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"content": "\u003cp>Today marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Not everyone is throwing a party. Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. 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I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’ I knew beforehand. I have to be responsible for my own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would I like to be better? There’s a greedy part of me that says I would. I believe there are people and Americans who need health care a lot more than I do because ultimately the bottom line is I can afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My concern is for people who can’t afford it. And that’s where I have to ask: Does there come a time when government has to get involved and at what levels? But when you are distrustful of the system it makes it difficult. I ping pong on this all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes back down to accountability. Our parents used to be responsible for us. Now parents blame everybody else. I think a lot of it has to do with education. We spend a lot of time educating people about sex, abstinence. The problem is we don’t educate people about insurance. It’s never talked about until people are in their 30s, 40s. So I think there’s a little bit of a wake-up call, saying this needs to get talked about soon. Knowing insurance and knowing your responsiblities are as important as telling kids about safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have eight children – seven daughters and one son – and my children knew about insurance by the time they graduated from high school. The system we have is sufficient if we have the information. Absolutely. It works. It really does work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do think companies have to be held accountable. They shouldn’t be allowed to cherrypick. Banks don’t let it happen in the private sector. If a company buys mortgage papers, they can’t buy all A paper. They have to buy the B,C, D paper in order to maintain their licenses. You could say if you want to operate in this community as a licensed health insurance, you must have a certain spread in your portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is kind of crazy. Is it irrationally crazy? No. To fix it, you have to get people to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t anticipate change. I don’t see it getting better…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Stern, age 66\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I own Joe Stern Water Conditioning. I only have two employees so the rates are pretty high. I offered it but they’ve elected not to take it. For myself, I’m on Medicare and I have a Medicare supplement through Kaiser. Before Medicare I had Kaiser, and I just paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I went on Medicare, I was paying $670 a month as a single person. And I consider that pretty high. And that was without dental or glasses. So I just paid my dental out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought it was pretty brutal but I was still against Obamacare by far. Because I saw how they did it in the middle of the night. It was just not how you do a radical change like that. You do it slowly so you don’t make mistakes. You study it. But you don’t say we’re going to find out what’s in it after we pass it, like Nancy Pelosi said. That was unbelievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything. So I think that’s terrible. The only reason they’re doing it is cause they can’t pay for it any other way and it’s just a horrible bill in every way. There’s nothing good about it. It doesn’t even insure more people like they promised. And by the way, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that the cost has doubled from what they predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Congress is not qualified to make a law like that. 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And a lot of people are qualified, for Medi-Cal for instance, and they just haven’t gone out and gotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know of anyone that was left on the street to bleed to death. Unless they were some drunk. I don’t know anyone who was really left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is it important that everyone have health insurance? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. It’s important that everybody who wants it should get it competitively.\u003cbr>\nI think you get competition by… you don’t have the state lines when it comes to coverage, put it out to bid, use economies of scale to get it competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mandates? No. I’m a capitalist. I’m a free-market guy. I’m not for government control. Or anything government does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad I’m on Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid. And I’m glad I’m on it, it’s a good plan. Social security is a good plan, but where was that money? It wasn’t invested properly. Government that governs best governs the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. It’s only fair. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe a little bit. I am a compassionate person. At least I’m trying to be. I don’t want anyone suffering, and I love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still I just don’t think that works very well. It costs way too much. A lot of people just milk the system. If everything were free, then every time you go to a hospital, an aspirin would go up to $17. People would be going there all the time. People would be hanging out at the emergency room. That’s how I see it. Welfare Cadillac. That’s what I’m worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to really qualify the needy people who do get government assistance. They need to make sure they qualify… not all addicted to drugs, buying drugs, not been on welfare for generations, driving Cadillacs… then I’m all for it. But it wouldn’t be no 60 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try not to follow things too closely… I was guilty of watching Fox news and hanging on to every word for awhile. Nah, why should I just be miserable?