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"content": "\u003cp>An explosion shook a Santa Rosa neighborhood a little before 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, \"pancaking\" a shed that erupted in flames. The fire quickly spread to surrounding trees and was threatening a nearby apartment complex when firefighters arrived about four minutes later. The blaze caused one injury, according to police. Jonathan Dubois, 23, suffered second- and third-degree burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire investigators said several hours of digging through the rubble left in the aftermath turned up evidence of a butane hash oil, or BHO, lab. The product of these do-it-yourself operations is a type of marijuana concentrate that appears to be growing in popularity, according to public safety officials, but the evidence is more anecdotal than statistical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5WE787DV3nBDV478ENmfVnrShmLFGcCu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, they're becoming a little more common,\" Santa Rosa Asst. Fire Marshall Paul Lowenthal said, \"and it's putting our community at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is BHO, how's it made, and how likely is it that a backyard drug lab will turn into a bomb?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just Add Butane\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it's a little more complicated than that, but not by much. There's no shortage of online videos depicting the process of packing a length of 2- or 3-inch diameter pipe with plant material, adding a cap with a small hole to one end, and strapping some coffee filters to the other. Holding the pipe vertically, manufactures insert the can of butane in the capped end and let the liquid butane filter through the marijuana. Butane carrying concentrated THC drips out the coffee filter end into a Pyrex pan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697403\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10697403 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"A BHO extraction tube with a filter on the end.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-800x457.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-400x229.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-1440x823.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-1180x674.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExtractionTube-960x549.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BHO extraction tube with a filter on the end. \u003ccite>(Kate Renkes/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a little heat, the liquid butane evaporates, and what's left is sticky, often amber-colored THC concentrate known as butane hash oil, honey oil, dab, shatter, wax or ear wax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the process can quickly fill an area lacking ventilation with butane gas. Then all it needs is a trigger, which could be any appliance that creates a spark or open flame -- even a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The butane reaches a source that triggers the ignition,\" Lowenthal said. He's been to four BHO explosion scenes in the past year, and that's just one Santa Rosa fire investigator. \"This particular case,\" he said, \"it was pretty destructive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Often?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable statistics aren't easy to locate. The Drug Enforcement Administration's \u003ca href=\"http://www.dea.gov/divisions/sf/sf.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco division\u003c/a>, whose territory spans from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, counted one BHO lab in 2013, 92 in 2014 and 56 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no requirement for state and local law enforcement to report those statistics to us,\" DEA spokeswoman Special Agent Casey Rettig said. \"How we are collecting them is a very informal and rough system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Sen. Tony Mendoza authored a bill signed into law in early August that \u003ca href=\"http://sd32.senate.ca.gov/news/872015-governor-signs-butane-hash-oil-methamphetamine-manufacturing-legislation\" target=\"_blank\">strengthens state criminal penalties\u003c/a> for BHO and other drug manufacturing near occupied residences. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697407\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-800x1117.jpg\" alt=\"BHO shatter, containing highly concentrated THC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10697407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-400x559.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-1440x2011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-1180x1648.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Shatter-960x1341.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BHO shatter, containing highly concentrated THC. \u003ccite>(Andres Rodriguez/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He cites a \"spate of explosions throughout California as the result of BHO manufacturing\" and two specific examples, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Walnut-Creek-apartment-explosion-1-person-5861307.php\" target=\"_blank\">Walnut Creek explosion\u003c/a> late last year that injured three and an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article2605552.html\" target=\"_blank\">earlier one in Sacramento\u003c/a> that hospitalized two people and displaced 140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Drug Endangered Children Training and Advocacy Center reports much higher numbers, citing 441 THC extraction laboratories located in California between late 2010 and spring of 2014. A dozen children were injured and three died in explosions, according to the center, while 140 adults were injured and 42 died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DEA \u003ca href=\"http://www.dea.gov/divisions/sf/2015/sf071715.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">recently arrested\u003c/a> a Bakersfield man under suspicion of running a BHO lab. He was charged with maintaining a drug-involved premises, conspiracy and manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the form of hashish oil. He faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence and $500,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Agent Rettig emphasized that while medical marijuana is legal in California, with ballot initiatives on the way that could legalize recreational use in 2016, anything containing THC is a schedule 1 controlled substance under federal law. Making BHO also carries a drug manufacturing charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are coming across this with quite a bit more frequency,\" she said. \"They're extremely dangerous, they're highly volatile, and the explosion is absolutely dangerous for those involved and anyone living in that area as well. Depending on the method used, it can be like a pipe bomb ... It's just devastating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Useful Substance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite federal law, California is making moves to legitimize the manufacture of BHO for medical use. The state legislature \u003ca href=\"http://www.canorml.org/news/A_SUMMARY_OF_THE_MEDICAL_MARIJUANA_REGULATION_AND_SAFETY_ACT\" target=\"_blank\">just passed\u003c/a> a package of bills that creates a defined, state-level regulatory scheme that could largely replace the patchwork of local laws currently governing medical cannabis. Gov. 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They don't have to be butane extracts; there are other forms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said dosage for medical cannabis is much more precise via an electronic cigarette-type device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's much safer than smoking on the lung, and it's better than eating it, where dosage is always a problem,\" he said, adding that the cannabis e-cigarette cartridges typically contain concentrated THC oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's for the new regulations, and like law enforcement, strongly cautions against making BHO at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you're dealing with is lighter fluid or the gas you've got in your stove, and it's explosive,\" Gieringer said. \"Yes people are doing it. It's easy and it's stupid and many people are blowing themselves up or starting fires. ... Nobody should do this at home. It should only be done by licensed professionals that know how to deal with dangerous chemicals.