HOME

 

PHYSICIANS

 

DISPENSARIES

 

LEGAL STUFF

 

NEWS & BLOGS

 

MISSION STATEMENT

 

CANNABIS FACTS

 

CANNABIS STRAINS

 

CANNABIS USES

 

CHATROOM

 

FORUM

 

CONTACT US

Welcome to the 420 Highway - An Online Road Map for California Medical Marijuana / Medical Cannabis Patients
WELCOME TO THE 420 HIGHWAY
CA MMJ Patients' Online Road Map for Medical Marijuana
NEWS & BLOGS

WARRANTONECC.JPGKern County Sheriff Department and DEA agents served a search warrant at Green Cross Compassionate Care Givers medical marijuana cooperative Wednesday afternoon at Bernard and Inyo streets in east Bakersfield.

Just a week or so after word spread that local marijuana dispensaries are starting to reopen in Bakersfield the local sheriff's office has raided one and arrested three men.

Kern County deputies and officials with the DEA served a search warrant Wednesday at the Green Cross Compassionate Co-Op at 309 Bernard Street in east Bakersfield.

They arrested three men, Albert Juarez, 40; Adam Romero Valenzuela, 27; and Brandon Neal Luck, 24. All three were booked on charges of selling and possessing marijuana as well as conspiracy.

Deputies said they also found two pounds of "high grade" marijuana and two loaded handguns.

Bakersfield once had at least a half dozen licensed medical marijuana dispensaries but they all closed in 2007 after sheriff's raids.

Under new state attorney general guidelines, only nonprofit marijuana collectives or cooperatives -- not for-profit dispensaries -- are allowed to operate under state law.

In late April, Doug McAfee of the Bakersfield chapter of NORML, a pro-legalization group, said he knew of at least three to five groups planning to restart their operations as collectives and cooperatives.

The full article is available here:
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x443329047/Deputies-raid-marijuana-co-op-and-arrest-three 


From NORML.ORG:

NORML Breaking News: California Assemblyman Introduces Legislation To Tax And Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol

Dear Friend,

Speaking at a landmark press conference today, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) introduced comprehensive legislation to tax and regulate the commercial production and sale of cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol.

"With the state in the midst of an historic economic crisis, the move towards regulating and taxing marijuana is simply common sense. This legislation would generate much needed revenue for the state, restrict access to only those over 21, end the environmental damage to our public lands from illicit crops, and improve public safety by redirecting law enforcement efforts to more serious crimes", Assemblyman Ammiano said. "California has the opportunity to be the first state in the nation to enact a smart, responsible public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana."

The proposal is the first marijuana legalization bill ever introduced in California.

"It's time for California taxpayers to stop wasting money trying to enforce marijuana prohibition, and to realize the tax benefits from a legal, regulated market instead," said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a sponsor of the bill.

As introduced, Ammiano's measure would allow for the licensed production and sale of cannabis to consumers age 21 and over. Licensed cultivators would pay an excise tax of $50 per ounce of cannabis. In addition, the proposal would impose a sales tax on commercial sales. (Ammiano's proposal would not affect the state's medical marijuana law, allowing patients and caregivers to grow their own medicine.)

If enacted, the measure would raise over $1 billion per year in state revenue, according to an economic analysis by California NORML, available online here: http://www.canorml.org/background/CA_legalization2.html

Ammiano's bill comes at a time of growing public support for legalizing marijuana. A recent Zogby poll reported that nearly six in ten west coast voters support taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol. Faced with a $40 billion budget deficit, other public officials have joined in endorsing Ammiano's bill, including San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessy and Betty Yee, a member of the State Board of Equalization, which oversees collection of sales taxes.

Currently, tens of millions of dollars are paid annually in state and local taxes by licensed distributors of medical marijuana. However, these sales only represent a fraction of the overall statewide marijuana market. "The millions of dollars raised each on the sales of medicinal cannabis is only the tip of the iceberg," Gieringer said. "Kudos to Assemblyman Ammiano for proposing a path-breaking bill that would benefit our economy, safety and freedom by making marijuana a winning proposition for California."

