HB 1284 passes through Senate Committee

The bill to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado has passed another hurdle. The senate committee passed the bill through, although some Senators said that they may not vote for it on the final floor vote.

Romer has backed down from his statement of $35,000 fees. More reasonable numbers are being bandied about now, but would still be high combined with local fees.

If the fees were kept low, and the requirement for 70% of medicine to be grown on site were taken out this wouldn't be a horrendous bill, but still a bad one.

Any bill that requires an entrepreneur to have paid off all of their student loans before opening a business is a bad bill. There should not be a double standard for dispensaries, which are protected by Colorado's Constitution.