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Then all it needs is a trigger, which could be any appliance that creates a spark or open flame -- even a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The butane reaches a source that triggers the ignition,\" Lowenthal said. He's been to four BHO explosion scenes in the past year, and that's just one Santa Rosa fire investigator. \"This particular case,\" he said, \"it was pretty destructive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Often?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable statistics aren't easy to locate. The Drug Enforcement Administration's \u003ca href=\"http://www.dea.gov/divisions/sf/sf.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco division\u003c/a>, whose territory spans from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, counted one BHO lab in 2013, 92 in 2014 and 56 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no requirement for state and local law enforcement to report those statistics to us,\" DEA spokeswoman Special Agent Casey Rettig said. \"How we are collecting them is a very informal and rough system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Sen. 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They don't have to be butane extracts; there are other forms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said dosage for medical cannabis is much more precise via an electronic cigarette-type device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's much safer than smoking on the lung, and it's better than eating it, where dosage is always a problem,\" he said, adding that the cannabis e-cigarette cartridges typically contain concentrated THC oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's for the new regulations, and like law enforcement, strongly cautions against making BHO at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you're dealing with is lighter fluid or the gas you've got in your stove, and it's explosive,\" Gieringer said. \"Yes people are doing it. It's easy and it's stupid and many people are blowing themselves up or starting fires. ... Nobody should do this at home. It should only be done by licensed professionals that know how to deal with dangerous chemicals.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A former United Food and Commercial Workers union official and Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly using his positions to solicit bribes, among other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Daniel Rush is accused of taking bribes in exchange for the UFCW's endorsement of prospective dispensary operators, taking kickbacks to steer clients to a co-conspiring attorney and using his position on the Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission to extort a job from a potential dispensary operator. He's also charged with conspiracy and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two things jump out from Rush's indictment: California's medical marijuana industry involves tons of cash that can flow to unexpected places, and several people in the medical marijuana industry were willing to voluntarily cooperate with federal law enforcement despite a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry\" target=\"_blank\">rocky past\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The focus of this investigation hasn’t been so much on that industry,\" FBI San Francisco Division spokeswoman Michele Ernst told KQED on Friday. \"It’s been on the corrupt activities and protecting the people who were victims of attempted extortion ... people who had ended up in a position where they were seeking help from the FBI and from law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush held two powerful positions in the marijuana industry. As the executive director of UFCW International's \u003ca href=\"http://cannabisworkers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">medical cannabis division\u003c/a>, he could steer which prospective dispensary operators competing for limited licenses would get an influential labor endorsement, and as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=31260\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley commissioner\u003c/a>, he helped steer which operators won licenses in that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst declined to state how many dispensary operators approached federal law enforcement, but she said, \"This case would not have been possible if not for the courage of victims who came forward seeking the help of the FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the criminal complaint that led to Rush's indictment, two medical marijuana operators in Oakland participated in the investigation: Carl Anderson and Martin Kaufman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Marc Terbeek has also been cooperating with the FBI since agents served a search warrant at his offices early this year. He's expected to plead guilty to conspiring with Rush to launder money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terbeek had been paying kickbacks to Rush for more than a decade, according to the complaint, in exchange for Rush diverting workers' compensation clients to his practice. Terbeek allegedly paid Rush an average of $2,000 per month in kickbacks since 2010, the complaint says, in violation of Rush's legal duties to the UFCW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush allegedly took similarly illegal payments from other medical marijuana dispensary operators, including Kaufman and Anderson, totaling well over half a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush is also accused of undermining union activities and instructing dispensary operators as to how they could secretly prevent workers from joining the UFCW, all while working for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extortion charge stems from Rush's attempt to secure himself a high-paying job from a hopeful dispensary operator in exchange for locking in the shop's approval with the Berkeley commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Mr. Rush has been accused of is not only shocking to us, it is a betrayal for what we at the UFCW stand for,” a union spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-union-official-took-bribes-from-pot-6441534.php\" target=\"_blank\">told the Chronicle\u003c/a>. “Going forward, the UFCW will undertake a full review of Rush’s activities to determine if any worker or their family were adversely affected by his activities and, if so, take appropriate corrective action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It took nearly two decades and the threat of a more sweeping initiative, but California lawmakers are finally ready to regulate medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a18/news-room/press-releases/agreement-reached-on-historic-medical-marijuana-bill\" target=\"_blank\">last-minute, bipartisan deal\u003c/a> was announced late Thursday night in Sacramento, after years of disagreements between key stakeholders over details of a regulatory structure -- and weeks of squabbling between the Senate and Assembly over who would take credit for the final legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown's administration stepped in late last week with compromise legislation that pulled details from a number of existing proposals, but leaves many of the final details to be sorted out by a to-be-created state regulatory agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, lawmakers split the details among three existing bills -- Assembly Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\">266\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\">243\u003c/a>, and Senate Bill \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\">643\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals would create a new agency, the state \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau would be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain -- including the growing process, testing to ensure safety, transportation, distribution and sales. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It is history-making as policy for its breakthroughs in regulation, public safety, local control and patient access.' \u003ccite>Assemblyman Ken Cooley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties could still enforce their own laws, including levying taxes, imposing a separate licensing structure or banning marijuana growing and distribution entirely. But patient and caregiver rights established by the original 1996 medical marijuana ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 215\u003c/a>, would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the authors, Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, said the regulations are \"the result of an unprecedented stakeholder process,\" which included medical marijuana businesses, law enforcement and patient advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another author, Assemblyman Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, called the legislation historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is history-making as policy for its breakthroughs in regulation, public safety, local control and patient access,\" he said. \"It is historic, too, for its method -- active listening by a team of lawmakers and staff who, having opened the door to all groups connected to a devilishly complex topic, find a common center supporting consensus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'With this bill we are demonstrating that we can bring solutions to complex issues.' \u003ccite>Assemblyman Tom Lackey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In years past, getting the many various stakeholders to sign on was problematic. But \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures\" target=\"_blank\">a number of potential 2016 ballot measures\u003c/a> to fully legalize marijuana for recreational use -- and the recent successful legalization efforts in Colorado and Washington -- helped drive the disparate groups to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a former California Highway Patrol officer who helped shape the legislation, said it will \"pave the way for a comprehensive set of strategies to cut down on marijuana-impaired driving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is in dire need of a strong bipartisan consensus to manage medical marijuana,” said Lackey, R-Palmdale, in a written statement. \"With this bill we are demonstrating that we can bring solutions to complex issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Healdsburg Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who authored SB643 and represents the North Coast, where much of the state's outdoor growing occurs, noted that the measures will require marijuana cultivators to \"abide by the same rules and regulations as all other agriculture, including water use, water discharge, pesticide and insecticide use and more.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — California's marijuana farmers have existed in a legal gray area during the 18 years since the state became the first to allow residents to use the drug for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, veteran cannabis growers are emerging from the shadows to make their voices heard at the Capitol as the groundwork is being laid to legalize pot for recreational use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana producers from Northern California's Emerald Triangle are hiring veteran lobbyists, forming political action committees and taking elected officials on fact-finding tours — even though large-scale pot farms remain illegal under federal law and growers risk being raided and prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem ... the better off we'll be.'\u003ccite>Hezekiah Allen,\u003cbr>\nExecutive director, Emerald Growers Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The growers' coalition says it's worth the risk to ensure their interests are represented as lawmakers, and ultimately voters, consider regulations that could allow them to do business aboveboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is democracy in action,\" said Casey O'Neill, who grows flowers, vegetables and marijuana in Mendocino County and serves as secretary of the 750-member \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldgrowers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Growers Association\u003c/a>. \"Every other industry sends lobbyists to tell government how to think, so finally as an industry we are realizing if this is how it works in America, we are going to have to play ball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first at-bat is a Wednesday hearing for a bill that would require medical marijuana growers to obtain permits and subject them to environmental inspections. The association is bringing members to Sacramento for advocacy training and to support the legislation with visits to legislators' offices and T-shirts reading, \"I am a farmer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_243_bill_20150408_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB243\u003c/a>, is Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Democrat whose sprawling, 300-mile-long district encompasses the prime marijuana territory of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties. Wood said he doesn't know how his constituents will be received, but he hopes his colleagues will keep open minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those things that here in Sacramento, when you start talking about it, some people, if you don't live in the world where this comes from, they are uncomfortable,\" Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for\u003ca href=\"http://agri.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\"> the hearing of the Assembly Agriculture Committee\u003c/a>, nine members of the growers' association put on slacks and dresses for a meeting in their lobbyist's 25th floor office within blocks of the Capitol to plot strategy and messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to highlight their community as consisting largely of responsible farmers who are good environmentalists and employers but have been forced to operate as outlaws and unfairly lumped in with unscrupulous drug gangs that steal water for illegal pot grows on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem, and for all of the problems the solution is regulation, the better off we'll be,\" said Emerald Growers Association Executive Director Hezekiah Allen, a third-generation pot farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Colorado and Washington state, where marijuana already has been legalized for recreational use by adults, pot growers have engaged in political advocacy in concert with and in opposition to consumer and business groups that fought for full legalization. Ongoing issues include price differences between medical and recreational pot and whether longtime growers are getting locked out of a more tightly regulated environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's growers want to avoid such scenarios. Association members say the state's medical marijuana laws are too loose to offer guidance or protection, so they have been collaborating with the drug reform groups that are crafting ballot language for a 2016 legalization campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers' organization says pot farms should be overseen by the state agriculture department, as vineyards are, and that any licensing system should employ a tiered approach that leaves room for small \"craft cultivators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign that the growers are being heard was a two-day field trip that \u003ca href=\"http://humboldtcounty.