Tahoe Medical Marijuana Dispensary Bombed on Eve of 4/20

via SacBee:

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. —     Police are investigating after an improvised explosive device was thrown through the window of a South Lake Tahoe marijuana dispensary [Patient to Patient Collective] on the eve of a marijuana holiday.

Read more here:  http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/20/4430428/explosive-hits-tahoe-pot-dispensary.html

“Erika Triglia, manager at the dispensary, said the device was a PVC pipe containing sulfur and a fuse. The suspect targeted the room where the collective typically keeps maturing marijuana plants, Triglia said. The incident was an attempt to kill the plants by clouding the room with excessive amounts of sulfur, Triglia said.”

“According to Friday’s statement, the Douglas County Bomb Squad removed the device from the building, rendered it safe and booked it into evidence for processing.

Triglia said the device was removed by her husband, Matt Triglia, who operates the collective. She questioned the need for the bomb squad’s robot, as well as police overtime in the response to the incident.”

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/ARTICLE/20120420/NEWS/120429995/-1/

Protect Your Safe Access to the Healing Herb!

from Hummingbird Healing Center

Hummingbirds
Request for Help.

hummingbirdhealingcenter@gmail.com

or http://urlet.com/gallop.humdrum
On Dec 13th, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will meet and decide on your right to grow.  The
Hum Co MMJ Ordinance right now will limit you to 5 x 10 sq ft with 1200 watts total per residence!!
It will possibly include a ‘Special Permit’ process that allows expansion to 10 x 10.  We don’t know yet
what the permitting process will involve.  Please let the B of S know that 5 x 10 will not work for you,
and why.  How are your Dispensaries supposed to provide for your needs if no one can grow enough to
meet their own needs or to share? 
Most of the Board of Supervisors know nothing about growing or what your medical needs are.
Please let them know.
They also don’t know how many 215 patients are in Humboldt County.
 PLEASE LET THEY KNOW!!
Virginia Bass-476-2394  vbass@co.humboldt.ca.us
Clif Clendenen  476-2392  Clif.Clendenen@co.humboldt.ca.us
Jimmy Smith  476-2391   jrsmith@co.humboldt.ca.us
Mark Lovelace  476-2393  mlovelace@co.humboldt.ca.us
Ryan Sundberg  476-2395  rsundberg@co.humboldt.ca.us

ALSO

In our recent newsletter we introduced you to HPDA-Humboldt Patient Dispensary Alliance.
We have been working with a wonderful group of folks representing the following local dispensaries:
Hummingbird Healing Center-HHC, Humboldt Medical Supply-HMS, Humboldt Patient Resource Center
HPRC, The Humboldt County Collective-THCC.
And also the following Dispensaries that are waiting for their Conditional Use Permit:
The Treehouse Collective-TTC, Humboldt Health and Wellness-HHW.  Others are also working for your
Rights here in Humboldt County and Patients have also gotten involved.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING INFORMED OR HELPING OUT, PLEASE LET US KNOW!!
 hummingbirdhealingcenter@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hummingbird-Healing-Center/186606183807 or: http://urlet.com/gallop.humdrum

Horizon Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Sacramento Busted

SACRAMENTO; Calif. — The director of a Sacramento medical marijuana dispensary is being charged with several felonies for allegedly selling pot illegally out of the business.

 Sacramento County narcotics officers arrested John Swanston, who runs the Horizon Collective on Power Inn Road.

Swanston’s attorney Michael Wise denied the allegations against his client.

“We are adamant that he is in compliance with every state law, every local regulation,” Wise said.

http://www.kcra.com/news/26829220/detail.html

A different view  published just yesterday:

“South Sacramento’s Horizon Non Profit Collective, one of the city’s first, still does it right”

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1919119

San Diego: MMJ Dispensary Robbed by 5 Man Armed Gang

SAN DIEGO – Five gunmen stormed a medical marijuana dispensary in Normal Heights Tuesday and made off with a large amount of cash and marijuana.

http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Five-Gunmen-Storm-Marijuana-Dispensary/W6aA-_avCUih1k1UZqvGGA.cspx

Online Medical Marijuana Dispensary for California Statewide

Things in the world of marijuana and the business of medical marijuana are moving very fast now, especially in California, Colorado and Michigan.  It is time for Humbolt County to wake up and smell the DANK, politically.

This info is FYI and is not an endorsement of this business.

http://www.c420online.com/

Thanks to the Weed Wars Sac Bee blog, here is an article about C420Online.com:

“By promising to ship up to 8 ounces of marijuana overnight, Lawrence’s C420online.com is testing the boundaries of pot distribution, even for California’s manic medical marijuana market.

