Pot Clinic Raid Nets 4 Arrests
Police Chief Says Operation, Which Addressed Local Complaints of Marijuana Smell and Heavy Traffic, Is One of Many to Come.
Thursday’s low-key police raid on a Costa Mesa marijuana dispensary operating illegally is a sign of things to come, Police Chief Chris Shawkey said Friday.
Police served a search warrant on West Coast Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary at 1260 Logan Ave. Four people were arrested on marijuana-related charges, officials said in a news release.
“This should be a message to them that our intent is to take whatever appropriate action we can to close them down,” Shawkey said. READ MORE
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Times Square Billboard From NORML Denied By CBS
With great regret and chagrin to report, CBS has rejected a contract deal with NORML to place a pro-cannabis law reform advertisement on the biggest electronic billboard in Times Square (The CBS ‘Super Screen’ at 42nd St) claiming that the advertisement is too political. NORML had a contract for the 15 second spot below on the giant billboard (and a second one featuring President Obama and New York City’s high cannabis arrest rate with its shocking racial disparity in enforcement) READ MORE
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Lawmakers: Dispensaries Stay, But As Non-Profits
State lawmakers today unveiled a bill that would make major changes to Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry, allowing retail-style dispensaries to remain open, but forcing them to re-organize as licensed, non-profit “health centers.”
The bill would also place an 18-month moratorium on new commercial dispensaries. The bill also would require dispensaries to grow the majority of the marijuana they sell, thus eliminating freelance growers.
Perhaps most significantly, the bill would draw a crucial distinction between small-scale and large-scale medical-marijuana providers.
Small-scale providers – people growing and supplying marijuana to five or fewer patients – would not have to be licensed and would qualify for the protection the medical-marijuana section of Colorado’s constitution gives to “caregivers.” READ MORE
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