VIDEO: Doctors, Patients Assess Effectiveness of Medical Marijuana

Sixteen states have passed laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana to treat side effects of various illnesses, but now some states are moving to either limit or repeal those laws. Special correspondent Anna Rau of Montana PBS reports on the experiences of patients and doctors.

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Reseda Dispensaries, Collectives and Cooperatives

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We encourage you to call the collectives prior to making the trip, in case the hours have changed or the facility has been closed.

KlubMed
18119 Saticoy St. [map]
Reseda, CA 91335
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 10pm
Phone: 818-996-5874

Reseda Discount Caregivers
18448 Oxnard St. [map]
Reseda, CA 91356
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 9pm
Phone: 818-757-0434

True Healing Collective
7329 Reseda Blvd. [map]
Reseda, CA 91335
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 9pm
Phone: 818-605-5495

Sun Valley Dispensaries, Collectives and Cooperatives

Blue Sky Caregivers
8233 San Fernando Rd. [map]
Sun Valley, CA 91352
Hours: Mon-Sun 8am to 3am
Phone: 818-640-2196

Valley Holistic Caregivers
7200 Vineland Ave. Suite 205 [map]
Sun Valley, CA 91352
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 8pm
Phone: 818-255-5511
Web: kingsofkush.com

VetMed Caregivers
9364 S. San Fernando Rd. [map]
Sun Valley, CA 91352
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 8pm
Phone: 818-287-7049

NEWS: Citizens Outraged Over Wasteful Long Beach Trial

LONG BEACH, CA – Hundreds of medical marijuana advocates and activists from throughout Southern California will be holding a rally outside Long Beach Superior Courthouse on September 15th to protest the city’s wasting millions of tax payer dollars investigating, raiding, and prosecuting legal medical marijuana collectives while vital public services are being cut.

That is the day when Judge Charles Sheldon will decide which witnesses, if any, will be eligible to testify for the defense in the trial of Joe Grumbine and Joe Byron, the former operators of two legal medical cannabis collectives in Long Beach and Garden Grove. The city claims the collectives were operating outside of the law, yet ironically a Riverside County judge found Grumbine in complete compliance with California’s medical marijuana laws just 5 weeks before the city of Long Beach sent 120 armed SWAT officers, drug sniffing dogs, and helicopters to raid 17 locations. The December 2009 raid started the men on an entire new prosecution ordeal that’s been dragging on nearly 2 years.

Citizens have presented the Long Beach City Council with numerous FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests on the exact amount spent on what they consider to be a frivolous and unnecessary investigation and prosecution at a time when the city is cutting services and California has been ordered to reduce its prison population due to overcrowding. The requests have gone ignored and no actual figures have come from Long Beach officials, but activists estimate the amount to be upwards of 5 million dollars.

“I recently attended a town hall meeting with Long Beach council woman Rae Gabelich where citizens were complaining about their local police station annex being understaffed,” says Long Beach resident Madeleine Johnson. “Yet the city found it wise to send helicopters, dogs, and 120 SWAT officers after a man who had already been found to be following the law? It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Johnson was one of about 80 concerned citizens who filled the courtroom and hallways of Long Beach Superior Court during Byron and Grumbine’s August 16’th pre-trial hearing. At least 3 times that number is expected for their September 15th Jury Selection. Supporters from as far south as San Diego and as far north as San Luis Obispo have pledged to attend the rally.

“People all over the state are fed up with law enforcement and our elected officials ignoring the medical marijuana laws meant to protect patients and wasting enormous tax dollars in the process,” says Grumbine.

Local chapters of numerous organizations including The Human Solution (a non profit organization founded by Grumbine), Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Marijuana Anti Prohibition Project (MAPP), the Landa Prison Outreach Program (LPOP), and Long Beach’s Committee of Patients (COP) are currently planning how to best show their outrage at the system and support for the two men caught in the crosshairs of California’s deeply flawed justice system concerning medical marijuana.

Those wishing to join the rallies, participate in court support, or donate to Joe Grumbine and Joe Byron’s legal defense funds can do so at The Human Solution’s website (www.the-human-solution.org) or phone 951-436-6312 for additional details.

Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Collectives and Co-ops

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We encourage you to call the collectives prior to making the trip, in case the hours have changed or the facility has been closed.

