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"content": "\u003cp>It's brisk business on a Wednesday morning at \u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliawellness.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Magnolia Wellness\u003c/a> center, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Oakland. Although \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">it’s legal to smoke marijuana in California\u003c/a> now for recreational purposes, medicinal cannabis isn’t going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But have these patients ever talked to their regular doctor or nurse about medical marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always tell them that I use it,” says Bob, who didn’t want to give his last name. \"They don’t really want to talk about that much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t really feel comfortable talking to my doctor about it,” says Alex, who also didn’t want to use his last name because of the stigma marijuana use can carry. 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And if you ask your regular doctor whether it will help your particular ailment, there’s a good chance they might not know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High in the Hospital?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Patients are ahead of most physicians on the issue,\" says Dr. Larry Bedard, who’s on the board of directors of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhealthcare.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Healthcare District\u003c/a>, which oversees Marin General Hospital and other health care facilities in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think physicians just feel overburdened and burnt out, and they haven’t taken the time, the effort and the money to go to a high-quality educational course in cannabis,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11221728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Larry Bedard\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Larry Bedard \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bedard introduced \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhealthcare.org/upload/public-meetings/2016-09-13-0700-pm-mhd-regular-board-meeting/09-13-2016%20MHD%20SSS%20RM%20PACKET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a resolution\u003c/a> this fall, which could lead to Marin General allowing patients to use medicinal cannabis inside the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not naive enough to believe that patients don’t get it here in the hospital. ... I think the evidence for benefits to these patients, particularly people with pain problems or opioid addiction, the evidence is pretty clear, but the vast majority of physicians know very little or next to nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learning About Cannabis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So how to address that lack of knowledge? The downtown public library in the East Bay town of Lafayette might not seem the most likely place, but in October about 30 nurses and pharmacists gathered there for a daylong \u003ca href=\"https://unitedpatientsgroup.ticketspice.com/medical-cannabis-a-clinical-focus\" target=\"_blank\">Nurses Medical Cannabis Workshop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geriatric nurse Eloise Theisen tells the crowd she generally does not recommend edibles, \"especially in somebody I consider to be cannabis naive, somebody who hasn’t used cannabis before. And that’s because they’re super unpredictable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11221731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-800x454.jpg\" alt=\"Geriatric Nurse Eloise Theisen discusses the clinical implications of cannabis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-960x545.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-375x213.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geriatric nurse Eloise Theisen discusses the clinical implications of cannabis. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theisen also describes some possible scenarios that could occur if people mix marijuana with various other prescription medications. She explained how tamoxifen, for example, may actually block the effect of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really technical stuff. But that’s what’s needed, according to workshop attendee Aglaia Panos, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpha.com/MCPhAinc\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County Pharmacy Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a student who had to do some research on marijuana because she was an intern at a pharmacy and she asked the patient, ‘Are you on any other drugs?’ So she said, ‘Yes. ... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's brisk business on a Wednesday morning at \u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliawellness.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Magnolia Wellness\u003c/a> center, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Oakland. Although \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">it’s legal to smoke marijuana in California\u003c/a> now for recreational purposes, medicinal cannabis isn’t going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But have these patients ever talked to their regular doctor or nurse about medical marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always tell them that I use it,” says Bob, who didn’t want to give his last name. \"They don’t really want to talk about that much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t really feel comfortable talking to my doctor about it,” says Alex, who also didn’t want to use his last name because of the stigma marijuana use can carry. Still, he laments that “it’d be nice to hear about it from a professional doctor rather from your friends or your family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='400'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/298033877&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/298033877'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a similar refrain from Barbara Jean Campbell, who says she uses cannabis for irritable bowel syndrome, gout and rheumatoid arthritis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to one of the nurses, and I asked, ‘Why doesn’t the doctor respond when I say I smoke marijuana?’ He said, ‘Cause they don’t want to deal with it,’ ” Campbell says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a growing body of data about marijuana’s medicinal benefits, and groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/Ethics-Position-Statements/Therapeutic-Use-of-Marijuana-and-Related-Cannabinoids.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Nurses Association \u003c/a>acknowledge it can help with chronic pain, MS, anxiety and many other conditions. But because it’s still illegal under federal law, there aren’t a lot of places medical professionals can learn about it. And if you ask your regular doctor whether it will help your particular ailment, there’s a good chance they might not know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High in the Hospital?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Patients are ahead of most physicians on the issue,\" says Dr. Larry Bedard, who’s on the board of directors of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhealthcare.