Colorado County Bows To Fed’s Threats

Some twisted CO. County officials have decided that a scheduled closed door conference with their scared and fearful attorney in order to discuss CO.’s medical cannabis regulations.

County officials have been dead silent in the most recent past on this topic since early summer, when the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners decided to pussy out and not to write any rules governing medical cannabis locally.

The Gov.staffers had spent months ringing their hands and writing useless codes to regulate cannabis grow shops and collective operations. They ditched the plan at the pressing of County Att. J. Ely, who stated that the local government officials “could be” subject to criminal issues under federal drug laws, which still consider medical marijuana illegal.

The vast chasim between state and federal laws for the drug have been a concern to lawmakers, as well as medical cannabis providers. Its medical use was made legal in Colorado by a statewide vote in 2000, and dispensaries have proliferated in the Aspen area since 2009, but federal prohibition has gone unchanged.



