Brian Vicente on law enforcement’s medical marijuana “desperation”

​An attempt to kill HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill, fell short yesterday — and that’s fine by Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, a prominent MMJ advocate.

“I think we’re seeing desperation on the side of law enforcement,” he says, “and I also think they can’t see the forest for the trees. They’re so sued to being in the prohibitionist mindset that they can’t possibly fathom regulating marijuana.”

According to Vicente, who spent Monday at the Capitol, “you had a coalition of law enforcement bringing a resolution for a referendum that would have explicitly destroyed dispensaries. It would have said they were illegal under state law and would have heaped all kinds of really onerous requirements on caregivers that aren’t currently in the constitution.

“They wanted to put it before the voters in November, which would have been a waste of time, because I think the voters would have soundly rejected it. But it was a very clear attempt by them to destroy the safe-access model.”

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