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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Lawsuit targets Denver’s new 36-plant limit for collective pot grows 🌿Lawsuit targets Denver’s new 36-plant limit for collective pot grows
lawsuit filed Wednesday takes aim at a fresh Denver ordinance that could shut down dozens of unlicensed nonresidential marijuana-growing collectives by limiting them to growing 36 plants.
The Denver City Council passed the measure 11-0 Monday night. It was proposed by Mayor Michael Hancock’s marijuana office, which says it’s attempting to address unsafe conditions in the unlicensed growing facilities and an “exponential increase” in the cultivation of untracked marijuana.
Hancock signed the bill into law on Tuesday.
But the new limit — which doesn’t apply to licensed commercial grow houses — has drawn protests, in part because of the potential impact on caregivers who grow a large number of plants.
The lawsuit was filed by Rebecca Cook, a Littleton woman who suffers from scoliosis. One of her attorneys, Matthew Buck, says that because of difficulties smoking pot, Cook uses tinctures to get the product into her system. Buck adds...
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