A bill for an ordinance amending the Denver medical marijuana code of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to regulate and implement medical marijuana research and development facilities and to modify provisions to conform with state statute. Amends the Denver Medical Marijuana Code of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to authorize a new local medical marijuana license to regulate and implement medical marijuana research and development facilities and to modify provisions to conform with state statute. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-17-20.
Madam Secretary, please. Both following up through the 13 hours, 13 eyes, accountability. Your decision has passed. All right. Please put the next item on our screens and you'll be ready to put up to six to on work this. They were supposed. To go to six to Series two 2020 to be placed upon final consideration and do that. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Are you going to move? We're going to go to council member. So the market. You are in use. You are. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Councilwoman Cohen, each for delaying this last week so that I would have an opportunity to speak on why I would like to vote no and strongly encourage my colleagues to vote no on this ordinance. I think it's really appropriate that it's coming on the heels of our discussion around the new dispo ordinance. We've had legalized marijuana for almost a decade in our state in its different forms with medical, recreational, and to date, we don't have a disparity, a completed disparity study to reveal to us where the gaps are. We only know anecdotally that there are less than ten license owners that are black or brown in the state of Colorado and even less in the city of Denver. We have a major equity problem, and that is why I supported extending the the moratorium or the date until we start our new lottery. On the other ordinance, what I don't feel is appropriate is passing this ordinance tonight. This is an ordinance that opens up an entirely brand new license type. We know from experience that we did not plan well for other license types. We know that we had such severe inequities we needed to place a moratorium and caps on different license types in specific with gravity. You can find really good. No. Can you hear? Yup. And so now I believe that if we're going to delay the lottery for the other license types, we must delay the lottery for this brand new license type. We must delay opening the license type until we have an equity plan in place. Unfortunately, what this is going to do if we do not maintain it as a pilot, is that it opens the floodgates for outsiders, people outside of the state, to invest and participate in this industry. Because we've had the we've had those changes happen at the state level that allow for this to happen. All I'm asking for is either that we treat this initial license as a pilot and don't allow any other licenses of this type until we figure out our equity plan or that we pause on this license until we have an equity plan. The only thing being proposed is a mechanism for obtaining information. No benchmarks, no requirements, no expectations around equity that we would have for a new licensee under this license type. And so I'm asking my colleagues to think about the responses to the questions that we that I raised and how there's nothing in there that's going to protect our marginalized communities from the same thing happening again. That happened when we opened up our medical marijuana licenses and then our recreational licenses. Please vote no on this tonight. Give it one year to to become a part of our equity plan. Give us a year to think it through or treat this individual licensee as a pilot. Thank you. If you can't remember, don't see anybody else in the queue. So. Madam Secretary, I go to you for. Roll call. All right. Black are. Herndon can h. Sawyer. Torres. CdeBaca. No. Gilmore. I kind. Hi. Cashman. I. Ortega, I. Sandoval I Council President. Secretary Bruce $100,000. To advise. 2012 as well as to have passed that does include the little of numbers. Remember that this is a concern because this is your last chance to vote for a resolution to the document. No consideration on the floor. It is unusual for you. You. Go ahead. Good to go. Thank you. I move the resolution to be adopted and those final considerations are placed upon final consideration and do pass and block for the following items. All series of 2023, 42, three, 47 and 348 340 9301 300 340 208 237 230 8303 220 73043 ten 312 262 and two 9262 four. Just voted on. Not on. Right. Sure. Okay. So much to do. But everything else. Is that correct, Victoria? That's correct. Okay, great. And second tier. So. I'm secretary. Black. Black. Flynn. Herndon. Sawyer. Torres. CdeBaca. I'm sorry. Stuart. About the Gilmore Girls. I can't. I Cashman. I Ortega. I want. Sandoval High Council president. Voted. 1313. On the resolutions I've been adopting and the bills have been placed on final consideration and due to council will not take recess as evening and single the business for this body. This meeting is adjourned.