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CA Medical Marijuana Dispensary Numbers Shrink in Two-Pronged Attack

June 30th

LOS ANGELES, CA — California medical marijuana dispensaries — and their patients — are under a sustained, two-pronged attack, and that is having a dramatic impact on patient access across the state. Under pressure from the federal government on one hand and newly-emboldened local officials on the other, dispensary numbers are shrinking and ever larger swathes of the state that legalized medical marijuana nearly 17 years ago are without anywhere to get medical marijuana.

Anyone who is following the situation in the Golden State at all closely has seen a numbing litany of reports of dispensaries forced out of business, including from some of the most venerable, respected, and law-abiding operations in the state.

What had been the occasional raid or prosecution by the DEA or federal prosecutors during the early years of the Obama administration has turned into a heightened onslaught since the issuance of the notorious Cole memo, written by Assistant Attorney General James Cole, two years ago next week and the announcement by California’s four US Attorneys that fall that they were declaring open season on dispensaries.

And while recalcitrant city and county law enforcement and elected officials had managed to make access to medical marijuana a pat. . . . . READ MORE

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CA: San Jose City Council Votes To Raise Medical Marijuana Tax

May 23rd

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SAN JOSE, CA — The San Jose city council voted unanimously Tuesday to increase the city’s tax on medical marijuana sales from 7 to 10 percent, starting in July.

The move is expected to generate an additional $1.5 million in tax revenue for the city each year.  The current 7 percent tax nets the city an estimated $3.9 million annually, city officials said, with the increase expected to bring a total of $5.4 million per year into the city coffers.

City officials say there are 96 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the city currently, although they are technically illegal under both federal and city law.

“They’re allowed by state law and so we’re trying to accommodate people who have medical needs,” said San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. “We will continue to try to do that, even though the law is a little uncertain.”

In 2011, the San Jose City Council adopted zoning and regulatory ordinances that would have limited the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city to ten, restricted the dispensaries to industrial-zoned areas, and would have required the dispensaries to grow all of their medical marijuana on site.

Shortly after the regulations were passed, medical marijuana activists argued the regulations were overly . . . . . READ MORE

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