The on-line patients’ collective had its public launch at last weekend’s International Hemp & Cannabis Expo with a splashy booth, flashing video screens, lush plants and bowls filled with exotic marijuana buds.

C420 says it has signed up 1,000 medical marijuana users with physician’s recommendations and a yearning for convenient home deliveries. It promises to ship pot only within California and only after verifying that a doctor has recommended weed for any recipients, who must be state residents.”

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/weed-wars/2010/04/on-line-medical-weed-service-pushes-the-delivery-envelope.html

Los Angeles: Judge grants injunction against city’s medical marijuana dispensary ban

A Superior Court judge concluded today that Los Angeles’ moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries is invalid and granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the ban sought by a dispensary that had sued the city.

http://urlet.com/methods.pure

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/judge-rules-against-citys-medical-marijuana-dispensary-ban.html

Small California Retirement Town Seeks Medical MJ Dispensary

Calif. city seeks marijuana shop

By Paloma Esquivel | Los Angeles Times

February 22, 2009

 

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. -

It’s just past noon in Laguna Woods, and retired Navy pilot David Masters, 71, has just wrapped up 18 holes on the golf course. The scene beyond him is something out of a postcard….{snip}….
.

Here, the average age is 78, residents drive golf carts to the grocery store and the lawn bowling greens, and bridge games and social clubs are the stuff of daily life.

So are illness and pain. Conversation frequently touches on a litany of ailments everyone seems to share – diabetes, arthritis, glaucoma, cancer – though dwelling on such matters is something of a taboo. More than anything, people here say they are trying to cope with the realities of aging and illness while remaining engaged in this new phase of life, one in which they refuse to accept that retirement means being closed up and isolated.

This is why, city officials say, they voted late last year to approve an ordinance permitting medical marijuana to be sold in town, the only city in Orange County to endorse cannabis dispensaries.

much more:

http://urlet.com/tracks.champion

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.pot22feb22,0,2724863.story

Medical marijuana dispensary appeals business license revocation

Written by Elizabeth Larson
Thursday, 11 December 2008

CLEARLAKE – The operator of a local medical marijuana dispensary plans to appeal the revocation of her business license to the Clearlake City Council at its Thursday night meeting.

The council will meet at 6 p.m. at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

Liz Byrd, owner of Lakeside Herbal Solutions on Mullen Avenue says she’ll be at Thursday night’s meeting to ask that the council overturn the decision by city staff to pull her business license because she is selling medical marijuana.

Byrd, whose dispensary opened in late October, became involved with medical marijuana after she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia seven years ago. She says the medicinal use of marijuana has allowed her to stop using all of her other drugs.

A businesswoman who formerly owned the consignment shop From You to Me, Byrd said she wanted to create a comfortable, professional setting for medical marijuana patients to get their medicine, so she set about opening Lakeside Herbal Solutions, which resembles a doctor’s office.

Even before she opened her doors she had patients ready to seek her services, including one who drives to Clearlake twice a month from Sacramento. Byrd said 35 percent of her clients are terminally ill cancer patients.

But since she opened city officials have alleged that Byrd got her license surreptitiously, without listing on her business license application her intention to sell medical marijuana.

Earlier this year, a temporary citywide moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits expired, said Clearlake Police Chief Allan McClain.

The moratorium was passed the previous year, said McClain, in the hope that a federal court would come to a consensus as to who ultimately has jurisdiction – federal, state or local agencies – on medical marijuana, which has become a thorny issue for law enforcement due to the conflict between state and federal law.

The council decided that existing medical dispensaries – such as D&M Compassion Center – would be allowed to continue operating, but new dispensaries wouldn’t be permitted, McClain said.

http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6604/764/

Feds Raid & Trash Venice Medical Marijuana Dispensary

At about noon yesterday Drug Enforcement Administration agents showed up at Organica Collective at 13456 Washington Boulveard in Venice and conducted a raid that yielded no arrests, but left a tremendous amount of disarray in their wake.

more: http://laist.com/2008/08/01/feds_raid_trash_venice_medical_mari.php

Fortuna city council may nix marijuana dispensaries

A public hearing to consider prohibiting the establishment and operation of medical marijuana dispensaries within the city of Fortuna will take place at Fortuna City Council’s meeting at Fortuna City Hall on Monday at 6 p.m.

http://eurekareporter.com/article/080706-fortuna-city-council-may-nix-marijuana-dispensaries