Medical marijuana |
DENVER - Medical marijuana dispensary owners crowded the Denver City and County Building Monday to apply for licenses under new guidelines passed by the city council.
Any person who owns at least a 10 percent share of a pot dispensary must apply for a license. Those with felony convictions within the past five years are not allowed to own one.
The application includes a background check, fingerprinting and $2,000 fee, plus the cost of the background checks. There is also a $3,000 annual license fee.
Dispensaries must submit applications by March 1 to continue legal operations.
Several bills moving through the Colorado legislature aim to crack down on the seemingly unabated spread of medical marijuana dispensaries across the state.
One would require a bon a fide doctor-patient relationship to exist before a doctor could write a medical marijuana recommendation. Another would effectively shut down all marijuana dispensaries by limiting the number of patients it could serve to five.
A third bill would impose an 18-month 'time out' on new dispensaries.
Any person who owns at least a 10 percent share of a pot dispensary must apply for a license. Those with felony convictions within the past five years are not allowed to own one.
The application includes a background check, fingerprinting and $2,000 fee, plus the cost of the background checks. There is also a $3,000 annual license fee.
Dispensaries must submit applications by March 1 to continue legal operations.
Several bills moving through the Colorado legislature aim to crack down on the seemingly unabated spread of medical marijuana dispensaries across the state.
One would require a bon a fide doctor-patient relationship to exist before a doctor could write a medical marijuana recommendation. Another would effectively shut down all marijuana dispensaries by limiting the number of patients it could serve to five.
A third bill would impose an 18-month 'time out' on new dispensaries.
