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SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Medical pot vendors in San Francisco would be allowed to wait until the nation has a new president before obtaining city permits to sell marijuana under a proposed deadline extension.
A resolution introduced by Supervisor Chris Daly would extend the deadline to secure city permits until Jan. 21 — one day after a new president is inaugurated. The proposed extension would be the second to be granted to vendors by city lawmakers since a permitting system was adopted in 2005. Since then, 31 dispensaries have applied for permits, but five of those dispensaries have since closed down, said Kevin Reed, president of the Compassionate Care Council, which represents some of The City’s dispensaries. Reed said his home-delivery service is the only dispensary in The City that has secured a full permit.
“If we don’t get this deadline extended ... we would lose every single [medical cannabis dispensary] in The City except one,” Reed said.
The extension is needed to help the dispensaries overcome disability access issues, red tape and federal enforcement actions, he said.
State law allows the sale of marijuana for medical uses, but the drug remains illegal under federal law. Federal agencies in recent months have continued to pressure San Francisco dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Administration in December threatened to seize the assets of property owners who rent space to dispensaries in San Francisco, Kumin said.
Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both expected to change the country’s marijuana priorities if elected, said Bruce Mirken, a San Francisco-based spokesman for the nonprofit Marijuana Policy Project.
Mirken said 12 states have passed laws permitting medical use of the drug since California voters started the trend in 1996.
The proposal was approved Thursday by the Planning Commission; it’s due to be considered by the Board of Supervisors.
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Livingwithoutcancer.org said:
I just graduated from the college. I did research (A+) for a Speech (B) and an essay for English (B) on the same subject, kind of a two birds with one stone thing! This is what I found: Science facts M/M helps prevent most all diseases and prolongs life more then 30%. Even help grow new cells nerves in the spine and brain! Yes this is that plant that is putting over 2,000 people in the US in prisons daily! Go to Livingwithoutcancer.org that has these facts and more: The Hebrew University in Jerusalem; discovered natural cannabinoids in the human body in 1964! This encouraged biologists and scientist around the world to trace the bodies’ immune systems origins, in plants, animals and in humans. GL
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Examiner Reader said:
""In February, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution authored by Supervisor Chris Daly reaffirming The City as a sanctuary for medical marijuana and condemning DEA actions against property owners.' I feel like this is a bad dream hoping to wake up. How about passing a resolution that says the City will do whatever it takes to fight crime in District 6? Better yet how about passing a resolution that makes Stevenson Street in front of Daly's condo a sanctuary for any person, activity, event of any kind at any time 24 hours a day. Anything, everything and anytime right in front of his condo.
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Examiner Reader said:
Ken is only doing what he knows is the truth and helps the patients . See his myspace GRANDDADDYKEN
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Examiner Reader said:
Get a clue!maybe the doctors give the recomendation to use medical marijuana and they should be regulated more. How many people do you no that are taking and selling pain pills that the doctors hand out like candy and they kill people. Is this the pharmacys fault? why does safeway allow people to hand out alcohol like candy and people die. People kill people in car acidents and kill others and even over dose or even kill there body with poison of alcohol. people od on pills they, lay around the house kids take them and if you check the side effects of pills its a mile long. Pills and alcohol hook you for a slow painfull death or alot of problems . I do not know any one who died from marijuana alone. marijuana has many medical benifits and side effects such as eating maybe sleeping and natural not made by humans. If marijuana is used for non medical reasons it will have less harm than pills or alcohol . If people are woried about drugs you need to worry about the pill and alcohol first
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local drug dealer said:
YES!! keep doing this DEA. raid all the clubs! legal marijuana clubs make it hard for us traditional black market pot dealers. clubs are making street prices dirt cheap and hard for us to make money! now that these clubs are gone, illegal dealers can charge more and MAKE MORE MONEY!! illegal dealers all across california cheer everytime you raid a club, because that means more customers for us!! DEA = go after REAL drugs you pansies!! i guess marijuana is more dangerous than meth right?!?
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Examiner Reader said:
Whether members of the DEA involved with these raids be honestly ignorant zealot puppets of greed or people who enjoy the job security as well as the totalitarianism authoritarian roles it provides them with, it is clear from the messages commonly written in sharpie marker on the walls of these terrorized dispensaries such as “DIE HIPPIE SCUM” that they love to injure, insult, and belittle with racist like prejudice anything they disagree with.
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Examiner Reader said:
Curing cancer does not make sense when treating it is so much more profitable. Allowing a natural substance that is useful for hundreds of ailments without giving its users a plethora of treatable side effects does not make sense when they can patent pills that eventually create more problems as worse as the ones they are supposed to treat. There is always much more money to be made in protecting black market interests while cashing in on unconstitutional “Federal drug forfeitures” What is what it all comes down to greed. And it is the defenders of other peoples greed, such as the DEA that are the true problem, the source of all mainstream societies disease can be found in greed and those whom defend it.