Sincerely,
The NORML Team


Medical marijuana has become a growth industry in Colorado

By Joel Warner

Published on February 04, 2009 at 10:36am

Behind a locked, unmarked door in a Colorado Springs strip mall, the state's largest marijuana dispensary is open for business.

The operation's aromatic showroom is packed floor to ceiling with pot and anything and everything related to it. "Welcome to Cannabis Therapeutics. Intended for prescribed medical use only!" announces a large sign on the wall.

Glass cases display Baggie upon Baggie of pot — 35 varieties in all. Those looking for cheap medicine can go for the $250-an-ounce, bargain-basement Holland's Hope or upgrade to $300-an-ounce Thunderstruck or $400-an-ounce Purple Haze. Big spenders can opt for top-shelf meds such as a crop of Chocolate Chunk priced at $500 an ounce. It's all available to buy loose or ready to smoke in pre-rolled blunts. And, for green thumbs, cloned marijuana seedlings sit in a bubbling tray of water, waiting for the right buyer.

Today an older woman is here buying some Silver Skunk to help ease lingering pain from a shattered right femur she suffered in a car accident, as well as recurring migraines and fibromyalgia. "I don't like marijuana, but I have no choice," she says as she pays part of her $136 bill in cash and puts the rest on a debit card.

A mother in a track suit leaves her teenage daughter pouting in the lobby while she shops; a younger fellow in baggy jeans and a hoodie samples some Mexican True Blue.

A staffer is ready to help newbies who've just coughed up their $25 annual membership fee establish what mixture of sativa and indica, the two core strains of medical marijuana, is appropriate for their particular illness. For multiple sclerosis, it's best to go with a cross breed that's at least 65 percent indica, known for its relaxing physical high. Sufferers of debilitating stress, on the other hand, typically opt for sativa, which provides more of a mental high.

To administer the medicine, there is a smorgasbord of colorful glass pipes and bongs available, courtesy of a Manitou Springs glass blower. For those who don't want to smoke their determined dosage, there are vaporizers to help clients inhale it, as well as THC pills, THC oils, THC butter, THC fudge, ice cream, bubble gum, hot chocolate mix, cheese, fountain drinks, roll-on pain relievers and bubble bath. Stashed away in a cabinet are jars filled with marijuana marinating in Don Julio and Cazadores tequila.

"It's not about getting high," says Michael Lee, the owner of Cannabis Therapeutics. "It's about getting medicated." Lee founded the operation three years ago under the auspices of Colorado's Amendment 20. The constitutional amendment — approved by voters in 2000 — allows people with cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, muscle spasms, severe pain, severe nausea and other medical conditions to use marijuana.

With a recommendation from a licensed Colorado doctor, patients can obtain a state-issued Medical Marijuana Registry identification card to show to police — though it does nothing to change the fact that the federal government still considers marijuana illegal. Patients may cultivate their own medicine or designate a primary caregiver to provide it for them. Lee and his colleagues at Cannabis Therapeutics, for example, are designated caregivers to more than 600 patients around the state.

This arrangement has proved lucrative: Lee, 44, says his dispensary earns about $105,000 a month, $75,000 of which he says goes back out the door for more monthly product. This onetime owner of a Colorado Springs flooring company insists, however, that his current occupation is more than a business.

"I clinically died. I can't lie. I won't lie," he declares, gesturing to a faded news clipping on the wall. It describes a car crash years ago in Santa Barbara, California, in which a young passenger was killed, and notes that "the driver, Michael Lee, 19, suffered head and internal injuries, and his condition is listed as critical."

After being clinically dead for 41 minutes and spending eleven days in a coma, he turned to marijuana for healing. Years later, lingering pain and muscle spasms led Lee, who is also a member of local mega-churches New Life and Radiant, to become one of Colorado's first certified medical marijuana patients, and he soon found himself helping other people who used marijuana for pain and illness. Now there's no more established operation around for getting medicated.

Lee has signed contracts with seven Colorado growers — all legal under Amendment 20, he promises, because they're registered caregivers for some of his patients. Each grower provides him with roughly a pound and a half of dried marijuana per month. Cannabis Therapeutics is also insured, says Lee, who convinced his insurance agency to design a dispensary policy just for him.

He also has a good relationship with the Colorado Springs police, having invited them in for a tour in 2006 after the cops caught wind of the operation.

