New Rules for Medical Marijuana Caregiver Community in Colorado
Actually, if the state Board of Health endorses a list of offered directives at a public hearing, the regulations for providers of medical-marijuana in Colorado will really change soon.
According to new rules caregivers (special people who farm medical marijuana for some people) will have to not only give medical marijuana for the patients but, in addition, they will have to help patients these people, for example, make them dinner. Do the shopping and so on to take care of them.
And in the situation if a patients wants to get only medical marijuana and don’t need caregiver service, he/she will get neither caregiver nor medical marijuana.
By the way, new rules won’t influence drugstore chemist’s shops, which provide medicines for lots of patients. However, these rules will be a reason of turmoil in caregiver community in Colorado.
It’s really the fact that caregivers usually earn rather little money when they grow marijuana for their patients and in most cases relatives take care of patients and help them about the house and so on.
There are more than ten thousands caregivers in Colorado, and about 120,000 patients who need medical-marijuana.
Nowadays caregivers don’t have to register where the cultivation area is, however new regulations will make them to do it.
Actually, the difference between caregivers and dispensaries is in that caregivers are defended the state constitution where was written that caregivers can give medical marijuana to people who really need it.
In 2009 the Colorado Court of Appeals regulated that caregivers must not only offer their patients with medical marijuana but more over, they must give them legal protection.
Nowadays, advocates of medical-marijuana want to protest the projected rules at rulemaking hearing especially they protest against the rules that forbid caregivers to be united together to create cooperatives and what’s more, these rules limit how often a patient can change his/her caregiver.