| Berkeley Wants To Tax Medical Marijuana |
| Mercury News - February 19th, 2010 |
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Berkeley is looking to medical marijuana as a way to raise badly needed cash as it faces a $14 million budget shortfall this year and probably more next year.
The city manager's office has floated a plan to tax the city's three medical marijuana dispensaries $10 per square foot on space they occupy.
The tax would have to be put ... Read More |
| Berkeley’s Pot Club Mistake |
| East Bay Express - January 23rd, 2010 |
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When the Berkeley City Council voted in 2004 to block medical marijuana dispensaries from being within 1,000 feet of public schools, it seemed like a sensible move. After all, few people would argue that kids should spend most of their day next to a pot club, even if the facility does provide legitimate, important services. But the council ... Read More |
| Berkeley Pot Dispensary's Planned Move Angers Developer |
| The Oakland Tribune - January 23rd, 2010 |
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A medical marijuana outfit plans to move to the former Scharffen Berger chocolate building in booming West Berkeley, but a developer who owns 22 buildings in the area is warning the city that he will sue if that happens.
Berkeley Patients Group, a nonprofit operating in the city for 10 years, wants to lease the 28,000-square-foot ... Read More |
| Some Medical Marijuana Millionaires Are Turning to Philanthropy |
| The New York Times - January 2nd, 2010 |
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The popularity of pot clubs in the Bay Area has led to a burgeoning crop of medical marijuana millionaires. Call them the ganja riche. Like many of their nouveaux predecessors, they are trying to figure out what to do with their cash.
Some are giving to charity, but you will not see any fanfare or buildings named in their honor. ... Read More |
| Planning Board Puts Off Marijuana Vote Again |
| Alameda Sun - December 18th, 2009 |
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The late hour and lack of a full board prompted the Planning Board to delay its vote on marijuana clinics Monday night. The board now plans to vote whether to recommend that the city council ban medical marijuana dispensaries in Alameda at its Jan. 11 meeting.
Last December, the city council adopted a moratorium on medical marijuana ... Read More |
| Richmond Imposes Temporary Ban On New Pot Clubs |
| The Oakland Tribune - December 4th, 2009 |
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New pot clubs will have to wait before settling in Richmond. The City Council this week prohibited new medical marijuana dispensaries until the city can develop regulations for them. With no guidelines on the books, officials have no way to monitor or regulate the four dispensaries currently operating in the city.
"Like most other ... Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Dispensary Begs City To Lay Off |
| Contra Costa Times - December 3rd, 2009 |
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During what is traditionally a short ceremonial meeting to install Walnut Creek's newest mayor, supporters of the city's first medical marijuana dispensary decided to protest the city's ongoing legal battle against it.
Members of the C3 Collective, working from a storefront on Oakland Boulevard to provide medical marijuana to its ... Read More |
| Oakland May Legalize And Tax Medical Marijuana |
| KCBS News - October 26th, 2009 |
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) -- Oakland could soon become the first city in the nation to legalize, regulate, and tax grow houses that sell medical marijuana.
Medical pot dispensaries receive such regulations, but grow houses do not. For years the houses, which are traditionally wired unsafely, have been the bane of police and fire ... Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Patients Can Travel With Pot From SFO, Other Bay Area Airports |
| The Oakland Tribune - October 22nd, 2009 |
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Considering the haziness surrounding medical marijuana laws, it may be surprising that some of the most uptight places in the Bay Area — local airports — are also some of the most laid back when it comes to medical pot patients.
San Francisco police, who patrol San Francisco International Airport, say they allow card-holding medical ... Read More |
| Cash Strapped California Towns Eye Tax Hikes For Medical Marijuana |
| PBS - October 15th, 2009 |
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SPENCER MICHELS: In Oakland, California, this summer, 80 percent of the voters approved a measure to increase taxes on medical marijuana.
California is one of 13 states that permit growing and using marijuana for medical purposes. It's been legal here since 1996. Hundreds of licensed clubs like this one in Oakland cultivate and sell ... Read More |
| Legalizing Cannabis Could Stop Recession |
| Sky News - October 9th, 2009 |
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California was the first state to allow people to smoke marijuana for medical purposes but under US federal law the drug remains illegal.
It means campaigners pushing to have a state-wide vote on legalisation next year are on a collision course with the US government.
The city of Oakland, near San Francisco, this year became the ... Read More |
| Perata To Endorse Marijuana Legalization |
| San Francisco Chronicle - September 25th, 2009 |
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According to a blog posted by the Chronicle's Matier & Ross, former State Senator and declared mayoral candidate Don Perata will join a press conference today endorsing a ballot initiative called the Tax And Regulate Cannabis Act. The Oaksterdam-led legislation, now kicking off its signature-gathering campaign, would allow counties to choose to ... Read More |
| Oaksterdamn U Wants To Tax Marijuana Without Limit |
| Examiner - July 29th, 2009 |
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On the heels of The Gang of Four's stunning victory to tax money the sick and dying spend for medicine, Oaksterdam U has announced filing of their "Tax Cannabis 2010" initiative. Richard Lee owns Oaksterdam U as well as one of the four licensed dispensaries in the city of Oakland, Coffee Shop SR-71. Read More |
| Oaksterdam University In Place To Teach Next Generation Of Pot Entrepreneurs |
| Reuters - July 28th, 2009 |
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Reuters photographer Robert Galbraith spent some time at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California where they teach the next generation of medical marijuana entrepreneurs. The city of Oakland had just passed Measure F, which created a special tax category for medical weed dispensaries, the first in the nation. As state and local governments ... Read More |
| Weedmaps Boycott Hits the Examiner - Backpedaling Begins |
| T Comp Consulting - July 25th, 2009 |
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In a well rounded piece by J. Craig Canada, the owner of Weedmaps tries to backpedal on his disingenuous statement to the WSJ and AP this week. The boycott is growing and hopefully advertisers will realize this is not the type of rogue organization that they should be aligned with. Read More |
