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SF District Attorney Claims All Sales Of Marijuana Are Illegal

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 28, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón claims all marijuana sales are illegal. Could his brain have been taken over by L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley?

San Francisco’s 21 licensed medical marijuana dispensaries are all illegal, according to a new court filing by District Attorney George Gascón. Observers of the scene speculate that the filing could signify a huge change in the city’s cannabis policies.

City law allows medical marijuana to be bought in dispensaries and delivered to patients who have a doctor’s recommendation. The businesses must acquire licenses and seller’s permits from the California Board of Equalization before receiving city Department of Public Health permits to sell cannabis, reports Chris Roberts at the SF Examiner.

Is Jeremy Lin Top Shelf Weed?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 26, 2012 Culture, Dispensaries, News

Tucson Citizen

Eighteen bucks a gram, $60 an eighth for “Lin Sanity OG” in California

By Bob Starrett

It is March Madness, still, I think. As I understand it, that is a college basketball tournament of some sort. It seems to happen every year. Now I don’t have a bracket and I don’t know anything else about it other than I try to avoid it as best I can.

I had to read three articles before I determined that the Final Four was Kentucky and Louisville, and Kansas and Ohio State, I think it is assumed that all Americans know this. I couldn’t have told you any one of the four without looking it up. So let me write one of the comments here preemptively:

“Starrett is so stoned that he doesn’t even know that the final four were decided on Sunday and he is so baked that he doesn’t even know the teams!” All I can say is no, I am not stoned and yes, I had no idea that the final four teams were decided yesterday and no, I did not know what teams had won until I looked it up today. And finally, I don’t care.

Imperial Beach Medical Marijuana Signature Gathering Begins

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 26, 2012 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

SafeAccessIB.org

Just more than 1,000 valid signatures are needed for November’s ballot, but organizers plan to turn in 2,000 to make sure

Advocates Begin Circulating Petitions To Overturn City’s Ban On Safe Access To Medicinal Cannabis

A team of community activists on Friday converged in Imperial Beach, California, and began circulating a petition and gathering signatures to place the Safe Access Ordinance of Imperial Beach on the November general election ballot.

If passed, the measure would overturn Imperial Beach’s current ban on safe access to medical marijuana and replace it with reasonable zoning regulations and operational requirements for medical cannabis dispensing collectives and cooperatives wishing to operate in the city.

The Imperial Beach City Council began working on this issue two years ago when Marcus Boyd, vice chair of San Diego Americans for Safe Access and local business owner in Imperial Beach, brought the issue to them at a council meeting.

At that time, the city denied Boyd’s request for a business license and adopted a temporary moratorium, promising to conduct research and return a reasonable ordinance in just a few months.

Nevada Court Strikes Down Medical Marijuana Law

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 26, 2012 Dispensaries, Legislation, Medical

Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun

District Court Judge Donald Mosley ruled that Nevada’s medical marijuana distribution law is unconstitutional because it doesn’t provide a reasonable way for patients to lawfully get medicinal cannabis

In a case almost certainly headed to the Nevada Supreme Court, a district judge has ruled that the state’s medical marijuana distribution law is unconstitutional. According to Las Vegas District Court Judge Donald Mosley, the law does not provide a reasonable method for patients to get medical marijuana lawfully.

A review by the state supreme court could bring more clarification to the law after split opinions by lower courts, according to Larry Matheis, executive director of the Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA), reports Alicia Gallegos at American Medical News. The NSMA was not involved in the case, and has not taken a formal position on the distribution law.

S.F. Health Dept. Recommends Dispensaries Ditch Concentrates

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 20, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Elemental Wellness

Concentrates like this Headband Wax aren’t exactly “banned” under a new Department of Public Health memo. But DPH “recommends” that the dispensaries “not produce or dispense” them. WTF?

There’s no enforcement mechanism and it’s not a “ban,” says the San Francisco Department of Health. But nonetheless, a memo released to several dispensaries recommends that medical marijuana dispensaries in the city stop selling cannabis concentrates.

Under the heading “Medical Cannabis Edibles Advisory,” DPH, the department which regulates San Francisco’s 21 dispensaries, recommends the collectives “do not produce or dispense syrups, capsules, or other extracts that either required concentrating cannabis ingredients or that requires a chemical production process,” reports Chris Roberts at SF Weekly.

