{"id":7203,"date":"2017-02-07T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2410792"},"modified":"2017-02-07T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:36:49","slug":"parker-latest-community-to-impose-12-plant-limit-per-household-on-pot-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/parker-latest-community-to-impose-12-plant-limit-per-household-on-pot-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker latest community to impose 12-plant limit per household on pot grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/parker-latest-community-to-impose-12-plant-limit-per-household-on-pot-grows\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Parker this week became the latest Colorado community to place a cap on the number of pot plants that can be cultivated at a residence, a move town officials said is necessary to reduce odor complaints and ensure grows do not cause electrical overloads and dangerous chemical storage.<\/p>\n<p>The town council set the limit at 12 plants per household, echoing measures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/08\/09\/douglas-county-gets-harsh-with-marijuana-growing\/\">passed by Douglas County<\/a>, Colorado Springs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2013\/12\/09\/denver-limits-pot-homegrows-to-12-plants-no-front-yard-smoke-ban\/\">Denver<\/a>, Carbondale, Lafayette and others in the state. It also limited electrical use to 1,440 watts in a home\u2019s grow area.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules, which were passed unanimously Monday by the council, apply to both medical and recreational marijuana grows. Parker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/19\/restrictions-on-private-cannabis-grows-stirs-legal-challenge\/\">first proposed the limits last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teri Robnett,\u00a0executive director of the Cannabis Patients Alliance, said she\u2019s concerned about measures like the one passed by Parker because medical marijuana patients with serious health issues, like cancer or epilepsy, may be restricted in what they or their caregivers can produce for proper patient care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese patients are the ones that are really going to be hurt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parker this week became the latest Colorado community to place a cap on the number of pot plants that can be cultivated at a residence, a move town officials said is necessary to reduce odor complaints and ensure grows do not cause electrical overloads and dangerous chemical storage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,6933,6815,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,6934,6820,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}