Editor's Note: I'd have to agree wholeheartedly: This is a "confusing system." What doesn't seem to make sense (among other things) is this:
"But health officials said at the hearing that parents cannot obtain medical-marijuana for their kids from a separate caregiver at all. Under Colorado law, only the parents of a child medical marijuana patient can be the caregiver for that child, the officials contend. Another area of the law prohibits one caregiver from delegating authority – such as growing marijuana – to another caregiver."
So rather than put the care of children into the hands of medical marijuana experts who understand medicinal properties, dosage and all else that is involved in care, it's supposed to be the sole responsibility (by law?) of the parents' to provide this care? Is it me, or is this truly perplexing?
The Colorado Board of Health on Tuesday rejected a proposal to cap the number of patients that medical-marijuana caregivers can serve.
But some parents who feared the cap could leave them without a source for the special medical-marijuana oil they use to treat their children still left the meeting in limbo, after state health officials told them they have been obtaining the oil against the law.
"We still have a problem there," said board member Rick Brown. "We have no ability to affect the bigger issue here today."
