Comments on: Sai Center Permit Prospects Die – October 11, 2011

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:27:18 +0000

http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=118&url=cannabis-clubs_c97_m117&select_id=1183&f=1111111100110000000

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:24:29 +0000

Indeed, I am also pretty sure at least one local clinic advertised in the north country journal…plus they share a parking lot with a hydroponics store and buy their supplies there. Ever hear of ”
Operation Green Merchant?”
If the feds could link a permitted grow, to an add campaign, and implied knowledge of what the products sold at a hydroponics store were going to be used for… i would say it was “ripe” for the picking around here…

http://petergormanarchive.com/at/pdf/article-78.pdf

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:31:10 +0000

Mark Sailors, Northstone Organics advertised in the Guardian according to yelp. Media advertisements have been specifically addressed by at least one U.S. Attorney. This may be because a legal argument where interstate commerce applies is easier to prove by citing a newspaper’s circulation.

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:23:49 +0000

What do the Mendo operation have in common with Arcata’s clinics:
1. They are licensed by the local government
2. They have both been featured in marijuana documentaries.

I think the writing is on the wall, and if I was the owner/ operator of a local clinic I would shut the doors today.

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:35:42 +0000

Mark Sailors, it appears that the federal action so far is targeting local government permitting. It seems to be no coincidence that Northstone was explicitly authorized by and paying licensing fees to Mendocino County.

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:50:26 +0000

Next comes a raid on some provider in Arcata. Let’s see if they charge any city officials.

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:58:12 +0000

Northstone Organics raided:
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19106498

They were apparently permitted by the Mendocino zip tie program and appeared in a television documentary.

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:05:16 +0000

The loitering argument is poor. Even the letters from the business on the railroad tracks complaining about loitering are suspect.

The permitted source is a moot point considering it will likely be found illegal for the city to issue such permits.

I skipped through the video, but the only valid point I heard was lack of locations falling within the proximity variables. If this ordinance is truly fair, it should be explicit about which parcels these businesses are allowed. Regardless of what one thinks of the specific applicant in this case, it would seem reasonable for the city to specify acceptable locations.

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:18:35 +0000

Prescription drugs are also abused by unscrupulous people, just look at the pill mills. You see a certain doctor, the prescription can only be filled by their own pharmacy, there are literally people lined up out the door, and a regular pharmacy won’t honor the prescription. Yet all of that is FEDERALY legal, until they prove misconduct. Not that they are not cracking down knit finally I am just pointing out the facts.

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:16 +0000

The public smoking of anything is kind off offensive, but where else are homeless folks going to smoke other than in public. Frankly I don’t understand why the no smoking ordinances are so under enforced. No smoking means no smoking. Period. Start writing the freaking tickets, and eventually people will stop smoking in public. and that goes for the non service dogs on the Plaza as well.

And just for the record I do mean smoking anything, medical or not.

It’s not freaking rocket surgery…