DOJ, DEA & ATF: Confused Bureaucracies Or Street Thieves?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 19, 2012 Culture, Dispensaries, News

Opposing Views

Did the Feds think of the impact that their letters and raids have had on the patients who depend on places like the Berkeley Patients Group?

By Bob Starrett

He looked a bit suspicious, standing in front of the Blockbuster kiosk at the 7-11 talking on his cell phone. He wasn’t renting a movie so I asked him to move to the side. As I was perusing the latest releases, he walked into the store.

Just seconds later he was out and gone. As he streaked past me, I could hear the jingling of coins in a jar but by the time I realized what was happening he was too far gone for me to do anything about it.

An approaching woman told me that there was a car idling in the alley, apparently the getaway car. It was over so quickly. It was only then that I realized that all I would have had to do was lift up my right leg as he was accelerating by me and he would have done a faceplant onto the concrete.

A common thief. A street thief. Steal anything from anyone, without regret, without thought of consequence. He probably did not pick a particular charity jar to take. He likely took whatever was closest to the door. And then he was gone, just like that. No thought to the charity, no thought at all.

Berkeley Patients Group Landlord Gets “The Marijuana Letter”

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 16, 2012 Culture, Dispensaries

Berkeley Patients Group

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

That crazy cannabis carousel continues to spin as the C. Hag (as in Kali U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, who sees a working dispensary and has the irascible need to close it) sends out another letter. Berkeley Patients Group is the victim of being too close to where kids could possibly be.

This time is a double-whammy, the Center for Early Intervention on Deafness, which also houses a preschool, and Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, a French bilingual grade school, are within the 1,000 feet no-no zone.

Berkeley Patients Group took over an old car dealership and with the wrought-iron fence and has a visible security patrolling, when I went there, it felt like an island. A huge building with very little foot traffic, very secure and seemingly alone in a converted strip-mall that many patients have pass it by thinking it was a church or some other municipal building.

Want To Open A Medical Marijuana Dispensary In Arizona?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 13, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

MedBox

MDS says its MedBox machines are the most secure and transparent method to assure patient verification and compliance

Want to run a medical marijuana dispensary in the Grand Canyon State? A California-based firm is consulting with companies, groups and individuals on the steps necessary to successfully complete their applications to establish medical marijuana dispensaries in Arizona.

To date, Medicine Dispensing Systems, Inc. (MDS), a subsidiary of Medbox, Inc., says it has been hired to consult for more than 60 individuals and small groups vying for approval of dispensary certification applications in Arizona, which are limited to a total of 124 approvals statewide.

Arizona votes approved Ballot Proposition 203 in 2010. Prop 203 allows registered qualifying patients who have a physician’s written certification that they have been diagnosed with a debilitating condition that would likely receive benefit from marijuana, to obtain the product from a registered nonprofit dispensary, and to possess and use medical marijuana to treat the condition.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recently dropped her lawsuit which had put the application process on temporary hold, and now the Arizona Department of Health Services expects to begin accepting dispensary applications as soon as April.

BudGenius Offers Free Online Menu For Marijuana Dispensaries

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 13, 2012 Dispensaries, Products

BudGenius

MenuGenius is, according to BudGenius.com, the only free menu that supports both tested and untested medicine

BudGenius.com, an online medical marijuana laboratory system, has announced “MenuGenius,” a new online tool available to all cannabis caregivers. The application is offered to all marijuana professionals who sign up for a free account on the BudGenius.com system, according to the company.

The online medicine menu displays statistics for both tested and untested variants of medical marijuana, and is deployable to nearly any website at no additional charge, according to BudGenius.

Medical marijuana directory websites can also take advantage of the tool, as it has been developed to integrate as an add-on module into several popular content management systems, offering native search capabilities for listed strains. According to BudGenius, directory websites can also increase their revenue through an affiliate business model for medical cannabis testing, which comes integrated with the MenuGenius software.

What Happens When Cali’s Medical Marijuana Bubble Bursts?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 13, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical

GOOD

It’s been something approaching boom times on the California medical marijuana scene for the past three or four years now, particularly after the Obama Administration’s Ogden Memo, which seemed to open the door for medicinal cannabis providers in states where it is legal.

But following every boom comes a bust; that’s the way the pendulum swings, and that rule’s been around a whole lot longer than the nascent economy-saver that medical marijuana seems to have the potential to be.

When will that bubble burst? How will it happen, and whom will be hurt?

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