Adams/Hill Discount Center
2602 S. Hill St. [map]
Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 10am to 6pm
Phone: 213-440-8595

Amsterdam Mart
4718 Fountain Ave. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 10pm
Phone: 310-256-9959

Atwater Alternative Care Collective
3106 Glendale Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles CA 90039
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-10pm, Sat-Sun 11am-9pm
Phone: 323-661-6200

Best Quality Herbal Medicine
1833 E. Vernon Ave. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90508
Hours: Mon-Sun 8am to 12am
Phone: 323-233-1779

California Herbal Healing Center (CHHC)
1437 N La Brea Ave. [map]
Los Angeles CA 90028
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 11pm
Phone: 877-420-5874

City Compassionate Caregivers
606 E. 4th St. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 10am to 6pm
Phone: 213-221-7086

Downtown Collective
1600 S. Hill St., Unit D [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 8pm
Phone: 213-746-5420
Web: dtc420.com

Downtown Discount Caregivers
111 E. 9th St. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 8pm
Phone: 213-896-0016

Famous Medstop
3109 Beverly Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 10pm, Sun 10am to 8pm
Phone: 213-365-0262

Five Star Collective
2076 Westwood Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 10pm
Phone: 310-474-1213
Email: fivestarcollective@gmail.com
Website: http://fivestarcollective.com

Flower Of Life Collective (FOLC)
1950 S. Santa Fe Ave. Ste 109
Los Angeles, CA 90021
Hours: Mon-Sun 12pm to 8pm
Phone: 213-488-9464

Green (Near Universal City Walk and Movies)
3324 Barham Blvd. #A [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 11pm
Phone: 323-851-0911
Website: smokeitup420.org

Green Palace Collective
3615 Beverly Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am to 10pm
Phone: 424-230-2220

Herbal Solutions Cannabis Consultants
735 N. La Brea
Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-8pm
Phone: (323) 933-4372
Website: cannabisconsultantsca.com

Hot Box Collective (HC)
143 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (323) 460-6410
Website: http://www.hbc420.com
Email: info@hbc420.com

Hollywood Holistic
1543 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-8pm, Sun 12pm-6pm
Phone: (310) 481-0660
Fax: (310) 481-0659
Website: hollywoodholistic.org

Hot Spot Collective
4326 Melrose Ave. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 10pm
Phone: 323-284-8060

Kaya Compassion Center
9146 Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am to 8pm, Sat-Sun 11am to 6pm
Phone: (310) 338-0357

Kelly's Collective
8638 W. Pico Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 12pm to 8pm
Phone: 310-854-5874 (KUSH)

Kush Korner Caregivers
2214 S. Vermont Ave. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 11am to 8pm
Phone: 323-733-2581

LA Organic Pharmacy
4911 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am to 8pm, Sat 11am to 7pm, Sun 12pm to 4pm
Phone: 323-463-3920

Medicine Man Collective
1651 W. Temple St. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Hours: Mon-Sun 24/7
Phone: 213-375-7701

Mr. Greens Collective
3740 W. Sunset Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 9pm
Phone: 323-663-6711

Nature's Herbs
1713 W. El Segundo Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-7pm, Thu-Sat 10am-8pm
Phone: (323) 777-1319

Olive Tree Collective
643 S. Olive St. #415 [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 5pm, Sun CLOSED
Phone: 213-627-2940

Rampart Discount Center
246 S. Rampart Blvd. Suit 272B [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 10am to 6pm
Phone: 213-925-8962

Silver Lake Caregivers
2323 Beverly Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am to 8pm, Sun 12pm to 8pm
Phone: 213-483-1400

The Fountain of Well Being
3835 Fountain Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-9pm, Sun 11am-6pm
Phone: 323-662-0900

The Green Easy
7948 W. 3rd Street
Los Angeles CA 90048
Hours: Mon-Thu 9am-11pm
Phone: 323-782-0255

United Herbal Center
2708 W. 8th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Hours: Mon 11am-9am; Tue-Sat 11am-9pm; Sun 11am-8pm
Phone: (213) 739-7038

Western Compassion Center
7509 S. Western Ave. [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90006
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am to 8pm, Sun 11am to 6pm
Phone: 323-759-7509

Western Discount Center
1570 S. Western Ave. Suite 102 [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90006
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am to 8pm, Sun 10am to 6pm
Phone: 323-733-2913

Westside Discount Center
12211 Wilshire Blvd, Suite A [map]
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am to 8pm, Sun 11am to 6pm
Website: westsidedc.com

Wonderland Collective
4406 W. Pico Blvd. [map]
Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Mon-Sun 11am to 8pm
Phone: 323-936-4410

NEWS: Judge: Pot is not agricultural crop, collective must move

FRESNO, Calif. — It grows in the ground, requires water and sunshine to blossom, and earns Californians an estimated $17 billion a year. But don't call marijuana an agricultural crop in Tulare County.

