

fuckin grey hair shit right there though....

DDDDdddaaammmn

glad all is well.....

TurboAllWD · Oct 21, 2010

Texas Kid said:
Paperwork saved my ass!!!

That's pretty awesome. What kind of paperwork? Are you a caregiver or dispensary?

RMCG · Oct 22, 2010

Congrats TK.

Mr.Sputnik · Oct 22, 2010

yes sir Tex, glad that blew over for ya.

Did the neighbor peak over the fence or what :banana1sv6:

Texas Kid · Oct 22, 2010

Helicopters got me on the radar, I really think they thought my plant count was off the charts because from the air my outdoor setup looked friggin killer, like there could have been 100 plants out there but alas there were only 29 in the ground.

They literally came in while we were trimmin poundage, nothing at all we could do about that, but it was all good and I am one tap dancing mofo, Gregory Hines biatches!!! lol

Tex

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