Comments on: Cannabis Clinic Shuts Down After DOJ Warning Letter – January 3, 2012

By: ken

ken — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:06:43 +0000

This was a real hit for my older brother who lives in humbolt county.he is a Vietnam vet who sustained a catastrophic injury in 1994.he was recieving one ounce of cannibas per month free.his pain is remarkably lessened by the cannibas,and now no longer gets the cannibas because the dispensery closed due to a bunch of crap.I believe it was HMS.does anyone no if any of the other dispenseries are helping patients like my brother? Thanks. Ken

By: LindaAnne

LindaAnne — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:38:14 +0000

Since the landlord was unwilling to take the risk and/or continue the lease, HMS had no choice except to shut down.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:45:03 +0000

Does the Arcata Ball Park which serves alcohol in season and when the park is rented, may obtain a permit to serve alcohol qualify as a Children’s Playground? Has anyone bothered to look up the definition that the U.S. Congress Provided under the Controlled Substances Act? It looks like what D.O.J. can’t do legally they can do by making up their own definitions. I wonder if H.M.S. even bothered to look this up.

STATUTE-
(e) Definitions
For the purposes of this section –
(1) The term “playground” means any outdoor facility (including
any parking lot appurtenant thereto) intended for recreation,
open to the public, and with any portion thereof containing three
or more separate apparatus intended for the recreation of
children including, but not limited to, sliding boards,
swingsets, and teeterboards.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:23:27 +0000

Thanks Ian. In the 1099 situation, many people wanted to sell their product but not have it reported, back in my time, and would choose to sell under the required reporting limit. This would greatly alter the sales reports if one was to go off 1099s alone. And when has “Sai” ever been known to do anything voluntarily?

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:37:24 +0000

Valerie, the only instance I’ve googled where patient records were seized and used as evidence against a cannabis business was the 2001 Fry/Schafer raid. It has been reported several times that 1099 forms are now routinely submitted by these businesses which would suggest that there is no need for federal agencies to seize further records as evidence. The recent audit of the large permitted Oakland business would be an example of using voluntarily disclosed information instead of relying on records seized in police raids.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:05:02 +0000

Since HMS complied, their records were not compromised. Does that imply that if the other one that received a notice to close does not comply their records could be in the hands of DOJ?

By: Ian Ray

Ian Ray — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:30:17 +0000

In other news, San Jose is likely to have a ballot measure to rescind local cannabis club regulations.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19671610

If it passes, this ballot measure may be the correct decision for the people of San Jose. Lake County recently rescinded regulations through a signature-gathering process which indicates San Jose may not require a vote.

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By: Tonic

Tonic — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:30:38 +0000

http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/NDAA – you all might want to think big picture.

By: Black Flag

Black Flag — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:34:01 +0000

Who cares? If I were Kevin, thoughts of being blamed for this through my writings would be passing through my mind. Regardless, anyone with a brain knows Kevin didn’t bring the feds down on Cana-Culture- but how many dope smokers have a brain?
Only a tsunami can bring the change that Humboldt needs so badly. Once Arcata was a nice place to live in a time before 707 hats and those silly humboldt tree shirts all the hipsters wear.
My bet is the feds will treat Arcata like they did Fallujah and shake and bake the neo-hippies into compliance before they install Kevin as Mayor.

Agnostic Front said it during the Reagan Occupation:

Time will come when we will pay
There’ll be no choice for you to take
World War III won’t be a fake
You just can’t look the other way

[Chorus:]
Time will come and time will go
You’ll learn to live and learn to fight
You’ll fight for freedom and fight to die
But you’ll never know the reason why
Killing people for their greediness
But unaware of the evilness
Once you’re dead there’ll be no sorrow
Another one will come to follow