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The defendants – California’s Department of Pesticide Reform (DPR) and Arysta Lifescience – have until late November to craft their response, before oral arguments begin in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find where things stand, I called Greg Loarie, an attorney at the environmental law firm Earthjustice, representing two farm workers and Pesticide Action Network North America, the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This brief is so technical it comes with its own glossary. Is the judge going to understand it?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there’s some jargon involved, certainly. But some of the claims are incredibly straightforward, including the claim that the DPR failed to look at any alternative to registering methyl iodide, which is a clear violation of the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get into the science and the regulatory target levels, it does get more complicated. 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One of them is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthycal.org/archives/6201\">2/16/10 memo\u003c/a> in which Arysta [[the company that produces methyl iodide]] details discussions in which the DPR and Arysta essentially agreed upon new regulatory target levels for MI. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s interesting is that that memo was not in the stack of documents that came to us after the court order. It was referenced in one of the documents we received, so I called the opposing council and said “I don’t see this memo, where is it?” Lo and behold, they found it in their files. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nThis opening brief also mentions neurotoxicity – the question of whether methyl iodide can cause brain damage, particularly in developing fetuses or in children. Can you explain what the legal complaint there is?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re very fortunate in California to have law called the Birth Defect Prevention Act. It requires that the agency studying the pesticide have some sort of information regarding its neuro-toxicity before it makes a decision. And in this case it’s very clear that the only study that DPR had regarding neuro-toxicity was inadequate. They didn’t have the information before them when they made this decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meanwhile, is anyone actually using methyl iodide?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just been another application [by a grower receiving permission to use methyl iodide on his fields] in Santa Barbara. As far as we know, there have been four applications, all in the Central Valley, and for crops like peppers. This one would be the first application for strawberries that we’re aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this the time of year you’d expect to see applications ramping up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s actually getting to the end of the year. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42245\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Jobs_2003_rev.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42245\" title=\"Steve Jobs announces the availability of iTunes for PC computers in October, 2003. He was diagnosed with cancer the same month. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Jobs_2003_rev-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs announces the availability of iTunes for PC computers in October, 2003. He was diagnosed with cancer the same month. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Jobs announces the availability of iTunes for PC computers in October, 2003. He was diagnosed with cancer the same month. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO in August, many of the basic facts of his disease have been widely written about. Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/10/06/jobs-death-focuses-attention-on-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer/\" href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/10/06/jobs-death-focuses-attention-on-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://live.washingtonpost.com/pancreatic-cancer.html\" href=\"http://live.washingtonpost.com/pancreatic-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> both feature solid pieces with additional detail about this disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Cancer Society’s \u003ca title=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\" href=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-year survival rates\u003c/a> for the more frequently diagnosed type of Pancreatic Cancer are bleak. But for those afflicted with the rare type of this cancer Jobs had, survival \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\">rates\u003c/a> are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a \u003ca title=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sm2kJv-xm2EJ:www.cancer.org/AboutUs/DrLensBlog/post/2011/10/05/Steve-Jobs.aspx+american+cancer+society+steve+jobs&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\" href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sm2kJv-xm2EJ:www.cancer.org/AboutUs/DrLensBlog/post/2011/10/05/Steve-Jobs.aspx+american+cancer+society+steve+jobs&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving obituary\u003c/a>, the American Cancer Society’s Dr. Len Lichtenfeld had a surprising approach. He writes about Steve Jobs as a \u003cem>survivor\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> …his greatness is amplified by what he accomplished under the most difficult of circumstances. For here was a man who had an uncommon cancer that recurred and required a liver transplant. Here was a man who was failing in his health, yet had the fortitude to face every day as a new challenge, to do what he wanted to do, to accomplish successes that had never been accomplished before. Here was a man who embodied the drive and the spirit that so many cancer survivors possess every day of their lives, even when facing the ultimate moment as Steve Jobs faced today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here was a man living, really living, with cancer. But along with Jobs’ drive came a fabled stubborn streak. When his cancer was diagnosed in 2003, he initially refused the recommended surgery. \u003ca title=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> magazine reported in 2008\u003c/a> that those closest to him were concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> By the standards of medical science, it was an open-and-shut case: There was no serious alternative to surgery. ‘Surgery is the only treatment modality that can result in cure,’ Dr. Jeffrey Norton, chief of surgical oncology at Stanford, wrote in a 2006 medical journal article about this kind of pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, The Daily Beast built on the \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> report in a \u003ca title=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dies-his-unorthodox-treatment-for-neuroendocrine-cancer.html\" href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dies-his-unorthodox-treatment-for-neuroendocrine-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy critique of Jobs’ personal treatment decisions.