Calif. pot dispensaries told by feds to shut down

[Yes4Prop215]

sticky you hit the nail on the head...don duncan and the ASA are definately making moves behind the scenes. they are getting cuddly with politicians and police and probably offering a large cut of their business in exchange for leniancy..

power and money corrupts all..

 

[headband 707]

Gee 8 Tylenol extra strength can kill ya .. I wish there was a safer alternative ,,,, Hum I wonder what that could be????? Headband707

 

[Kitana]

OBAMA

Our
Biggest
American
Mistake
America

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

From McClatchy News

By Peter Hecht | The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento County supervisors said they wanted to make it unambiguous that they won't permit medical marijuana dispensaries.

So board members passed a county zoning amendment that fails to include the words "medical" or "marijuana" or "dispensaries."

Instead, supervisors are seeking to bring an end to the county's once teeming medical marijuana trade by denying business permits to establishments that conflict with "either state or federal law, or both" under a new policy approved Tuesday.

The board's action comes after aggressive code enforcement efforts – and threats of federal prosecution or property seizures – shuttered all but a handful of marijuana stores in the county's unincorporated communities.

Officials said medical marijuana outlets were never permitted under county zoning laws. But that didn't stop as many as 99 dispensaries from opening in the past two years.

So board Chairwoman Roberta MacGlashan said supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday "to clarify our existing ordinance" because it "didn't address marijuana dispensaries."

Even though the amended zoning code still doesn't, MacGlashan said the supervisors' vote now effectively bans marijuana stores by making it "clear we don't allow any use that is inconsistent with federal law."

The vote came after counsel Michelle Bach and other staffers told supervisors the only local land use they know of that conflicted with federal law is medical marijuana.

Supervisor Phil Serna, the lone dissenting vote, said his colleagues took an unnecessary action given the county's already "robust code enforcement" against dispensaries.

Serna said the vote effectively bans both marijuana stores and cultivation in the county. He protested it "foreclosed the opportunity" to negotiate zoning rules to accommodate seriously ill medical marijuana users.

The vote came after county staff advised supervisors of a state 2nd District Court of Appeal decision in October that said the city of Long Beach could not license dispensaries because of federal marijuana laws and a District Court ruling in November upholding a city of Riverside ban on pot stores.

To read the complete article, visit www.sacbee.com.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/08/132512/medical-marijuana-dispensaries.html#ixzz1fxRh9elz

 

[Kitana]

Obama
One big ass mistake america

 

[Adrift]

what a messs of shity news! not happy

 

[megayields]

just found this ..not mine but from a diff site...

"The following is a very long email I received from CannaBankSeeds <[email protected]>
If true - this is a big problem. Please review the email and let us all know what you think. Is is real or is it bullshit?


Important information to understand as to why storefronts are being shutdown

Davidovich working for Sd-ASA sabotages efforts at Reasonable Zoning for Storefront Collectives

Is Don Duncans pot monoply behind SD-ASA VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION?