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Healthcare District\u003c/a>, which oversees Marin General Hospital and other health care facilities in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think physicians just feel overburdened and burnt out, and they haven’t taken the time, the effort and the money to go to a high-quality educational course in cannabis,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11221728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Larry Bedard\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/DrLarry-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Larry Bedard \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bedard introduced \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhealthcare.org/upload/public-meetings/2016-09-13-0700-pm-mhd-regular-board-meeting/09-13-2016%20MHD%20SSS%20RM%20PACKET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a resolution\u003c/a> this fall, which could lead to Marin General allowing patients to use medicinal cannabis inside the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not naive enough to believe that patients don’t get it here in the hospital. ... I think the evidence for benefits to these patients, particularly people with pain problems or opioid addiction, the evidence is pretty clear, but the vast majority of physicians know very little or next to nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learning About Cannabis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So how to address that lack of knowledge? The downtown public library in the East Bay town of Lafayette might not seem the most likely place, but in October about 30 nurses and pharmacists gathered there for a daylong \u003ca href=\"https://unitedpatientsgroup.ticketspice.com/medical-cannabis-a-clinical-focus\" target=\"_blank\">Nurses Medical Cannabis Workshop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geriatric nurse Eloise Theisen tells the crowd she generally does not recommend edibles, \"especially in somebody I consider to be cannabis naive, somebody who hasn’t used cannabis before. And that’s because they’re super unpredictable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11221731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-800x454.jpg\" alt=\"Geriatric Nurse Eloise Theisen discusses the clinical implications of cannabis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-960x545.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-375x213.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ClinicalImpPrez-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geriatric nurse Eloise Theisen discusses the clinical implications of cannabis. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theisen also describes some possible scenarios that could occur if people mix marijuana with various other prescription medications. She explained how tamoxifen, for example, may actually block the effect of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really technical stuff. But that’s what’s needed, according to workshop attendee Aglaia Panos, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpha.com/MCPhAinc\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County Pharmacy Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a student who had to do some research on marijuana because she was an intern at a pharmacy and she asked the patient, ‘Are you on any other drugs?’ So she said, ‘Yes. ... I take pot.’ And she didn’t know how to respond to them,” says Panos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had no idea what to tell the patient of any drug interactions that the person was on along with other drugs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the non-legal states people are using cannabis for medical purposes, and legal or illegal, it works,\" says retired hospice nurse Alice O’Leary-Randall, who’s currently treasurer of the \u003ca href=\"http://americancannabisnursesassociation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Cannabis Nurses Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They come to us nurses, we’re the front line. ... We spend more time with the patients than the doctors do. And they’re going to tell us what’s going on with their health, and they’re going to tell us what happened when they tried medical marijuana. And we need to be aware of drug interactions. We need to be aware of how cannabis affects all our physiological systems,” she tells the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since Californians legalized marijuana with Proposition 64, the doctors who issue medical marijuana cards are reportedly seeing an influx of new patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if more people start trying cannabis as medicine, more workshops like these will be needed, so the health care industry can be prepared.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">We're winding along the hills and curves of Calaveras high country past the town of Rail Road Flat to a lookout on Jesus Maria Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Apple farmer Steve Wilensky's at the wheel. He’s headed toward the burn scar of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/butte-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>. Just over a year ago, the blaze burned 70,000 acres in Calaveras County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky says understanding the scope of the Butte Fire is the best way to grasp how so many marijuana growers rushed into the county in such a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky served as county supervisor here from 2004 - 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He settled in the Sierra foothills of Calaveras in the 1980s after moving out from Michigan. He planted an apple orchard where he now cultivates 186 apple varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“What drew me here was that there were seasons,” explains Wilensky. “A sense of place, a sense of community and a great level of civic engagement. There was tolerance. A (willingness) to live and let live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As we crest a hill and come into the hot burn of the Butte Fire, our conversation stops short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All you can see are barren hills studded with black shards sticking out of the ground. It’s a 360 degree view of what used to be pine, manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“See that little road down there?” Wilensky asks, pointing into the canyon. “That's Hawver Road and there were at least forty to fifty houses along that road that all burned,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky witnessed firefighters battling the blaze in this area. He says he showed them how to access the canyons. He said they led a heroic effort and kept the fire from engulfing three nearby towns, including Mountain Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras resident Bill Schmiett's wasn’t one of the lucky ones. His Mountain Ranch home was destroyed. Earlier in his life, Schmiett worked as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“I’ve seen fire up close before. But it’s a whole different ball game when everything you had is a big pile, a smoking pile of ash and twisted metal roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett is a realtor. In December, right on the heels of the Butte fire, his phone starting ringing like crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County,” explains Schmiett. “I’m not sure how the county got the national exposure it did. There was quite a bit of activity in bare land for growers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett recalls that most callers were candid about their intentions to grow cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnt-out homes still had wells, septic systems and ways to connect to power. Schmiett says that's what growers were looking for. Schmiett says parcels worth $75,000 were going for $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Out of town growers were grabbing land before the county or state could regulate marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While the Butte fire raged through the Sierra, the California Legislature approved a bill that would pave the way for medical marijuana regulations. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on October 9, 2015. That law initially set a March 2016 deadline for counties to set their own rules on medical marijuana - otherwise state regulations would apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Counties scrambled and several decided to ban marijuana grows all together rather than rush through regulations. Meanwhile, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors moved to regulate marijuana. But several factors delayed passage of the county’s “urgency ordinance” until May 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As a result there was a nearly six month gap between the Butte Fire and the County’s permitting process going into effect. That gap led to what some have nicknamed “the green rush” of Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Peter Maurer is Director of the Calaveras County Planning Department. He says the county anticipated 200-300 applications to grow marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead, says Maurer, “we received 740 commercial applications and an additional 250 personal (or caregiver) operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer says the intent of the County ordinance was to create a legal registration process. One that would bring in funding to support code enforcement and the Sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Let’s regulate it. Let’s fund the resources we need to keep it under control,” explains Maurer. “Eliminate the bad players, support the good players.