\u003c/a> In her post, Sharon Begley includes everything anyone would want to know about pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, but also makes the case that Jobs’ insistence on directing his own treatment could have worsened his condition and perhaps even shortened his life. Again from the \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune piece\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet – a course of action that hasn’t been disclosed until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nine months Jobs pursued this approach, as Apple’s board of directors and executive team secretly agonized over the situation – and whether the company needed to disclose anything about its CEO’s health to investors.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After the initial surgery, Jobs lived in apparent good health for several years, then in 2009 he received a liver transplant. Begley writes, “… removing the liver because it had become riddled with tumors that originated elsewhere [i.e. the pancreas] is rare. For one thing, liver metastases probably meant the cancer is elsewhere, too, such as in the bones or brain. Swapping out a cancer-ridden liver for a new one may therefore buy some time, but not much.” Begley further states the transplant itself could have been “counter-productive.” The regimen of immune-suppressing drugs needed to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ may hinder the body’s ability to fight the cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll never know if Jobs’ treatment decisions shortened, lengthened or had no effect on the length of his life. But we do know that he faced death squarely, as he outlined in his now widely circulating \u003ca title=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html\" href=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2005 Stanford Commencement speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. … Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO in August, many of the basic facts of his disease have been widely written about. Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/10/06/jobs-death-focuses-attention-on-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer/\" href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/10/06/jobs-death-focuses-attention-on-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://live.washingtonpost.com/pancreatic-cancer.html\" href=\"http://live.washingtonpost.com/pancreatic-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> both feature solid pieces with additional detail about this disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Cancer Society’s \u003ca title=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\" href=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-year survival rates\u003c/a> for the more frequently diagnosed type of Pancreatic Cancer are bleak. But for those afflicted with the rare type of this cancer Jobs had, survival \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rates\">rates\u003c/a> are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a \u003ca title=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sm2kJv-xm2EJ:www.cancer.org/AboutUs/DrLensBlog/post/2011/10/05/Steve-Jobs.aspx+american+cancer+society+steve+jobs&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\" href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sm2kJv-xm2EJ:www.cancer.org/AboutUs/DrLensBlog/post/2011/10/05/Steve-Jobs.aspx+american+cancer+society+steve+jobs&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving obituary\u003c/a>, the American Cancer Society’s Dr. Len Lichtenfeld had a surprising approach. He writes about Steve Jobs as a \u003cem>survivor\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> …his greatness is amplified by what he accomplished under the most difficult of circumstances. For here was a man who had an uncommon cancer that recurred and required a liver transplant. Here was a man who was failing in his health, yet had the fortitude to face every day as a new challenge, to do what he wanted to do, to accomplish successes that had never been accomplished before. Here was a man who embodied the drive and the spirit that so many cancer survivors possess every day of their lives, even when facing the ultimate moment as Steve Jobs faced today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here was a man living, really living, with cancer. But along with Jobs’ drive came a fabled stubborn streak. When his cancer was diagnosed in 2003, he initially refused the recommended surgery. \u003ca title=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> magazine reported in 2008\u003c/a> that those closest to him were concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> By the standards of medical science, it was an open-and-shut case: There was no serious alternative to surgery. ‘Surgery is the only treatment modality that can result in cure,’ Dr. Jeffrey Norton, chief of surgical oncology at Stanford, wrote in a 2006 medical journal article about this kind of pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, The Daily Beast built on the \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> report in a \u003ca title=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dies-his-unorthodox-treatment-for-neuroendocrine-cancer.html\" href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dies-his-unorthodox-treatment-for-neuroendocrine-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy critique of Jobs’ personal treatment decisions.\u003c/a> In her post, Sharon Begley includes everything anyone would want to know about pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, but also makes the case that Jobs’ insistence on directing his own treatment could have worsened his condition and perhaps even shortened his life. Again from the \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune piece\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet – a course of action that hasn’t been disclosed until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nine months Jobs pursued this approach, as Apple’s board of directors and executive team secretly agonized over the situation – and whether the company needed to disclose anything about its CEO’s health to investors.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After the initial surgery, Jobs lived in apparent good health for several years, then in 2009 he received a liver transplant. 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The nurse was on duty because the hospital, which had five-day contracts with substitutes for regular nurses on a one-day strike, locked out the regulars for an additional four days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nursesstrikeSM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nursesstrikeSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nursesstrikeSM\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, both the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/26/MN4C1L9Q2L.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18981627\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> reported learning that the patient was killed, in the Chron’s account, “by a nutritional supplement that a replacement nurse mistakenly put into a catheter meant for delivering medicine to her bloodstream.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses cited the tragedy in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/rns-call-on-sutter-to-end-lockout-ask-state-to-investigate-safety-violation/\">calling for an end to the lockout\u003c/a> when it was going on, citing patient safety. But recriminations aside, the death raises questions about the quality of hospital care during a strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the National Bureau of Economic Research published research on this issue. Written by Jonathan Gruber and Samuel A. Kleiner, the paper is called “Do Strikes Kill? Evidence From New York State.