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Marijuana Delivery Service Accredited By Better Business Bureau

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 5, 2011 Dispensaries, News

Kevin Reed, The Green Cross: “We are committed to providing our membership with access to quality medical cannabis products”

The Green Cross, a San Francisco medical cannabis delivery service, announced on Thursday that it has been awarded at A+ rating and full accreditation by the Golden Gate Better Business Bureau. Organizations in the U.S. and Canada must be reviewed and monitored before getting a rating and accreditation by the BBB.

“It’s an honor to receive recognition for the high standards of practice we have built into our organization,” said Kevin Reed, president of The Green Cross. “The BBB has a long history of encouraging ethical business practices and protecting consumers, and The Green Cross is pleased to be affiliated with such an outstanding organization.”

Washington Marijuana Dispensaries: Does Veto Mean Raids?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 4, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation

Photo: Steve Elliott

Bud room at The Healing Center Organization in Seattle

Here in Washington state, in the Puget Sound area, I have seen a beautiful flowering of the cannabis subculture in the past 18 months.

It has been my privilege to be part of a moment that will almost inevitably be seen as something of a golden age in the medical marijuana scene in Seattle, when for a brief moment a vibrant, caring community felt its power and potential.

Since I became an authorized patient in 2007, I’ve seen the scene change from a handful of insular, exclusive (and often paranoid) collectives — none of which would take me as member, even with my legal authorization — to a plethora of dispensaries competing for my business.

Seattle Marijuana Dispensary Offers 25% Off For Canned Food

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 3, 2011 Dispensaries, News

Graphic: Fweedom Collective

New member patients at Fweedom Collective get 25 percent off their order for donating canned food.

Fweedom Collective, a Seattle medical marijuana dispensary, is offering patients who join the collective a chance to donate food and receive 25 percent off their order.

The food drive, named “Cans For Grams,” has a goal of 10,000 cans of food to be donated to the charity Northwest Harvest, whose mission is to provide nutritious food to hungry people statewide in Washington state.

“Not only does this event raise food for the local community, but it also helps low-income patients obtain quality medicine,” said Sky Nielsen of Fweedom Collective.

Located in Seattle, Fweedom Collective says it is “looking to make a positive difference in the local community.”

The dispensary offers a wide variety of top shelf cannabis for Washington medical marijuana patients (WA ID and medical marijuana authorization required).

Fweedom offers strains including Afghani, Afgoo Kush, AK-47, Blue Dream, and Seattle favorite PermaFrost at donations of $11.84 per gram, $40.08 per eighth, $72.86 per quarter, $141.17 per half or $273.23 per ounce. (Don’t forget, you get 25 percent off those prices if you donate canned food.)

U.S. Attorney: AZ Medical Pot Law No Shield From Prosecution

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 2, 2011 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Photo: AZ Capitol Times

U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke: “Even clear and unambiguous compliance with (Arizona Medical Marijuana Act) does not render possession or distribution lawful”

Arizona’s top federal prosecutor joined the growing chorus of U.S. Attorneys across the country on Monday, saying that the state’s medical marijuana law doesn’t protect patients, growers or sellers from federal prosecution.

U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, in a threatening letter to Arizona’s health director, claimed his law office “will abide” by a 2009 Department of Justice memo that discourages federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients and providers who are following state law. But he said anyone who possesses or distributes marijuana is still violating federal law, reports Mary K. Reinhart at The Arizona Republic.

Burke’s letter follows the recent pattern of federal prosecutors sending threatening letters to state officials, including governors, attorneys general and others in medical marijuana states. The threats have been underlined by recent federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington, Montana and California.

Washington Medical Marijuana Patients Protest Federal Raids

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on May 2, 2011 Dispensaries, News

Photo: Zazzle

A coalition of medical marijuana patients from around Washington state will gather in Seattle and Spokane on Monday to demonstrate against the Obama Administration’s use of federal agents to raid medical marijuana dispensaries in the state. According to the activists, the raids are in violation of the Administration’s own written policy stating they they would not use federal resources to conduct raids in states with medical marijuana laws.

Protesters will gather in Seattle and Spokane at 1 p.m. on Monday. The protest in Seattle will be in front of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, 915 Second Avenue, downtown. Protesters will also gather in Spokane at the Thomas Foley Federal Courthouse, 920 Riverside, Spokane, also at 1 p.m.

