Amy Mostafa is a former KQED Radio News intern covering Berkeley and other Bay Area issues. A Cal alumna, she currently co-produces a weekly KALX show titled Women Hold Up Half the Sky.
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Jose official is pushing for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2019/09/13/councilwoman-calls-for-ban-on-vaping-products-in-san-jose/#.XXu3M8bu4J4.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local ban\u003c/a> on some vaping and flavored tobacco products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations from San Jose city councilmember Magdalena Carrasco come shortly after the Trump administration and the Federal Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/11/759851853/fda-to-banish-flavored-e-cigarettes-to-combat-youth-vaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced plans\u003c/a> for an upcoming policy that would enable the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773752/bay-area-vaping-critics-praise-trump-administration-plans-to-ban-flavored-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removal\u003c/a> of many flavored non-tobacco e-cigarettes from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This follows a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773385/6-potential-cases-of-vaping-related-lung-illness-reported-in-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement\u003c/a> from officials with the California Department of Public Health who say they’ve identified 67 potential cases of acute lung disease in people with a recent history of vaping since late June, including 6 in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasco’s recommendations further aim to limit young people’s access to tobacco products through the removal of a \u003ca href=\"https://library.municode.com/ca/san_jose/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT6BULIRE_CH6.87TORELI_PT2GEPR_6.87.210TORELIEX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">municipal code exemption\u003c/a> that currently allows San Jose’s tobacco and vape shops to operate without a city license on the condition that people under 18 years of age aren’t admitted into the shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4134208&GUID=266ABA3F-C283-4F25-8994-7FF4E923CB8F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo\u003c/a> to the city last week, Carrasco states that this “loophole” leaves the city no recourse for unlicensed vendor violations and is out of date with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/196103/buying-tobacco-or-e-cigarettes-in-california-you-need-to-be-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-wide ban\u003c/a> on the sale of tobacco products to people under 21 years of age since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='vaping' label='More Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city councilmember also cited a recent Santa Clara County Public Health report that found \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/news/Pages/tobacco-vaping-survey-08-2019.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e-cigarette use has increased\u003c/a> among teens in the county and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a survey given to students at 18 Santa Clara County middle and high schools in which nearly one in three students surveyed reported having tried vaping. According to the report, about 13% of participating students reported using e-cigarettes within the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Jose public health officials, that’s slightly higher than the state’s rate for that age group and almost half the national rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes in San Jose would also include regulations to limit “any further overconcentration of tobacco businesses,” especially near areas frequented by kids like schools and community centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilmember’s recommendations are set to be heard by the city’s Rules Committee next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city decides to restrict the sale of e-cigarettes, it would be following in the footsteps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757125/san-francisco-approves-ban-on-e-cigarette-sales-distribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/10/richmond-bans-sale-of-e-cigarettes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area-based company \u003ca href=\"https://www.juul.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juul Labs\u003c/a> — one of the biggest producers of e-cigarettes in the country and a vocal opponent of San Francisco's ban — did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, voters in Livermore are \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/13/voters-of-east-bay-city-to-decide-if-sale-of-vape-pens-should-be-banned/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set to decide\u003c/a> whether or not to ban these products this coming March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city councilmember also cited a recent Santa Clara County Public Health report that found \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/news/Pages/tobacco-vaping-survey-08-2019.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e-cigarette use has increased\u003c/a> among teens in the county and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a survey given to students at 18 Santa Clara County middle and high schools in which nearly one in three students surveyed reported having tried vaping. According to the report, about 13% of participating students reported using e-cigarettes within the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Jose public health officials, that’s slightly higher than the state’s rate for that age group and almost half the national rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes in San Jose would also include regulations to limit “any further overconcentration of tobacco businesses,” especially near areas frequented by kids like schools and community centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilmember’s recommendations are set to be heard by the city’s Rules Committee next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city decides to restrict the sale of e-cigarettes, it would be following in the footsteps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757125/san-francisco-approves-ban-on-e-cigarette-sales-distribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/10/richmond-bans-sale-of-e-cigarettes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area-based company \u003ca href=\"https://www.juul.