Medical pot advocates vow fight if state implements new rules
Peter Marcus, DDN Staff Writer
http://www.thedenverdailynews.com/article.php?aID=4956

Andy Cookston stands in his south Denver printing shop flanked by two like-minded herbal scientists.

On this particular day he is concerned about not being able to serve the needs of all of his patients. That’s right. Patients walk through the doors of Digital Impact Communications — they’re set on finding a cure for whatever ails them most.

Behind the scenes of this printing business is a place where Digital Impact Communications becomes Cannabis Medical, 762 Kalamath St. — a sanctuary in the city where Cookston and his colleagues, Juan Diaz and Randy Morrison, provide a healing service filled with ginger snaps and chocolate drops.

Oh, and everything’s filled with medical marijuana strains like Purple Avalanche, Sour Diesel and Blueberry. Patients can also just take the stuff home and stuff it in a pipe.

The health department on Monday will consider making things a bit more complicated for Cookston’s caregiving operation, which he operates with his wife, Lori. On Monday, the Board of Health will vote on a proposal that would limit caregivers to five patients, as well as require them to provide so-called “significant care,” like cooking, cleaning and scrubbing toilets.

A unified clan of opponents — running the gamut from HIV-AIDS patients to bodies fighting cancer — have all been shouting, “No.”

Lawsuits are already planned if the vote of the nine-member board doesn’t go their way.

In the meantime, Cookston is hoping his two-dozen or so patients aren’t hurt along the way.

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