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>ObamaCare is absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible. It should be struck down immediately and I hope the Supreme Court does it. It’s just terrible. The way they did it, in the middle of the night, promised it would be on CSPAN, he lied… Reid, Pelosi, pathetic… Romney has a good chance of beating Obama But as a Republican in California, I don’t get a say in the presidential election. Around campaign time, I write letters…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you know many people who are uninsured? My daughter is on Medi-Cal; she’s getting ready to gradate; we didn’t have to pass ObamaCare for her…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Westover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a self employed artist-businesswoman… I make purses and luggage and I sell them at street fairs and art and wine festivals. I’ve been divorced for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was married I had insurance through my husband. Since we got divorced, I was self employed, I just couldn’t afford it. I couldn’t afford the premiums. I was flying by the seat of my pants every inch of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve only been the doctor or hospital on an emergency basis so I just have to take care of myself. I haven’t been getting regular pap smears, mammograms. I won’t qualify for Medicare for awhile…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I registered as a Republican, but I’m really going to vote the candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t make people who don’t have money buy health insurance, because they can’t afford it. It will just break them. It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What about the subsidies that people will get to help people buy it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? No, never heard of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If people knew more, would that shift their position on the law? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really daunting. For my job, I make money three-quarters of the year and when I don’t do shows, I have no income. People who have families, I don’t know how they could fit one more thing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about applying for Medi-Cal, but I have a ROTH IRA, and I think you have to exhaust that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving toward a government subsidy is not a bad idea; it’s worked in other countries, but I don’t know if it’s going to work here because our country is too big and we’re in debt. I don’t know what the answer is. I’m just hanging on by the seat of my pants and hoping I stay healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What would you like the Supreme Court to do?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, it sounds like a good idea that they uphold it. I’m sure that if the Supreme Court sees that its going to work and it can be implemented, I think that’s probably the right thing to do. And it’s not going to take place immediately. I don’t know if it will ever impact me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, insurance right now is just too daunting. It’s as much as I pay for rent, if I had to insure myself. If it were subsidies, if it were made, you know, manageable, I would want that. And I don’t know how people who can afford it can sit there and say that we shouldn’t have that. Because there are a lot more of us, than them. So…\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Not everyone is throwing a party. Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. Furthermore, opponents’ \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/public-options-death-panels-health-care-debate-evolved/story?id=15982445#.T20ZCo5GydM\">extreme interpretations\u003c/a> of the law’s provisions and their eventual effects are indicative of not just the gaping partisan divide, but an almost \u003cem>metaphysical\u003c/em> chasm between two distinct sets of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/health-reform-enters-2nd-year-amid-broad-changes-challenges-15404\">\u003cstrong>Effects of health care bill in Calif. so far\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which all serves as our introduction to interviews that KQED’s Sarah Varney conducted when she traveled outside the Blue Bubble to Madera County, “a largely conservative and agricultural area where one in every three people lacks coverage,” as she \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">\u003cstrong>reports on our State of Health blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. “While many people say they want the Supreme Court to throw out the federal health law, I found that many there are struggling to reconcile their political views with the basic need for health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">Read the blog post\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">listen to The California Report segment here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As web extra — since many of you may only hear conservatives explicating their opinions when your in-laws are over for Thanksgiving and someone mentions global warming and then it’s “Hey why don’t we all settle down and turn the football game on, it’s THANKSGIVING for God’s sake!” — we’re posting three extended if edited transcripts from Sarah’s conversations with the folks in Madera County, as they explain their feelings about the health care bill. All three live in \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OCZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1245&bih=643&q=oakhurst+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x809427a27f5dbc67:0xd0683ed7bb7d8d81,Oakhurst,+CA&gl=us&ei=f_9sT-f6ApDZiQLGyNnGBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CFsQ8gEwAA\">Oakhurst\u003c/a>, a southern gateway to Yosemite north of Fresno; and all three are both uninsured \u003cem>and\u003c/em> opposed to the law to one degree or another. Here they are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Ruffino, age 55\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been involved in the hospitality business for 35 years at a corporate level and have always had full insurance benefits, major medical, vision, dental, the Cadillac of all packages. This last year I left my job and it was the first time I left without having another one because I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in my old age. I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’ I knew beforehand. I have to be responsible for my own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would I like to be better? There’s a greedy part of me that says I would. I believe there are people