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Consumer Guide Expands From Cars & Phones To Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 8, 2012 Dispensaries, News, Products

Seattle medical marijuana access point Gourmet Green

FindTheBest — an internet startup known for its consumer-oriented, data-driven comparisons — has applied the same accessible, ordered format which has worked so well for products like cars and smartphones to a comprehensive medical marijuana dispensaries listing.

“Not only does this comparison allow you to locate a dispensary by location, but it also contains tools that enable you to rank, filter, and sort results based on personal preferences,” FindTheBest student intern Richard Taylor told Toke of the Town Tuesday afternoon.

Looking specifically for cannabis clubs with clones? Do you prefer indica or sativa? “Simply refine your search by menu item to view the dispensaries that fulfill your needs,” Taylor told us.

Patients can further narrow results by specifying whether they prefer a physical store location or a delivery service — or if they want a medical marijuana dispensary that accepts credit cards.

Rejected D.C. Marijuana Applicants Taking It To Court

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 7, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

examiner.com

Unsuccessful applicants for the District of Columbia’s medical marijuana program are asking the courts to force reconsideration of their submissions, saying they were rejected by a review panel despite meeting or exceeding the criteria.

Three firms filed a total of five civil complaints to contest the way officials scored and rejected their applications to open a cultivation center to grow cannabis or a dispensary center to sell it to qualified patients, according to the D.C. Office of the Attorney General, reports Tom Howell Jr. of The Washington Times.

The officials who scored and rejected the applications were led by D.C. Department of Health personnel. A spokesman from the Attorney General’s D.C. office said each of the petitions “raise the same allegations, namely that the scoring of their applications was inappropriate.”

Michigan Bill Would Allow Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 7, 2012 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

mlive.com

Michigan Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville) introduced a bill to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries

A proposal introduced in the Michigan House last week would legalize medical marijuana dispensaries, an issue not clarified in the law enacted following voter approval of a 2008 ballot initiative to allow use of cannabis for medical purposes.

The bill, HB 5580, the Medical Marihuana Provisioning Center Regulation Act, was introduced by state Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville), reports Christopher Behnan at the Daily Press & Argus. It will legalize cannabis dispensaries but allow local governments to prohibit them in their communities outright, or regulate their number and location.

Pelosi Condemns Federal Crackdown On Medical Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 3, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “I have strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana”

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday released a statement pushing back against the Obama Administration’s escalated interference with medical marijuana laws in California and other states, which is threatening safe access to medicinal cannabis for patients.

“Crucially, she pointed to the stark contrast between the administration’s current actions and its previous written policy that ‘did not pursue individuals whose actions complied with state laws,’ remarked media relations director Tom Angell of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

“Access to medicinal marijuana for individuals who are ill or enduing difficult and painful therapies is both a medical and a states’ rights issue,” Pelosi said. “Sixteen states, including our home state of California, and the District of Columbia have adopted medicinal marijuana laws — most by a vote of the people.

Protesters Decry Dutch Cannabis Ban

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 2, 2012 Dispensaries, Global, News

Marcel Van Hoorn/AFP

A demonstrator in Maastricht holds a giant cardboard joint protesting the new policy requiring Dutch coffee shops to insitute a “weed pass” system banning foreigners, on May 1, 2012.

Tourists smoked spliffs in the streets of cities in the southern Netherlands and defiant coffee shop owners sold joints to visitors in a protest on the selling of marijuana to foreigners which took effect on Tuesday.

Protesters in Maastricht — near the Belgian border — waved banners with marijuana leaves and slogans such as “Dealers Wanted” and “Stop Discrimination for Belgium,” report Svebor Kranjc and Thomas Escritt of Reuters.

A few hundred demonstrators gathered in the main square, with about 50 of them openly smoking joints alongside a six-foot-long fake spliff.

Garden Grove Invites Feds In Against Marijuana Dispensaries

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 25, 2012 Dispensaries, News

Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register

Kandice Hawes, 30, director of Orange County NORML, protests outside the Costa Mesa City Council in February after they called in the feds to raid medical marijuana dispensaries. Now, Garden Grove’s police chief has done the same thing.

Police officials in Garden Grove, California — apparently unwilling to uphold state law, which allows medical marijuana dispensaries — have invited federal authorities who raided collectives in Costa Mesa earlier this year to do the same in their town.

The Garden Grove Police Department has already been in touch with federal agents, and “they will be coming to Garden Grove in the future,” promised Police Chief Kevin Raney at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, reports Roxana Kopetman at The Orange County Register.