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Cannabis Voice Humboldt\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, organized last week for two members of the state tax board, which is providing input for the drafters of the legalization initiative on how recreational weed could be taxed. The officials toured a seedling nursery, a pair of specialty farms and a horticulture supply company, posing after the outing for a group photo with their hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A farmer made that happen,\" said group treasurer Luke Bruner, who organized the visit. \"The weed fairy doesn't bring this stuff to the dispensary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first at-bat is a Wednesday hearing for a bill that would require medical marijuana growers to obtain permits and subject them to environmental inspections. The association is bringing members to Sacramento for advocacy training and to support the legislation with visits to legislators' offices and T-shirts reading, \"I am a farmer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_243_bill_20150408_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB243\u003c/a>, is Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Democrat whose sprawling, 300-mile-long district encompasses the prime marijuana territory of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties. Wood said he doesn't know how his constituents will be received, but he hopes his colleagues will keep open minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those things that here in Sacramento, when you start talking about it, some people, if you don't live in the world where this comes from, they are uncomfortable,\" Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for\u003ca href=\"http://agri.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\"> the hearing of the Assembly Agriculture Committee\u003c/a>, nine members of the growers' association put on slacks and dresses for a meeting in their lobbyist's 25th floor office within blocks of the Capitol to plot strategy and messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to highlight their community as consisting largely of responsible farmers who are good environmentalists and employers but have been forced to operate as outlaws and unfairly lumped in with unscrupulous drug gangs that steal water for illegal pot grows on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem, and for all of the problems the solution is regulation, the better off we'll be,\" said Emerald Growers Association Executive Director Hezekiah Allen, a third-generation pot farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Colorado and Washington state, where marijuana already has been legalized for recreational use by adults, pot growers have engaged in political advocacy in concert with and in opposition to consumer and business groups that fought for full legalization. Ongoing issues include price differences between medical and recreational pot and whether longtime growers are getting locked out of a more tightly regulated environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's growers want to avoid such scenarios. Association members say the state's medical marijuana laws are too loose to offer guidance or protection, so they have been collaborating with the drug reform groups that are crafting ballot language for a 2016 legalization campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers' organization says pot farms should be overseen by the state agriculture department, as vineyards are, and that any licensing system should employ a tiered approach that leaves room for small \"craft cultivators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign that the growers are being heard was a two-day field trip that \u003ca href=\"http://humboldtcounty.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Cannabis Voice Humboldt\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, organized last week for two members of the state tax board, which is providing input for the drafters of the legalization initiative on how recreational weed could be taxed. The officials toured a seedling nursery, a pair of specialty farms and a horticulture supply company, posing after the outing for a group photo with their hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A farmer made that happen,\" said group treasurer Luke Bruner, who organized the visit. \"The weed fairy doesn't bring this stuff to the dispensary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even though more than 40 people testified about the importance of the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers Collective to the black community, the Berkeley City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to declare it a public nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the decision, which came almost four years after Berkeley officials first told its co-founder, Chris Smith, that his cannabis collective was operating illegally, may not be the last word on the operation. Lee Hepner, Smith’s attorney, said before the meeting that they would almost certainly challenge the action in court. Any legal challenge would join the three other lawsuits that Smith currently has pending against Berkeley and a number of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility is for Smith to apply for the permit to open a fourth dispensary in the city. Applicants have until March 20 to declare they are interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Council members Kriss Worthington and Max Anderson voted against the city staff recommendation to declare Forty Acres a public nuisance. Worthington’s suggestion to table the motion for 60 days to work out a compromise was not accepted by the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Forty Acres is a long and complex one. Smith moved into the second floor of 1820-1828 San Pablo Ave. in 1998. Unbeknownst to him and other tenants, the building was not zoned for residential use. It is in a commercial district and the last approved use was a dance studio on the second floor in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and Toya Groves started Forty Acres in 2009, in part to create a cannabis collective that was welcoming to African-Americans. Groves had started using medical cannabis that year after her right arm was seriously damaged when a drunken driver struck her car. Groves had visited the three cannabis dispensaries in Berkeley, but found they were unable, or unwilling, to help her address some of her issues, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law governing cannabis collectives in Berkeley at that time, Measure JJ, did not do a good job distinguishing the difference between dispensaries and collectives. It stated only that cannabis collectives be “incidental to residential use.” It also allowed only three dispensaries — large commercial operations that sold paraphernalia, offered massages and therapy as well as selling cannabis — in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley residents passed measures S and T in November 2010. Those measures established a tax on cannabis. They allowed the creation of a fourth permitted dispensary. The law also said that cannabis collectives could operate only in residential zones, not commercial districts. They still had to be incidental to residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2011, Forty Acres was flourishing. It had about 7,000 patients. It not only sold medical cannabis on site, but also paraphernalia. It advertised in the East Bay Express, set up booths at cannabis fairs, and had a job development program aimed at bringing a new generation of African-Americans into the lucrative cannabis industry. Forty Acres was also open later each night than the permitted dispensaries. It closed at 10 p.m. on weeknights and midnight on weekends, even though the dispensaries had to close by 9 p.m. every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10414097 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg\" alt=\"Toya Groves and Chris Smith listen at the Jan. 20 city council meeting.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toya Groves and Chris Smith listen at the Jan. 20 City Council meeting. \u003ccite>( Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To city officials, the scope of Forty Acres’ business operations made it look more like a dispensary than a cannabis collective, which was assumed to be a small group of people banding together to get cannabis. In February 2011, Berkeley sent a letter to Groves and Smith informing them that they were in violation of city zoning codes. They were operating a collective in a commercial zone, which was illegal, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scope of Forty Acres’ business had also drawn the ire of the operators of the three dispensaries. They said Forty Acres was not paying city taxes and was flouting the laws the dispensaries had to obey. (Smith eventually started paying taxes to the state and has repeatedly tried to pay taxes to Berkeley. The city has turned down his offer because Forty Acres does not have an operating permit.