Kremmling Bans Dispensaries

Kremmling has decided to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in it's limits, enacting criminal penalties for operating a dispensary. The Colorado Constitutional Amendment did not stop the town from banning dispensaries.

“We've got to draw the line somewhere,” Trustee Jason Bock said Wednesday night, a sentiment echoed by other trustees...

...The ordinance, adopted Wednesday, will go into effect in 30 days. It says the Board of Trustees “finds it essential that the Town enact ordinances to prevent the secondary effects of medical marijuana dispensaries, which are deemed detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare ...”

- Durango Herald News

The ordinance creates criminal penalties of up to one year in jail and/or one thousand dollars in fines, but officials say it does not target medical card holders who grow for personal use.

The town does not want to confiscate medical marijuana plants because it would have to care for them while the matter is being settled, or risk a lawsuit.

We will have to wait for this ordinance to be tested in court to determine its constitutionality.