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">To date, the county’s taken in roughly $3.7 million in registration fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer explains, “The first prong of enforcement is to go after those who didn’t register at all. “Those that are just not going to bother to register. The Sheriff’s Department and D.A. can go after those and remove them from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Caz Tomaszewski is a local grower and the Executive Director of Calaveras Cannabis Alliance which represents the industry in the county. He says the CCA advocates for “the identification and removal of illicit marijuana grows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says his organization has spent considerable time and money educating local leaders and residents about the profile of local marijuana growers represented by CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He sees a stark contrast between long-time growers who want to grow marijuana under the county’s legal framework and those who rushed in after the Butte fire. Tomaszewski likens the latter to prospectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You know, people hear from a couple of buddies at the grow shop that a particular county is a good place to grow. And they go and buy two pieces of land and move out the next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski argues that’s a change from how earlier marijuana growers established themselves in Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Before the Butte fire, he says would-be growers from outside Calaveras were vetted by locals. He says the profile of growers in Calaveras is different from other northern California counties where marijuana is cultivated. We tend to have “younger, more progressive growers” who take a more “deliberate approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">By contrast, Tomaszewski categorizes the flood of growers who came after the Butte Fire as largely ignorant about local regulations as well as local culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“And if you move into a rural place you've never been before and you don't know the neighbors and you don't know the local customs, there's a high potential to offend people,” Tomaszewski explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a "green rush" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a \"green rush\" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The main complaints the CCA fields from Calaveras residents fall into three main categories: neighbors don't like the smell of the cannabis crop; they complain about fast driving on rural roads and they take issue with dogs on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says tensions around marijuana have never been as high as they are now. He believes the climate has led to rhetoric that tars all growers with the same brush: whether they're people going through the county's legal permitting process or illicit growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio links a recent rise in crime to transient marijuana workers who come to Calaveras during harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We have one guy we caught, I believe he was from Kansas,” recalls DiBasilio. “He had burglarized either three or four houses. So what brought him out here was marijuana, he was a trimmer. And now he’s robbing our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just last week the Sheriff led a big raid on an illicit grow near West Point. “We did some flyovers and actually found 4 properties with grows on them,” says DiBasilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The raid led to more than 20 arrests. The Sheriff said they found 750 marijuana plants at these sites plus 500-600 pounds of processed marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between pot raids and local patrols, the Sheriff says he doesn't have the bodies he needs to get the job done. He’s looking to hire several additional deputies. But DiBasilio says the county has one of the lowest salary rates in the state which makes it challenging to attract qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County resources are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">This rural county already faced considerable challenges before the Butte Fire. A high unemployment rate, problems with meth addiction and trees dying from beetle infestation. Add the potential ecological impact of illicit pot grows on the Sierra landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Former county supervisor Wilensky is uncertain about how his community will find their way. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“What drew me here was that there were seasons,” explains Wilensky. “A sense of place, a sense of community and a great level of civic engagement. There was tolerance. A (willingness) to live and let live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As we crest a hill and come into the hot burn of the Butte Fire, our conversation stops short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All you can see are barren hills studded with black shards sticking out of the ground. It’s a 360 degree view of what used to be pine, manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“See that little road down there?” Wilensky asks, pointing into the canyon. “That's Hawver Road and there were at least forty to fifty houses along that road that all burned,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky witnessed firefighters battling the blaze in this area. He says he showed them how to access the canyons. He said they led a heroic effort and kept the fire from engulfing three nearby towns, including Mountain Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras resident Bill Schmiett's wasn’t one of the lucky ones. His Mountain Ranch home was destroyed. Earlier in his life, Schmiett worked as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“I’ve seen fire up close before. But it’s a whole different ball game when everything you had is a big pile, a smoking pile of ash and twisted metal roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett is a realtor. In December, right on the heels of the Butte fire, his phone starting ringing like crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County,” explains Schmiett. “I’m not sure how the county got the national exposure it did. There was quite a bit of activity in bare land for growers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett recalls that most callers were candid about their intentions to grow cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnt-out homes still had wells, septic systems and ways to connect to power. Schmiett says that's what growers were looking for. Schmiett says parcels worth $75,000 were going for $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Out of town growers were grabbing land before the county or state could regulate marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While the Butte fire raged through the Sierra, the California Legislature approved a bill that would pave the way for medical marijuana regulations. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on October 9, 2015. That law initially set a March 2016 deadline for counties to set their own rules on medical marijuana - otherwise state regulations would apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Counties scrambled and several decided to ban marijuana grows all together rather than rush through regulations. Meanwhile, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors moved to regulate marijuana. But several factors delayed passage of the county’s “urgency ordinance” until May 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As a result there was a nearly six month gap between the Butte Fire and the County’s permitting process going into effect. That gap led to what some have nicknamed “the green rush” of Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Peter Maurer is Director of the Calaveras County Planning Department. He says the county anticipated 200-300 applications to grow marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead, says Maurer, “we received 740 commercial applications and an additional 250 personal (or caregiver) operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer says the intent of the County ordinance was to create a legal registration process. One that would bring in funding to support code enforcement and the Sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Let’s regulate it. Let’s fund the resources we need to keep it under control,” explains Maurer. “Eliminate the bad players, support the good players.