and Americans who need health care a lot more than I do because ultimately the bottom line is I can afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My concern is for people who can’t afford it. And that’s where I have to ask: Does there come a time when government has to get involved and at what levels? But when you are distrustful of the system it makes it difficult. I ping pong on this all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes back down to accountability. Our parents used to be responsible for us. Now parents blame everybody else. I think a lot of it has to do with education. We spend a lot of time educating people about sex, abstinence. The problem is we don’t educate people about insurance. It’s never talked about until people are in their 30s, 40s. So I think there’s a little bit of a wake-up call, saying this needs to get talked about soon. Knowing insurance and knowing your responsiblities are as important as telling kids about safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have eight children – seven daughters and one son – and my children knew about insurance by the time they graduated from high school. The system we have is sufficient if we have the information. Absolutely. It works. It really does work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do think companies have to be held accountable. They shouldn’t be allowed to cherrypick. Banks don’t let it happen in the private sector. If a company buys mortgage papers, they can’t buy all A paper. They have to buy the B,C, D paper in order to maintain their licenses. You could say if you want to operate in this community as a licensed health insurance, you must have a certain spread in your portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is kind of crazy. Is it irrationally crazy? No. To fix it, you have to get people to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t anticipate change. I don’t see it getting better…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Stern, age 66\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I own Joe Stern Water Conditioning. I only have two employees so the rates are pretty high. I offered it but they’ve elected not to take it. For myself, I’m on Medicare and I have a Medicare supplement through Kaiser. Before Medicare I had Kaiser, and I just paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I went on Medicare, I was paying $670 a month as a single person. And I consider that pretty high. And that was without dental or glasses. So I just paid my dental out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought it was pretty brutal but I was still against Obamacare by far. Because I saw how they did it in the middle of the night. It was just not how you do a radical change like that. You do it slowly so you don’t make mistakes. You study it. But you don’t say we’re going to find out what’s in it after we pass it, like Nancy Pelosi said. That was unbelievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything. So I think that’s terrible. The only reason they’re doing it is cause they can’t pay for it any other way and it’s just a horrible bill in every way. There’s nothing good about it. It doesn’t even insure more people like they promised. And by the way, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that the cost has doubled from what they predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Congress is not qualified to make a law like that. When have they ever done any big change that came out good economically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about Medicare?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Laughs) Well, yes, but it looks like we’ve got trouble coming up…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m glad on I’m Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think we should always have a safety net for people, and I always thought we did. Why did we need this big cumbersome program that no one really likes except the most liberal people? Or people who just like Obama no matter what…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we have a safety net in the United States. When they were trying to get the health care bill passed, Obamacare, they said we’ve got 60 million uninsured. A lot of that may not be true. A lot of the uninsured don’t want insurance, like young people. They don’t think they need it. And a lot of people are qualified, for Medi-Cal for instance, and they just haven’t gone out and gotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know of anyone that was left on the street to bleed to death. Unless they were some drunk. I don’t know anyone who was really left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is it important that everyone have health insurance? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. It’s important that everybody who wants it should get it competitively.\u003cbr>\nI think you get competition by… you don’t have the state lines when it comes to coverage, put it out to bid, use economies of scale to get it competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mandates? No. I’m a capitalist. I’m a free-market guy. I’m not for government control. Or anything government does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad I’m on Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid. And I’m glad I’m on it, it’s a good plan. Social security is a good plan, but where was that money? It wasn’t invested properly. Government that governs best governs the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. It’s only fair. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe a little bit. I am a compassionate person. At least I’m trying to be. I don’t want anyone suffering, and I love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still I just don’t think that works very well. It costs way too much. A lot of people just milk the system. If everything were free, then every time you go to a hospital, an aspirin would go up to $17. People would be going there all the time. People would be hanging out at the emergency room. That’s how I see it. Welfare Cadillac. That’s what I’m worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to really qualify the needy people who do get government assistance. They need to make sure they qualify… not all addicted to drugs, buying drugs, not been on welfare for generations, driving Cadillacs… then I’m all for it. But it wouldn’t be no 60 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try not to follow things too closely… I was guilty of watching Fox news and hanging on to every word for awhile. Nah, why should I just be miserable?