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Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!!!!! OK, I have to admit, this is too much fun for me!
The State Board lost this round and had to PAY ATTORNEY FEES!! I ask this humble question, “Is this how the State wants to spend what little money it has?”
A Denver District Court judge rebuked the state board of health today for changing rules about medical marijuana without providing adequate notice to patients.
In his ruling, Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves struck down the state board’s actions from a meeting earlier this month. At that telephone conference meeting the board repealed the definition of medical-marijuana “caregiver”, casting the burgeoning industry into uncertainty — all without taking public testimony. Naves also ordered the state to pay the attorneys’ fees of medical-marijuana advocates, who filed a motion saying they were wrongly blocked from participating in the hearing.
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when the other side has to ante up for the attorney fees!
Way to go.
Did the judge rule that the board’s new rule violated our constitution or that the board’s public notice was fatally flawed? Or both?
I think that if the judge’s main concern was over public meeting fairness issues, then the board shall soon have a public meeting and re-issue the same rule.
You are probably correct about the net effect, but then the actual issue will be litigated.
This is the problem when you have conflicting regulations, statutes (federal & state) and constitutional provisions.
…are you suggesting that this whole litigation matter will change nothing? That the same rule, or change to the rule, will likely be in effect in another month? So, the net effect of this lawsuit is nothing more than the state paying some lawyer fees and nothing more? Where are my rosary beads???
But, then again, the state board of health will have to actually listen to testimony this next time about why the facts of the recent court case don’t warrant a change in the rules (as the judge indicated in the article above). And they’ll have to listen to testimony again from several hundred patients. And the board will have to explain itself credibly in the glare of the media.
As it’s often said, it takes a big person to admit that he or she was wrong. We’ll find out what size and dimensions the members of the board of health are, after this next hearing.
Keep you red eyes on the ball:-)
This battle is far from over.
The wr on drugs is lost. Peole are doing hrd time for over an ounce while medical marijuana is sld by the bushel.
The only legacy that prohibition gave the USA is organized crime, and stock car racing.
The sheer incompetence of the Board of Health forces the question: What were they smoking?
Good news. One more step in the goal towards getting the gummint outta of our way!