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">To date, the county’s taken in roughly $3.7 million in registration fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer explains, “The first prong of enforcement is to go after those who didn’t register at all. “Those that are just not going to bother to register. The Sheriff’s Department and D.A. can go after those and remove them from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Caz Tomaszewski is a local grower and the Executive Director of Calaveras Cannabis Alliance which represents the industry in the county. He says the CCA advocates for “the identification and removal of illicit marijuana grows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says his organization has spent considerable time and money educating local leaders and residents about the profile of local marijuana growers represented by CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He sees a stark contrast between long-time growers who want to grow marijuana under the county’s legal framework and those who rushed in after the Butte fire. Tomaszewski likens the latter to prospectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You know, people hear from a couple of buddies at the grow shop that a particular county is a good place to grow. And they go and buy two pieces of land and move out the next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski argues that’s a change from how earlier marijuana growers established themselves in Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Before the Butte fire, he says would-be growers from outside Calaveras were vetted by locals. He says the profile of growers in Calaveras is different from other northern California counties where marijuana is cultivated. We tend to have “younger, more progressive growers” who take a more “deliberate approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">By contrast, Tomaszewski categorizes the flood of growers who came after the Butte Fire as largely ignorant about local regulations as well as local culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“And if you move into a rural place you've never been before and you don't know the neighbors and you don't know the local customs, there's a high potential to offend people,” Tomaszewski explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a "green rush" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a \"green rush\" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The main complaints the CCA fields from Calaveras residents fall into three main categories: neighbors don't like the smell of the cannabis crop; they complain about fast driving on rural roads and they take issue with dogs on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says tensions around marijuana have never been as high as they are now. He believes the climate has led to rhetoric that tars all growers with the same brush: whether they're people going through the county's legal permitting process or illicit growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio links a recent rise in crime to transient marijuana workers who come to Calaveras during harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We have one guy we caught, I believe he was from Kansas,” recalls DiBasilio. “He had burglarized either three or four houses. So what brought him out here was marijuana, he was a trimmer. And now he’s robbing our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just last week the Sheriff led a big raid on an illicit grow near West Point. “We did some flyovers and actually found 4 properties with grows on them,” says DiBasilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The raid led to more than 20 arrests. The Sheriff said they found 750 marijuana plants at these sites plus 500-600 pounds of processed marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between pot raids and local patrols, the Sheriff says he doesn't have the bodies he needs to get the job done. He’s looking to hire several additional deputies. But DiBasilio says the county has one of the lowest salary rates in the state which makes it challenging to attract qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County resources are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">This rural county already faced considerable challenges before the Butte Fire. A high unemployment rate, problems with meth addiction and trees dying from beetle infestation. Add the potential ecological impact of illicit pot grows on the Sierra landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Former county supervisor Wilensky is uncertain about how his community will find their way. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the dusty, wind-swept city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.adelanto.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Adelanto\u003c/a>, officials are predicting big changes on the horizon. City Councilman Johnny \"Bug\" Woodard Jr. is standing in front of a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant lot in the city’s Green Zone, the industrial area where Adelanto allows medical marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re looking at here is the first property to actually break ground to build a new building,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290067613\" 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>It doesn’t look like much, but Woodard says this business and others like it will lead to a new future for Adelanto, a worn-down city of about 32,000 in the high desert of San Bernardino County. Since last year, when the city passed an ordinance allowing for large-scale medical marijuana cultivation, Woodard says some big names have come knocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So right now we have 32 licenses that have been issued. We've seen UCLA, USC, the City of Hope is here, the University of Mississippi is involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard tells of investors with gold-plated Bentleys driving down dusty city streets and pro athletes coming to visit. In an effort to capitalize on the potential investment, Adelanto has placed Measure R on its November ballot. That’s a 5 percent excise tax on all marijuana-related business within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a local cafe just down the road from the Green Zone, we run into investor Chuck Shakta. So far he and his partners have put about $3 million into their medical marijuana cultivation project. Shakta says land prices are skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're in the driver's seat right now. We're driving this car home.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Adelanto City Councilman Johnny 'Bug' Woodward Jr.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been close to a year and a half working on this project,\" he says. \"And now the prices are high, and our competitive edge is that we did start over a year ago and we secured our property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard says the investments by Shakta and others are having a ripple effect throughout the town, which was on the verge of bankruptcy not too long ago. There are plans to build more commercial structures and homes. And investors must pledge to hire local workers when their projects are approved. Woodard says all this movement puts Adelanto in a good position in the event California voters approve Proposition 64 and legalize recreational marijuana\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the driver’s seat right now. We’re driving this car home,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Adult-Use-of-Marijuana-Act/AUMA-Memo_Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">local governments would have a big role\u003c/a> in determining how -- or if -- cannabis-related businesses may operate within their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, some cities are taking very different approaches to the possibility of recreational marijuana. And not all local governments are embracing the possibility of legal marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11144404\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Mac Fotog/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The upscale Bay Area city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Walnut Creek\u003c/a> is full of posh boutiques and high-end department stores. And the City Council doesn’t see a need to bring marijuana into the mix. It voted 4-1 on a \u003ca href=\"http://walnutcreek.