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Riverside police raid pot dispensary
Riverside police raided a medical-marijuana dispensary Tuesday that was
filled with prepackaged pot stored in a 6-foot-high safe with humidity
control.
filled with prepackaged pot stored in a 6-foot-high safe with humidity
control.
By SONJA BJELLAND
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside police raided a medical-marijuana dispensary Tuesday that was
filled with prepackaged pot stored in a 6-foot-high safe with humidity
control.
The business also sold tea cakes, truffles and cookies with "proprietary
spices." Some had "double strength" stickers. All said "medical cannabis."
Riverside police officials said it was the first medical marijuana
dispensary found within the city limits.
Prop. 215, approved by the state's voters in 1996, decriminalized the use of
marijuana for medicinal purposes. But the sale and use of marijuana is
illegal under federal law.
Follow-up state legislation in 2003 allows for nonprofit farming
cooperatives and requires identification cards for patients using marijuana
for medical purposes.
This operation did not fit that model, according to police.
Sales for profit are not allowed under either state law, said county Deputy
District Attorney Mike Quesnel. Police did not arrest anyone at the site
Tuesday, but operators could face charges of possessing and selling
marijuana.
In January, the district attorney's office filed felony charges against
three men in connection with a Palm Desert dispensary.
Police watched the Riverside business and discovered it served 20 to 30
customers in an hour, said Lt. John Carpenter.
The store, at 7201 Arlington Ave., had a business license for unclassified
retail registered under ET Investment Corp. of Riverside. It operated as
California Caregivers Association -- Riverside or C.C.A.R. Paperwork
indicates the business tried to have customers designate the store as a
caregiver that then would be legally allowed to provide medical marijuana.
Clerks asked customers for written recommendations from doctors or
identification cards, said Steven Frasher, police spokesman. If a patron did
not have that, the store had a list of doctors prospective customers could
see.
A board inside the storefront operation listed the type of marijuana for
sale, including Trainwreck and Maui Wowie.
Display cases held spice bottles full of dried marijuana as well as
paraphernalia such as glass pipes and bongs.
Narcotics investigators counted 120 labeled and full pill bottles discovered
in one of the white coolers.
The office had a ventilation system, small marijuana plants under grow
lights and scales.
Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
http://www.press-enterprise.com/news/NEWS_rpot23.html
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside police raided a medical-marijuana dispensary Tuesday that was
filled with prepackaged pot stored in a 6-foot-high safe with humidity
control.
The business also sold tea cakes, truffles and cookies with "proprietary
spices." Some had "double strength" stickers. All said "medical cannabis."
Riverside police officials said it was the first medical marijuana
dispensary found within the city limits.
Prop. 215, approved by the state's voters in 1996, decriminalized the use of
marijuana for medicinal purposes. But the sale and use of marijuana is
illegal under federal law.
Follow-up state legislation in 2003 allows for nonprofit farming
cooperatives and requires identification cards for patients using marijuana
for medical purposes.
This operation did not fit that model, according to police.
Sales for profit are not allowed under either state law, said county Deputy
District Attorney Mike Quesnel. Police did not arrest anyone at the site
Tuesday, but operators could face charges of possessing and selling
marijuana.
In January, the district attorney's office filed felony charges against
three men in connection with a Palm Desert dispensary.
Police watched the Riverside business and discovered it served 20 to 30
customers in an hour, said Lt. John Carpenter.
The store, at 7201 Arlington Ave., had a business license for unclassified
retail registered under ET Investment Corp. of Riverside. It operated as
California Caregivers Association -- Riverside or C.C.A.R. Paperwork
indicates the business tried to have customers designate the store as a
caregiver that then would be legally allowed to provide medical marijuana.
Clerks asked customers for written recommendations from doctors or
identification cards, said Steven Frasher, police spokesman. If a patron did
not have that, the store had a list of doctors prospective customers could
see.
A board inside the storefront operation listed the type of marijuana for
sale, including Trainwreck and Maui Wowie.
Display cases held spice bottles full of dried marijuana as well as
paraphernalia such as glass pipes and bongs.
Narcotics investigators counted 120 labeled and full pill bottles discovered
in one of the white coolers.
The office had a ventilation system, small marijuana plants under grow
lights and scales.
Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
http://www.press-enterprise.com/news/NEWS_rpot23.html
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§LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!
DONT THE POLICE HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THEN RAID A CAREGIVERS CLINIC? THERE ARE KILLERS AND RAPEIST OUT THERE AND PEOPLE DOING ALOT OF WORST THING AND THEY HAVE TO RAID A PLACE THAT HELPS PEOPLE GET OUT OF PAIN. MM IS VERY HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE WHO SUFER WITH CHRONIC PAIN LIKE MYSELF AND IF IT WASNT FOR THESE CAREGIVER PEOPLE LIKE ME WOULD BE SCREWED AND IN PAIN. WE WOULD NOT BE GETTING THE QUALTY OF LIFE THAT WE GET WHEN WE HAVE CANNABIS FOR OUR PAIN. SO MANY CLINIC HAVE HAD TO SHUT DOWN AND IT IS SO UNFAIR BECAUSE NOW US SICK PEOPLE HAVE TO DRIVE REALLY FAR TO GET OUR MED'S. I WISH THE POLICE WOULD WORRY ABOUT MORE INPORTANT THINGS AND DO THERE JOB TO GET RAPIEST, MURDERERS, CHILD MOLSTERS OFF THE STREET THEN RAIDING A CLINIC WHO HELPS PEOPLE WHO ARE IN PAIN!
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