ASA and the Federal Connection – Goal ASA Pot Monopoly

When you break it down it’s not that hard to see why Don Duncan and Steph Sherer making deals with the Federal Government to enact a plan for federal distribution of medical marijuana.
Failure to achieve zoning for collectives is vital to understanding the next steps. This failure is a direct result of the “California Cartel” based out of Oakland, CA., a lobby group calling themselves “Americans For Safe Access”. This group allegedly started with organized crime money from Amsterdam, which founder Don Duncan brought with him to set up Berkely Patient Group and Harborside in Oakland, a city known for gangs and drugs, where $politicians$ were easily had. To dominate what they saw as a lucrative commercial pot market, first calling themselves the Berkley Patient Alliance, they lobbied to have themselves a “restrictive permit” which would forbid other collectives and eliminate competition. This worked and just those two stores bring in well over $70 million per year.
Don Duncan then moved to LA and set up several stores, one of which is LAPCG. Sources say this store brings in about $30,000 per day. Duncan was quickly able to secure a local politician in his back pocket and carve out a “restrictive permit” to keep other stores out of West Hollywood. Duncan also operated under CannBe Corporation and Harborside Management Associates with a new blueprint strategy and began his quest to get the federal government to allow him sole and his investors sole distribution rights.
Americans for Safe Access is a front lobby, not a social movement. They hold groups and operate like a cult, insisting that members never question, but only follow orders. Follow leaders around with signs, stand behind them, as the leaders go in the back room and make deals for themselves and their wealthy investors. ASA is not about medical marijuana. Not about medical patients. Not about ending arrests and prosecutions. ASA is about greed. ASA leaders and followers will do anything to secure their right to sell marijuana, including threaten murder, commit assault, set people up, conduct smear campaigns, disrupt meetings and threaten people in groups working on zoning or rights for all medical marijuana users. There are no limits. ASA is a front for organized crime, pure and simple. It is important for us all to watch Don Duncans stores to see if they are closed, as the government is threatening to do to the average citizen. These stores are Berkely Patient Group, Harborside, LAPCG, Mother Earth Cooperative – El Cajon,Desert Organic Solutions store in Palm Springs, Santa Barbara and Venice Beach. Combined these stores bring in an estimate $150 million per year. So why are you being told you are violating the law while the largest marijuana dealer in the state of California remains untouched?
ASA – Don Duncan has a blueprint which has worked successfully in numerous cities. This is a blueprint where he creates chaos, undermines all attempts at zoning, and then walks in and offers himself as the solution to the chaos he helped create in order to secure himself an exclusive liscence to sell marijuana in that city. This has been confirmed repeatedly and has spread to other states where they use $$$ mega money to lobby politicians looking at medical marijuana to reject allowing patients to grow for themselves and instead encourage governments to allow 4 stores for which they negotiate at least two of those stores for themselves securing their marijuana millions."

I'm not saying ths isn't true, but what was the original source for this "information"?

 

[dagnabit]

I'm not saying ths isn't true, but what was the original source for this "information"?

The rabid imaginations of a bunch of gossiping girls.

 

[Headbandf1]

Out of the shadows into the Light - well hheeeeerrrreeeeeessssss DON

Don Duncan

 

[hashcat88]

wow. how fucked. word on this needs to spread!

 

[bigbrokush]

Don Duncan is the sole reason that LA is all fucked up right now. Screw him!!!!

 

[MtnLivin]

One of the most popular clubs(Fruitridge) in Sacramento is closing their doors and so are many others.. There are going to be barely any left int he state soon..

 

[wildgrow]

This was probably always the plan of the gov't. Get co-ops/dispenseries running; bust the shit out of them and any person/entity involced in any way. This would lead to no one wanting to even risk 'lawful' cultivation/distribution. The states wouldeventually have to repeal all beneficial use laws to be in compliance and just put the whole thing underground again. Just a random thought.

 

[loudthoughts]

yep, couple left staying open for the week on my side. other than that. finito. have faith for long beach. they may make it or break it down there for the rest of us.

 

[skull and roses]

One of the most popular clubs(Fruitridge) in Sacramento is closing their doors and so are many others.. There are going to be barely any left int he state soon..

amn

wow!!! fruitridge is closing??? Damn! that's huge, they have been a fixture for quite a while and a really good club. I use to vend to them. Makes you wonder whats going to happen to Harborside, with their reality show and all. I guess it is really going back to the black here in Cali. That is upsetting because I have seen first hand being a vendor at clubs that there are a LOT of true medical patients that need mmj and will not have anyplace to get it. There really is a lot of old and truly sick people with no connects. They will not go to the black market, they will just be ass out!

 

[loudthoughts]

Arcade Wellness closes tomorrow.
El Camino Wellness still open!!!
havent checked with CC101 yet..

 

[bigbrokush]

The Clubs in Long Beach are about to get voted down from what I'm hearing. I think that it's like 30 that will have to close if this is true.

 

[huligun]

And it all just comes tumbling down. What is Obama going to do us Next?

 

[loudthoughts]

^^bend us over. have his way with us.
then we say thanks for the 'change'.

 

[MtnLivin]

^^bend us over. have his way with us.
then we say thanks for the 'change'.

No lube either!