Tulare County sheriff’s deputies seize plants, close medipot stand

 Collectives, Cultivation, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
May 042010
 
Tulare County sheriff's deputies seize plants, close medipot stand

Tulare County sheriff’s deputies last week raided a medical-marijuana stand near Caldwell Avenue and Highway 99, removing 96 mature plants, the stand’s operators said. The marijuana would have helped at least 25 patients, said Ernie Garcia, 31, a registered medical-marijuana user and caretaker of the marijuana plants. The stand’s operators do not charge patients for the marijuana, said Mike Simmons, 32, of Exeter, a medical-marijuana user for nine years. A Tulare County ordinance prohibits the operation of medical-marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas, the Visalia Times-Delta reports. Six dispensaries — in Ivanhoe, Earlimart, Tipton, Exeter and [...]

CEO of closed dispensary laments Tulare County ban

 Business, Collectives, Cultivation, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana, Opinion
Dec 312009
 

Tammy Murray, who ran a medical marijuana dispensary near Visalia before closing her doors this month in the face of a new Tulare County ordinance, offers this guest column for the Visalia Times-Delta: As the director and chief executive officer of Compassionate Cannabis Information Center, I feel compelled to address my community about this business. It is my sincere wish that the Visalia community and residents throughout the Valley could see that medical marijuana use is not a black and white issue, but a gray one. This issue has been hotly debated, even among our [...]

Tulare County supervisors, growers at odds

 Collectives, Cultivation, Law Enforcement
Nov 122009
 

“Some operators of medial marijuana dispensaries in Tulare County said they plan to ask the county’s Board of Supervisors to rewrite a series of proposed ordinances that they say could harm their businesses as well as the people who smoke and ingest the plants to treat pain and other ailments.” This article in the Visalia Times-Delta describes county efforts to allow only three growing co-operatives within the county and to limit those to 99 or fewer plants. Smoking pot outside your home also would be a no-no under the proposed ordinance, which the board will [...]

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