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>ObamaCare is absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible. It should be struck down immediately and I hope the Supreme Court does it. It’s just terrible. The way they did it, in the middle of the night, promised it would be on CSPAN, he lied… Reid, Pelosi, pathetic… Romney has a good chance of beating Obama But as a Republican in California, I don’t get a say in the presidential election. Around campaign time, I write letters…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you know many people who are uninsured? My daughter is on Medi-Cal; she’s getting ready to gradate; we didn’t have to pass ObamaCare for her…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Westover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a self employed artist-businesswoman… I make purses and luggage and I sell them at street fairs and art and wine festivals. I’ve been divorced for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was married I had insurance through my husband. Since we got divorced, I was self employed, I just couldn’t afford it. I couldn’t afford the premiums. 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People who have families, I don’t know how they could fit one more thing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about applying for Medi-Cal, but I have a ROTH IRA, and I think you have to exhaust that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving toward a government subsidy is not a bad idea; it’s worked in other countries, but I don’t know if it’s going to work here because our country is too big and we’re in debt. I don’t know what the answer is. I’m just hanging on by the seat of my pants and hoping I stay healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What would you like the Supreme Court to do?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, it sounds like a good idea that they uphold it. I’m sure that if the Supreme Court sees that its going to work and it can be implemented, I think that’s probably the right thing to do. And it’s not going to take place immediately. I don’t know if it will ever impact me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, insurance right now is just too daunting. It’s as much as I pay for rent, if I had to insure myself. If it were subsidies, if it were made, you know, manageable, I would want that. And I don’t know how people who can afford it can sit there and say that we shouldn’t have that. Because there are a lot more of us, than them. So…\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have web sites, and everybody knows where they are. They are at risk of being robbed and many of them are robbed. I spoke to a police chief today about another topic and I asked him have you had any marijuana dispensaries robbed recently and he ticked off three in the last week in his community. Any given dispensary may not have been robbed to date, but they could very well be robbed in the near future and there very well could be violence associated with that. I’m concerned about the people in the dispensary, certainly; I’m also concerned about the people in the vicinity of the dispensary. Which is again why I’ve drawn this line. When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean any dispensary that’s near a school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">-If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>-That’s correct.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We’ve sent letters to a number of dispensaries and we certainly hear back from most if not all of them, or lawyers representing them. And one thing we’ve heard in response is that this is a good dispensary. This is a dispensary that’s patient-run, or they consider themselves to be a good actor in the marijuana space. And I hear them, but I have a hard time making that distinction. I’ve already drawn a line. If it’s close to children then that’s a line we’re going to draw. If I then start trying to get in and figure out which ones are quote good or not, it’s just not something I’m capable of doing. So I’ve decided to keep that line fairly bright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to marijuana cases, are you relying on civil forfeitures more than criminal prosecutions because they require fewer resources?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We take on many things in the U.S. Attorney’s office that are labor-intensive. We have a case that involves the failure of a bank and a nearly $500 million loss, where the discovery and data is measured in terabytes. And I could cite many other cases where the resources involved in bringing the case are significant and we take them on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not really afraid of the use of resources. I don’t agree that we’re doing it because it’s easier. Marijuana is illegal under federal law and there are many things I could do as a result. I can bring a criminal action, I can bring a forfeiture action, or both. I just believe that it’s appropriate under these circumstances to bring a forfeiture action at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t promise going forward that it won’t change. I can’t promise that we very well may find an appropriate case for criminal prosecution. We very well may find a case where it’s appropriate to not give notice to the owner of the property but simply to institute an asset forfeiture action.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t want to send the message that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t know that.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I cannot promise that we will not bring actions against dispensaries that are not close to schools and parks and playgrounds but for some other reason we felt that it was appropriate to expand our look. So I don’t want to send the message to people that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t want to send the message that you will never be criminally prosecuted. I don’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, how would you assess the impact of this state-wide enforcement action?