BREAKING NEWS: Robert Corry per his Facebook account says Colorado Senator Romer has pulled his 39 page Medical Marijuana Bill from consideration.
Something smells fishy though. No one works as diligently as he did just to give up. But, Rob Corry did present one heck of an argument. And by the time I got done editing this entry I found whats next on Sen. Romer’s Huff Post Blog:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-romer/colorado-medical-marijuan_b_417488.html
“So where do we go from here? In order to buy a few weeks for Janice and others to mobilize, we now will divide the legislation into two bills. The first bill, which I will sponsor in the Colorado Senate, will deal solely with the need for a meaningful doctor patient relationship to get a MMJ referral and the creation of a 24-hour per day registry for patients. This is the one part of the bill that most reasonable people can agree on.
The second bill dealing with dispensaries and growing operations will start in the House and most likely will be very similar to the Sheriff Association’s proposed legislation, including a five patient cap per caregiver. I will continue to fight for clinics to serve patients like Janice, but I am getting increasingly skeptical that either side understands her needs.
What a shame. We really could have set the national model for medical marijuana including research and sophisticated evidence-based medicine, but the same old fight on both sides–and the failed status quo–appears to have prevailed….”
He wants a fight. He is really gonna get one now.