Chief Raney would not give details of the city’s request, but said his department is seeking the help of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in “enforcing federal law.” The Chief seems unaware that he is charged with enforcing state law; maybe he always wanted to be a “federal agent,” or something.

Road Trip: In Search Of Good Medicine In Sac Town

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 20, 2012 Culture, Dispensaries, Products

All photos by Sharon Letts

She’s The Brains, He’s The Strains: On The Road With Craig & Sharon

Story and Photos by Sharon Letts

Strain Review by Craig Carroll

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Introduction: Changing the Way People Think About Cannabis, One Bud at a Time

By Sharon Letts

Craig and I came of age in the 70s. He surfed and played guitar in rock bands, while I rode the waves on a Boogie Board and gardened.

Both of us reaped the benefits of cannabis: Craig for anxiety and undiagnosed autism; me for menstrual cramps and depression. I can’t speak for the boys, but we girls knew what worked each month, and pitied the girl relying solely on Midol and a heating pad.

Both of us watched as cannabis grew up to be good medicine, then was legalized in California in 1996. Neither of us rushed out to get a “Prop. 215 card.” I was busy raising my daughter; he was teaching high school and starting a family. Both of us stopped smoking for long periods of time.

Surprisingly, it was age and health issues that brought the herb back into our lives.

Heading into menopause, already suffering from digestive issues and weight gain caused by Thyroid Disease, I began using cannabis to relax my stomach where I hold my stress.

Sleeplessness with menopause has become a huge issue for me, and a honey tincture provides at least six good hours of sleep a night, allowing me to write.

While others may go the pharmaceutical route, we’ll stick to this simple herb. Our travels will have Craig looking for a pick-me-up for his chronic fatigue and relief for his chronic pain. I’ll be perusing the edible isles for sleep-aids and help with my flucuating mood swings.

Each trip will include a review of the top five collectives from the town we are visiting, while Craig reviews its top strains, deciphering aesthetics of the bud, and potential medicinal benefits.

We’ll also find a canna mover and shaker from that town and have a hang-out, chatting about what’s going on with the medicine in their world.

If your personal favorite club isn’t listed, not to worry, we’ll pass through town again! Send in your favorites and who knows, maybe your friendly neighborhood collective will make our list during our next trip.

So, sit back, relax, roll-up a fatty, and enjoy the ride!

Sacramento County Medical Marijuana Initiative Would Ensure Safe Access

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 18, 2012 Dispensaries, Legislation, Medical

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Sacramento County, California voters will have an opportunity to get it right on medical cannabis in November. A voter initiative to regulate the medical cannabis industry in the county is halfway to its goal of 80,000-plus signatures, and organizers say they are confident it will qualify for the November ballot.

The Patients Access to Regulated Medical Cannabis Act of 2012 (PARMCA2012) is a voter initiative that will allow for a limited and tightly regulated medical cannabis market that will bring in an estimated $2 million in revenue for Sacramento County.

The Act will allow for one dispensary for every 25,000 residents in the unincorporated County that will be divided amongst Board of Supervisor districts to avoid clustering. The program will tax the businesses at a rate of 4 percent of gross sales on top of normal sales taxes that are paid by dispensaries.

AZ Takes Marijuana Dispensary Applications Starting May 14

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 16, 2012 Dispensaries, News

Where’s Weed?

According to Arizona’s Department of Health Services Director, Will Humble, “The tumblers have clicked, and the race to apply for a dispensary [in Arizona]is on.”

Humble has given the go-ahead for accepting medical marijuana dispensary licenses in Arizona between May 14 and May 25.

You can check out our Registration Certificate Application Checklist [PDF], Instructions [PDF] and Application [PDF] on Arizona Department of Health Services’ Medical Marijuana Dispensary webpage.

S.F. Mayor: Medical Marijuana A ‘Nuisance’ Like Strip Clubs

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 12, 2012 Dispensaries, News

Garry Sun

Roughly equivalent to a medical marijuana dispensary? The Mayor’s Office in San Francisco seems to think so.

Nobody in the office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee seems willing to take responsibility for a city document which refers to medical marijuana dispensaries as “nuisance retail” and likens them to strip clubs and liquor stores.

That’s the terminology used in a document released last year by the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and that document is now being used by the Planning Department as a reason to deny a permit to a medicinal cannabis collective proposed for a vacant building in an alley off Sixth Street, reports Chris Roberts at SF Weekly.

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