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6746\">read the full paper here\u003c/a> (pdf); here’s an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15855\">abstract\u003c/a>, which highlights the following conclusions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Controlling for hospital specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity. This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses’ strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, KQED’s Mina Kim on Monday spoke with Dr. Joanne Spetz, a health care economist with UCSF, about this research. Here’s an edited transcript of the interview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You analyzed a report that asked the question, “do strikes kill?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a paper that was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research; the two professors who worked on that are top-notch scholars. The quality of the research is excellent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that there is a significantly higher risk of mortality in a hospital during a strike and that patients admitted during a strike were more likely to be admitted again later. Which is often a sign that the care during the initial hospitalization was inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why might that be? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to Professor Gruber about that not long ago. The paper concluded that issues arise that might compromise some of the standards of safety due to the uncertainty of having traveling or temp nurses filling in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that traveling nurses cannot provide excellent care; any of those nurses who fill in during strikes are top-notch clinicians. But they’re working in an unfamiliar setting, they often have never been in that hospital before, they don’t know which doctors to ask about what. They don’t’ necessarily know where every single supply is kept. They might not understand the computerized medical record system well, or it might be one they’ve never worked with before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of things that are very different across every single hospital, and even across the units within the hospital that effect how a nurse is able to perform his or her job. So when you have temporary staff filling in during a strike, of course there’s more uncertainty for them in the work that they’re doing. I think the evidence of this paper is that very well may increase the level of risk faced by patients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The nurses union is pointing at the hospital as responsible for the death. In situations where a death occurs and it is linked to a strike and the factors that the report points to, who’s responsible?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, from a legal perspective, the hospital as well as the particular nurse in question will probably be held responsible. But from a broader perspective, there’s plenty of blame to lay. For a union to engage in a strike, they must essentially be saying that the patient risk that’s higher during that strike is worth it for some gains they believe they will receive in the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now maybe in this case the union believes the working conditions are unsafe enough for patients that it’s worth taking that risk over a one-day strike in order to protect more patients in the long-term. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility is that during a strike, the patients who are in the hospital are the most severely ill, who absolutely have to be there. Usually, all of the elective surgeries and all the things that can be postponed are typically delayed until after the strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you have a patient population at higher risk simply because they’re sicker. You put the two together and you end up with Dr Gruber’s finding of a higher mortality rate and a higher re-admission rate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would you like people to take away from this incident?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adverse events like this occur more frequently at hospitals than anyone wants. The fact that it occurred during a strike and therefore has become a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/rns-call-on-sutter-to-end-lockout-ask-state-to-investigate-safety-violation/\">public relations issue\u003c/a> for both sides draws attention to underlying problems with respect to quality of care with the difficulty of consistently administering medication safely day after day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital care is a difficult business and it entails a certain amount of risk. For patients, certainly you want to be more cautious about going into a hospital if you don’t need to, if there is a labor issue or a strike that’s pending. 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The findings challenge the common wisdom that marijuana dispensaries promote criminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studying crime both before and after a large number of dispensaries were shut down in Los Angeles, researchers found that incidents such as break-ins rose in the neighborhoods of closed dispensaries relative to dispensaries allowed to remain open, at least in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blocks with the closed dispensaries, the study observed crime up to 60 percent greater than comparable blocks with open dispensaries, but the effects were not apparent across a wider area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If medical marijuana dispensaries are causing crime, then there should be a drop in crime when they close,” said Mireille Jacobson, the study’s lead author and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “Individual dispensaries may attract crime or create a neighborhood nuisance, but we found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this disclaimer comes at the very end: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Researchers say their findings should be interpreted cautiously, given that they studied a relatively short period of time and that the margin of error was high. But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. That’s because crime on any given block is actually pretty rare, Jacobson said, so tiny changes like one or two incidents can make the numbers look bigger than they are. “The estimated increase should be interpreted with some caution,” the paper states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, even with that potentially wide variation, the fact that crime was found to increase, not decrease, when dispensaries closed is at odds with the view of medical marijuana opponents like the California Police Chiefs Association. The organization’s Task Force on Marijuana Dispensaries wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiapolicechiefs.org/files/marijuana_files/files/MarijuanaDispensariesWhitePaper_042209.pdf\">2009 white paper\u003c/a> (pdf) that argued the following, in a section called “Ancillary Crimes”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, many violent crimes have been committed that can be traced to the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries. These include armed robberies and murders. For example, as far back as 2002, two home occupants were shot in Willits, California in the course of a home invasion robbery targeting medical marijuana.32 And, a series of four armed robberies of a marijuana dispensary in Santa Barbara, California occurred through August 10, 2006, in which thirty dollars and fifteen baggies filled with marijuana on display were taken by force and removed from the premises in the latest holdup. The owner said he failed to report the first three robberies because “medical marijuana is such a controversial issue.