"Why, whatever could he be talking about?"
Posted on 08/26/2008 9:40:26 PM PDT by SmithL
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has ordered a crackdown on medical pot clubs that are selling the drug for big profits.
The move puts the state a bit more in line with the feds in dealing with the explosion of questionable marijuana dispensaries since the passage of Proposition 215 more than a decade ago.
The first target was Today's Health Care club in Northridge (Los Angeles County), which agents from the state Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement raided over the weekend. The club owner and an alleged middleman were booked on drug-dealing charges.
Brown said Tuesday he would "not be surprised" to see similar raids here in the Bay Area.
"The voters wanted medical marijuana dispensaries to be used for seriously ill patients and their caregivers - not as million-dollar businesses," Brown said.
In recent years, pot club raids have been conducted mainly by federal authorities who don't recognize Prop. 215, the initiative California voters passed in 1996 to let patients use cannabis to treat what ailed them. Although medical marijuana is still illegal under federal law, the feds say many of their targets were actually sham outfits that were dealing marijuana for, shall we say, nonmedicinal uses.
This week, Brown issued an 11-page directive laying out guidelines that medical marijuana cooperatives must follow to comply with Prop. 215.
Among them: Sell only to legitimate patients. Operate as nonprofits. Buy pot only from fellow cooperative members at prices that cover cost, as opposed to professional growers out for big bucks.
"We are not out to harass legitimate clubs," Brown said. "The targets are those clubs that are part of a larger criminal operation where medical marijuana winds up being sold on the street and contributing to crime and violence."
Some medical marijuana dispensers, concerned that thuggish dope dealers are giving their business a bad name,...
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They must have reduced “Moonbeam’s” stash......
Guideline #1: Contribute heavily to the Moonbeam Election Committee.
This “medical marijuana” thing always makes me think of the “medicinal purposes only” drunks that were in almost every TV show back in the 50s and 60s. They always got all the laughs.
One must conceal their obscene profits in huge salaries and expense accounts in order to have redeeming social value among the liberal faithful!!!
It's even better if you're clever enough to get GovernMental tax revenue money to grant-fund your supposed "Non-Profit Corporation, Inc.," making the sanctity nearly complete.
The cutest trick of all is when your "Non-Profit" corp is used to feed your regular profitable "C-corp" a study flow of revenue which can be contributed to your "Non-Profit" corp as a tax deductible "caritable contribution!"
See what I mean???
You mean like the ones addicted to heavily advertised HADACOL? (alcohol in reality)
"Why, whatever could he be talking about?"
But he won’t investigate Schumer. That’s not tough, it’s sad.
You gotta give 'em credit for creativity. Of course, they're business models are more corrupt than the "for profit" corps they are supposedly opposed to.
Jerry Brown is currently leading in polling for the governorship once Arnie leaves in disgrace. Brown is a far more effective AG than his predecessor and was a far better mayor of Oakland than his successor. He is sounding more and more like a conservative Democrat, and has dropped the loonier positions that he once favored. He could very well be the next governor of California. (You heard it here first.)
I don't think she will, but . . .
This is only true if you consider Nancy Pelosi a "conservative Democrat."
Spoken from the perspective of someone who lives 2,000 miles away. Thanks.
I thought he was a big pot smoker. There must be some reason he’s so incredibly stupid.
What nonsense. All marijuana use is medicinal.
Does the word conservative mean something else in San Francisco?
Of course. You ain’t from around here, are you boy?
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