STATE HEALTH BOARD DELAYS VOTE ON NEW MEDICAL MARIJUANA RULES
Thursday, March 5th, 2009March 3, 2009
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The Colorado Board of Health has postponed a March 18 vote on whether to restrict the number of medical marijuana patients a registered caregiver can serve. The move comes after activists inundated the board with hundreds of protest e-mails and letters. A vote is now expected in June.
According to the board, the vote was delayed to help find a larger room to accommodate the large turnout expected at the meeting. Nearly 5,000 Coloradans are currently on the state’s medical marijuana registry.
“It appeared that the interest in this issue is quite large and we wanted to have a venue that was reasonable for the size of the crowd that we are expecting, particularly folks who may need ADA assistance,” said Ron Hyman, the state’s registrar of vital statistics. “We are looking for another venue large enough to handle a crowd. June is when we are looking at now. Because of the administrative procedures involved in changing the venue, we need to get a timely notice out to everybody about the change.”
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