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=2861\" target=\"_blank\">resolution opposing the passage of Proposition 64\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn't comfortable for everyone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Walnut Creek Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/government/city-council/loella-haskew\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/a> takes the view that recreational marijuana won’t fit well in her town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walnut Creek is a really solid, tight, well-respected, respectful community,\" she says. \"And I’m afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn’t comfortable for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Tom Chaplin agrees. He is concerned about drugged driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have an agreed level of impairment,\" Chaplin says. \"So if we put more drugged drivers on the road and that leads to more fatalities, the air of inevitability is not a valid argument for this, what I would describe as, poorly constructed measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever their approach, a lot of cities are just trying to figure out what Proposition 64 could mean for them. The measure would give cities and counties the power to regulate marijuana-related activities. They could establish zoning and permitting rules. 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We're driving this car home.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Adelanto City Councilman Johnny 'Bug' Woodward Jr.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been close to a year and a half working on this project,\" he says. \"And now the prices are high, and our competitive edge is that we did start over a year ago and we secured our property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard says the investments by Shakta and others are having a ripple effect throughout the town, which was on the verge of bankruptcy not too long ago. There are plans to build more commercial structures and homes. And investors must pledge to hire local workers when their projects are approved. Woodard says all this movement puts Adelanto in a good position in the event California voters approve Proposition 64 and legalize recreational marijuana\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the driver’s seat right now. We’re driving this car home,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Adult-Use-of-Marijuana-Act/AUMA-Memo_Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">local governments would have a big role\u003c/a> in determining how -- or if -- cannabis-related businesses may operate within their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, some cities are taking very different approaches to the possibility of recreational marijuana. And not all local governments are embracing the possibility of legal marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11144404\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Mac Fotog/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The upscale Bay Area city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Walnut Creek\u003c/a> is full of posh boutiques and high-end department stores. And the City Council doesn’t see a need to bring marijuana into the mix. It voted 4-1 on a \u003ca href=\"http://walnutcreek.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=2861\" target=\"_blank\">resolution opposing the passage of Proposition 64\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn't comfortable for everyone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Walnut Creek Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/government/city-council/loella-haskew\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/a> takes the view that recreational marijuana won’t fit well in her town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walnut Creek is a really solid, tight, well-respected, respectful community,\" she says. \"And I’m afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn’t comfortable for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Tom Chaplin agrees. 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"disqusTitle": "A Tale of Two Farm Towns: How the Central Valley Is Torn Over Marijuana",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289146776\" 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\u003ch2>Part I: Huron\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Loud music and the smell of roasted corn on the cob fill the air at the Friday night street festival in the small Fresno County town of Huron. Kids play on a bounce house slide, while adults sell everything from used bikes and shoes to melons and tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jazmin Vargas, 22, is selling an idea: that Huron residents should bank on a newly regulated industry in California -- medical marijuana. She asks a young man to sign a petition in support of a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in need of people’s support for this to happen, for the council members to let it pass,” she says. “So if you’d like to support us, feel more than welcome to give your signature.” The young man agrees to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\">state regulations\u003c/a>, medical marijuana dispensaries must have a local permit from the city or county in which they wish to operate before applying for a state license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This permitting process is something cities in the Central Valley are grappling with in advance of November’s election, when voters will decide whether to pass \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> to legalize recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas grew up in this farming town an hour southwest of Fresno. She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. In July, Coalinga sold its unused prison for about $4 million to a company that makes cannabis extracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11137022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11137022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-960x707.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez, who has a master’s degree in public administration, and Valencia, a driver for a medical marijuana collective, have also done their part to attract community support. Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This permitting process is something cities in the Central Valley are grappling with in advance of November’s election, when voters will decide whether to pass \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> to legalize recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas grew up in this farming town an hour southwest of Fresno. She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. 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Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. 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He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. 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"content": "\u003cp>Brightly lit rooms, enticing menus and a smiling staff greet customers from the entrance of the Green Door. What initially might seem like a favorite coffee bar is actually a San Francisco dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Door in San Francisco is one of the oldest medical marijuana dispensaries in the United States, having opened in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone are the days of dark backrooms and transactions made in secret. Bright displays show off available products while daily menus offer unique-sounding flavors such as Bombay Cherry Doughnut and Platinum Cookies. Rather than baristas, the staff is made up of knowledgeable “budtenders” who can offer insight into the numerous products available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes in November, it’s expected that the number of marijuana dispensaries will increase throughout the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11076610/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt\">Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what really goes on in a dispensary?