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Examiner Reader said:
A letter to the prohibitionists A letter to those whom pollute the peoples minds with more superstitions and bigotry-isms You stand against People in pain, people who have tried the differences and prefer the natural herbal solutions over synthetics, You Stand against people who want to live naturally, We see you for what you are. You Call us dopers and wish to rob us of life and make us live out our lives as slaves in your prisons A letter to Federal Enforcers of unjust Marijuana laws created to keep Mexicans and blacks under oppressive submission and prevent Industrial hemp from ever being a corporate competition to Duponts Nylon or William Randolph Hearsts capitalist ambitions A letter to the morality squad that wrongfully thinks they have a monopoly on GOD You Whom try to dictate to society how a man should medicate him or herself. YOU CRY "BUT ITS ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW" You show whom you serve when you make those cat calls and its not the will of god or of the people
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Multiply this example by the 300 medical cannabis collectives paying taxes and what do we get? Millions of dollars in lost tax revenue for the state and municipalities, thousands are well-paying jobs with benefits disappearing from our economy, and scores of dispensaries forced to close or move underground for unregulated operations. Cannabis only becomes a gateway drug when patients are forced to go to a crack broker to get it! -- Kevin Reed
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Examiner Reader said:
Obviously the DEA wants to keep cannabis in the hands of organized street crime. Otherwise you allow safer access for patients through tax paying, regulated dispensaries. Is the system abused, sure, people will try to abuse the system just as they do with pharmaceuticals. Are we going to close pharmacies because that system is abused?
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Examiner Reader said:
Maybe it's time to let the police stations open up their own dispensaries.
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pot is illegal said:
news flash, pot is illegal and these so-called medical pot clubs are just pot clubs. look at their ads! they are like night clubs. I hope they shut every one of 'em down and the hippies and losers go back to humboldt and you idiots realize you're selling illegal drugs and all the whining and crying in the world doesnt change it you loser stoners!@!!!
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Examiner Reader said:
I think the general concept pot dispenseries are well intended, but when it promotes gangs, crime and it becomes available to any joe schmo that has a twitch on their eye, then it seems a disaster waiting to happen. I favor effective regulation on doctors and re-locating pot clubs to be distributed by phamacies (walgreens, hospitals). I feel there are too many pot clubs in heavy concentrations in SOMA/Mission (3 on first 3 blocks of Valencia, even more in a 4 block radius). It would be a balanced article if it also talked to the residents and wrote how it affects the neighborhood. I feel the real losers are the neighbors - what a shame.
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Examiner Reader said:
I love how the only bad thing people can come up with about these clubs is "noise, loitering, traffic, and resales".... Oh no!!! Everybody run!! They're loitering!! There's traffic and noise!! Everyone panic!!!!! They're reselling!!!!!! Please..... Yeah compare that to the bars in the city and let's see who causes more problems...And I mean real problems like fights, shootings, etc. I realize there have been a few robberies at these clubs but that is not because of the effects of the drug on the user, but because of it's illegality and the crazy profits to be made of a this plant. And who can we blame for the crazy prices? The DEA of course...... It's time to tax and regulate and take the profits away from the gangsters and criminals and put it into schools and healthcare......
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Examiner Reader said:
This is soooooooo much BS. I know of perfectly healthy people that have gotten cards to get into the clubs. More than that I know people that buy from those people with the cards. So its the neighborhoods, generally the impacted SOMA area with more than our fair share that have to deal with the "dope fast food" clubs where we get noise, loitering, traffic, and resales right in front of our apartment. I loved the time that some kid doubleparked at the corner and sprinted down to pick up his medicine. Geeze it must of been doing him good. Oh my bad he was picking it up for his sick brother. Ok ok...this is San FRancisco but why to we need so many of them. How about just a deliver system like for the pizza guy, after all it is fast dope.
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"These lying politicians will say anything, even so far as to seek out the pothead looser votes. I hope the feds come in and seize everything, as they should. California is not it's own nation! The only thing this type of activity brings is more drug related crime,smuggling and more potheads." ...so, my 6 year old daughter can spell better than you. Before you insult people for their choice of medicine, you should learn to spell first. That just makes you look as stupid as you are
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Examiner Reader said:
When you close down safe-access centers our patients go onto the black market - funny as opposed to being ripped off by the dispensories. Newsom, the sanctuary city mayor, has a lot of nerve requesting a congressional hearing.
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Examiner Reader said:
I'm all for medical marijuana, but the way it's been implemented in San Francisco all but encourages individuals to set up shady businesses that the SFPD knows invites crime to neighborhoods who house the clubs/dispensaries. Maybe in addition to condemning the DEA's tactics, Daly and Newsom can show a little responsibility and create better oversight and reform of SF's pot clubs. With several locations that look like frat house lounges, the current situation is like a joke.
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Examiner Reader said:
These lying politicians will say anything, even so far as to seek out the pothead looser votes. I hope the feds come in and seize everything, as they should. California is not it's own nation! The only thing this type of activity brings is more drug related crime,smuggling and more potheads.
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Examiner Reader said:
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul also would change the country’s marijuana priorities if elected. John McCain would keep the drug war machine going and perpetuate the persecution of the sick and dying. Something to think about...
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Examiner Reader said:
Dear Chris, made any progress on the crime in District 6 yet? Thank you for your concern.
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