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Christopher Smith, co-founder of 40 Acres Medical Marijuana Growers’ Collective, filed a lawsuit on Sept. 24 against the city of Berkeley, alleging the city of discriminating against the collective.
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The Berkeley City Council decided to further investigate the creation of new medical marijuana dispensaries at its meeting Tuesday night.
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The Berkeley City Council will discuss increasing the limit on medical cannabis dispensaries from four to six at Tuesday’s meeting.
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The city of Oakland has filed a lawsuit against U.S. authorities that claims the federal government has overstepped its jurisdiction in the attempted closure of a local medical marijuana dispensary.
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Jayden is only 5 years old and suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. His father, Jason David, tearfully shares how the only relief from his son’s physical pain and life-threatening seizures is from a nonpsychoactive molecule found in cannabis, called cannabidiol.
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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.
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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
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Medical cannabis is viewed as both a burgeoning industry and a cause of judicial contention for many people in California and across the country. In Berkeley, federal intervention is beginning to affect the city’s small — but growing — medical cannabis industry. In recent months, the U.S. Department of Justice
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The recent opening of a medical marijuana collective in Southwest Berkeley has raised confusion as to the enforcement of a November 2010 ballot measure that regulates where medical marijuana collectives and dispensaries can be located. The collective, Perfect Plants Patient’s Group, opened at its current location on Sacramento Street in
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Berkeley’s three medical marijuana dispensaries remain out of the federal government’s line of fire for the time being as dozens of dispensaries and their landlords throughout California face the threat of federal prosecution if they continue selling marijuana. Although the three dispensaries comply with Berkeley city law, their operations are
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