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to describe other violent crimes related to medical marijuana, and discusses a money laundering and organized crime connection to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that evidence is anecdotal. The RAND study’s lead author, Mireille Jacobsen, says, the report is “the first systematic, independent analysis” of the claim that dispensaries actually attract crime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increase in crime resulting from the sudden \u003cem>lack\u003c/em> of a dispensary does seem counter-intuitive. Why might it occur? From the Times again: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers did not try to draw conclusions on why crime increased, but offered the hypothesis that dispensaries may heighten security in the areas around them because they employ cameras and guards, increase late-night foot traffic, replace illicit street sales and draw heavier police patrols.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I asked KQED’s Michael Montgomery, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\">covered the medical marijuana issue\u003c/a> for a long time, what he thought of the study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some opponents of the legalization of medical marijuana have argued that outlets like dispensaries that distribute the product become a magnet for crime,” he said. “However, there’s never been a lot of data to back up that assertion. So the significance of the RAND study is that we now have serious data arguing just the opposite, that outlets that legally distribute marijuana have not created an increase in crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery also says the report’s findings corroborate what he’s been told over the years by police officers in San Francisco and Oakland. “They say the establishment of dispensaries has actually led to a decrease in crime. It’s true there have been robberies, killings related to dispensary operators, but if you compare that to crime associated with liquor stores, the argument is, it’s much lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim asked the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for a response to the RAND study. And surprise: They are not impressed. The email response: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Concerning the City of Los Angeles, the Rand Study is deeply flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Study is the polar opposite of a scientific and measured response to verified data. It relies exclusively upon faulty assumptions, conjecture, irrelevant data, untested measurements, and incomplete results. The conclusions are therefore highly suspect and unreliable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For confirmation, simply ask the residents in areas where dispensaries were or are located. In the end, random numbers do not tell the story, people do. Specifically, some of the shortcomings in the Study include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The City Attorney sent a cautionary letter to illegal dispensaries on May 4, 2010. The Study considered 10 days before and after June 7, 2010, which was the effective date of the City’s new ordinance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The 10 day time period before and after the June 7, 2010 date assumes without any substantiation that the dispensaries that received the May 4 letter remained open until June 7, closed on that date, and remained closed for 10 days. It is more likely that some closed in May, some re-opened during the interval of the Study, and some did not close at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. The faulty assumption that the dispensaries closed immediately on June 7 and stayed closed for 10 days further fails to take into account the fact that in any period of shutting down, dispensaries will often have fire sales, internal fights among their participants, and offer incentives in order to dispose of their product. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Because of the difficulties and fire sale promotions that arise when any business closes, it is quite possible that member in-fighting, increased traffic to the dispensaries for bargains, and disgruntled clientele who found the dispensaries in a state of transition, accounted for the increase in crime in the 10 days following June 7, 2010. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. It is not credible to suggest that security guards at illegal dispensaries foster a sense of neighborhood safety, as the common practice of security guards at dispensaries is to remain on the dispensary premises, in contrast to security personnel hired by a community who are deliberately dispersed throughout the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Wednesday p.m.\u003c/em> Lead author Mireille Jacobsen answers the city attorney’s critique with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nWe agree with the City Attorney’s Office’s comments 1-3 about the June 7th date not binding for all dispensaries. In fact we would be surprised if some did not close early and others did not defy the date. The early and late closures should add noise to the analysis and actually downward bias our estimates, i.e. make the increase look too small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example consider a place that closed early (in May). At that location, nothing happens on June 7th, so under this methodology we would measure the impact of closure as zero. The more “early” or “late” closures there are, the more our estimates are understated. Our assumption is simply that a large share of dispensaries closed on June 7th, and to the extent that they did not, our estimates represent a lower bound on the true effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some evidence for the noise introduced by the non-binding date, Appendix Table A.4. recodes known defiers (based on LA Times and LA Weekly reports) as open instead of closed. These estimates are slightly more precisely estimated and in some cases larger in magnitude. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Points 3 and 4 seem to suggest low compliance with the closure orders combined with fire sales or other activities in the 10 days after June 7th The combination (low compliance + firesales or in fighting) increased crime. By the City Attorney’s office’s own accounts, compliance with the June 7th closure date was quite high, albeit not perfect, so these arguments seem hard to square. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding point 5, we never state or “suggest that security guards at illegal dispensaries foster a sense of neighborhood safety.” Rather one hypothesis for our results is that security guards and cameras at dispensaries deter some crime, which may indirectly benefit their neighbors. 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But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. 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