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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO -- Colorado Springs police along with El Paso County District Attorney Dan May went in front of city council on Monday to talk about problems surrounding medical marijuana.
According to May, the law is creating havoc for law enforcement. Some of the issues that were brought up: regulating land use, strengthening building codes and enforcing sales tax.
“These are dispensaries opened when there are no rules about them at all. So they can be in your neighborhoods, they can be next to schools there's no regulation of who runs them, they can be convicted felons. You can be organized crime and they can say that, but we can't prevent you from opening up that dispensary," said May.
Attorney Clifton Black ,who represents medical marijuana users as well as owners of dispensaries, told FOX21 News he agrees regulations should be in order when a dispensary goes up near a school, but said the problem is that law enforcement is trying to over-regulate medical marijuana and dispensaries, which is a violation of our constitution.
“I don't have a problem with regulation as long as it's reasonable regulation. My concern is that there's not an overreaction that will prevent people from receiving their medication that a doctor has recommend that they take,” said Black
City Councilman Tom Gallagher says city council is now in a holding pattern for 90 days and then will meet with county commissioners.
