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Feds threaten marijuana dispensary landlords
Category: Dispensaries | Posted on Wed, October, 5th 2011 by THCFinder

The federal government continues to find new ways to try and shut down access to cannabis for medical marijuana patients. They are going as far as to threaten landlords with taking away their properties and seizing any funds dispensaries are paying for rent.

The Federal government still gives 4 patients Federally funded medical marijuana, yet they continue to try and shut down dispensaries across the country and cut off people with serious ailments from being able to legally obtain their medication.

SACRAMENTO, CA - The federal government is warning landlords who rent to marijuana dispensaries that they risk losing their property.
 
Despite California law allowing the sale and use of medicinal marijuana, the federal government still considers it a crime.
 
A certified letter from the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco alerts landlords that they could not only lose their property, but also any rent paid by the dispensary operator.
 
"The dispensary is operating in violation of federal law," the letter states. "Property involved in such operations, including real property, is subject to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States."
 
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Wasted POTential
Category: Culture | Posted on Wed, October, 5th 2011 by THCFinder

Check it out.

 

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'Medibles' an option for patients who don't want to smoke
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Wed, October, 5th 2011 by THCFinder

For the unforunate medical marijuana patients that cannot smoke their medication, medibles were the solution to help ease their pain and suffering. In roughly 21 days that solution will be gone and and untold amount of medical marijuana patients will have no way to take their medication as needed.

Matt Taylor is worried about Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's "overly narrow" interpretation of the state's medical marijuana law.
 
Taylor, co-owner of Compassionate Apothecary in Mt. Pleasant, which was shut down after the Michigan Court of Appeals overturned an Isabella County judge's opinion on medical marijuana dispensaries, is concerned that terminal cancer patients will die before being able to get relief from the drug.
 
Referring to Compassionate Apothecary and similar businesses in Michigan as a "safe third option" for patients to get cannabis, Taylor went out of his way to stock non-smokable marijuana, called "medibles," for patients who don't want to smoke the drug.
 
Before closing the three locations of Compassionate Apothecary, Taylor said, he followed the law and was able to help patients get medical marijuana 21 days after filing paperwork for their cards by using certified mail receipts and the proper paperwork.
 
Under Schuette's interpretation of the voter-approved law, a certified patient can't get medibles in 21 days, but can obtain seeds to begin growing plants, Taylor said.
 
Those patients who are in the last stages of cancer have neither the energy nor the time to grow a crop, Taylor said.
 
"Now that that safe third option is gone, a lot of people could die (before getting medical marijuana)," Taylor said.
 
That's one reason he stocked medibles at Compassionate Apothecary.
 
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IRS: Oakland's Largest Pot Dispensary Owes Millions
Category: News | Posted on Tue, October, 4th 2011 by THCFinder

The federal government continues to try and find ways to shut down legally operating dispensaries. One of the dispensaries that has been targetted recently was Oaklands Harborside who the IRS says owes over $2 million dollars in back taxes from 2007 and 2008. The claim is that the dispensary cannot deduct common deductions such as payroll , rent and more. We can only hope that Harboside prevails in this battle and sets precedent for the rest of the dispenaries in the industry.

Oakland’s Harborside Health Center — the largest medical marijuana dispensary on the West Coast — lost the first round in a high-stakes battle with the Internal Revenue Service that could spell trouble for the booming pot industry.
 
In a letter to Harborside late last week, the IRS ruled that the dispensary cannot deduct standard business expenses such as payroll and rent, because it is involved in what the agency terms "the trafficking of controlled substances," said Luigi Zamarra, Harborside’s chief financial officer. 
 
“We can't live with the conclusions that the IRS has come to and neither can the industry,” Zamarra said in an interview Monday. If the IRS ultimately prevails, “we would close our doors and go away because the business model wouldn’t work,” he said.
 
 
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Amazing bud
Category: Culture | Posted on Tue, October, 4th 2011 by THCFinder

Doesn't it make you want to pull out the bong and take a few hits?

 

 

Photo: http://mzhighernhigher.tumblr.com/post/11011161904

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No Evidence Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Cause Crime, RAND Study Finds
Category: Dispensaries | Posted on Tue, October, 4th 2011 by THCFinder

Another excuse busted by the RAND team! I'm sure officials and police will just continue to come up with new bullshit excuses before people have to step up and show them that it's just propaganda and that their lies have no merit!

Opponents of medical marijuana dispensaries have long argued that they are magnets for criminality, but a study released last week by the RAND Corporation does not support that contention. The RAND study found that crime rates rose in surrounding neighborhoods when dispensaries were shut down when compared to areas where dispensaries were allowed to stay open.
 
[image:1 align:left caption:true]The study examined neighborhoods in Los Angeles for 10 days before and 10 days after more than 70% of the 638 dispensaries in the city were shut down on June 7, 2010. Researchers found that incidents such as break-ins rose in neighborhoods where dispensaries were shut down.
 
In the immediate blocks surrounding closed dispensaries, crime increased 60% more than in the blocks surrounding dispensaries that were allowed to stay open. Those effects in the immediate vicinity were not apparent across a wider area.
 
"If medical marijuana dispensaries are causing crime, then there should be a drop in crime when they close," said Mireille Jacobson, the study's lead author and a senior economist at RAND. "Individual dispensaries may attract crime or create a neighborhood nuisance, but we found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise."
 
 
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