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MG Magazine Reports On Luke Scarmazzo: California’s Last Federal Medical Marijuana Prisoner

Cannabis Law Report

In 2006, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Scarmazzo’s Modesto, California, medical marijuana dispensary, California Healthcare Collective, and arrested him and his business partner, Ricardo Montes. He is thought to be the last remaining federal medical marijuana prisoner from California. It’s ridiculous.

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Cannabis and banking vets launch credit card for dispensaries

Cannabis Law Report

That leaves dispensaries managing and protecting massive sums of cash, and the stores cannot offer a modern retail payment system to the consumer. The company will issue and process credit cards that will work in dispensaries. SuperNet has a solution. You can spend it anywhere Supernet is accepted.”

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Harborside Inc. Announces Increased Interest in Haight-Ashbury Dispensary

Cannabis Law Report

FGW”), a company that has the conditional use approval necessary to operate a cannabis dispensary and related businesses located in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. This dispensary will be neighborhood-oriented, including the hiring of local staff, the selection of local products and the promotion of community safety.”.

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16 Dispensaries That Deliver Marijuana in California

The Herb Collective

That law is now in effect, and a number of dispensaries in the state are open to business for all people above the age of 21. These are sixteen of the best dispensaries that deliver marijuana in California. Harborside, Oakland In 2006, entrepreneur Steve DeAngelo founded the Harborside dispensary in Oakland, California.

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New Study Says. Not One California Dispensary Caught Selling to Minors

Cannabis Law Report

The perpetual myth that dispensaries are selling weed to minors refuses to die, but evidence shows this isn’t the case in California. Instead, adult-use dispensaries in the state are proving the system works by checking IDs as required by state law. 2006, Freisthler et al., MRR writes. Introduction. 2003, Toomey et al.,

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Metrc Grab Rhode Island Contract

Cannabis Law Report

As the only track-and-trace company to have successfully taken over a government contract from another vendor, Metrc will replace the State’s current partner and implement its robust track-and-trace platform to help facilitate the Rhode Island Medical Cannabis Program’s data collection and regulatory oversight.

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New Brunswick Ramping Up to Sell Cannabis Edibles

WeedAdvisor

However, setting up such a business is no simple task – as current dispensary owners throughout Canada will undoubtedly agree. She says helping people improve their quality of life is a personal mission, after losing her eight-year-old daughter to cancer in 2006”. Edibles Only Available Through Government Dispensaries.

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