Colorado Springs collected $268,400 in application fees from medical marijuana businesses, according to the City Clerk’s Office.
If all the applications are approved, the city is poised to pocket $477,000 more in license fees.
Here’s the mathematical breakdown:
The city received 122 applications. That’s $2,200 a pop.
The applications covered 265 license types. That’s $1,800 a pop.
The license fees will not be due to the city until both the city and the state approve the applications, according to Lee McRae, a license enforcement officer in the clerk’s office.
He said the city is estimating that it will take between three and five months to vet all the applications.
smoke room at hooters??
Don’t tell me marijuana does not pay. Here we have about $500,000 going to the city to give applications/license fee to MMJ stores. Once everything is in order for the MMJ stores to sell their product, there is also sells tax, property tax and personnal taxes that the state, county and city will collect. Also, the look at the employement that will arise from having MMJ Shops, from: Farming of Marijuana, transportation of Marijuana to Sells. So something good is coming from the sell of marijuana. Now if we can get rid of those Federal Government who are threatening (In California for now) to shut-down these types of stores as well as the growing operations of marijauna.
When the federal storm troopers for the DEA come to our city the city leaders should stand up and say not in our town. We have collected money from sated of Colorado legal business owners and we need to protect these business owners from any type of federal intrusion.
well seems to me that there is some revenue that is about to be collected…but I wonder how the city can collect this money since banks have closed their doors to these MMJ shops? Will the city be in violation of some sort of federal law by collecting money from MMJ shops? To be fair I support both MMJ shops and the legalizing/regulation/taxing of marijuana as well…
Legalize. Please. Where do I sign up? Where do I vote? Who is standing in the way? We need politicians to gut-up and make the changes needed to “fix” things. Do I smell a lobby?
Nothing but a money grab by the city. Banks across the state are closing accounts because it’s still a federal offense. Money stemming from those shops have ended up in the same sentence with laundering. The city had better take note before the reap the benefits of money obtained by illegal means.
What a smokin’ good deal!
dope dope man. tax man tax man.
SickofCityCouncil says:
October 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm Nothing but a money grab by the city. Banks across the state are closing accounts because it’s still a federal offense. Money stemming from those shops have ended up in the same sentence with laundering. The city had better take note before the reap the benefits of money obtained by illegal means.
I AGREE WITH YOU TOTALLY.
They’ll grab what the can when the can but you can bet when and if the poo hits the fan with the Feds they’ll cower behind their immunity while the rest go down.
Do you remember when there was such a thing as “state’s rights? ” It is a sad day every time the Federal Government tramples over the wishes of a state’s citizens and ignores the rights granted under the Constitution.
The problem with upfront fees is they’re a barrier to getting into the business. That’s good for existing dispensaries. It’s good for the neo-prohibitionists who will do anything to shut the entire thing down. But it’s ultimately bad for the industry as a whole. Entrance fees should be nominal, and the city should make it’s money on a hefty sales tax … not upfront fees.
And when users turn into zombies and become non-productive members of society, who pays for their care and rehabilitation? Guess!
Some 30% of it should be put in a defense fund before the crap comes down with Feds Its call Accountability and responsibility don’t care which dept of the city finds a way to get it and lose it again but the pataints need protection more than anything and if you’ve got a problem with that lets put the fees in line with EVERY businesses in town not 18 times higher !
Come on people, Colorado Springs hasn’t had a new industry in years to provide jobs for all the people getting out and retiring here and Fort Carson is never going toprovide enough jobs. With all the money coming into the economy becuase of medical marijuana why in the living hell are we letting the GOP and tea partiests keep putting restraints on people to stop the industry? Taxes pay for fire and police and city utlilities and sewere systems. We pay only a tiny, tiny fraction of the actual cost on our annual property taxes. NO, the feds shouldn’t get money for the defense fund. Geez, you must be a soldier? Big surprise. This is local business, the feds get thier money through the federal tax paid by the new businesses. It’s about time the feds wake up and realize prohibition never worked. America has the most laws against drugs in the world and the worst drug problem. See the correlation? People always want what they can’t have. Legalize it like alcohol and control the same way. We already have all of the DUID laws in place and all the illegal trafficketing laws in place. So whats the problem? Oh yeah, conservatards……This is not Obama doing this, this is the DEA trying to justify thier existance. They really need to concentrate on the meth labs and heroin and stuff like that that is making a huge comeback. Shoot! Two years ago a soldier ran into a gate at the base all stoned out on qualudes!!! Why isn/t the DEA taking care of that and medical personell who are abusing prescription drugs from thier workplaces. These are the issues that the DEA needs to be all over. But thatr’s not what they want. They want a picture in the paper with huge bales of maryjane behind them, theri ballistic vests on and thier weenie-ass little federal 9 mm pistols. They need bean counters to check hospital pharmacys and ambulances, stuff like that! Why do I know? I’m a cop! (Not for CSPD) Do you people have any idea how many medical assistants and nurses steal pain medication from thier workplace and from nursing homes when they are supposed to give those drugs to the residents? Hmmmmmm? I can’t even count how many of those cases I’ve worked. Its about time the Colorado Springs Tea Party against law and order and public safety association get real. Now ignorant Mayor Bach is looking at laying off firefighters and police oficers! How long does it take for them to respond to your cxalls now? Well, it’s gonna get worse when Bach fires a bunch of them. The tea party are a bunch of anarcists. They want no public services whatsoever and the American infrastructure is gong to collapse. After all, the conservatards in ElPaso County have driven us into huge debt and Douglas Bruce and his tabor has screwed this community into the ground. The conservatives needs to wake up. Sad thing is I used to be republican, but never again, because as a public servant I’d like to keep my job, I like my career field and since they want to rid the world of public servants in the name of less government and put the US MIlitary in charge as national police, well, hell, I’m voting democrat everytime. Read thier webpage. Thats thier plan. I’ve read it and it’s frightening. Maybe I’ll just move to Canada. It’s a real shame that I, as a disabled veteran, married to a disabled veteran, and a child of a vietnam and Korean war veteran, can’t even stay in America with the tea party fixing to shut down public servant career fields. At least in Canada there are police officers and firefighters there to help you. Soon there won’t be here. It starts small people, just remember, Hitler didn’t become a dictator overnight. He was voted in and then he gradually, and lsowly hit the people with pep talks, just like the tea party is doing., Hmmmm, amazing similarities don’t you think? Move somewwhere James Dobson, you and your conservatards have ruined the freedoms Colorado was once famed for. All of them. The GOP and hte tea party has destroyed agricultre and ranching in America by doing these things a little at a time. Kind of creeps up you doesnt it?
Ralph,the zombies are easy to spot.They all have a caital R in front of their names.Now try GOOGLE,do a little research of your own.Its called thinking for yourself.
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