Transcript HB1284 - Edson, Maytin & Matz LLP

Edson, Maytin & Matz LLP
Colorado Criminal Defense
Medical Marijuana Consultation
Offices in Denver and Aspen
www.WarrenEdson.com
Rapture Date: July 1, 2011
The Day Grey becomes Black and White
Possession, Manufacturing, and
Distribution of Marijuana is Illegal.
Article 18 Section 14
Colorado Constitution
• Amendment 20 was enacted on July 1, 2001.
Yes 915,527
No 786,983
• Colorado Population: 5,024,748
• Denver Population: 610,345
• Patient numbers remained at about 2,000
from 2001- July 2009
• A handful of “dispensaries”
Medical Marijuana Registry
Application History
% Change
2004
Jan
29
Feb
32
Mar
37
Apr
39
May
34
Jun
60
Jul
52
Aug
54
Sep
38
Oct
49
Nov
58
Dec
30
Totals
512
% Increase/year
2005
51
67
72
64
85
64
48
47
52
76
66
38
730
43%
2006
45
60
84
98
108
103
81
97
94
114
91
65
1040
42%
2007
131
123
143
135
169
146
143
179
197
221
176
192
1955
88%
2008
245
246
286
328
360
431
432
489
495
527
424
457
4720
141%
2009
495
587
807
1192
1264
1943
2492
3674
3523
4751
9794
10585
41107
771%
2010
11508 2225%
12320 1999%
10872 1247%
8537 616%
6881 444%
7864 305%
5806 133%
5080
38%
68868
Patient Explosion
Patient Applications
140000
120000
100000
80000
Patient Applications
60000
40000
20000
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Industry Explosion
August 2009
8,000 Patients
 Dispensaries: ?
Grows: ?
IPMs: ?
June 2011
123,890 Patients
773 MMCs
1,219 OPCOs
309 IPMs
Legislative Session 2010
House Bill 1284 Senate Bill 109
3 New Statutory Defenses
• 1) Medical Marijuana Centers (MMC)
 No more dispensaries
 For profit
 Can make retail sales to patients
 Can make wholesale sales to other MMCs and
IPMs
• 2) Optional Premises Cultivation Operation (OPCO)
 Grow Operations
 Has to be directly connected to one MMC
 Is a manufacturing operation
• 3) Infused Product Manufacturer (IPM)
 Can wholesale to any MMC. Can not make retail sales.
 Can own their own OPCO or acquire medical marijuana from an MMC
 All the medical marijuana from their OPCO must go into their infused products
DOR 77 Page “Micro Rules”
March 2011
• 1) Clones are Plants 1.205
• 2) Signs
• Propagation, Vegetation, Flowing 1.205C
• Limited Access Area 10.100
“Do Not Enter – Limited Access Area – Access limited to Licensed owners,
employees and contractors only”
12” * 12” ½ inch in height
• 3) Occupational Licenses 8.100
• Key, Support, and Registration
– $75 to $250
– Employee Manual
• 4) New Registry 1.200
• MMC registers with MMED.
• Include relative plant count BUT do your homework
• 72 hours
DOR Micro Rules
• 5) Tracked
 Weigh.
 Processed. Transport within 48 hours to the MMC. 1.205 (I)
 Manifest 11.2 (d)
• 6) Dirty Hippy Rule 12.100
• Employee issues
• What happens?
• 7) Restriction on Moving Businesses 16.110 (d)
• Good Stuff: They listened to privacy concerns, reduced camera
requirements, separate licenses, outdoor growing recognized, increased
plants recommendations legitimized.
HB 11-1043
The 1284 “fix”
Signed by the Governor on 6/1/11
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Extend the moratorium for businesses and communities
No more clone “Immature Plants” CRS 12-43.3-104 (1.5)
-can sell to patients or Primary Caregivers
-can sell up to ½ the recommended plant count
CRS 12-43.3-402
3) Records now private CRS 12-43.3-202 (d)
4) Some felons can play CRS 12-43.3-307 (h)
5) Owners vs. Employees
-Residency
6) OPCOs locations no longer confidential CRS 12-43.3-310
7) 35 day rule is kind of sort of gone CRS 12-43.3 (5)
-Call CDPHE
-Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm
HB 11-1043
The 1284 “fix”
8) Vending machines???? CRS 12-43.3-402 (5.5)
9) Labs can now develop, test, and produce
“marijuana-based products.”
CRS 12-43.3-402 (6)
 But no ownership interest in MMCs or IPMs
CRS 12-43.3-404 (10)
10) 500 Plant limit on OPCOs connected to
IPMs. CRS 12-43.3-404 9(a)
-huge out clause
HB 11-1043
The 1284 “fix”
11) Single grow for common owned centers.
CRS 12-43.3-403(2)
12) Can give away MMJ:
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indigent patients
-State Health Agency
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hospice care. CRS 12-43.3-403 9(c)
13) Physician issue addressed CRS 25-1.5-106
14) Caregivers, ALL, have to register with the State
Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority.
CRS 25-1.5-106 7(e)
Gambling and Booze
Reexamine the Numbers
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Colorado: 5,024,748
Denver: 610,345
Patients 123,890
2.5 % of the TOTAL Population
Number of 7-11’s in Denver?
-69
Number of Starbucks in Denver?
-84
Number of Dunkin Donuts in Colorado?
-0
Number of MMCs in Denver?
-270
One for every 2,260 Denver
Residents
Statewide 159 Patients per MMC
Over 1,100 different MDs have signed
an MMJ recommendation.
Rapture Date 7/1/11
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Caregiver registry
New MMC registry through MMED
Occupation licenses required
Sanitation Rules
Packaging/labeling required
Cameras required
Manifest required
Labs can manufacture
Increased recommendations
recognized.
• New MMC registry through MMED
• Packet from MMED will be out this week
Edson, Maytin & Matz LLP
Colorado Criminal Defense
Medical Marijuana Consultation
Offices in Denver and Aspen
www.WarrenEdson.com