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Yee, who represents Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty rigorous program,” said Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside sent Berkeley Patients Group an email about the payment on Friday and followed up with a phone call, but no one from the organization had commented by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While income figures for 2004-07 are not public, the Center for Investigation Reporting obtained internal BPG accounting documents in 2012 and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/finances-prominent-california-pot-club-revealed-documents-16574\">determined that the group grossed $17.4 million in 2008 and $16.4 million in 2009\u003c/a>. The cost of goods for 2008 was $10 million and $9 million in 2009, leaving a gross profit margin close to 40%, according to CIR. 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The landlord, Nahai Droubi, as well as BPG, are fighting the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/05/08/officials-oppose-federal-suit-to-shut-berkeley-cannabis-dispensary/\">Berkeley City Council voted last week to file a lawsuit against the federal government\u003c/a> to challenge the forfeiture case. No taxpayer money will be used in the suit, said Councilman Darryl Moore. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last Friday Mendocino County \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22244537?IADID=Search-www.ukiahdailyjournal.com-www.ukiahdailyjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\">announced it was fighting federal grand jury subpoenas\u003c/a> demanding that four county officials hand over all documents related to its now-abandoned medical marijuana permitting program. The legal action came even after the county had effectively gutted the program in response to a threat of litigation from the U.S. Attorney's office for Northern California. County officials have speculated that the federal government is planning on going after the more than $1 million the county earned from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the lawsuit filed by the city of Oakland in the threatened federal seizure of the property that the Harborside marijuana dispensary leases, Mendocino County's action may represent a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/19/federal-crackdown-on-medical-marijuana-oakland-fights-back-mendocino-county-still-deciding/\">new fight against a federal crackdown\u003c/a> that has closed hundreds of medical marijuana facilities in the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal battles are just the latest chapter in California and the nation's ever-evolving relationship to the drug. Below is \"A History of Marijuana in California and America.\" This illustrated timeline runs from 1911, when Massachussetts became the first state to outlaw marijuana, to just this month, when President Obama said the recent legalization of recreational pot in two states would not be a federal law enforcement priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/5642/A-History-of-Marijuana-in-California-and-America/#vars!date=1947-10-30_07:48:10!\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a full-screen version\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border-width:0\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/embed/5642/1846065562/\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last week on ABC News' 20/20, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-marijuana-users-high-priority-drug-war/story?id=17946783#.UM-PcKz4KSp\">Barbara Walters asked President Obama if he thought marijuana should be legalized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40563\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 222px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40563\" title=\"medicalmarijuanaSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana plant buds at a dispensary. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't go that far,\" Obama said. \"But what I think is that at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1202/From-no-to-yes-how-Colorado-and-Washington-legalized-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">voters speak on this issue\u003c/a>. And as it is, the federal goverment has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions. It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said under state law that's legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments, however, may come as a surprise to those who follow the medical marijuana issue in California. In October 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\"> four U.S. attorneys for the state announced\u003c/a> it was going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to federal enforcement of the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. In that press conference, Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, provided a number of reasons for cracking down on medical marijuana, including environmental harm by growers and the proliferation of retail stores \"motivated not by compassion but by money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money,\" Haag said. \"In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to taking action against purveyors of pot in the state, the U.S. attorneys were true to their word. In Northern California alone dozens of dispensaries have been shut down, including some high-profile businesses that not only enjoyed solid reputations as responsible industry players, but which were operating with the express approval of local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't mattered. While passage of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> in 1996 legalized medical marijuana in the state, its sale is still a felony under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Comes to Defense of Harborside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One successful strategy in shuttering marijuana retail operations has been to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten landlords of dispensaries with forfeiture of their property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\n\u003cp>-- U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is the tack U.S. Attorney Haag took in taking on Oakland's Harborside, which operates under a city permit. To some, the action against Harborside represents an expansion of the federal crackdown, which had previously used proximity to schools as its main criteria for targeting. But in threatening action against Harborside's landlord, the U.S. Attorney's office cited the size of the business, which may be the biggest in the world with over 100,000 patients served. Steve DeAngelo, Harborside's cofounder and executive director, told \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/10/15/oakland-sues-u-s-government-to-stop-harborside-medical-marijuana-seizures/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland North\u003c/a> in October that Harborside earned $22 million in sales in 2011, paying the city $1.2 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Justice Department issued a statement that said we'd been targeted