The distinction was made clear by judge who ruled Tuesday in favor of the Board of Supervisors in its lawsuit claiming the Foothill Growers Association, a medical marijuana collective, was improperly operating in a warehouse on land zoned for agricultural uses.

The collective has until Friday to stop using the building after the judge said such collectives are allowed only in commercial and manufacturing zones.

Attorney Brandon Ormonde, who represents the collective, told the Fresno Bee marijuana is agricultural in nature but conceded it has never been legally recognized as a crop - something pro-marijuana groups say is absurd.

"If it's not a crop, I don't know what is," said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a group favoring legalization.

Tulare County, in California's agricultural heartland, is one of the top ag communities in the nation with total farm receipts at more than $4.8 billion last year.

Superior Court Judge Paul Vortmann wrote that marijuana has never been officially classified as an agricultural crop, a point on which the California Department of Food and Agriculture concurs. He added that growing a controlled substance such as pot does not constitute an agricultural use of property.

Even agricultural commissioners in two of the state's most marijuana-friendly counties - Mendocino and Alameda - don't consider pot a crop, officials said.

Still, Ted Eriksen Jr., the agricultural commissioner of Mendocino County in 1979, set off a firestorm when he listed marijuana in the county's annual crop report. Generating $90 million a year, it was then the county's top commodity after timber.

Source: The Associated Press

NEWS: LAPD Arrests Six Robbery Suspects

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested three people suspected of robbing a medical marijuana facility at gunpoint on Eagle Rock Boulevard in March, plus three burglary suspects allegedly responsible for a rash of robberies in Eagle Rock and Highland Park.

The recent arrests, including those pertaining to three robberies in Eagle Rock and four in Highland Park, were announced to the board of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council at its monthly meeting Tuesday night by LAPD Senior Lead Officer Craig Orange, who is in charge of controlling crime in Eagle Rock.

That’s the “good news,” Orange told the ERNC Board at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. The “bad news” is that two car-borne suspects wanted for robbing six people in Eagle Rock of their iPhones are “still on the loose.”

The iPhone bandits struck again last Tuesday, August 2, on Laverne Avenue, on the west side of Eagle Rock Boulevard, Orange said, confirming Crimemapping.com data reported on Eagle Rock Patch Monday.

Orange described the bandits as “young, clean-cut guys” who drive around in a beige-colored Toyota sedan and tend to target people walking or jogging. The robberies, conducted by threat of force or fear over the past six weeks or so, invariably occur between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

It’s not clear whether the robbers are armed or if they pretend to be, Orange said, describing their modus operandi. While one of the suspects remains in the getaway car, the other man approaches the victim from one side and sticks an object into the victim’s side while saying, “I got a gun,” Orange said, adding that usually the victim is too scared to notice whether the robber is in fact armed or not.

Plainclothes officers of the LAPD’s Criminal Apprehension Team (CAT) were responsible for tracking down and arresting the alleged robbers of the pot dispensary, Eagle Rock Herbal Collective, after months of painstaking surveillance and intelligence work, Orange said.

Two of the suspects, male ex-convicts in their early 20s, have been charged with robbery, possession of illegal weapons and kidnapping, Orange said. Assisting them in their robbery of the marijuana facility was a young woman. All three are from Pasadena, Orange said.

LAPD’s CAT officers, who were honored at the August 2 National Night Out celebration in Eagle Rock, have been trying to apprehend the iPhone bandits as well, Orange said.

“I don’t want to give out too much information,” Orange told Eagle Rock Patch. “But they’ll get caught.”

Source: Eagle Rock Patch

NEWS: Glendale officially bans marijuana dispensaries

The City Council approved an all-out ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday night.

The ban, which was introduced last week, is slated to take effect Sept. 9, about two weeks before an existing moratorium prohibiting the dispensaries expires.

Current zoning codes have so far kept marijuana dispensaries at bay, but city officials, citing growing interest from collectives, have sought stronger language to keep them out.

Glendale’s ordinance uses zoning code to ban businesses that engage in any activity that violates federal, state or local laws from operating in any zone. The ordinance also identifies medical marijuana dispensaries as being banned in all zones.

Los Angeles passed an ordinance last year limiting the number of dispensaries to 70, exempting those in the city before 2007.

A lawsuit against Anaheim challenging its ban on medical marijuana awaits a ruling this month in Orange County Superior Court, which medical marijuana experts say could set a precedent. Still, Glendale officials have said they’re confident their ban is on firm legal footing.

Source: Glendale News Press