I do believe this bill passed last week. (HB1043)
So anyone that's a registered caregiver must sign up with the DOR as of July 1st, 2011 and be subject to inspection, zoning, obtaining a permit (with an unspecified cost still) from the DOR. This is total BS.
I'm stepping down as a caregiver, my patients are livid.
And additionally the Feds are threatening the state now because of this new bill (1043) saying it violates federal law, and that state officials won't be exempt from prosecution.
Or rather from the feds showing up, saying "hand over the list" and the DOR complying. Then raiding at random anyone who was dumb enough to sign up. Good luck! The state legislators ruined what was looking to be a great system for medical marijuana distribution. It's all gone to the biggest lobbyists in the last year. And that means the wrong direction for small, private caregivers.
They want you hittin that dispensary, err sorry MMJ center. Oh and by the by....they also put an extended moratorium on anyone hoping to open an MMJ center as of July 1st, 2011. Instead of having the framework in place and licensing out more, they want to keep things just the way they are and lockout any new players. So they added a moratorium until July 1st, 2012 on applications. Fun stuff. Too bad not enough people are responding to the counter bills, like the one to overturn 1284. Most people in this industry worry only about their immediate selves, business, friends, and family. Worrying little about their active participation in activism.
Which means things will slowly and surely get worse, not better. State legislators are derailing the whole system, piece by piece.