"It was very educational," says Lieutenant Catherine Buckley of the visit. "It was not something the officers see on a daily basis."

When the Environmental Protection Agency poked around in response to a complaint about alleged chemical dumping, they couldn't find a single health or safety violation. All in all, says Lee, who goes by the nickname "the Herbologist" on websites like www.rollitup.org and www.weedtracker.com, everything here is square with Amendment 20. After all, his lawyer, Warren Edson, co-authored the law.

That leaves Lee in the center of a booming state industry. The number of patients who've received a medical marijuana ID card recently crested 5,000, twice what it was a year ago. And while it's hard to determine the absolute number of active dispensaries, there are at least two dozen, along with clinics dedicated to helping people obtain marijuana ID cards, lawyers and tax attorneys hanging shingles as authorities in pot law, even an ad hoc university churning out potential new dispensary owners and employees.

"In the last year, it is my understanding that the number of dispensaries in Colorado has grown from two to about thirty," says Keith Stroup, founder of the national pot lobbying group NORML. "Without question, there are more medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado than in any state other than California."

But the cottage industry is fraught with problems. Many doctors refuse to recommend marijuana, in part because possessing and smoking pot is still a federal offense, while a bad few could be exploiting the medical marijuana laws for financial gain. As an unregulated and gray-area industry, there are also inconsistent practices, high prices, oversized egos, safety concerns and possible black-market involvement — not to mention disregard, if not outright hostility, from law enforcement and city officials.

A major change could be on the way. On March 18, the Colorado Board of Health — the advisory board for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment — will consider new medical marijuana regulations.

Along with expanding Medical Marijuana Registry application requirements, the proposal would require caregivers to offer additional services to their patients besides providing them with pot. Most significant would be the reinstatement of a five-patient-per-caregiver limit the state health board put in place after Amendment 20's passage, a restriction that deterred the growth of Colorado dispensaries until it was overturned in Denver District Court in 2007.

The new rules "could have an impact on the large-scale operations," says Ron Hyman, registrar of vital statistics for the CDPHE. "I would say it probably will."

The changes could make business more difficult for Lee — but by that point, he may have already moved on. When an anonymous caller threatened to kidnap his young son several months ago, it was one frustration too many. Lee moved his family, got a German shepherd to guard his son and started thinking about selling his dispensary.

"I'm done. I don't care anymore. I've seen a dark side to this," fumes Lee. "I clinically died. I demand life to be fair!" His face turns crimson and his temper bubbles to the surface. Exasperated, he decides to let off some steam. Excusing himself for a minute, he gestures to an employee to fetch him his foot-long Technicolor pipe.

"I'm gonna go medicate."


For a bunch of supposedly lazy stoners, Colorado's marijuana activists are a committed bunch. At 9 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hundreds of people gathered at Regis University in northwest Denver for the Colorado Marijuana Reform Seminar and Activist Boot Camp.

"I think this speaks volumes about our movement," Brian Vicente, executive director of the drug-policy reform organization Sensible Colorado, told the group.

There were nicely dressed middle-aged folks, older couples in knitted sweaters and younger guys wearing backpacks decorated with Grateful Dead patches. A full day of activities lay ahead: sessions on lobbying strategies and media relations, plus panels featuring Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt, Colorado State Representative Paul Weissmann and Colorado ACLU Legal Director Mark Silverstein. Lunch would feature sandwiches donated by Cheba Hut, a restaurant chain offering its signature "'Toasted' Subs" in Boulder and Fort Collins.

And just so everybody knows, Vicente reminded the group, "This is a non-smoking workshop. We are here to change the laws, not break the laws."

Vicente and his colleagues have big plans for Colorado, building on years of victories. In 2005, Denver became one of the first cities in the country to have its voters "decriminalize" marijuana by making it legal for people over 21 to possess up to an ounce of it. Two years later, the city's voters agreed that law enforcement should make adult marijuana possession its lowest priority. Part of the plan today is to strategize about ways to pass similar initiatives in other Colorado communities. While an attempt to pass a state law decriminalizing up to an ounce of marijuana failed in 2006, activists here believe it's only a matter of time before such legislation passes.

