By Scott Rochat
Longmont Times-Call
Dacono Colorado’s three medical marijuana dispensaries are suing to stay open.
On Friday, a lawyer for Dacono Meds, MaryJane’s Medicinal and Green Medicals (formerly The Green Door) asked the Weld County District Court to block the city’s ban of marijuana-related businesses. Without legal protection, all three will have to leave town after Dec. 31.
The Dacono City Council passed the ban in June by a 4-2 vote, but a petition drive by the dispensaries put the ban on the ballot. That means Dacono residents will vote in 2013 on whether the ban lives or dies. But the petition couldn’t change the dispensaries’ deadline, and an attempt to extend the drop-dead date until after the special election failed on a 4-3 City Council vote.
“Plaintiffs will suffer irreparable harm if they are forced to close their doors and cease business operations on Dec. 31, 2012, as they will be required to destroy their inventory of medical marijuana, including all their plants and seedlings, and otherwise will be unable to conduct their businesses in Dacono,” the dispensaries’ attorney, Judd Golden of Boulder, wrote in his brief.
Dacono city administrator A.J. Euckert said the city had received and reviewed the filing.