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We certainly got people’s attention. There’s one big positive from my perspective. And that is that I was hearing from a lot of people in this community that they believed that they could take a warehouse that they owned or a property that they owned and turn it into a large-scale marijuana grow operation and that there would be no repercussions. I was hearing from very upstanding members of the community that there were plans to do that kind of thing, to take a warehouse that they’d had trouble leasing in west Oakland and to lease it to a marijuana grow operation. I’m gratified to hear that people understand that they can’t do that and feel that nothing will ever happen. Something might happen. There might be a criminal prosecution. There might be an asset forfeiture action. It is illegal, whether you agree with it or not, under federal law, and it’s not something people should take lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you say to the argument that your actions are preventing seriously ill people from getting their medicine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are an awful lot of marijuana dispensaries in the Northern District of California, and the number that we have taken action against is relatively small. So I am assuming that people who need access to medical marijuana still have access to it through dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also think that the Ogden memo and frankly California state law contemplated a much smaller scale with respect to medical marijuana. When I read California state law, when I read the Ogden memo, what those look like to me is that what was contemplated was people believed they need marijuana, or whose doctors believe they could benefit from marijuana, would be growing it personally or a friend or a caregiver or community member or church member would be growing it for them and it would be relatively small scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we have seen is an absolute explosion of the marijuana industry in California where it is not at all small scale but instead huge swaths of farmland, huge grow operations in all of the counties north of San Francisco and indoor grow operations in the more urban areas, are really taking over and are really impacting negatively on communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think of calls from Kamala Harris and others for the state to tighten its laws or create a regulatory system when it comes to medical marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think I have to wait and see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you took this job in 2010, did you have any idea that a lot of time and attention would be required concerning something like marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had absolutely no idea. I can tell you that amount of press attention with respect to medical marijuana is completely disproportionate to the tiny percentage of resources of my office that is used to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part we’re prosecuting violent gangs, bringing gun and drug cases and gang-related cases, bringing significant white collar cases, bringing public corruption cases against law enforcement officers and others, bringing child exploitations, prosecutions against people who are abusing children, human-trafficking prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You and the other U.S. attorneys in California have been criticized for taking these enforcement actions against medical marijuana operators. Some people say the feds need to end the war on pot and other drugs. What’s your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I certainly read and understand that there are people who disagree with what I’ve done in terms of the enforcement actions we’ve taken. And most of those sentiments conclude that it should just be legalized. That is, “you shouldn’t be doing this, instead it should be legalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My answer to that is those people need to go to their representatives in Congress, who are the only people with the power and ability to change federal law. I don’t have the power and ability to change federal law.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to go back a little bit to let you know that my office receives phone calls, letters and emails from people every day expressing great concern about the explosion and proliferation of the marijuana industry as a result of the passage of legislation regarding medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In the view of the people that contact my office, the demand for medical marijuana in California is fueling an industry that’s ruining other parts of the state.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the view of the people that write to my office and call my office, the demand for medical marijuana in California is fueling an industry that is ruining other parts of the state. We have huge swaths of land in the Central Valley and in Northern California that are now devoted to the cultivation of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get letters that tell me that the writer lives in a small community and that community has six marijuana dispensaries. And they watch people come from all over the state and outside the state come and purchase marijuana in their small community and they express grave concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I receive letters from people who tell me things like my business is across the street from a high school and a dispensary and I watch kids all day long go in and out and then into the high school. And then I hear that they have a tremendous problem in that high school with marijuana use by the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana is illegal under federal law and I felt like I had to do something to respond to those members of my community that don’t support it and don’t support the impact they believe it’s having. The main complaint and the main theme expressed by the people that I’ve heard from is the impact on children, so with my limited resources I decided to focus on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an initial matter we identified dispensaries that were very close to schools and parks and playgrounds. That’s what led to my decision and the effort we’ve engaged in in the Northern District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>We were hearing the U.S. attorneys are not going to take any actions with respect to marijuana in California because of the 2009 Ogden memo…We felt we needed to send a message that wasn’t correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The reason that the four California U.S. Attorneys announced our efforts together is that we were all experiencing