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Colorado high court rejects challenge to medical marijuana law
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Feb. 7, 2011
The Colorado Supreme Court will not hear a marijuana dispensary owner's challenge to state regulations requiring more monitoring of medical marijuana patients.
On Jan. 5, Attorney Andrew Reid filed a petition with the high court on behalf of a dispensary owner and several medical marijuana patients who claimed that the legislation violated patient privacy rights.
The two laws contain numerous stipulations, including that marijuana purchases be videotaped, that dispensary owners obtain licenses to operate and that physicians maintain a recordkeeping system listing patients certified to obtain marijuana.
Reid said the Supreme Court decision was disappointing, but he plans to refile the action in district court.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/02/07/gvbf0207.htm.