because of an abstract principle that larger dispensaries tend to result in more people inappropriately receiving cannabis,\" \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/harborsides-steve-deangelo-on-medical-marijuana-crackdown-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/#interview\">Harborside owner Steve DeAngelo told us\u003c/a> in July. \"I don't think that's a valid principle, but even if it were, to target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Dept has grievously overreached; I think the amount of support both from public and elected officials demonstrates that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, the city of Oakland has stepped up to support Harborside, becoming the first city to file suit against the federal government in relation to the targeting of marijuana facilities. Oakland says the federal government can’t seize the property that Harborside leases because the federal statue of limitations has run out. The city also claims the federal government misled it into thinking it could license dispensaries without legal consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re concerned that the government, through its action and inaction, caused the city to rely on the fact that we could proceed to dedicate the resources that we did to set up this dispensary system,\" Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told KQED in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\n\u003cp>--Harborside cofounder Steve DeAngelo\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Harborside has refused to shut down. “We are open and we have no intention of closing our doors voluntarily,” DeAngelo said. “We made a commitment to our patients six years ago to provide them with a safe place to get cannabis medicines and we're going to do that unless it becomes impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside's landlords in both Oakland and San Jose, where it also runs a dispensary subject to forfeiture proceedings, have gone to court attempting to force an eviction. But an Alameda County judge said on Nov. 30 that state courts did not have the power to enforce federal law. As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22116405\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune reported\u003c/a>, the ruling held that \"under state law, Harborside was running a legal business and had not violated its lease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is scheduled to be heard in federal district court by \u003ca href=\"//www.cand.uscourts.gov/mej\">Chief Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James\u003c/a> on Thursday. On the table are motions by Harborside’s landlords asking the court to enjoin the dispensary from selling medical marijuana while the issue of the forfeiture is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has filed a \u003ca href=\"//www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/17/oakrepstay.pdf\">motion\u003c/a> to stay the landlords’ requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mendocino County: 'Model' Program Now Ended, Still Under Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the point of view of medical pot advocates, Mendocino County, a longtime hub of illegal marijuana distribution, has been one of the most forward-looking local governments in terms of bringing order to the vague legalization mandate of Prop 215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s 9.31 ordinance set up a unique first-in-the-nation permitting program under which marijuana growers were allowed to cultivate up to 99 plants, provided they complied with regulations like restrictions on the locations in which they operated. The program also brought much-needed revenue to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County officials like Sheriff Tom Allman and Supervisor John McCowen argued that the program encouraged illegal actors in the marijuana trade to go legit, reducing crime and the need for law enforcement resources to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\" target=\"_blank\">DEA raided Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, owned and operated by Matt Cohen, a vocal proponent of legitimizing the medical marijuana trade through regulation. Cohen has been described by Michael Montgomery, who covers drug issues for KQED, as the “poster child” for compliance with Mendocino County’s regulatory regime. He has also been an advocate for using the Mendocino model as the way forward for expanded legalization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They better take payments, because we're broke.\n\u003cp>--Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman on possiblity that feds are going after pot program's assets\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the DEA's action was just the beginning. Earlier this year, Melinda Haag's office told the county it had to end the program or face possible litigation. After some debate, supervisors decided to “effectively gut the program,” says Michael Montgomery. \"After that, most people in Mendocino thought the matter was over, that they had complied with the federal government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in early December news emerged that a grand jury had been convened, and had issued \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22123471/breaking-news-text-subpoena-mendocino-county-medical-marijuana\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Sheriff Allman, his captain who oversaw the permitting program, the financial manager for the sheriff's office, and the county Auditor-Controller. Montgomery says Mendocino officials have reacted with \"shock and anger and concern” to the order, which calls for the officials to hand over all records related to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an extension, the county now has until Jan 8 to comply, and its hired a San Francisco attorney to help represent it. Some involved in the Mendocino marijuana industry have pleaded with the county not to cooperate with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't give this information to the federal government because patients' information and entire coops' information is accessible,\" said Matt Cohen at a recent supervisors' meeting. \"This would not be the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one really knows what the feds are after -- whether it's criminal prosecutions or something else. But Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg, a former Democratic congressman, said he thinks the money that the county made from the program is a likely target. The Ukiah Daily Journal recently \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22173338\">reported\u003c/a> that \"proceeds from the popular permitting program ... had mounted to more than $1 million by January of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've probably heard the term smash and grab, when the DEA comes into a dispensary and takes their money, takes their marijuana out the door and that’s the end of that,\" Hamburg told Michael Montgomery recently. \"I sort of see this as a form of that. They weren't satisfied with us shutting down the objectionable part of the program. And now they want to come back for the money that came into the program ... It seems that's the information they want and the only thing I can draw from that is it's some kind of a forfeiture proceeding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, Sheriff Tom Allman told Montgomery, \"We're not going to be able to write them a check, I'll tell you that. They better take payments, because we're broke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamburg, who expressed reservations about the program when it was operational, doesn't want to see the federal government go after county assets. He says, \"I just don't see the good sense of Mendocino County having to forfeit money from a program done in good faith and done with really trying to get a hand on regulating this practice in Mendocino County, which by the way has been going on for four decades. So if Melinda Haag and the federal government think 'oh we're going to put marijuana out of business in Mendocino County'...that's just not going to happen. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado and Washington, the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana, are now deciding how to build regulatory systems for growers and distributors, says Michael Montgomery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big question is what are the feds going to do in these states. What they've done in places like Mendocino that have tried to regulate could be a clue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Montgomery says, Colorado set up a fairly elaborate system to govern medical marijuana from the start, drawing little interference from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So is the message that if you set up tight regulatory system you're going to be okay? I don’t know,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California and other states that have legalized medical marijuana is that some Californians have flaunted their federally illegal activities in a very public way. Mendocino County's Matt Cohen, for example, appeared in documentaries about the state's marijuana business on both \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/republicofcannabis/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED TV\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS program Frontline\u003c/a>. And Harborside's Steve DeAngelo was the subject of his own reality TV series on The Discovery Channel -- \"\u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Weed Wars\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Michael Montgomery\u003c/a> about the reasons for what some at the time considered to be a rather sudden focus federal focus on marijuana, Melinda Haag said, \"Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they're full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have websites, and everybody knows where they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, for his part, told us he doesn't regret doing the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely not. After it aired we had a flood of senior citizens coming in, veterans, people from states where they don’t have access to medical cannabis. We had dozens and dozens of parents of gravely ill children coming to us because of what they saw...and we were able to provide a positive example of cannabis distribution for the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say, however, that I think there's a connection between my outspoken views and Harborside being targeted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Montgomery said it's important to pay close attention to President Obama's choice of words when it comes to speculating on how the federal government might handle the new world of marijuana legalization in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president said it didn't make sense for the federal government to use its resources targeting recreational users in states that have legalized pot. But that's really embracing the status quo. The real question, which the president didn't address, is how the feds will handle the emergence of major cultivation and distribution networks for a drug that is still classified under federal law as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Do the clues for future federal action lie in Colorado or in California?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't mattered. While passage of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> in 1996 legalized medical marijuana in the state, its sale is still a felony under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Comes to Defense of Harborside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One successful strategy in shuttering marijuana retail operations has been to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten landlords of dispensaries with forfeiture of their property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\n\u003cp>-- U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is the tack U.S. Attorney Haag took in taking on Oakland's Harborside, which operates under a city permit. To some, the action against Harborside represents an expansion of the federal crackdown, which had previously used proximity to schools as its main criteria for targeting. But in threatening action against Harborside's landlord, the U.S. Attorney's office cited the size of the business, which may be the biggest in the world with over 100,000 patients served. Steve DeAngelo, Harborside's cofounder and executive director, told \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/10/15/oakland-sues-u-s-government-to-stop-harborside-medical-marijuana-seizures/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland North\u003c/a> in October that Harborside earned $22 million in sales in 2011, paying the city $1.2 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Justice Department issued a statement that said we'd been targeted because of an abstract principle that larger dispensaries tend to result in more people inappropriately receiving cannabis,\" \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/harborsides-steve-deangelo-on-medical-marijuana-crackdown-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/#interview\">Harborside owner Steve DeAngelo told us\u003c/a> in July. \"I don't think that's a valid principle, but even if it were, to target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Dept has grievously overreached; I think the amount of support both from public and elected officials demonstrates that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, the city of Oakland has stepped up to support Harborside, becoming the first city to file suit against the federal government in relation to the targeting of marijuana facilities. Oakland says the federal government can’t seize the property that Harborside leases because the federal statue of limitations has run out. The city also claims the federal government misled it into thinking it could license dispensaries without legal consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re concerned that the government, through its action and inaction, caused the city to rely on the fact that we could proceed to dedicate