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFrom weighing out bulk product to patients enjoying their merchandise, I follow the marijuana buds from start to finish at the dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulk bags of marijuana are received from vendors and weighed by hand as they’re packaged for individual sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs out and packages cannabis buds. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are poured into small bags after being weighed by hand. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs and packages cannabis buds. Price says he’s in support of Proposition 64. He says that it would cut down on the number of people jailed for illegal marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are chosen and weighed by hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Price is careful to choose just the right buds to package up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price picks through the bulk container of marijuana to find the best buds for each package. He wants every client to get the best product possible, no matter what bag they buy from the counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"After being weighed, the cannabis buds are packaged for sale at the Green Door Dispensary in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-400x244.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packages of cannabis buds lay on a counter at the Green Door dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as pre-rolls that will be sold at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Approximately 750 pre-rolls are made each day by staff. \" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-960x668.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as premade joints. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hoea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staff members grind down marijuana that doesn’t meet the tough standards for full-bud packaging. Then they sift the finer material and use it to fill premade joints. Every day they make at least 750 joints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Rodriguez fills cones to make pre-rolls for sale at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Rodriguez, who has been working at the dispensary since January, makes approximately 750 pre-rolls a day during his shift. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With practiced hands, Ricardo Rodriguez fills paper cones with marijuana before tapping out the end and folding them up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Rodriguez has been at the dispensary since January and really enjoys it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like a big family here,” say Rodriguez. “We all help each other out. Everyone is very supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Drawers full of different strains of cannabis stand in the back of the dispensary. The Green Door dispensary carries dozens of different strains daily. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff search through drawers of packaged marijuana for customers at the dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the marijuana is packaged and ready for sale, it’s taken downstairs to the main shop. An entire back wall is lined with drawers full of different strains of marijuana. The Green Door dispensary carries an assortment of strains that changes daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the buds are edibles of all varieties. From chocolate bars and macaroons to lozenges and cotton candy, staff say the marijuana-infused foods are a popular treat with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California holds a cannabis-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco holds a marijuana-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upstairs from the shop is a lounge where patients can use the products they’ve purchased. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11128397 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nic Ash rolls a ‘Backwoods’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers a lounge where patients can use their product after purchasing it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nic Ash rolls a ‘backwoods blunt’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a large room full of windows and skylights, more than a dozen patients sit at tables or lounge on couches. In the corner, a small kitchen offers paper cones and rolling papers, alongside dabbing rigs and vaporizers. Nic Ash, a patient of Green Door, enjoys rolling a “backwoods blunt” while sitting with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State financial analysts say that if Proposition 64 passes, shops like this could bring in hundreds of millions, or perhaps more than a billion, dollars in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856409/california-businesses-seeing-green-in-legal-marijuana-and-prop-64\">revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a variety of groups, for many reasons, are opposed to the proposition. Some \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/marijuana/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">small growers\u003c/a> say they’ll be pushed out by “Big Marijuana,” whereas other groups are concerned about children being exposed to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alicia Darrow, the chief operations manager of Green Door, says it should be legalized. “It does create competition, but that’s standard in any business,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulk bags of marijuana are received from vendors and weighed by hand as they’re packaged for individual sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs out and packages cannabis buds. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are poured into small bags after being weighed by hand. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs and packages cannabis buds. Price says he’s in support of Proposition 64. He says that it would cut down on the number of people jailed for illegal marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are chosen and weighed by hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Price is careful to choose just the right buds to package up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price picks through the bulk container of marijuana to find the best buds for each package. He wants every client to get the best product possible, no matter what bag they buy from the counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"After being weighed, the cannabis buds are packaged for sale at the Green Door Dispensary in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-400x244.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packages of cannabis buds lay on a counter at the Green Door dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as pre-rolls that will be sold at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Approximately 750 pre-rolls are made each day by staff. \" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-960x668.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as premade joints. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hoea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staff members grind down marijuana that doesn’t meet the tough standards for full-bud packaging. Then they sift the finer material and use it to fill premade joints. Every day they make at least 750 joints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Rodriguez fills cones to make pre-rolls for sale at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Rodriguez, who has been working at the dispensary since January, makes approximately 750 pre-rolls a day during his shift. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With practiced hands, Ricardo Rodriguez fills paper cones with marijuana before tapping out the end and folding them up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Rodriguez has been at the dispensary since January and really enjoys it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like a big family here,” say Rodriguez. “We all help each other out. Everyone is very supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Drawers full of different strains of cannabis stand in the back of the dispensary. The Green Door dispensary carries dozens of different strains daily. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff search through drawers of packaged marijuana for customers at the dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the marijuana is packaged and ready for sale, it’s taken downstairs to the main shop. An entire back wall is lined with drawers full of different strains of marijuana. The Green Door dispensary carries an assortment of strains that changes daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the buds are edibles of all varieties. From chocolate bars and macaroons to lozenges and cotton candy, staff say the marijuana-infused foods are a popular treat with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California holds a cannabis-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco holds a marijuana-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upstairs from the shop is a lounge where patients can use the products they’ve purchased. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11128397 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nic Ash rolls a ‘Backwoods’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers a lounge where patients can use their product after purchasing it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nic Ash rolls a ‘backwoods blunt’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a large room full of windows and skylights, more than a dozen patients sit at tables or lounge on couches. In the corner, a small kitchen offers paper cones and rolling papers, alongside dabbing rigs and vaporizers. Nic Ash, a patient of Green Door, enjoys rolling a “backwoods blunt” while sitting with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State financial analysts say that if Proposition 64 passes, shops like this could bring in hundreds of millions, or perhaps more than a billion, dollars in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856409/california-businesses-seeing-green-in-legal-marijuana-and-prop-64\">revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a variety of groups, for many reasons, are opposed to the proposition. Some \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/marijuana/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">small growers\u003c/a> say they’ll be pushed out by “Big Marijuana,” whereas other groups are concerned about children being exposed to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alicia Darrow, the chief operations manager of Green Door, says it should be legalized. “It does create competition, but that’s standard in any business,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LAS VEGAS -- Marijuana cultivation is a family affair for Los Angeles native David Holmes. A couple of his uncles grew cannabis, as did his brother. But while they were off planting and harvesting, Holmes was busy studying mathematics in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And at that point I wasn’t really a connoisseur,” says Holmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 15 years ago, he says, a friend in graduate school turned him on to a particularly potent strain of weed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This insanely resinous cannabis he had grown,” says Holmes, laughing as he recalls the memory. “And he showed me his grow room and it blew my mind. It’s like a laboratory in your house. And I kind of got addicted to cultivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130316\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana cultivator David Holmes in the grow room at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana cultivator David Holmes in the grow room at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes is now one of the most sought-after cultivators in the business. He maintains a small grow near his home in L.A. for research. At another location he manufactures a plant nutrient called \u003ca href=\"http://clade9nutrients.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Clade9\u003c/a> that he sells to large medical pot growers in California, Arizona and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes grows a lot of weed, but for other people as a facility designer and cultivation consultant. His latest client is \u003ca href=\"http://www.pegasusnevada.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pegasus Nevada\u003c/a>. The company just began growing medical marijuana inside a beige two-story warehouse at the edge of the Las Vegas airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature and humidity, the light intensity, all the factors that contribute to plant growth, you can control,” explains Holmes. “Indoors, you can essentially play God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s fully operational, the Pegasus facility will have a cloning room, a space for marijuana extraction, a packaging area and a couple of gymnasium-size flowering rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130318\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"One of the gymnasium-size grow rooms at Pegasus Nevada. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the gymnasium-size grow rooms at Pegasus Nevada. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now all the growing is concentrated in what Holmes calls the mother room, a space the size of a two-car garage. On each side, two long rows of plants are fed a steady stream of purified water and a special plant nutrient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we have 19 strains in here,” explains Holmes as he examines the plants. “Each has their own market niche.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asks if I've heard of the variety \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9KHSYmDRQ\" target=\"_blank\">\"Girl Scout Cookies\" \u003c/a>and points to a deep-green bushy plant. “It’s a really dense, highly resinous, very nice nose. And maybe more importantly, \u003ca href=\"http://snoopdogg.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Snoop Dogg\u003c/a> rapped about it,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegasus didn’t bring Holmes aboard just to help it grow potent, high-quality pot, but to help it grow its business beyond medical sales. Pegasus is among a slew of medical marijuana firms that have sprouted up in Nevada since the state adopted regulations for legal sales for medical purposes three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right from the very beginning we liked his approach. It was very data-driven, metric-driven,” says Ranson Shepherd, operations manager for Pegasus Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"David Holmes with his ‘mother’ plants at Pegasus Nevada. \" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-960x671.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Holmes with his ‘mother’ plants at Pegasus Nevada. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Each room was specifically designed accordingly and set up for full automation. So he can log in anytime of the day, take a look and see where we’re having challenges,” says Shepherd. “It’s all tracked in data, (but) a lot of guys in the industry now are still operating without those kind of systems to guide their business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this kind of technical and scientific precision that Pegasus aims to capitalize on now that Nevada voters look like they, too, are ready to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada_Marijuana_Legalization,_Question_2_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">pot legalization ballot measure\u003c/a> similar to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a>, which would allow adults to legally possess up to an ounce of weed and grow up to six plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Proposition 64 passes, you can’t sell what you grow without a license. And even if you are licensed, you won’t be able to grow anywhere you want. Towns and cities have the option of barring commercial indoor and outdoor cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as normalization of cannabis really comes about and cities start to recognize it's an agricultural product just like any other, I think that we're going to see it move into the agricultural areas, whether that be Mendocino or Southern California,” says Amanda Reiman of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.drugpolicy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Drug Policy Alliance, \u003c/a>a major proponent of Proposition 64.