Obama Administration Threatens R.I. Over Medical Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 29, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

Photo: NBC 10 News

Governor Lincoln Chafee received a threatening letter today from Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha.

Add Rhode Island to the list of states that have received threatening letters from the federal government on the issue of medical marijuana in recent weeks.

Significantly, the Rhode Island letter — delivered to Governor Lincoln Chafee’s office on Friday — unlike all of the other recent U.S. Attorney letters to medical marijuana states, does NOT begin with a line like “In response to your inquiry…”

“That likely means that this legal advice was not solicited by the Rhode Island government, marking an escalation in the feds’ aggressiveness on this issue,” media relations director Tom Angell at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) told Toke of the Town Friday evening.

To date, U.S. Attorneys have only weighed in with threat letters after being contacted by state and local officials.

Governor Fails To Lead On Medical Marijuana; Vetoes Bill

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 29, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

Photo: Online Athens

Hen-hearted Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: “I cannot take the chance that state employees will be prosecuted”

Citing supposed concerns about arrest of state employees (which has never happened in any medical marijuana state), Washington Governor Christine Gregoire on Friday vetoed almost all the significant portions of a bill which would have expanded safe access to cannabis and arrest protection for patients in the state.

“We cannot provide protection to one group of people — patients and providers — by subjecting another group of people — state employees — to arrest and prosecution,” Governor Gregoire told reporters at a 2:30 p.m. news conference on Friday.

“As governor whose number one priority is the well being of this state, I cannot take the chance that state employees would be prosecuted,” she said, even as she made sure that seriously ill patients would continue to be prosecuted. “What would you tell them if they are?”

DEA Raids Marijuana Dispensaries As Bill Hits Governor’s Desk

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 29, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

Photo: Jesse Tinsley/The Spokane Spokesman-Review

Outside the THC Pharmacy medical marijuana dispensary, activists chant “DEA, go away!” in protest on Perry St. in Spokane, Wash., Thursday, April 28, 2011. The DEA raided the dispensary while most dispensary owners and pot activists were at a meeting about how to handle DEA raids.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted aggressive, SWAT-style raids on Thursday on at least three dispensaries in Spokane, Washington, that provided medical marijuana to qualified patients.

Earlier this month, numerous facilities shut down after U.S. District Attorney Michael Ormsby threatened numerous landlords in Spokane with seizure of their property if they keep letting their tenants provide medical marijuana to state-compliant patients. These actions come at the same time the state is trying to pass Senate Bill 5073, which modifies Washington’s 1998 medical marijuana law to specifically allow dispensaries.

Marijuana Raid Training Interrupted To Protest Raids In Progress

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 28, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

Graphic: Phawker

It didn’t take long for the feds to follow through on their threat of federal raids in Washington after the governor refused to sign a bill which would have legalized medical marijuana dispensaries in the state.

A medical marijuana raid preparedness class in Spokane was interrupted Thursday so that the participants could go protest ongoing dispensary raids by federal agents, according to patient advocacy group the Cannabis Defense Coalition.

CDC, based in Seattle, had already scheduled raid preparedness classes around the state this week. It turns out that the training is even more timely and needed than the group may have imagined.

At about 2 p.m. on Thursday, federal agents, apparently assisted by local police, began executing a raid against a medical cannabis provider, THC Pharmacy, at 1108 South Perry Street in Spokane, according to Phil Mocek of the CDC.

Medical Marijuana Advocates Threaten To Sue San Diego

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on April 28, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, Medical

Photo: Pacific San Diego

Medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Thursday threatened to file suit against the City of San Diego if it doesn’t amend a recent ordinance that patient advocates are calling a de facto ban on local cannabis distribution facilities.

ASA argued in a letter sent to City Attorney Jan Goldsmith that the ordinance violates due process rights of medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives by forcing them to shut down in 30 days, leaving virtually no options for relocation.

Unless the city can “ease the restrictions on medical marijuana collectives, so that qualified patients can obtain the medicine they need,” the letter, authored by ASA Chief Counsel Joe Elford, said that the organization and its patient base would be “compelled” to seek such remedies in court.

The letter suggested that the San Diego City Council amend its ordinance to allow “medical marijuana collectives to operate in most commercial and all industrial zones” and increase “the period to obtain a conditional use permit to one year.”

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