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and Groves said Forty Acres was being singled out because African-Americans ran it and the industry was controlled by whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley sent Forty Acres a cease-and-desist order in 2012 and has spent the intervening three years trying to evict the collective from its space. Berkeley also told the owner of the San Pablo building that he was violating zoning laws by allowing residential units on the second floor and threatened to fine him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner, Clarence Soe, took Smith to court to evict him. An Alameda County jury decided that Smith’s Forty Acres was a public nuisance. After the sheriff came to evict Smith from his apartments on the second floor, he moved into several units recently vacated by other tenants. When Soe went back to court to forcibly evict Smith from those units, Smith told the court he had an informal verbal agreement with Soe to take over any vacant units. The court agreed with that, and allowed Smith to remain. Soe has filed another lawsuit to evict Smith again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith filed a lawsuit against Soe for unfair business practices, three others against Berkeley, including one for violating his constitutional rights. The suits had been stayed until the public nuisance matter made its way through the City Council, said Hepner. Berkeley also conducted a surprise inspection of Forty Acres, declared it a public nuisance in October 2013, held a closed-door hearing to try to shut it down (which the city abandoned after the administrative hearing judge made racist remarks) and held a hearing at the Zoning Adjustments Board, which determined in November 2014 that it was a public nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony of patients and employees of Forty Acres clearly resonated with some council members. Anderson, who once appointed Groves to the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission, urged Berkeley to come to a compromise with the collective. Otherwise, many people would be put out of work. He also said he thought Forty Acres should have been grandfathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to seek justice here, not some punitive medieval forcing them to comply with what norms are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington said Forty Acres sounded like “a phenomenal, amazing place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of neighbors also appeared before the council to discuss what they consider the negative impacts of the collective on the neighborhood. There are groups of people going in and out, talking loudly, parking in neighbors’ driveways and littering, they said. City Councilwoman Linda Maio said she had received letters and emails from neighbors who were too intimidated to testify publicly about their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that although Groves and Smith might be good people, that was not this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a dispensary,” said Maio. “Clearly, the way it is functioning, it is a dispensary. It’s about where they are located now, how it’s operating now. To me it seems illegal. It’s important for us to support the purpose of medical marijuana and at the same time to support our laws.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though more than 40 people testified about the importance of the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers Collective to the black community, the Berkeley City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to declare it a public nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the decision, which came almost four years after Berkeley officials first told its co-founder, Chris Smith, that his cannabis collective was operating illegally, may not be the last word on the operation. Lee Hepner, Smith’s attorney, said before the meeting that they would almost certainly challenge the action in court. Any legal challenge would join the three other lawsuits that Smith currently has pending against Berkeley and a number of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility is for Smith to apply for the permit to open a fourth dispensary in the city. Applicants have until March 20 to declare they are interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Council members Kriss Worthington and Max Anderson voted against the city staff recommendation to declare Forty Acres a public nuisance. Worthington’s suggestion to table the motion for 60 days to work out a compromise was not accepted by the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Forty Acres is a long and complex one. Smith moved into the second floor of 1820-1828 San Pablo Ave. in 1998. Unbeknownst to him and other tenants, the building was not zoned for residential use. It is in a commercial district and the last approved use was a dance studio on the second floor in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and Toya Groves started Forty Acres in 2009, in part to create a cannabis collective that was welcoming to African-Americans. Groves had started using medical cannabis that year after her right arm was seriously damaged when a drunken driver struck her car. Groves had visited the three cannabis dispensaries in Berkeley, but found they were unable, or unwilling, to help her address some of her issues, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law governing cannabis collectives in Berkeley at that time, Measure JJ, did not do a good job distinguishing the difference between dispensaries and collectives. It stated only that cannabis collectives be “incidental to residential use.” It also allowed only three dispensaries — large commercial operations that sold paraphernalia, offered massages and therapy as well as selling cannabis — in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley residents passed measures S and T in November 2010. Those measures established a tax on cannabis. They allowed the creation of a fourth permitted dispensary. The law also said that cannabis collectives could operate only in residential zones, not commercial districts. They still had to be incidental to residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2011, Forty Acres was flourishing. It had about 7,000 patients. It not only sold medical cannabis on site, but also paraphernalia. It advertised in the East Bay Express, set up booths at cannabis fairs, and had a job development program aimed at bringing a new generation of African-Americans into the lucrative cannabis industry. Forty Acres was also open later each night than the permitted dispensaries. It closed at 10 p.m. on weeknights and midnight on weekends, even though the dispensaries had to close by 9 p.m. every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10414097 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg\" alt=\"Toya Groves and Chris Smith listen at the Jan. 20 city council meeting.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Berkeley2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toya Groves and Chris Smith listen at the Jan. 20 City Council meeting. \u003ccite>( Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To city officials, the scope of Forty Acres’ business operations made it look more like a dispensary than a cannabis collective, which was assumed to be a small group of people banding together to get cannabis. In February 2011, Berkeley sent a letter to Groves and Smith informing them that they were in violation of city zoning codes. They were operating a collective in a commercial zone, which was illegal, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scope of Forty Acres’ business had also drawn the ire of the operators of the three dispensaries. They said Forty Acres was not paying city taxes and was flouting the laws the dispensaries had to obey. (Smith eventually started paying taxes to the state and has repeatedly tried to pay taxes to Berkeley. The city has turned down his offer because Forty Acres does not have an operating permit.