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juul Labs\u003c/a> — one of the biggest producers of e-cigarettes in the country and a vocal opponent of San Francisco's ban — did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, voters in Livermore are \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/13/voters-of-east-bay-city-to-decide-if-sale-of-vape-pens-should-be-banned/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set to decide\u003c/a> whether or not to ban these products this coming March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:45 p.m. Wednesday May 11: \u003c/strong> The Berkeley City Council approved the fourth permit for \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a> and are requesting the city manager amend municipal code to allow two additional medical cannabis dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I met Ridgeway Smith was at a \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4152&isSection=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission\u003c/a> meeting on Feb. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding process to run Berkeley’s fourth\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/02/05/berkeley-commission-shortlists-3-for-cannabis-dispensary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> medical marijuana dispensary\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was well on its way. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commission was meeting to make its final recommendation about \u003cem>who\u003c/em> should get the license, and most members agreed: Even more than four were needed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Berkeley City Council prepares to vote \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4156&isSection=false\">Tuesday night\u003c/a> on which of six applicants will get the license — or to postpone the vote in favor of approving an additional two licenses if an alternative proposal is adopted — Smith remains one of the few voices I’ve heard in opposition to a new medical cannabis dispensary in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263443659″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he doesn’t want it in his neighborhood, where he has lived for almost 29 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives on Harmon Street, about a block away from Alcatraz and Sacramento streets, where the top contender for the dispensary license, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a>, would set up shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950700 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where the 4th medical marijuana dispensary may be located in Smith's neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where a medical marijuana dispensary may locate. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The applicant was a big hit at the meeting, gaining the highest recommendation of the commission by promising ownership by one of Berkeley’s very own and with a focus on senior patients. The commission selected three of the six finalists — down from an original 12 — for the City Council’s consideration. The council, though, can pick any of the six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, however, is no fan of iCann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the commission meeting, Smith said his neighborhood has had a long history with drugs and violence. He’s concerned a dispensary would bring that back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One dispensary on the corner, as opposed to people selling it up and down the street, won’t make a difference,” says Smith. “Because it will still draw the same kinds of people that came around that robbed the drug dealers then, and all the people who were buying it would still constitute all those people that would fall prey to crime in the area as a result of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith walks me through how his neighborhood used to be throughout the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture of repeated shootings, fistfights, and car chases. He even tells me about a time when someone threw a revolver over his head as he squatted down painting in his backyard one day. The events ranged from being a danger to being a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come, park their cars up and down the street, and their friends would walk over and they would sit around and smoke marijuana all up and down the street here, and they would have all their little food and stuff and they would — after they eat — they would throw their trash out on the street,” he says. “Every day we would have to go out two to three times a day and clean the trash up off the street.” Smith says this took place on his and neighboring blocks in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950707 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fences and "No Trespassing" signs appear throughout Smith's street today. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and ‘No Trespassing’ signs can be found on Ridgeway Smith’s street today. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says this was the scene he encountered each morning after working the graveyard shift at Oakland’s Main Post Office on Seventh Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I came home and saw people sitting out there, all up and down the street, I said, ‘What in the world is these people doing?’ ” Smith recalls. “First I thought maybe there was a food program or something going on in there, and they were waiting for somebody to come out and hand out food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says despite the violence, he and wife didn’t consider moving with their two sons until their home was broken into years ago. They shopped around for a while, but eventually decided against the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, much of the crime had fizzled out. He attributes that in part to property owners doing a better job of screening tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a walk along the block today, it looks and sounds quiet, with overgrown front yards and many student renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950704 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A roundabout at the end of Smith's Street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming off of Alcatraz back when car chases through the neighborhood were more common. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roundabout at the end of Ridgeway Smith’s street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming from Alcatraz when car chases through the neighborhood were more common.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine a regulated dispensary bringing back the kind of violent crime that street drugs brought. And Martin O’Brien, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleypatientscare.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient’s Care Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, says the two don’t necessarily correlate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentions a few studies, including a \u003ca href=\"http://american-safe-access.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/dispensary_report_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeaccessnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Safe Access\u003c/a>, suggesting that when dispensaries use measures like security guards and cameras, they actually act as crime deterrents for the area. O’Brien says this has been the case at the dispensary’s current location, on Telegraph Avenue near Parker Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests the real culprit is the continued stigmatization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though medical marijuana is legal, people are very nervous about it,” he says. “If [one of our partners] posts something about his dogs running around, he’ll get 90 hits, or something about his cute son, he’ll get 80 hits. But if he shares a post that we put on Facebook about Oakland extracts or about anything at all that we have on our shelf, hardly any of his friends will tap on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridget Freisthler, a social welfare professor at UCLA and the principal investigator on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.uclamedicalmarijuanaresearch.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">medical marijuana research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team, says it’s more than just stigma.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the team’s recent studies, conducted in Long Beach and Sacramento, showed a correlation between dispensaries and both property crime and violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re finding is that medical marijuana dispensaries are related to crime in adjacent areas,” says Freisthler, “So it almost has sort of a doughnut shape, with the hole in the middle being where the dispensaries are located, and sort of around it is where you see higher levels of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doughnut is an approximately 200-foot parameter around dispensaries, with adjacent areas defined as those within half a mile outside that parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Freisthler_CrimeDispensaries_Longbeach.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Beach study\u003c/a>, Freisthler’s team measured a roughly 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and less than a 2 percent decline in property crime with the closure of 32 dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says that’s a higher percentage of association with crime than shown by a similar decrease in alcohol outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team isn’t sure why dispensaries are associated with these two types of crime, but they think crimes of convenience may have something to do with it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freisthler says three conditions are necessary for a crime to occur: a likely offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“D\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ispensaries are usually suitable targets because they have generally a lot of cash on hand since they’re shut out of the banking industry, and they also have a lot of product that’s attractive on the street market: marijuana,” says Freisthler. She believes dispensaries’ guards and cameras act as the “capable guardian,” explaining the absence of crime directly around them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain rising crime in adjacent areas, she adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m someone who normally doesn’t go through a particular neighborhood, but all of a sudden a dispensary opens up and I know I use the dispensary and I start going through this neighborhood, I’ll be more familiar with the neighborhood — when people are around, when they’re not. And if there’s an opportunity where it looks like nobody’s around and, oh look, I can steal this bike … maybe I’ll steal that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says there’s still much to learn when it comes to dispensaries and crime, like who are the perpetrators and who are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But speaking to Smith’s neighbors, I found mixed sentiments about a new dispensary there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors expressed concern, especially with a transitional home for foster youth across the street from the dispensary’s proposed location. Others — medical marijuana users themselves or relatives of users — say they look forward to easier access to medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And medicine was the word Sue Taylor, the applicant behind iCann, emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, a former Catholic school principal who is on the board of the Alameda County Advisory Commission on Aging, spoke to the stigma she held before learning more about marijuana’s medicinal purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just see it as drugs, and drugs coming into their community,” says Taylor, “So it’s our job to let them see and let them know who we are and what we’re bringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith doesn’t buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicinal or not, Smith says he’s watched families in his community gradually “spiral out of control” because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that I know who use marijuana as a supposed medication ran into the same problem that people who take opioids as a medication,” says Smith.”Their family members get involved in it, not to help with it but use it. Ultimately the youngsters in the family get addicted to the same thing. And eventually, marijuana will lead to opioids, will lead to harder stuff out on the street. I have watched them spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that these events necessarily follow medicinal marijuana use. But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/23/like-alcohol-heavy-pot-use-linked-to-economic-social-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international study conducted by UC Davis\u003c/a> suggests regular marijuana use may be associated with social and economic setbacks for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the science, one thing that remains firm is Smith’s opinion: He doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m no saint,” laughs Smith, “When I was in the military, I tried it. I thought it was something stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Smith what he’d do if the dispensary does end up in his neighborhood, especially in light of the transitional home across the street, the area’s violent history and the fact that many of the neighborhood residents are renters today – according to Smith – with presumably less investment in cleaning it up if past issues return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’ll just keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:45 p.m. Wednesday May 11: \u003c/strong> The Berkeley City Council approved the fourth permit for \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a> and are requesting the city manager amend municipal code to allow two additional medical cannabis dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I met Ridgeway Smith was at a \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4152&isSection=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission\u003c/a> meeting on Feb. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding process to run Berkeley’s fourth\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/02/05/berkeley-commission-shortlists-3-for-cannabis-dispensary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> medical marijuana dispensary\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was well on its way. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commission was meeting to make its final recommendation about \u003cem>who\u003c/em> should get the license, and most members agreed: Even more than four were needed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Berkeley City Council prepares to vote \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4156&isSection=false\">Tuesday night\u003c/a> on which of six applicants will get the license — or to postpone the vote in favor of approving an additional two licenses if an alternative proposal is adopted — Smith remains one of the few voices I’ve heard in opposition to a new medical cannabis dispensary in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263443659″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263443659″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he doesn’t want it in his neighborhood, where he has lived for almost 29 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives on Harmon Street, about a block away from Alcatraz and Sacramento streets, where the top contender for the dispensary license, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a>, would set up shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950700 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where the 4th medical marijuana dispensary may be located in Smith's neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where a medical marijuana dispensary may locate. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The applicant was a big hit at the meeting, gaining the highest recommendation of the commission by promising ownership by one of Berkeley’s very own and with a focus on senior patients. The commission selected three of the six finalists — down from an original 12 — for the City Council’s consideration. The council, though, can pick any of the six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, however, is no fan of iCann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the commission meeting, Smith said his neighborhood has had a long history with drugs and violence. He’s concerned a dispensary would bring that back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One dispensary on the corner, as opposed to people selling it up and down the street, won’t make a difference,” says Smith. “Because it will still draw the same kinds of people that came around that robbed the drug dealers then, and all the people who were buying it would still constitute all those people that would fall prey to crime in the area as a result of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith walks me through how his neighborhood used to be throughout the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture of repeated shootings, fistfights, and car chases. He even tells me about a time when someone threw a revolver over his head as he squatted down painting in his backyard one day. The events ranged from being a danger to being a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come, park their cars up and down the street, and their friends would walk over and they would sit around and smoke marijuana all up and down the street here, and they would have all their little food and stuff and they would — after they eat — they would throw their trash out on the street,” he says. “Every day we would have to go out two to three times a day and clean the trash up off the street.” Smith says this took place on his and neighboring blocks in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950707 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fences and "No Trespassing" signs appear throughout Smith's street today. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and ‘No Trespassing’ signs can be found on Ridgeway Smith’s street today. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says this was the scene he encountered each morning after working the graveyard shift at Oakland’s Main Post Office on Seventh Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I came home and saw people sitting out there, all up and down the street, I said, ‘What in the world is these people doing?’ ” Smith recalls. “First I thought maybe there was a food program or something going on in there, and they were waiting for somebody to come out and hand out food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says despite the violence, he and wife didn’t consider moving with their two sons until their home was broken into years ago. They shopped around for a while, but eventually decided against the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, much of the crime had fizzled out. He attributes that in part to property owners doing a better job of screening tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a walk along the block today, it looks and sounds quiet, with overgrown front yards and many student renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950704 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A roundabout at the end of Smith's Street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming off of Alcatraz back when car chases through the neighborhood were more common. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roundabout at the end of Ridgeway Smith’s street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming from Alcatraz when car chases through the neighborhood were more common.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine a regulated dispensary bringing back the kind of violent crime that street drugs brought. And Martin O’Brien, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleypatientscare.