San Diego County adopts zoning limits for medical marijuana dispensaries

 Dispensaries, Marijuana Law, Marijuana News, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Jun 252010
 
San Diego County adopts zoning limits for medical marijuana dispensaries

Bud’s note: We highlight this quote from the mayor of El Cajon not because it stands out from the norm, but because it is the norm among many city leaders who prefer illegal drug dealing to regulated sales of medical marijuana. “I don’t think our citizens will put up with it,” Mark Lewis said. “If anybody wants it, they certainly can find it in another community, either that or out on the street.” Wow, that’s an enlightened approach to a serious problem. ================ San Diego became the 10th county in the state to regulate medical [...]

San Diego County supes limit medical marijuana dispensary zones

 Dispensaries, Marijuana News, Medical marijuana
Jun 232010
 

A new policy approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday limits medical marijuana dispensaries to 16 areas in the unincorporated county. Under the regulations, medical marijuana dispensaries must be located 1,000 feet from homes, churches, schools, parks and other dispensaries, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The sheriff’s department will permit the facilities and make sure their operators follow a range of rules. Three of the 16 sites are in Lakeside and three more are in Ramona. Two each are in San Dieguito, Alpine and El Cajon. The rest are in Borrego, Campo, [...]

Mom campaigns against San Diego medical marijuana dispensaries

 Advocates, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana
Jun 072010
 

Bud’s note: What happens when you mix a complaint-driven code-enforcement posse with a mom who quietly campaigns against medical marijuana dispensaries? A one-woman spike in complaints, as San Diego CityBeat’s John R. Lamb reports. =============== Less than a mile from at least eight medical-marijuana collectives, Marcie Beckett lives in the same modest Pacific Beach home she grew up in with six brothers and sisters. President of her early-’70s graduating class at Mission Bay High School, Beckett went on to a career as a research physiologist at San Diego’s prestigious Naval Health Research Center, focusing her [...]

Marijuana bales seized by police, immigration agents in La Jolla

 Law Enforcement
Jun 022010
 

SAN DIEGO — Authorities seized 40 bales of marijuana and arrested several people early Tuesday after a boat came ashore in La Jolla. The red panga was spotted at Windansea Beach near about Neptune Place and Palomar Avenue about 1:15 a.m., Border Patrol Agent Mark Endicott said. Several people were seen unloading the drugs from the boat onto a white van, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. When authorities arrived they scattered and fled in various directions, jumping fences and running through backyards, San Diego police said. Immigration and Customs agents as well as police, aided [...]

Drug czar: Tax estimates for legal pot based on ‘foundation of sand’

 Government, Law Enforcement, Legalization, Medical marijuana
May 262010
 
Drug czar: Tax estimates for legal pot based on 'foundation of sand'

Gil Kerlikowske is the “drug czar” – the Obama administration’s director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The former Seattle police chief was interviewed last week by the Union-Tribune editorial board. Below are edited and condensed excerpts of the U-T’s “hot seat” interview: QUESTION : California has had medical marijuana legally available for some years now. It’s become an increasing problem in a lot of cities in recent years. But on the ballot this November is a measure that would essentially legalize marijuana. What’s wrong with it? ANSWER : The administration is opposed [...]

Committee to examine restrictions on San Diego medipot dispensaries

 Business, Dispensaries, Government, Medical marijuana
Apr 282010
 

San Diego medical marijuana storefronts could soon face restrictions aimed at reining in employee compensation and boosting quality control. A committee of City Council members is expected to discuss and act on proposed regulations today, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. San Diego, like dozens of other cities in the state, has grappled with how to regulate marijuana dispensaries since state voters legalized medical use of the drug in 1996. More than 100 cities have banned dispensaries, and dozens of others have passed ordinances to regulate the operators. The new recommendations being heard by the council’s [...]

Davidovich questions anti-gang grant funding for Operation Green Rx

 Collectives, Courts, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana, Opinion
Apr 132010
 
Davidovich questions anti-gang grant funding for Operation Green Rx

Former collective operator Eugene Davidovich offers this commentary in the San Diego News Network following his acquittal on drug charges. He also runs his own Website. ============== In a resounding defeat of San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a jury of 12 on March 25 found me not guilty on all counts, after less than four hours of deliberation. The jurors unanimously determined that I acted lawfully and in accordance with state law when it came to all the charges against me; sales, possession, transportation and possession of concentrated cannabis. They also had a thing [...]

Opinion: Vote for Tax Cannabis initiative a vote for common sense

 Advocates, Business, Cultivation, Government, Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Legalization, Opinion
Apr 122010
 

Dion Markgraaff offers this opinion column endorsing the Tax Cannabis ballot initiative in the latest issue of San Diego’s Nug magazine. ============== Most people in the cannabis industry are excited about the spring season, when we plan and plant for our future through our gardens. This year brings extra potential because never before in the history of the world has there been a bigger, more important time than now. Californians have the chance to change the course our planet is on this November when we vote on the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of [...]

Davidovich acquittal latest setback for San Diego DA’s medipot crackdown

 Advocates, Courts, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana, Video
Apr 052010
 

With a screaming red headine, “NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!,” San Diego County medical marijuana activist Eugene Davidovich recently announced on his website his acquittal on charges of illegally selling marijuana and possessing weed. Davidson, who operated a medical marijuana home delivery service, was the second high-profile defendant to be found not-guilty in a crackdown by San Diego authorities on medical marijuana providers they accused of conducting illegal retail sales. His March 26 acquittal follows a earlier courtroom loss for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, “Weed Wars” blogger/reporter Peter Hecht writes for the Sacramento Bee. In [...]

Second Operation Green Rx case ends with acquittal in San Diego

 Courts, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana
Mar 262010
 

A jury acquitted a medical marijuana collective operator of drug possession and sales charges Thursday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The acquittal of Eugene Davidovich after two weeks of trial in front of Superior Court Judge Kenneth So is the second time in the past four months that juries have found medical marijuana operators not guilty of drug charges. In December, Jovan Jackson, who was the manager of a medical marijuana dispensary in Kearny Mesa, was acquitted of five counts of possessing and selling the drug. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has aggressively pursued medical marijuana [...]

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