the same thing, which is that everyone was saying we were hearing and everyone was saying the U.S. attorneys are not going to take any actions with respect to marijuana in California because of the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/192\">2009 Ogden memo [full text]\u003c/a>. So it’s fair game. We can have grow operations, we can have dispensaries, we can do anything we want with respect to marijuana because the Department of Justice in 2009 in the Ogden memo said that the California U.S. attorneys will not take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was incorrect. And we felt that we needed to send a message that it wasn’t correct. I actually felt that it was more fair to send a message because, for example, I was hearing from Oakland that it was going to issue licenses and allow large-scale grow operations in warehouses. And what was described to me was that they were going to be quote “Walmart-sized.” And I was hearing that everyone believed that would be okay and that my office would not take any action. And I knew it isn’t okay, it is a violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re talking about that scale grow-operation across the bay in Oakland it wouldn’t be something that I could ignore. I didn’t think it was fair to stand by, be silent, let people pull licenses in Oakland, put millions of dollars into setting up a grow operation in a warehouse and then come in and take an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yours was the first letter that went out. Did you think that within a few months of your letter to officials in Oakland that there would be this proliferation of similar letters from U.S. attorneys around the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I certainly only focus on my own district. I wasn’t focused on what my colleagues around the country might or might not do as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe it will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to bring any kind of enforcement action. That’s really all that the Ogden memo says.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At your \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/#audio\">press conference\u003c/a> last fall, we heard the term “commercial industry” used quite a lot in relation to marijuana in California. What does that mean? Is it the scale, the way they operate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you actually read the so-called Ogden memo from 2009 from the Department of Justice, what it says is that U.S. attorneys will not ordinarily use their limited resources to bring actions against seriously ill individuals or their caregivers. That’s the direction we were given. And I think it was clear from the department and clear from Washington D.C. that if there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe marijuana will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to step into that fray and bring any kind of an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s really at its heart all that the Ogden memo says. It also makes clear that a marijuana industry is not off-limits. And if we have significant grow operations, if we have for-profit operations, certainly if those operations are having negative impacts on their communities, that it isn’t something that we’re able to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have taken more actions recently…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The main theme that I was hearing from members of this community, members of our community in the northern district of California was a concern about children. And it has to do with marijuana use leading to other drugs, it has to do with brain development. I was hearing from psychologists who were sending me reports that find that brains are not fully developed until your mid 20s and use of marijuana or alcohol or anything else like that is more harmful than perhaps it is than when people are a little bit older and their brains are developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he other concern that people have expressed to me is safety. There is a belief, backed by facts, that marijuana operations are often times the victims of criminal activity. Armed robberies at dispensaries, armed robberies at grow operations, and people who are nearby are at risk as a result of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there have been some illustrations of that concern recently in my district. For example there’s a dispensary in Santa Cruz that is next to a preschool, and it came to my attention that dispensary was the subject of an armed robbery in the middle part of February. And I heard that the parents of the preschoolers, the operators of the preschool, and the community were very concerned. So I sent a letter to the owners and operators of that dispensary putting them on notice that the dispensary is close to a preschool that it’s in violation of federal law, giving them 45 days to close it down before we take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another end of the spectrum we indicted a case two weeks ago in Humboldt County. There’s a grower there who allegedly had a 1500-plant grow operation. He allegedly hired undocumented workers from Central America and the indictment alleges that when those workers came to him and asked to be paid, he instead pulled out a gun, shot and killed one of them, and chased the other one through the woods, shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe there’s this notion out there that the marijuana industry is just full of organic farmers who are peacefully growing an organic natural plant and that there’s no harm associated with that. And what I hear from people in the community is that there is harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One thing we’ve heard in response is that this is a good dispensary. This is a dispensary that’s patient-run, or they consider themselves to be a good actor in the marijuana space. I hear them, but I have a hard time making that distinction. I’ve already drawn a line.