the resources that we did to set up this dispensary system,\" Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told KQED in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\n\u003cp>--Harborside cofounder Steve DeAngelo\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Harborside has refused to shut down. “We are open and we have no intention of closing our doors voluntarily,” DeAngelo said. “We made a commitment to our patients six years ago to provide them with a safe place to get cannabis medicines and we're going to do that unless it becomes impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside's landlords in both Oakland and San Jose, where it also runs a dispensary subject to forfeiture proceedings, have gone to court attempting to force an eviction. But an Alameda County judge said on Nov. 30 that state courts did not have the power to enforce federal law. As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22116405\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune reported\u003c/a>, the ruling held that \"under state law, Harborside was running a legal business and had not violated its lease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is scheduled to be heard in federal district court by \u003ca href=\"//www.cand.uscourts.gov/mej\">Chief Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James\u003c/a> on Thursday. On the table are motions by Harborside’s landlords asking the court to enjoin the dispensary from selling medical marijuana while the issue of the forfeiture is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has filed a \u003ca href=\"//www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/17/oakrepstay.pdf\">motion\u003c/a> to stay the landlords’ requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mendocino County: 'Model' Program Now Ended, Still Under Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the point of view of medical pot advocates, Mendocino County, a longtime hub of illegal marijuana distribution, has been one of the most forward-looking local governments in terms of bringing order to the vague legalization mandate of Prop 215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s 9.31 ordinance set up a unique first-in-the-nation permitting program under which marijuana growers were allowed to cultivate up to 99 plants, provided they complied with regulations like restrictions on the locations in which they operated. The program also brought much-needed revenue to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County officials like Sheriff Tom Allman and Supervisor John McCowen argued that the program encouraged illegal actors in the marijuana trade to go legit, reducing crime and the need for law enforcement resources to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\" target=\"_blank\">DEA raided Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, owned and operated by Matt Cohen, a vocal proponent of legitimizing the medical marijuana trade through regulation. Cohen has been described by Michael Montgomery, who covers drug issues for KQED, as the “poster child” for compliance with Mendocino County’s regulatory regime. He has also been an advocate for using the Mendocino model as the way forward for expanded legalization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They better take payments, because we're broke.\n\u003cp>--Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman on possiblity that feds are going after pot program's assets\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the DEA's action was just the beginning. Earlier this year, Melinda Haag's office told the county it had to end the program or face possible litigation. After some debate, supervisors decided to “effectively gut the program,” says Michael Montgomery. \"After that, most people in Mendocino thought the matter was over, that they had complied with the federal government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in early December news emerged that a grand jury had been convened, and had issued \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22123471/breaking-news-text-subpoena-mendocino-county-medical-marijuana\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Sheriff Allman, his captain who oversaw the permitting program, the financial manager for the sheriff's office, and the county Auditor-Controller. Montgomery says Mendocino officials have reacted with \"shock and anger and concern” to the order, which calls for the officials to hand over all records related to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an extension, the county now has until Jan 8 to comply, and its hired a San Francisco attorney to help represent it. Some involved in the Mendocino marijuana industry have pleaded with the county not to cooperate with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't give this information to the federal government because patients' information and entire coops' information is accessible,\" said Matt Cohen at a recent supervisors' meeting. \"This would not be the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one really knows what the feds are after -- whether it's criminal prosecutions or something else. But Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg, a former Democratic congressman, said he thinks the money that the county made from the program is a likely target. The Ukiah Daily Journal recently \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22173338\">reported\u003c/a> that \"proceeds from the popular permitting program ... had mounted to more than $1 million by January of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've probably heard the term smash and grab, when the DEA comes into a dispensary and takes their money, takes their marijuana out the door and that’s the end of that,\" Hamburg told Michael Montgomery recently. \"I sort of see this as a form of that. They weren't satisfied with us shutting down the objectionable part of the program. And now they want to come back for the money that came into the program ... It seems that's the information they want and the only thing I can draw from that is it's some kind of a forfeiture proceeding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, Sheriff Tom Allman told Montgomery, \"We're not going to be able to write them a check, I'll tell you that. They better take payments, because we're broke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamburg, who expressed reservations about the program when it was operational, doesn't want to see the federal government go after county assets. He says, \"I just don't see the good sense of Mendocino County having to forfeit money from a program done in good faith and done with really trying to get a hand on regulating this practice in Mendocino County, which by the way has been going on for four decades. So if Melinda Haag and the federal government think 'oh we're going to put marijuana out of business in Mendocino County'...that's just not going to happen. