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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Colorado governor signs medical marijuana crackdown that limits noncommercial pot growers 🌿Colorado governor signs medical marijuana crackdown that limits noncommercial pot growers
DENVER – Colorado's governor signed into law a crackdown on medical marijuana Monday, one of two measures designed to ferret out people improperly using and selling untaxed marijuana.
The law limits caregivers, those who grow pot on behalf of patients, to 99 plants. The change means that some high-volume caregivers will face the same oversight as commercial growers, paying licensing fees and undergoing background checks.
The new rules have support from the recreational pot industry, which has complained that light regulation on Colorado's caregivers has invited black-market growers who don't face residency requirements, background checks or commercial "seed-to-sale" tracking used to ensure pot plants are grown and sold legally.
"We're really trying to make sure that caregivers are part of our regulatory system," said Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, who sponsored the bill.
Caregivers have successfully resisted such limits for years, but the law includes some concessions that won their acceptance....
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