Potimus Prime

Currently, as most of you all know, the Drug Enforcement Administration considers cannabis to be a Schedule I controlled substance, giving it the notorious reputation harbored by some of the most dangerous of drugs. A Colorado spokesperson confirmed that his administration will be making this request by the year’s end.

It’s unclear as to how and when the request will be made, but one thing is clear, the request is a mandate hidden deep within House Bill 1284 from 2010, which originally established the statutes for medical marijuana in Colorado. A passage describing the duties of the state licensing authority states the following, under the heading of “The state licensing authority shall,”

IN RECOGNITION OF THE POTENTIAL MEDICINAL VALUE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, MAKE A REQUEST BY JANUARY 1, 2012, TO THE FEDERAL DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION TO CONSIDER RESCHEDULING, FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES, MEDICAL MARIJUANA FROM A SCHEDULE I CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO A SCHEDULE II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE.

And just who might the state licensing authority be? Earlier in the same document, this position is designated to “the executive director of the Department of Revenue or the deputy director of the Department of Revenue if the executive director so designates.” Barbara Brohl was appointed to this role on June 30th by Governor John Hickenlooper, and is the person who will be making this request of the DEA.

Source: Westword

Colorado’s largest labor union announced yesterday that hundreds of workers from the medical marijuana industry are to be bolstering its ranks. The Centennial State’s chapter of the UFCW boasts 25,000 members, and the total of jobs in the MMJ industry is near 8,000.

Steve Ackerman of the Organic Alternatives dispensary in Fort Collins and Kim Cordova of United Food and Commercial Workers both shared their approval at the tryst of the two entities. “We are the retail food, pharmacy, agriculture, food processing, and healthcare Union in Colorado and around the nation,” Cordova said in the announcement.

Also announced was a press conference at which the UFCW will elaborate more on the medical marijuana workers joining the union and the conditions surrounding the ordeal.

Source: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19107764

I think marijuana aficionados everywhere are exhaling a collective toke of relief as news floods in that the Colorado Senate voted last night to extinguish HB11-1261, which sought to impose a “forced blood draw” for drivers thought to be under the influence of tetrahydrocannabinols (delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol, natural or synthetic) and testing the drivers blood content for more than 5 nanograms per milliliter. William Breathes stated in report that even after fifteen hours of not “partaking” the THC levels in his blood came out to be 13.5 nanograms per milliliter, well over the “legal limit” while stone cold sober.

Source: Dever Post