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado and Washington, the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana, are now deciding how to build regulatory systems for growers and distributors, says Michael Montgomery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big question is what are the feds going to do in these states. What they've done in places like Mendocino that have tried to regulate could be a clue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Montgomery says, Colorado set up a fairly elaborate system to govern medical marijuana from the start, drawing little interference from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So is the message that if you set up tight regulatory system you're going to be okay? I don’t know,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California and other states that have legalized medical marijuana is that some Californians have flaunted their federally illegal activities in a very public way. Mendocino County's Matt Cohen, for example, appeared in documentaries about the state's marijuana business on both \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/republicofcannabis/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED TV\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS program Frontline\u003c/a>. And Harborside's Steve DeAngelo was the subject of his own reality TV series on The Discovery Channel -- \"\u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Weed Wars\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Michael Montgomery\u003c/a> about the reasons for what some at the time considered to be a rather sudden focus federal focus on marijuana, Melinda Haag said, \"Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they're full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have websites, and everybody knows where they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, for his part, told us he doesn't regret doing the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely not. After it aired we had a flood of senior citizens coming in, veterans, people from states where they don’t have access to medical cannabis. We had dozens and dozens of parents of gravely ill children coming to us because of what they saw...and we were able to provide a positive example of cannabis distribution for the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say, however, that I think there's a connection between my outspoken views and Harborside being targeted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Montgomery said it's important to pay close attention to President Obama's choice of words when it comes to speculating on how the federal government might handle the new world of marijuana legalization in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And now the feds are legally obligated to keep their word and leave these pot sellers alone, Oakland officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned that the government through its action and inaction caused the city to rely on the fact that we could proceed to dedicate the resources that we did to set up this dispensary system,” Oakland City Attorney Parker told us.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 19, 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/192\">guidelines\u003c/a> that his department would use in enforcing the U.S. laws making marijuana illegal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a general matter, pursuit of these priorities should not focus federal resources in your States on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the government continued to prosecute some cases, and in 2011 began a series of high-profile raids and legal actions against large dispensaries, including some of the best-known marijuana businesses in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/oakland-lawsuit-against-US-2012-10-10-complaint.pdf\">the text of Oakland’s lawsuit against the U.S.\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On March 15, Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for Northern California, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\">told KQED’s Michael Montgomery \u003c/a>that her office was flooded with complaints about marijuana dispensaries, and that the Oct. 19 memo didn’t mean marijuana that comply with state and local law would not be prosecuted. She said federal agents would focus on marijuana businesses close to schools and other places children gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, workers arrived at Harborside Health Center in downtown Oakland — which is billed as the largest pot dispensary in the world, but is not near a children’s school — to find notices taped to the door saying that the U.S. government had filed suit to seize the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in policy is hurting Oakland in several ways, Parker told us. Crime related to marijuana has dropped since regulated dispensaries opened up, she said. “That’s my understanding, that now that people can buy this safely and affordably through this regulated dispensary process we don’t have the crime that would be associated with them attempting to do the same thing on the illegal market,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the city is harmed because patients who need marijuana won’t be able to get it safely, she said. “We think it is vital for this continue, otherwise these patients would be left to their own devices to buy this vital medicine on the black market, which would endanger their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city made a big investment in regulating marijuana, said Cedric Chao, who is acting as outside counsel to the city on the lawsuit. The city requires dispensaries to submit business plans, submit to audits and background checks, hire security, install lighting and cameras in parking lots, among other regulations. 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The federal government has 60 days to respond, said Chao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to U.S. Northern California Attorney Melinda Haag’s office, and to the Department of Justice, were not returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been in touch with any other local governments considering any similar actions, Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kevin A. Sabet, a former advisor to the Obama administration drug policy director Gil Kerlikowske told Reuters that Oakland’s marijuana policy is misguided:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This lawsuit is just the latest bizarre twist in California’s laughable medical marijuana program, a system where over 95% of users have no life threatening illness. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Michael Montgomery, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-book-discounts-theory-marijuana-top-us-cash-crop-17492\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legalization advocates have argued that marijuana is America’s leading cash crop, outranking corn, wheat, soy and a host of other heartland staples produced on an industrial scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73123\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/marijuana_grove_sized.