Colorado’s New Marijuana Law Is Facing Legal Challenges, And It Should!

Colorado’s new law to restrict teen marijuana use faces legal challenge

How does someone under the age of 18 get access to cannabis?

If you are a medical marijuana patient the answer is “on a doctor’s recommendation” and of course you would have to live in a legal cannabis state.

If you don’t have a doctor’s recommendation or don’t live in a legal cannabis state, then the next obvious choice is where anyone under the age of 18 can get marijuana – the black market.

While this little logic exercise seemed fairly straightforward to you and me, Colorado lawmakers seem unable to follow this line of reasoning.

Because of this, they recently passed a law restricting patient access to medical cannabis.

However, while this law has been passed, it is currently facing legal issues due to the constitutionality of the whole. We’ll talk more about the lawsuit below.

The purpose of this article is twofold;

1. Expose the currently contested law

2. Point out the means by which teenagers can gain access to cannabis.

The Colorado law that’s on the ropes

Let’s talk about the law first.

Spearheaded by three Democrats and one Republican, the law essentially limits the daily amount of medical cannabis a medical patient can buy on any given day.

However, the bill also sets up a council to conduct research on cannabis concentrates, which will then be used to fuel a public awareness campaign.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. In reality there are many more aspects of this bill including;

Medical cannabis retailer seed-to-sale tracking

• Monitoring of patient data such as purchase limits and “potency limitation”

• Adults can only buy 8 grams of cannabis per day

• 18-20 year olds with a medical marijuana card can only buy 2 grams per day

There is a caveat that allows some patients to have more IF. to win

This is the law in Colorado right now, but some patients are hoping the lawsuit could change things.

Some CLEAR problems with the law …

As with most cannabis laws, these issues do not take the patient into account. Apparently, lawmakers know more about your body than you do.

Or at least they think so.

According to the lawsuit, the new law violates the constitutional right of medical patients to the drugs they need. For people who suffer from seizure disorders, these “high concentrates” are often exactly what they need to treat their symptoms.

The fact that the legislature passed legislation simply because there “maybe” a problem with high potency is like having everyone’s license revoked because “maybe” some people crash.

In addition, patient data tracking appears to be eerily Orwellian in nature. Many patients do not want to give their shopping data to a government organization, no matter how “friendly” they want to appear.

After all, the doctors are hesitant to participate under the new law, mainly because of the conflict between the state and the federal government.

Since “certification” is just another name for a “prescription”, doctors could lose their DEA licenses if they give them to patients.

And so patients are now forced to buy a small limit and doctors will not “prescribe” the materials they need.

Who is suffering? Not Yadira Caraveo or Alec Garnett or Chris Hansen or Paul Lundeen who sponsored this bill.

No, it is the patients who are stuck with their bad choices and I hope that the lawsuit actually causes a stir across the country.

Why should the Colorado law be repealed?

There are a number of reasons why this law should be classified as “unconstitutional”. The first was that the bill was rushed and changed.

This is one of the brain children of Yadira Caraveo who wanted to “ban” cannabis products in Colorado over 15%.

Caraveo doesn’t use, has no understanding of what it means to use cannabis, or has no experience with people.

She thinks of the children as Nancy Raegan thought of the children.

They pushed this because “The Teens Smoke Weed That Is Too Strong!”

The problem is, there isn’t nearly the same level of control with alcohol. In Colorado, 24.4% of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 20 consumed alcohol last month. Compare this to the marijuana demographics and you will see that teenagers are consuming more alcohol than cannabis.

Still, we don’t see any caps on the amount of alcohol an adult can buy in the state.

Even so, the law has been passed and now there is a lawsuit to see if it stays the law.

The sticky end result

Why are you not allowed to make decisions about your own mind or body? Why do we see the need to outsource our personal responsibilities and decisions to doctors or legislators?

Today, the average person seems either “too stupid” or “too addicted” to make informed decisions about their health.

It is not a problem if you are using legally sanctioned drugs because for some magical reason – when drugs are legal, adults and teenagers can make choices on their own.

However, if a drug is “illegal” or, in the case of cannabis, “somehow legal”, then the user is a complete idiot who does not understand their own body.

I agree with the need to do more research on concentrates that is long overdue. Passing blanket laws because you “believe” it is bad – but that’s not why we have a government at all.

Let’s hope those who sue the government win … because this will set a precedent across the country and provide activists with a legal opportunity to tear down the walls lawmakers are trying to build around cannabis.

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