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient’s Care Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, says the two don’t necessarily correlate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentions a few studies, including a \u003ca href=\"http://american-safe-access.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/dispensary_report_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeaccessnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Safe Access\u003c/a>, suggesting that when dispensaries use measures like security guards and cameras, they actually act as crime deterrents for the area. O’Brien says this has been the case at the dispensary’s current location, on Telegraph Avenue near Parker Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests the real culprit is the continued stigmatization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though medical marijuana is legal, people are very nervous about it,” he says. “If [one of our partners] posts something about his dogs running around, he’ll get 90 hits, or something about his cute son, he’ll get 80 hits. But if he shares a post that we put on Facebook about Oakland extracts or about anything at all that we have on our shelf, hardly any of his friends will tap on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridget Freisthler, a social welfare professor at UCLA and the principal investigator on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.uclamedicalmarijuanaresearch.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">medical marijuana research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team, says it’s more than just stigma.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the team’s recent studies, conducted in Long Beach and Sacramento, showed a correlation between dispensaries and both property crime and violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re finding is that medical marijuana dispensaries are related to crime in adjacent areas,” says Freisthler, “So it almost has sort of a doughnut shape, with the hole in the middle being where the dispensaries are located, and sort of around it is where you see higher levels of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doughnut is an approximately 200-foot parameter around dispensaries, with adjacent areas defined as those within half a mile outside that parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Freisthler_CrimeDispensaries_Longbeach.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Beach study\u003c/a>, Freisthler’s team measured a roughly 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and less than a 2 percent decline in property crime with the closure of 32 dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says that’s a higher percentage of association with crime than shown by a similar decrease in alcohol outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team isn’t sure why dispensaries are associated with these two types of crime, but they think crimes of convenience may have something to do with it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freisthler says three conditions are necessary for a crime to occur: a likely offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“D\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ispensaries are usually suitable targets because they have generally a lot of cash on hand since they’re shut out of the banking industry, and they also have a lot of product that’s attractive on the street market: marijuana,” says Freisthler. She believes dispensaries’ guards and cameras act as the “capable guardian,” explaining the absence of crime directly around them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain rising crime in adjacent areas, she adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m someone who normally doesn’t go through a particular neighborhood, but all of a sudden a dispensary opens up and I know I use the dispensary and I start going through this neighborhood, I’ll be more familiar with the neighborhood — when people are around, when they’re not. And if there’s an opportunity where it looks like nobody’s around and, oh look, I can steal this bike … maybe I’ll steal that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says there’s still much to learn when it comes to dispensaries and crime, like who are the perpetrators and who are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But speaking to Smith’s neighbors, I found mixed sentiments about a new dispensary there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors expressed concern, especially with a transitional home for foster youth across the street from the dispensary’s proposed location. Others — medical marijuana users themselves or relatives of users — say they look forward to easier access to medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And medicine was the word Sue Taylor, the applicant behind iCann, emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, a former Catholic school principal who is on the board of the Alameda County Advisory Commission on Aging, spoke to the stigma she held before learning more about marijuana’s medicinal purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just see it as drugs, and drugs coming into their community,” says Taylor, “So it’s our job to let them see and let them know who we are and what we’re bringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith doesn’t buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicinal or not, Smith says he’s watched families in his community gradually “spiral out of control” because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that I know who use marijuana as a supposed medication ran into the same problem that people who take opioids as a medication,” says Smith.”Their family members get involved in it, not to help with it but use it. Ultimately the youngsters in the family get addicted to the same thing. And eventually, marijuana will lead to opioids, will lead to harder stuff out on the street. I have watched them spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that these events necessarily follow medicinal marijuana use. But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/23/like-alcohol-heavy-pot-use-linked-to-economic-social-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international study conducted by UC Davis\u003c/a> suggests regular marijuana use may be associated with social and economic setbacks for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the science, one thing that remains firm is Smith’s opinion: He doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m no saint,” laughs Smith, “When I was in the military, I tried it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington reports he's holding off on his suggestion to send an official letter to Southwest Airlines protesting its treatment of an Arabic-speaking UC Berkeley student and asking the company to implement new anti-bias training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Worthington said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I held the item over for two weeks as a courtesy because Southwestern has communicated with us that they are actively considering multiple effective ways to respond to the situation. They appear to be looking at what to say to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi and what training adjustments would be appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they refuse to apologize or do not change trainings, we will send a letter to complain. If they take reasonable steps forward we would turn our letter into a thank you.