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You’ve also taken action against dispensaries in San Francisco and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/berkeley-patients-group-marijuana-dispensary-to-close/\">Berkeley Patients Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my concerns about dispensaries that are in proximity to schools and parks and playgrounds is the possibility they could be the target of violence or armed robbery. People in the community may be supportive of the dispensary being in their community until there’s a robbery and people come running out of the dispensary shooting guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m concerned about that circumstance with respect to every dispensary. I simply don’t have the resources to take action with respect to every dispensary in the northern district, so I’ve had to make some decisions about how to best use my resources. So I’ve decided to focus on dispensaries that are near kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people say “wait a minute, we’re doing fine.” For example, the situation in Berkeley. They say, “we haven’t had any problems.” The school across the street is happy with us. Why pick on us? Go somewhere else. What’s your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they’re full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have web sites, and everybody knows where they are. They are at risk of being robbed and many of them are robbed. I spoke to a police chief today about another topic and I asked him have you had any marijuana dispensaries robbed recently and he ticked off three in the last week in his community. Any given dispensary may not have been robbed to date, but they could very well be robbed in the near future and there very well could be violence associated with that. I’m concerned about the people in the dispensary, certainly; I’m also concerned about the people in the vicinity of the dispensary. Which is again why I’ve drawn this line. When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean any dispensary that’s near a school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">-If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>-That’s correct.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We’ve sent letters to a number of dispensaries and we certainly hear back from most if not all of them, or lawyers representing them. And one thing we’ve heard in response is that this is a good dispensary. This is a dispensary that’s patient-run, or they consider themselves to be a good actor in the marijuana space. And I hear them, but I have a hard time making that distinction. I’ve already drawn a line. If it’s close to children then that’s a line we’re going to draw. If I then start trying to get in and figure out which ones are quote good or not, it’s just not something I’m capable of doing. So I’ve decided to keep that line fairly bright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to marijuana cases, are you relying on civil forfeitures more than criminal prosecutions because they require fewer resources?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We take on many things in the U.S. Attorney’s office that are labor-intensive. We have a case that involves the failure of a bank and a nearly $500 million loss, where the discovery and data is measured in terabytes. And I could cite many other cases where the resources involved in bringing the case are significant and we take them on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not really afraid of the use of resources. I don’t agree that we’re doing it because it’s easier. Marijuana is illegal under federal law and there are many things I could do as a result. I can bring a criminal action, I can bring a forfeiture action, or both. I just believe that it’s appropriate under these circumstances to bring a forfeiture action at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t promise going forward that it won’t change. I can’t promise that we very well may find an appropriate case for criminal prosecution. We very well may find a case where it’s appropriate to not give notice to the owner of the property but simply to institute an asset forfeiture action.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t want to send the message that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t know that.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I cannot promise that we will not bring actions against dispensaries that are not close to schools and parks and playgrounds but for some other reason we felt that it was appropriate to expand our look. So I don’t want to send the message to people that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t want to send the message that you will never be criminally prosecuted. I don’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, how would you assess the impact of this state-wide enforcement action?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We certainly got people’s attention. There’s one big positive from my perspective. And that is that I was hearing from a lot of people in this community that they believed that they could take a warehouse that they owned or a property that they owned and turn it into a large-scale marijuana grow operation and that there would be no repercussions. I was hearing from very upstanding members of the community that there were plans to do that kind of thing, to take a warehouse that they’d had trouble leasing in west Oakland and to lease it to a marijuana grow operation. I’m gratified to hear that people understand that they can’t do that and feel that nothing will ever happen. Something might happen. 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The outlet is next to a preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in the community may be supportive of the dispensary,” Haag said, “until there’s an armed robbery and people come running out of the dispensary shooting guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Patients Group’s owners declined interview requests, but supporters said the outlet has never been the scene of violence or an armed robbery. The group issued a statement reading: “BPG remains committed to providing safe and affordable access to its patient-members, while working to preserve the jobs of its 70+ employees. We are grateful for the level of support we have received from the Berkeley community over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispensary enjoys widespread support among local officials. In 2009, the Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleypatientsgroup.com/news1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclaimed\u003c/a> a special day to honor the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell people that the Berkeley Patients Group is the Brooks Brothers of medical marijuana dispensing,” said Polly Armstrong, co-CEO of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. 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