COLO. HEALTH BOARD SUSPENDS MEDICAL MARIJUANA RULE

DENVER (AP) - Colorado health officials have decided to temporarily
eliminate a regulation involving medical marijuana caregivers, putting
off a final decision until next month.

The state health board took action Tuesday because members are
concerned their definition of who can provide patients with medical
marijuana contradicted a ruling last week from the Colorado Court of
Appeals.

The board has said that anyone who supplies the drug should be
considered a caregiver under the state's voter-approved medical
marijuana law. But the appeals court ruled that caregivers must have
personal contact with medical marijuana patients and do more to help a
patient with a debilitating condition that merely provide them with
the drug.

The health board will make a final decision on Dec. 16.