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Denver Pot Dispensaries Will Soon Need Plenty Of Papers

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 1, 2010 Dispensaries, Legislation

Do you enjoy filling out paperwork? Then you’d love operating a dispensary in Denver.

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver will soon be needing papers — lots of them — and we aren’t talking about Zig-Zags.

The Mile-High City starts accepting dispensary license applications on February 8. All dispensaries operating in Denver must file such an application by March 1, reports Patricia Calhoun at Westword.

This application is in addition to the regular city sales tax license dispensaries already had to apply for by December 15 in order to be exempted from zoning provisions and other restrictions, including a 1,000-foot buffer zone between dispensaries and schools, day-care centers, and even other dispensaries.

More than 400 dispensaries applied for the sales tax license, according to Westword.

Now, to stay in business, they’ll need to apply for a dispensary license, as well.

California Man Demands Police Pay For His Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 26, 2010 Growing, Medical, News

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Eight grand a pound adds up.

A California man is asking the city of Costa Mesa to pay for 12 medical marijuana plants seized by the police in 2007.

An attached appraisal form with the claim says that “Kush” strain plants like those seized are worth about $8,000 a pound.

Gregory Barnett, 55, said in his claim against the city that police officers destroyed his crop, which was ordered returned by the court, reports Ellyn Pak at The Orange County Register.

Attorney To Health Dept.: Where Has All The Medical Marijuana Registration Money Gone?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 19, 2010 Legislation, Medical, News

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Activist/attorney Rob Corry: “Serious questions are raised as to the allocation of the patients’ funds”

Activist/attorney Rob Corry, one of the most visible marijuana advocates on the Colorado scene, has sent an open records request to the Colorado Department of Health. Corry wants to know where the money has gone.

Via email, Corry writes that Colorado has received “conservatively $1.7 million… from suffering patients paying for the privilege of waiting four months for a paper card that doesn’t fit in normal wallets and falls apart in one wash,” reports Michael Roberts at Westword.

In the letter, Corry documents 19,691 patients who received marijuana registry cards between June 2001 and September 2009. With the health department recently receiving a record 1,650 applications in a single day, that number is clearly out of date.

Sheriff May Have To Buy Patient $40,000 Worth Of Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 15, 2010 Culture, Medical

Photo: Lewis County Herald

Enjoy your high, officers. Now, that’ll be $40,000. Cash or credit?

A California medical marijuana patient may soon be receiving almost $40,000 from the sheriff’s department for six pounds of unlawfully seized and destroyed cannabis.

Kimberley Marshall, 46, of Los Osos, Calif., has filed a claim for damages against Sheriff Patrick Hedges and the county, alleging the county unjustly seized and destroyed the medicinal pot, reports Matt Fountain of New Times.

If she prevails, Marshall could be the first medical marijuana patient in San Luis Obispo County to be paid for confiscated cannabis.

Marshall, a survivor of liver cancer and other afflictions, seeks $36,000 — $6,000 per pound of confiscated marijuana — plus attorney fees and damages, according to the claim, filed Dec. 23.

MPP Placing Marijuana Legalization On 2012 Nevada Ballot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 9, 2009 Legislation, News

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Nevadans, do you want legal marijuana? Sign the initiative, then get out and vote in 2012

Nevadans, after turning down similar initiatives in 2002 and 2006, may get to vote again on legalizing marijuana in 2012.

Dave Schwartz, manager of the Marijuana Policy Project of Nevada (MPP-NV), announced today that he has filed documents with the Nevada Secretary of State establishing a Ballot Advocacy Group to support an initiative to legalize and regulate marijuana for persons 21 or older.

Nevadans for Sensible Marijuana Laws has been organized to conduct a signature drive in 2010 that will place an initiative on the November 2012 ballot. The committee says it will file the language of the initiative with the state in January.

Marijuana Cultivation Rules Ready For Mendocino Board

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 4, 2009 Growing, Legislation, Medical

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Mendocino fave OG Kush at about 6 weeks into flowering.

Two members of the Mendocino County, Calif., Board of Supervisors’ Health and Human Services Committee say their reworking of the county’s medical marijuana ordinance is ready to be sent to the full board, reports Mike A’Dair of The Willits News.

Committee member John McCowen said the draft revision, prepared along with Kendall Smith, would be sent to the board sometime next month.

Even while the proposed ordinance clamps down on some aspects of medical marijuana growing, it loosens others.

The indoor growing of marijuana would e limited to a space of no more than 100 square feet, and outdoor cultivation would “not subject residents of neighboring parcels who are of normal sensitivity to objectionable odors.” (You know, every time I read something like that, I try to imagine why anyone would find the odor of fresh marijuana “objectionable.”)

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