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LETTER to COLORADO BOARD OF HEALTH
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Dear Board Members:
Please avoid expensive litigation and vote to reduce the Medical Marijuana Registry fee because:
1) Article XVIII states that the fees can only be used for the administration of the registry, which is feeble at best, considering the long wait patients must endure to receive their cards.
2) The Tabor amendment also limits fee taking by state agencies to their administrative costs.
Why no one has sued the Board yet is beyond me. Fees that were increased by the legislature last year are currently under the gun: Proposition 101 would require voter approval to create or increase fees on vehicles and telecommunication services and it is the result of out of control legislators.
The Board would do well to heed Coloradoans anger when it comes to enforcing hidden taxes by upping fee taking. The Governor, who appointed many of you, robbed the Marijuana Registry of $286,000.00 in April of 2009 and has said in public that he's prepared to do it again.
The legislature just voted to move $11.6 million July 1 into the Department of Revenue to enforce HB1284. The new enforcement agency has taken in only $7 million in outrageous fees from 1100 people and is now mulling just how much to charge for a yearly license for the legal entities they created (without going to the voters). Even though HB1284 designates the fees the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Agency not be part of the general fund, based on the Governor's continued disregard for the law I wonder just how vigorous enforcement can be if there is no money, all of it having been moved into the general fund in the near future.
To lower the fee for the application for the Medical Marijuana Registry to reflect the actual cost of the registry is the only legal route the Board can take. A $9 million dollar surplus in the registry's coffers plus $6 million in un-cashed checks is too much of a temptation. Colorado's intelligent taxpayers will not ignore the blatant and illegal behavior of the Governor, his lackies and the entire legislature in the last year!
Shine A Light
Michelle L LaMay M.A., the Dean
Cannabis University™ Inc of Colorado
1-303-886-7998
www.cannabisuniversityinc.com
Cannabisuniversity@indra.com
www.Twitter.com/CannabisU
Categories: MMJ Movement
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If you want the Board of Health to take you seriously, you need to look more professional than that.
Not trying to be rude. I just think more of us should look like reasonable, professional people when trying to deal with the government on these issues, so we'll have more credibility with the mainstream.
If you want the Board of Health to take you seriously, you need to look more professional than that.
Not trying to be rude. I just think more of us should look like reasonable, professional people when trying to deal with the government on these issues, so we'll have more credibility with the mainstream.
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E por agora chega, pois eu faço turnos e tenho de ir dormir um pouco.
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