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Tuesday, May 10: \u003c/strong>Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington says that what happened to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi on a Southwest Airlines jet last month shouldn't happen again to anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi is the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2016/04/14/uc-berkeley-student-questioned-refused-service-speaking-arabic-flight/\" target=\"_blank\"> UC Berkeley student\u003c/a> who was removed from a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Oakland -- and then subjected to a search and interrogation by the FBI -- after a fellow passenger overheard him speaking Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/00117b5b.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about instances like that, you need to try to change your policies to try to prevent it as much as possible,” says Worthington. “We’re trying to do that within our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/activists-say-berkeley-police-data-points-to-racial-profiling\" target=\"_blank\">city policies\u003c/a>, and we think it’s very important that Southwest Airlines do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xu9asFNbaOvbOSbAh5CDrlVYH24EWsPt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night on whether to send the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airline said in \u003ca href=\"http://swamedia.com/releases/statement-regarding-customer-situation-on-flight-4620?l=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> after the April 6 incident became public that an Arabic-speaking passenger reported \"what were perceived to be threatening comments\" to the plane's crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement added that Southwest \"responded by following protocol, as required by federal law, to investigate and report to law enforcement agencies any potential threat to civil aviation,\" and that the airline \"would not remove a passenger from a flight without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest didn't respond to requests to elaborate on those procedures. Marketplace's \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/18/world/removed-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Wagner\u003c/a> reached a similar dead-end with Southwest and five other major airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he believes his use of a simple Arabic phrase -- \"Inshallah\" -- got him kicked off his flight. It means \"if God wills\" and serves a function roughly equivalent to \"knock on wood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you've grown up in an Arabic-speaking, predominantly Muslim country, as Makhzoomi did -- he's an Iraqi refugee -- chances are the phrase is tossed around your home quite frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps if Makhzoomi had said “knock on wood,” he would have flown out of Los Angeles without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in an Arabic phone conversation with his uncle before his plane took off, Makhzoomi told him “inshallah,\" he would call him as soon as he landed safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They didn’t treat me as a human being.'\u003ccite>UC Berkeley student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The fellow passenger overheard, and soon, Makhzoomi was sitting in a room being interrogated by the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point they thought I'm a terrorist,\" says Makhzoomi. \"When they asked me about my bag, when they searched me. They treated me as a terrorist, honestly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was searched, patted down and sniffed by security dogs. He was repeatedly asked if he had additional luggage, if he carried a knife, and if he could share \"everything he knew about martyrdom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was upset by the distrust and disrespect he experienced right from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took me out, and you spoke with me in a very nice tone, in a very respectful tone, asking me about myself, just saying, 'This is just a security procedure. ... Would you like to tell me about yourself, and what's your name, and what you do, and what you study?' I would show him my ID and all of that, and they would know that that person is wrong,” says Makhzoomi. \"They didn't treat me as a human being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi mentions his encounter with the Southwest employee who escorted him off the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee -- whom the airline's statement described as an \"Arabic-speaking Southwest manager\" -- attempted to speak to Makhzoomi in Arabic. But Makhzoomi says the employee’s Arabic was so terrible he couldn’t understand it and had to ask to be addressed in English instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Switching to English, the employee asked Makhzoomi about his phone conversation. Makhzoomi explained he'd been talking to his uncle in Baghdad, telling him about a dinner event he'd attended at the World Affairs Council that featured \u003ca href=\"http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/event/11846\" target=\"_blank\">Ban Ki-moon\u003c/a>, secretary-general of the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed the employee video footage of the dinner that he'd recorded on his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMt4gzsBrA&feature=youtu.be&t=45m\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says what happened next shocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee began yelling at him, he says, asking, “Why would you speak in that language? Don't you know that [Arabic] is dangerous to speak in the airports, and what's happening in the airports around the world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi initially apologized, but when the manager began blaming him for the delay, he says he'd had enough. 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