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and Groves said Forty Acres was being singled out because African-Americans ran it and the industry was controlled by whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley sent Forty Acres a cease-and-desist order in 2012 and has spent the intervening three years trying to evict the collective from its space. Berkeley also told the owner of the San Pablo building that he was violating zoning laws by allowing residential units on the second floor and threatened to fine him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner, Clarence Soe, took Smith to court to evict him. An Alameda County jury decided that Smith’s Forty Acres was a public nuisance. After the sheriff came to evict Smith from his apartments on the second floor, he moved into several units recently vacated by other tenants. When Soe went back to court to forcibly evict Smith from those units, Smith told the court he had an informal verbal agreement with Soe to take over any vacant units. The court agreed with that, and allowed Smith to remain. Soe has filed another lawsuit to evict Smith again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith filed a lawsuit against Soe for unfair business practices, three others against Berkeley, including one for violating his constitutional rights. The suits had been stayed until the public nuisance matter made its way through the City Council, said Hepner. Berkeley also conducted a surprise inspection of Forty Acres, declared it a public nuisance in October 2013, held a closed-door hearing to try to shut it down (which the city abandoned after the administrative hearing judge made racist remarks) and held a hearing at the Zoning Adjustments Board, which determined in November 2014 that it was a public nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony of patients and employees of Forty Acres clearly resonated with some council members. Anderson, who once appointed Groves to the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission, urged Berkeley to come to a compromise with the collective. Otherwise, many people would be put out of work. He also said he thought Forty Acres should have been grandfathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to seek justice here, not some punitive medieval forcing them to comply with what norms are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington said Forty Acres sounded like “a phenomenal, amazing place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of neighbors also appeared before the council to discuss what they consider the negative impacts of the collective on the neighborhood. There are groups of people going in and out, talking loudly, parking in neighbors’ driveways and littering, they said. City Councilwoman Linda Maio said she had received letters and emails from neighbors who were too intimidated to testify publicly about their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that although Groves and Smith might be good people, that was not this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-medical-cannabis/\">medical marijuana dispensaries\u003c/a> must provide 2 percent of their cannabis free of charge to very low-income residents under a law passed unanimously by the City Council earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual patients who make under $32,000, or families that earn less than $46,000, qualify for the complimentary cannabis. The law further requires that the free marijuana “be the same quality on average as medical cannabis that is dispensed to other members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were happy with that,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/charlie-pappas/\">Charley Pappas\u003c/a>, a member of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/medical-cannabis-commission/\">Medical Cannabis Commission\u003c/a>. “It gets the council and the mayor focusing on patients. There should be access to the best medicine and the poorest people shouldn’t be excluded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the decision, national media proclaimed, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/10/morning-links-berkeley-out-berkeleys-berkeley/%20\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley out-Berkeleys Berkeley\u003c/a>” and declared the arrival of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/controversies/berkeley-approves-weed-welfare-for-low-income-residents-and-homeless-140709?news=853631%C2%A0\">weed welfare\u003c/a>.” Many of the articles were long on hyperbole and short of the facts, since the new law may not force dispensaries to radically alter their business models. Many of them already give away free medical cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an uncommon practice” to voluntarily provide free cannabis to needy patients, said Pappas, who used to own a dispensary in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-patients-group/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Patients Group\u003c/a> (BPG) on San Pablo Avenue and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/cannabis-buyers-club-of-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">Cannabis Buyers Club of Berkeley\u003c/a> (CBCB) on Shattuck Avenue, two of the city’s three dispensaries, previously had programs that distributed free marijuana to low-income clients. Furthermore, the law only applies to Berkeley residents, who typically make up only 25 percent of a dispensary’s clientele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do this on our own, so we certainly welcome the city mandating that all dispensaries create these sorts of programs,” said Sean Luse, chief operating officer of BPG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luse estimated that the dispensary, which has hosted a program for low-income patients since it opened in 1999, typically gives away 1 percent of its cannabis. He questioned whether the 2 percent requirement was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think there could be problems if we’re oversupplying demand and giving away more cannabis than is legitimately needed,” he said. “We’ll see how this plays out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s initial proposal asked dispensaries to give away 1 percent of their marijuana, but the council decided to double the amount, Pappas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2 percent, by weight, is determined by mandatory half-yearly calculations of the amount of marijuana distributed to all members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-100002 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">In the same July 1 vote, the council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/06/18/berkeley-city-council-lets-add-4th-cannabis-dispensary/\">approved a fourth dispensary\u003c/a> for the city, three and a half years after residents voted on Measure T in support of the additional dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pappas applauded the council’s approval of a fourth dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They perpetuated the status quo for years when they put a moratorium on additional dispensaries,” he said. “It displays their attention, finally, to medical cannabis distribution in Berkeley. 