Craig X Rubin Offers 1/8 Of Free Marijuana To Patients Who Speak At Los Angeles City
Meeting 8/6/09


by Brett Stone
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmjnews/

August 4, 2009


Los Angeles activist and former mayoral candidate Craig X. Rubin
announced today that "Beverly Hills Green Cross" medical marijuana
collective is giving a free eighth of an ounce of their "Beverly Hills
Haze" ($60.00 value) to each of the first 500 medical marijuana patients
who attend this Thursday's Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM)
Committee meetng and fill out a speaker card to speak for one minute on
one or more of the 20 hardship exemption hearings scheduled that day and
speak on the item.

"We're taking a page out of 60's activism" said Craig this afternoon,
"we need to clog the room with speakers, make it take an hour or two for
each hearing instead of the 8-10 hearings an hour they have been doing."

It should be noted that even though the hearings have not been held yet
all the items scheduled to be heard on Thursday 8/7 are already penciled
in for final disposition in front of the full city council on September
1, 2009 as if their destiny has already been predetermined.

Perhaps this Thursday will see fireworks at the PLUM committee hearing.

"Medical marijuana patients need to participate in activism and not just
capitalism" added Craig Rubin.

Craig will be on KABC radio in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning at 9:00
AM on the Doug McIntyre show discussing the cities war on post
ICO-providers of medical marijuana and also talking about his own
upcoming hardship exemption hearing this Thursday in front of the PLUM
committee.

You can listen to him live via the web at http://www.kabc.com/

I will have a full press release from Craig tomorrow.


Peace

brett



The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee has
scheduled 20 hardship application hearings for a special meeting on
Thursday August 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

The meeting will be at Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N Spring Street, Room
350.

The committee will also consider another 19 applications that have
already been withdrawn from the process.

While there is no video of the hearing you can listen live on the
internet at
http://lacity.org/lacity/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/CouncilCommitteeMeetings/index.htm
or via telephone: COUNCILPHONE, A dial-up system which allows the public
to listen to live coverage of the Los Angeles City Public Meetings from any
phone. The numbers may be used from any location, not just in Los
Angeles. Dial up and listen in. Use any of these 4 numbers- (213) 621-CITY,
(310) 547-CITY, (310) 471-CITY or (818) 904-9450.


Here is a list of the 20 collectives scheduled for hardship hearings on
August 6, 2009 as well as a list of the 19 withdrawn applications that
the committee may visit.


Natura Flora located at 3433 Farmdale Avenue

Craig Rubin located at 2370 Robertson Boulevard

Pico Collective located at 1355 Genesee Avenue

Pain Releaf located at 1359 Redondo Boulevard

Joshua Broussard (Heather Broussard, Representative) located at 8540
Venice Boulevard.

Herbal Love Cooperative located at 748 South San Pedro

Michael Zullo located at 4444 East Huntington Drive South

Herbal Medicine for You, Inc. located at 2637 Whittier Boulevard

ABC Caregivers, Inc. located at 844 Colorado Boulevard #106

Downtown Discount Caregivers, Inc. located at 111 East Ninth Street

Colorado Quality Pain Relief, Inc. located at 1916 Colorado Boulevard

CanCare Collective CA04 located at 5679 York Boulevard

So Cal Collective, Inc. located at 7107 North Figueroa Street, Suite D

PPP Enterprises, Inc. (dba Figueroa Organic Healing Center) located at
5501 North Figueroa Street

Herbs R US Collective, Inc. located at 1844 Cypress Avenue #105

Discount Relief Collective located at 6309 Van Nuys Boulevard #110

Zadock Marshall (Truman Anderson Weatherly, Representative) located at
7135 North Kester Avenue

Hoonts Inc. (dba Progressive Options) located at 14545 Friar Street #202

SFVBAA located at 6315 Van Nuys Boulevard #B3

Neighborhood Caregivers located at 6315 Van Nuys Boulevard

The following 19 Council files may be considered for receive and file,
inasmuch as the applicants have requested the withdrawal of the
applications for hardship exemption from the Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Interim
Control Ordinance (No. 179027):

05-0872-S104
CD 3
a. Application filed by Mark Dillon for the dispensary located at 20929
Ventura Boulevard, Suite 47-323.

05-0872-S105
CD 5
b. Application filed by Mark Dillon for the dispensary located at 13636
Ventura Boulevard, Suite 164.

05-0872-S108
CD 3
c. Application filed by Mark Dillon for the dispensary located 22425
Ventura
Boulevard #276.

05-0872-S109
CD 3
d. Application filed by Mark Dillon for the dispensary located at 22647
Ventura Boulevard #161.

05-0872-S110
CD 5
e. Application filed by Mark Dillon for the dispensary located at 14431
Ventura Boulevard, Suite #185.

05-0872-S167
CD 7
f. Application filed by Harutun Adijikian, Representative, for the
Sylmar
Holistic Collective located at 12067 Foothill Boulevard #A.

05-0872-S241
CD 12
g. Application filed by Ronald Gamm, Representative, for the Roscoe
Compassionate Collective located at 20943 Roscoe Boulevard.

05-0872-S438
CD 4
h. Application filed by Vardan Paronyan, Representative, for the
Discount
Patient Access Center, Inc. located at 4906 Melrose Avenue.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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05-0872-S444
CD 8
i. Application filed by Armond Fataei, Representative, for the Organic
Healing Center, Inc. located at 3734 West Slauson Avenue.

05-0872-S445
CD 5
j. Application filed by Elena Steers, Representative, for Melrose
Quality
Pain Relief/ Natural Solutions Patient Care located at 17024 Ventura
Boulevard.

05-0872-S446
CD 5
k. Application filed by Mary Beth Whitehouse, Representative, for the
Innovative Health Care Collective, Inc. located at 3500 Overland Avenue
#230.

05-0872-S449
CD 8
l. Application filed by Vannadeth Plong, Representative, for the
Naturally
Divine Wellness Center, Inc. located at 4369 Van Ness Avenue.

05-0872-S450
CD 4
m. Application filed by Jake Stone, Representative, for the Stone and
Stone
Collective, Inc. located at 1723 Hillhurst Avenue.

05-0872-S467
CD 5
n. Application filed by Mary Beth Whitehouse, Representative, for the
Innovative Health Care Collective, Inc. located at 1151 South Robertson
Boulevard.

05-0872-S513
CD 13
o. Application filed by Jake Stone, Representative, for the Stone and
Stone
Collective, Inc. located at 1570 North Gower Street.

05-0872-S596
CD 13
p. Application filed by Mary Beth Whitehouse, Representative, for the
Innovative Health Care Collective, Inc. located at 3515 Sunset
Boulevard.

05-0872-S623
CD 7
q. Application filed by Leo Najarian, Representative, for the Valley
Patient
Access Center, Inc. located at 13443 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite A.
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05-0872-S624
CD 13
r. Application filed by Howard Hyman, Representative, for the Natural
Choice
Healing Center, Inc. located at 2811 West Sunset Boulevard.

05-0872-S718
CD 14
s. Application filed by Carlos Guarro, Representative, for Colorado
Quality
Pain Relief, Inc. located at 1615 Colorado Boulevard.