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73123\" title=\"marijuana_grove_sized\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/marijuana_grove_sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mateusz Atroszko/stock.xchng\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bringing pot production above ground, the argument goes, could produce a $30 billion tax bonanza for cash-strapped governments and a huge savings for law enforcement and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new research dumps cold water on many of these claims, concluding that far from being America’s biggest cash crop, marijuana probably isn’t even in the top five. Rather, marijuana might make the top 15, “ranking somewhere between almonds and hay and perhaps closest to potatoes and grapes,” the researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These findings are part of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.marijuanalegalization.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new book\u003c/a>, “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know,” by a team of researchers and public policy experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Pepperdine University, UCLA and the RAND Corp. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors, Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Mark Kleiman and Beau Kilmer, analyze the costs and benefits of legalizing marijuana, challenging many commonly held assumptions on both sides of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>“Non-using analysts are woefully ignorant about marijuana consumption amounts or practices,” Gettman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In particular, the authors take aim at a widely cited 2006 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408191-mjcropreport-2006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> by Jon Gettman, a former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, that valued America’s annual marijuana production at a whopping $35.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gettman’s estimates, America’s domestic marijuana crop consists of 56.4 million marijuana plants cultivated outdoors worth $31.7 billion and 11.7 million plants cultivated indoors worth $4.1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The domestic marijuana crop is larger than Cotton in Alabama, larger than Grapes, Vegetables and Hay combined in California, larger than Peanuts in Georgia, and larger than Tobacco in both South Carolina and North Carolina,” Gettman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His report ranked California as the nation’s top producer, responsible for more than one-third of the marijuana harvest, with an estimated output of $13.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these statistics are wrong, according to the new book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors write: “Analyses purporting to support the claim (that marijuana is the nation’s leading cash crop) must contort the numbers, citing the retail price of marijuana but the farm-gate price of other products, or pretending that all marijuana consumed in the United States in sinsemilla, or ignoring the fact that most marijuana used in the United States is imported, or simply starting with implausible estimates of U.S. production.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gettman’s figure of $35.8 billion is particularly specious, the authors contend, because it comes from multiplying a weighted average price of $1,606 per pound by an inflated annual production figure of 22.3 million pounds. The resulting number “is larger than the best estimates of the \u003cem>retail\u003c/em> sales value of \u003cem>all\u003c/em> marijuana consumed in the United States – including the marijuana that is imported,” according to the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gettman, a columnist at High Times magazine, said he stands by his research, noting “differences of opinion” with the authors on many key variables, from the size of a joint (he says that on average, it’s about 1 gram when you account for waste) to the percentage of marijuana consumed in the United States that is domestically produced (he says the figure is climbing because more people prefer home-grown, boutique weed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Non-using analysts are woefully ignorant about marijuana consumption amounts or practices,” Gettman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gettman, his 2006 estimates were based on production figures that were published in various government reports and that originated with the Drug Availability Steering Committee, an interagency group that operates under the Office of National Drug Control Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the book authors argue that the government figures cited by Gettman were merely “hypothetical values meant only to illustrate how the arithmetic would be done if certain unknown parameters were to become known at some point in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can know the actual value of the domestic marijuana crop with any certainty, as most cultivation is hidden in the shadows, all the more since federal prosecutors began cracking down in states that have legalized medical marijuana. The authors’ best guess is that it’s worth about $2.1 billion to $4.3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How legalization would affect the value of domestic pot production and potential tax revenue is another complex question the authors attempt to untangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While legalizing marijuana could double or triple consumption, the authors point out that it also would dramatically lower the cost of production, with growers adopting highly mechanized, large-scale techniques used by big agricultural companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this scenario, marijuana could become the cheapest legal intoxicant, far cheaper than alcohol. The authors suggest a legal market dominated by high-potency marijuana would produce annual tax revenues of a few billion dollars nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, alcohol and tobacco each bring in $10 billion or more per year, according to the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about California, where the pot industry is a fixture in some counties and growers boast of producing the most potent and most valuable strains in the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors don’t speculate. However, 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408126-ca2010receipts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">figures\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the most recent available, rank grapes at the top in California, worth $3.2 billion annually, followed by almonds ($2.8 billion), strawberries ($1.8 billion) and lettuce ($1.6 billion).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that if one values the nation’s marijuana crop at the high end of the authors’ estimate, about $4 billion, California would need to account for more than 75 percent of domestic production in order for pot to rank as the state’s top cash crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inflated valuations are not the sole domain of marijuana advocates. 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