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A call to the Station Casinos media representative was not returned by the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Graton Casino operates in a region the federal government deems a “High Intensity Financial Crime Area” because of the large amount of marijuana grown on California’s North Coast. As a result, the Rohnert Park casino is required to implement additional monitoring to identify people who might be gambling with illicit funds, which according to the federal government includes money from medical marijuana businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ongoing Conflict Between the Feds and States\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casinos are the latest institutions to get caught up in the ongoing conflict between federal and state laws on marijuana. Thursday's disclosure on federal policy comes only months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared to publicly support the right of state-authorized marijuana businesses to have access to the U.S. financial system and deposit their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places. They want to be able to use the banking system,\" Holder said during an appearance at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. \"There’s a public safety component to this. Huge amounts of cash — substantial amounts of cash just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited — is something that would worry me, just from a law enforcement perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Coast has notoriously high amounts of cash transactions, with one Mendocino County banker saying more than half the deposits there are in cash, making it one of the highest ratios in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Holder’s statement in February, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Treasury Department both issued updated guidelines on how U.S. financial institutions need to handle customers with ties to the marijuana industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One dispensary owner in San Francisco said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But banking executives said the new guidelines did nothing to assuage their fears, leaving them open to both criminal and civil prosecution if they worked with businesses in the marijuana trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bankers are all just saying, 'We don’t want those problems,' ” said Dowling, who also consults on these issues for major U.S. banks. “One banker called them toxic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling expects casinos will react the same way, turning away from people who work in the state-sanctioned marijuana industries that now operate in 22 states and D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is again saying people involved in the marijuana business don’t have rights,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dispensary owner in San Francisco, who asked not to be named because of previous regulatory problems with the federal government, said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the core, it’s just the hypocrisy of the federal government and its financial regulations,” he said. “They say one thing but they are really acting a whole other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another dispensary owner in Mendocino County, who likewise asked not to be named because of previous problems with federal regulators, said the U.S. government is ignoring the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government doesn’t care about our state laws,” the owner said. “It’s dead wrong. It’s one more right they are taking away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling said he decided to raise the issue at Thursday’s conference because the federal government could prosecute casinos that are not complying with the new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very controversial. I’ll probably get a lot of hate mail for bringing it up,” Dowling said. “But if you put yourself in a banker's situation, would you want to have to do all that and put yourself at criminal risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, this all comes less than two weeks after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/30/house-votes-to-block-medical-pot-prosecution\" target=\"_blank\">surprising bipartisan vote\u003c/a> in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which passed a measure that seeks to end Department of Justice interference with state marijuana laws. Medical marijuana advocates praised the vote as a game-changer and one that reflected a huge shift in public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/4903_transform-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/4903_transform-1.jpg\" alt=\"A bud tender pours pot from a jar in the Perennial Holistic Wellness Center medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles in 2012. (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bud tender pours pot from a jar in the Perennial Holistic Wellness Center medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles in 2012. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medical marijuana advocates are celebrating what is a surprising bipartisan result in the highly polarized House of Representatives: Early Friday morning, 49 Republicans and 170 Democrats joined forces to pass a measure that would stop federal interference with state medical marijuana laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 219-189 vote came as the House completed work on \u003ca href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.4660:\" target=\"_blank\">an appropriations bill\u003c/a> for the Justice and Commerce departments and several other agencies. Among more than two dozen amendments was one introduced by \u003ca href=\"http://rohrabacher.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Dana Rohrabacher\u003c/a>, an Orange County Republican:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher and 11 co-sponsors, including Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) and Rep. Sam Farr (D-Monterey), argued that \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2010/04/01/public-support-for-legalizing-medical-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion has shifted strongly to support for medical marijuana\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">against the federal government's prohibition of pot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who's been critical of Justice Department prosecutions of medical cannabis providers in Oakland and Berkeley, said before the vote that it's time to stop \"unwarranted persecution\" of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We should allow for the implementation of the will of the voters to comply with state law rather than undermining our democracy,\" Lee said before the vote.'\u003ccite>— Rep. Barbara Lee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We should allow for the implementation of the will of the voters to comply with state law rather than undermining our democracy,\" Lee said before the vote. \"In states with medical marijuana laws, patients face uncertainty regarding their treatment, as small business owners who have invested millions, creating jobs and revenue, have no assurances for the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that medical cannabis advocates are merely trying to open the way for full legalization of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the amendment, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) read from a Drug Enforcement Administration report that called medical cannabis a mere \"means to an end, which is the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes. They did not deal with the problem of ensuring that the product meets the standards of modern medicine — quality, safety and efficacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher's amendment must pass the Senate and be signed by President Obama before it becomes law. Still, Friday's 219-189 House vote marks a sharp reversal on the issue. Six times before, the House had rejected virtually identical versions of the amendment, originally introduced in 2003 by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York. The last time the proposal came to a vote, in May 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/may/09/house_representatives_votes_down\" target=\"_blank\">it was defeated by a vote of 262-163\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical pot advocates celebrated the amendment's passage Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vote is a huge victory for patients,\" said Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, in a statement. \"This is a game-changer that paves the way for much more policy change to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher\" target=\"_blank\">a National Review op-ed published Thursday\u003c/a>, Rohrabacher strikes a tone that suggests he'd like to go further than the amendment on medical marijuana. He argues that the price of continuing the war on marijuana has become too high and is especially wrongheaded in states, like California, where voters have chosen to legalize cannabis. And like other supporters of Friday's amendment, he says support for the amendment is a matter of staying true to conservative values. Summing up the cost of the war on marijuana, he writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The explosion of gun violence across our urban landscape, now spreading to suburbs and the countryside; our unconscionable incarceration rates; the out-of-control and unconstitutional seizure of private property on drug enforcers’ whims; the corruption and militarization of our police; the chronic despair forced on minority Americans; a monumentally dysfunctional and alienating policy toward our Latin American neighbors; and even, yes, the subtle, psychological robbery of the self-worth and self-responsibility necessary to addressing drug-related problems realistically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a proper vision of government’s role, as the late William F. Buckley Jr. and Milton Friedman, among many others, taught my generation. We constitutionalists respected the Tenth Amendment’s preference for state laws, and we trusted the moral autonomy of the individual.