While legislators figure out the details, the Eagle County Sheriff and Eagle Police will abide by the books… ‘We’re going to hold the line just like we did with medical marijuana businesses,’ said. ‘To get a business license in Gypsum, you have to sign an affidavit that says you comply...
Read more →“Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith is asking the county commissioners to “put the brakes” on all marijuana businesses to see how state regulations shape up in light of voters’ legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana in Colorado. But the elected board wants to gather more information before deciding whether to enact a temporary moratorium,...
Read more →“According to the Daily Camera, the Hive Co-op ‘is BYOC: bring your own cannabis. There’s a 1-ounce limit, $5 cover charge and 21-years-of-age requirement with a valid ID.’ What explicitly bars, meanwhile, is public consumption, with the actual language as follows: “nothing in this section shall permit consumption that is conducted openly...
Read more →“Unanswered questions around Colorado’s Amendment 64 legalizing marijuana are puzzling Larimer County’s law enforcement chiefs about where their authority ends. In the first of a series of meetings that will help guide the county’s approach to legal marijuana, Sheriff Justin Smith and District Attorney Cliff Riedel told county commissioners that they are scratching their...
Read more →Washington County, CO installs moratorium on retail applications until regulations are completed. ”The Board of Washington County Commissioners adopted a Resolution “Declaring a Moratorium on the Applications for Any and All Permitted Activity” relating to Amendment 64. The moratorium further states, “The Board of County Commissioners finds that the State is currently undertaking rule making...
Read more →”Once retail shops for recreational marijuana can open their doors in Colorado, who will actually be allowed to use them? This was one of the questions raised at a meeting yesterday of the Amendment 64 task force charged with making recommendations on implementing the new law. We’ll likely see more debate over the next month...
Read more →”They have two months to create the rules to regulate a new industry of legalized, regulated marijuana sales in Colorado. They are members of a task force created by an executive order on December 10, when Gov. John Hickenlooper officially declared Amendment 64 law. Their mission: establishing a regulatory framework for a new statewide marijuana industry… There are five...
Read more →“Loveland officials have begun to explore whether the city might go smokeless regarding the commercial marijuana provisions of voter-approved Amendment 64… But two city council members who have floated the idea of opting out of licensing marijuana stores in Loveland say they have 16,620 reasons to pursue that remedy. The city has time: Local governments have...
Read more →” “If you sell to the federal government or state government, you are required to certify that you have a drug-free workplace — and so it’s still against federal law to smoke pot,” says. “I don’t care if people smoke or not. At the end of the day, it doesn’t bother me. But the...
Read more →“Therefore, if you think the licensed and legal sale of marijuana will begin soon and tax revenues will come rolling in shortly thereafter, well, guess again. The state actually has until Dec. 1, 2013, to set up the system for issuing licenses to marijuana producers, processors and retailers, and collecting taxes. Even when (and if)...
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