At San Jose’s first pass at crafting an ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries, ideas were shot down and applauded in an emotionally charged meeting Monday night at City Hall.
There were the parents and teachers worried about the proximity of the dispensaries to schools and the patients and operators who dismissed the city’s proposals as too prohibitive, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
In the initial draft ordinance city officials proposed limiting the number of collectives in San Jose to 10, selected by lottery — an idea jeered by some.
“It’s laughable. A lottery is not democratic. It [...]
Jun 082010
ANTIOCH — A 15-year-old suspect was shot and killed and a couple were wounded today during a predawn robbery of a home where marijuana was being grown, police said.
The triple shooting happened at a four-bedroom home on the 1300 block of Aster Drive at about 4:30 a.m., said Antioch police Capt. Allan Cantando. Two rooms contained young marijuana plants, Cantando said, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Contra Costa Times update: Homeowners in critical condition; third suspect at large
San Jose Mercury News update: Slain suspect, 15, was Oakland resident
The residents called 911, saying a group of teenagers [...]
Officials with the city attorney’s office said they believe there will be “substantial compliance” with the ordinance that went into effect Monday shutting down more than 400 medical marijuana dispensaries that opened in Los Angeles over the last 2 1/2 years.
But despite those expectations, the L.A. Times reports, Assistant City Atty. Asha Greenberg said her office wouldn’t rule out taking “enforcement action” against possible holdouts.
“I don’t think anyone should assume they can remain open and that the city is not going to take any action anytime soon,” Greenberg said. “It’s a definite possibility. Anyone who [...]
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge’s rejection on Friday of numerous requests for a temporary restraining order on the City of Los Angeles’ ordinance that restricts the number of medicinal marijuana dispensaries means hundred of facilities must close on Monday. But at least one that is frequented by Santa Monica residents will remain open.
Michael Lee is a manager at JJ Herbal, which is located on Santa Monica Boulevard just across the municipal border. He said the facility’s attorney is still determining whether JJ Herbal is affected by the ordinance because of its proximity to a [...]
In his gray Donegal tweed cap, untucked dress shirt and jeans, Josh Clark hardly looks the part of a delivery man. Then again, he’s not coming to the door with pizza or Chinese food.
On a warm afternoon last week, the 30-year-old Petaluma resident walked up to a modest single-story home in Santa Rosa’s Junior College neighborhood to deliver a white envelope with about an eighth of an ounce of marijuana to a man in his mid-70s with skin cancer and compressed discs.
The delivery — worth about $45 — was a freebie for “someone who really [...]
The Kush Clubhouse and the Medical Kush Beach Club boast killer views of the ocean, and that’s what Sean Cardillo says he was after when he opened the only medical marijuana dispensaries on the Venice Beach boardwalk.
“It’s proven that being by the beach can actually heal a person and make a person feel good,” Cardillo said as he smoked a joint in a hazy, mirrored lounge. “We’re trying to create this place where people can heal, and they’re looking at it like, oh, it’s not really that.”
Venice — with dispensaries, pot doctors and bong merchants [...]
In November, California voters will decide whether to make all pot legal, even for recreational use, 14 years after medical marijuana was legalized.
The measure would violate federal drug laws, but that hasn’t stopped Oakland, Calif., businessman Richard Lee from spending millions to get the issue passed.
In a revitalized neighborhood on the north side of downtown Oakland where medical marijuana is king, an old storefront throbs with the pulse of rock music. The unmistakable scent of ganja fills the air. Some call the neighborhood “Oaksterdam.”
“Amsterdam is our model city. When I go there, I see tourists [...]
Their businesses stand no more than a hundred feet apart, at opposite ends of a small commercial strip. Neatly dressed, with her blond hair just so, Sue Campbell has run the Alphabet Soup Preschool for 29 years. At Purple People Medical, a medical marijuana dispensary two doors down from the school, Andrew Runner welcomes patients wearing baggy jeans and spectacular tats.
Recently, as Runner, 28, emerged from the back room of the cannabis co-op, his eyes were slightly bleary and bloodshot. As Campbell talked about the arrival of her new neighbor a month ago, her eyes [...]
Bud’s note: Check out this long-form examination of mobile medical marijuana dispensaries written by the fine folks at California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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A flourishing and unregulated industry of pot delivery services is circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries and bringing medical marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state, records and interviews show.
The unfettered delivery of marijuana through hundreds of these services highlights how quickly California’s fabled pot industry is moving from the shadows and into uncharted legal territory. These new couriers include enterprising farmers, business [...]
In his nondescript San Francisco flat, Kevin Reed operates a sleek, efficient marijuana delivery service.
Five drivers deliver the product — glistening green buds in white paper bags — to neighborhoods throughout the city. Two operators work the phones. Flat-screen TVs display security feeds of the surrounding neighborhood.
Mr. Reed, who had a clean-shaven head and wore a pinstriped shirt, calls his business the Green Cross. It is the only pot delivery service in San Francisco with a city permit, Kate McLean reports for the New York Times’ Bay Citizen, for which Mr. Reed paid $15,000.
Getting the [...]
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