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Holmes says California’s 20-year-old medical marijuana law, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 215, \u003c/a>has left cultivators operating in a legal gray area that has invited law enforcement crackdowns, stifled innovation and scared off investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana 'mother' plants at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana 'mother' plants at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whether you did all the things that your lawyer told you to do in California to be safe, there's always a potential you can get shut down,” says Holmes. “But with Prop. 64 it looks like you'll be safe from that issue, and it’s really hard to invest in something if you don't know what tomorrow might bring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of investors coming out of the woodwork eager to plough money into a legal pot market. But Holmes says few he’s encountered have the know-how or the commitment to maintain and develop a top-notch cultivation facility. He also says there are far more investors than there are skilled, qualified growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there's going to be big mistakes made in that gap,” says Holmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point there's probably going to be some type of degree that you could study cannabis cultivation. But right now there's no textbook. We’re kind of writing it as we go, but we are definitely getting smarter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LAS VEGAS -- Marijuana cultivation is a family affair for Los Angeles native David Holmes. A couple of his uncles grew cannabis, as did his brother. But while they were off planting and harvesting, Holmes was busy studying mathematics in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And at that point I wasn’t really a connoisseur,” says Holmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 15 years ago, he says, a friend in graduate school turned him on to a particularly potent strain of weed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This insanely resinous cannabis he had grown,” says Holmes, laughing as he recalls the memory. “And he showed me his grow room and it blew my mind. It’s like a laboratory in your house. And I kind of got addicted to cultivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130316\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana cultivator David Holmes in the grow room at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoom2-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana cultivator David Holmes in the grow room at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes is now one of the most sought-after cultivators in the business. He maintains a small grow near his home in L.A. for research. At another location he manufactures a plant nutrient called \u003ca href=\"http://clade9nutrients.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Clade9\u003c/a> that he sells to large medical pot growers in California, Arizona and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes grows a lot of weed, but for other people as a facility designer and cultivation consultant. His latest client is \u003ca href=\"http://www.pegasusnevada.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pegasus Nevada\u003c/a>. The company just began growing medical marijuana inside a beige two-story warehouse at the edge of the Las Vegas airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature and humidity, the light intensity, all the factors that contribute to plant growth, you can control,” explains Holmes. “Indoors, you can essentially play God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s fully operational, the Pegasus facility will have a cloning room, a space for marijuana extraction, a packaging area and a couple of gymnasium-size flowering rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130318\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"One of the gymnasium-size grow rooms at Pegasus Nevada. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/GrowRoomBig-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the gymnasium-size grow rooms at Pegasus Nevada. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now all the growing is concentrated in what Holmes calls the mother room, a space the size of a two-car garage. On each side, two long rows of plants are fed a steady stream of purified water and a special plant nutrient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we have 19 strains in here,” explains Holmes as he examines the plants. “Each has their own market niche.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asks if I've heard of the variety \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9KHSYmDRQ\" target=\"_blank\">\"Girl Scout Cookies\" \u003c/a>and points to a deep-green bushy plant. “It’s a really dense, highly resinous, very nice nose. And maybe more importantly, \u003ca href=\"http://snoopdogg.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Snoop Dogg\u003c/a> rapped about it,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegasus didn’t bring Holmes aboard just to help it grow potent, high-quality pot, but to help it grow its business beyond medical sales. Pegasus is among a slew of medical marijuana firms that have sprouted up in Nevada since the state adopted regulations for legal sales for medical purposes three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right from the very beginning we liked his approach. It was very data-driven, metric-driven,” says Ranson Shepherd, operations manager for Pegasus Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11130320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11130320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"David Holmes with his ‘mother’ plants at Pegasus Nevada. \" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MotherPLants-960x671.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Holmes with his ‘mother’ plants at Pegasus Nevada. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Each room was specifically designed accordingly and set up for full automation. So he can log in anytime of the day, take a look and see where we’re having challenges,” says Shepherd. “It’s all tracked in data, (but) a lot of guys in the industry now are still operating without those kind of systems to guide their business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this kind of technical and scientific precision that Pegasus aims to capitalize on now that Nevada voters look like they, too, are ready to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada_Marijuana_Legalization,_Question_2_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">pot legalization ballot measure\u003c/a> similar to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a>, which would allow adults to legally possess up to an ounce of weed and grow up to six plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Proposition 64 passes, you can’t sell what you grow without a license. And even if you are licensed, you won’t be able to grow anywhere you want. Towns and cities have the option of barring commercial indoor and outdoor cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as normalization of cannabis really comes about and cities start to recognize it's an agricultural product just like any other, I think that we're going to see it move into the agricultural areas, whether that be Mendocino or Southern California,” says Amanda Reiman of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.drugpolicy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Drug Policy Alliance, \u003c/a>a major proponent of Proposition 64.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Holmes says California’s 20-year-old medical marijuana law, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 215, \u003c/a>has left cultivators operating in a legal gray area that has invited law enforcement crackdowns, stifled innovation and scared off investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana 'mother' plants at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/potrep-HAND-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana 'mother' plants at Pegasus Nevada in Las Vegas \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whether you did all the things that your lawyer told you to do in California to be safe, there's always a potential you can get shut down,” says Holmes. “But with Prop. 64 it looks like you'll be safe from that issue, and it’s really hard to invest in something if you don't know what tomorrow might bring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of investors coming out of the woodwork eager to plough money into a legal pot market. 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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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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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