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Senate is scheduled to take up the appropriations bill during the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Michael Montgomery addressed some of the issues the legislation might raise in California, particularly in light of enforcement actions here three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It raises question about groups like Harborside in Oakland that are under a civil enforcement action,” Montgomery said. “Will they be able to target them in this way if they’re not grossly out of line with state laws? It also raises the issue – California can avoid some of these enforcement actions if it gets its act together in terms of regulations like Colorado. I think this amendment in Washington should probably compel lawmakers in Sacramento to passing some kind of a law that would set up a statewide regulatory system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Montgomery’s discussion with KQED’s Rachel Dornhelm:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/152080993&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the Associated Press report on the House vote:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Andrew Taylor\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled House voted early Friday in favor of blocking the federal government from interfering with states that permit the use of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The somewhat surprising 219-189 vote came as the House debated a bill funding the Justice Department's budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment by conservative GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California — the first state to legalize medical marijuana — came as almost half the states have legalized marijuana for medical uses, such as improving the appetites of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public opinion is shifting,\" Rohrabacher said, noting a recent Pew Research Center that found 61 percent of Republicans support medical marijuana. The numbers are higher for independents and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite this overwhelming shift of public opinion, the federal government continues its hard line of oppression against medical marijuana,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer told opponents that \"this train has already left the station.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said that marijuana is regulated too loosely by the states and harms the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that medical cannabis advocates are merely trying to open the way for full legalization of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the amendment, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) read from a Drug Enforcement Administration report that called medical cannabis a mere \"means to an end, which is the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes. They did not deal with the problem of ensuring that the product meets the standards of modern medicine — quality, safety and efficacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher's amendment must pass the Senate and be signed by President Obama before it becomes law. Still, Friday's 219-189 House vote marks a sharp reversal on the issue. Six times before, the House had rejected virtually identical versions of the amendment, originally introduced in 2003 by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York. The last time the proposal came to a vote, in May 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/may/09/house_representatives_votes_down\" target=\"_blank\">it was defeated by a vote of 262-163\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical pot advocates celebrated the amendment's passage Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vote is a huge victory for patients,\" said Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, in a statement. \"This is a game-changer that paves the way for much more policy change to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher\" target=\"_blank\">a National Review op-ed published Thursday\u003c/a>, Rohrabacher strikes a tone that suggests he'd like to go further than the amendment on medical marijuana. He argues that the price of continuing the war on marijuana has become too high and is especially wrongheaded in states, like California, where voters have chosen to legalize cannabis. And like other supporters of Friday's amendment, he says support for the amendment is a matter of staying true to conservative values. Summing up the cost of the war on marijuana, he writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The explosion of gun violence across our urban landscape, now spreading to suburbs and the countryside; our unconscionable incarceration rates; the out-of-control and unconstitutional seizure of private property on drug enforcers’ whims; the corruption and militarization of our police; the chronic despair forced on minority Americans; a monumentally dysfunctional and alienating policy toward our Latin American neighbors; and even, yes, the subtle, psychological robbery of the self-worth and self-responsibility necessary to addressing drug-related problems realistically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a proper vision of government’s role, as the late William F. Buckley Jr. and Milton Friedman, among many others, taught my generation. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/4903_transform-1.jpg\" alt=\"A new voter initiative to legalize marijuana in California was cleared for signature gathering today. (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The New Yorker has published a \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick\" target=\"_blank\">long interview with President Obama\u003c/a>, and one of the topics he addresses that are near and dear to Californian hearts: marijuana. 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There is a lot of hair on that policy. And the experiment that’s going to be taking place in Colorado and Washington is going to be, I think, a challenge.” He noted the slippery-slope arguments that might arise. “I also think that, when it comes to harder drugs, the harm done to the user is profound and the social costs are profound. And you do start getting into some difficult line-drawing issues. If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that? If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?” \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full interview \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the president's statements come as four pot legalization proposals vie for a spot on the November ballot, and where last month's \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2455.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Field Poll\u003c/a> shows 55 percent of Californians favor legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo heads the Field Poll, and he spoke with KQED's Mina Kim about the president's statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130689576&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state narrowly was rejected a measure to legalize marijuana in 2010, 53 to 47 percent. 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