Medical cannabis advocates and patients met in San Francisco Tuesday to hold a rally condemning the federal government’s crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries in California. Several hundred people gathered on the steps of City Hall at 11:30 a.m. for the rally, which was sponsored by Americans for Safe Access and San Read More…
If marijuana is as dangerous as heroin — as the Drug Enforcement Agency classifies it to be — then Californians are living in the midst of a drug epidemic. Most Californians, however, know better than to believe this hype, as joints are passed around in concerts like bread in church. Read More…
It is never good practice for a city to drop the ball on expanding voter-approved lines of revenue — especially when that city faces an estimated $12.2 million deficit for the 2012 fiscal year. Unfortunately, the city of Berkeley is doing just this, losing out on a huge potential source Read More…
One of Berkeley’s three medical cannabis dispensaries will vacate its location at 2747 San Pablo Ave. in the coming months, leaving the future of Berkeley’s oldest and largest dispensary uncertain. Berkeley Patients Group recently joined the growing number of dispensaries throughout the state that have been targeted by the U.S. Read More…
Property owners leasing land to medical marijuana dispensaries in California could face criminal prosecution and loss of their properties if they fail to evict their tenants within a 45-day warning period stipulated in letters sent by federal prosecutors this week. Sarah Mohamed is the lead city government reporter. Correction(s):A previous Read More…
One of Berkeley’s medical cannabis collectives has closed and another is at risk of being shut down following concerns that the businesses were illegally operating as dispensaries rather than collectives. On Dec. 8, the city’s code enforcement supervisor Gregory Daniel sent letters to the Perfect Plants Patient’s Group and 40 Read More…
In Berkeley, efforts to expand the city’s medical cannabis industry have been slowed as contention between state and federal marijuana policies causes confusion among business owners, local governments, legal experts and patients alike. Berkeley has already begun to see the effect of federal lawmakers butting heads with officials in states Read More…
After playing an instrumental role in helping a Maine-based patient group gain licensing for and open medical marijuana dispensaries, the Berkeley Patients Group filed a lawsuit against the Maine group and its chief executive for an alleged breach of contract, among other claims. According to the lawsuit, which was filed Read More…
At the oft-delayed first meeting of the city’s reconstituted Medical Cannabis Commission Thursday, commission members made it clear they plan to develop guidelines for local medical marijuana policies in the interest of cannabis patients, despite unfavorable signals regarding marijuana from the federal government. The commission is charged with establishing a Read More…
A recent federal decision determining that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should be classified as dangerous as heroin may prove to be another obstacle for Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission as it prepares for its first meeting. The commission, which will meet July 21 for the first time since Read More…