"This will be the nail in the coffin of the drug war," Vicente continued. "Colorado will be seen as the place that ended the government's ninety-year prohibition of marijuana."

It all started with Amendment 20. The law allows a person suffering from certain illnesses or that individual's caregiver to possess up to two ounces of marijuana or six marijuana plants, but it doesn't specify much about the relationship between patients and caregivers. To help fill in the holes, in 2004 the CDPHE developed a five-patient maximum for caregivers, says Hyman. "We were trying to determine how many patients a caregiver could provide for that would be significant and reasonable," he explains.

But when Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves suspended that limit in 2007 because it lacked public input, caregivers were allowed to take on as many patients — and their marijuana quotients — as they liked, even make a business out of it.

That, it turns out, was part of the plan all along for Amendment 20, the only medical marijuana law in the nation that's a constitutional amendment.

"The plan was to write it into our constitution so it couldn't be tweaked," says Edson, the law's co-author. "There is a reason there are no limits to the number of people you can be a caregiver for. There is a reason a caregiver isn't specifically designated as a doctor or a nurse. It is left open to a broad range of individuals."

For one thing, if doctors were responsible for actually providing patients with marijuana, the federal government might retaliate by revoking their Drug Enforcement Administration-issued licenses, which allow them to prescribe narcotics.

Furthermore, Edson had noticed the inklings of a dispensary industry developing in California, whose open-ended 1996 medical marijuana law led to an industry there that now boasts hundreds of such businesses. He decided that an entrepreneurial take on medical marijuana would encourage product diversity, innovative practices and competitive prices, all to the benefit of patients.

"I like to see some of these places where a patient has some options," he says. "Where it's not just one guy in his basement with one type of medicine."

So while other states included impediments to dispensaries in their medical marijuana laws or eventually had lawmakers implement such restrictions, in Colorado the free-market approach was allowed to flourish.

The results were evident at the activist boot camp. In a side room, staffers in vendor booths handed out brochures and business cards for dispensary operations, not to mention marijuana-friendly medical clinics and drug-law-savvy lawyers.

Denver real-estate broker Michael Griffin says he's recently picked up three clients, all looking to open 1,500- to 3,000-square-foot dispensaries in the area: "People are noticing it as a viable business. Once it's legal, I think it's no different than a liquor store."

Michelle LaMay has also found a niche. Last fall, the longtime Denver activist launched "Cannabis University," a day-long, $250 program that gives students a run-down on marijuana laws and growing practices. It's for patients wanting to produce their own medicine, and a mini-MBA for those wishing to break into the business.

"I'm hoping the vast number of caregivers and dispensaries will have to hire some people. And maybe they will hire our students," she says.

While they go by different names, dispensaries or caregiver cooperatives operate under roughly the same model. Patients who wish to buy pot must designate that operation as their primary caregiver on their medical marijuana license by filling out a state health department application. Since the law doesn't say where the pot has to come from, dispensaries can theoretically pick it up anywhere: indoor grow rooms overseen by a dispensary's owner or employees; out-of-sight backyard gardens tended by patients; middlemen hawking stuff from large, clandestine outfits squirreled away in the mountains or in networks of fluorescent-lit basements.

According to Amendment 20, the marijuana is legal as soon as it gets into a patient or caregiver's hands, so no need to ask too much about its provenance.

Many dispensaries operate quietly, relying on word of mouth, while a few advertise openly. If Edson's predictions are correct, local dispensary owners could eventually be servicing a statewide client base of 50,000 registered patients.

"It's a full-on gold rush," says Paul Saurini, producer of Marijuana Radio, a weekly pot-themed radio podcast recorded in a slick studio in the Santa Fe Arts District and broadcast in many a dispensary. "People are rushing here to make a buck. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but I think it's a fascinating moment for the movement."


To get a Colorado Medical Marijuana ID card, Colorado residents first need a doctor who will recommend them for the confidential state registry. And to get that recommendation, many patients turn to the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation in Wheat Ridge. Of the 5,000 people on the registry, about 2,700 relied on its services.

One of those is Sandra, who's been on the registry since 2005, but who, like all medical marijuana patients, has to go through the state's annual renewal process. That means another visit to the foundation's 1,500-square-foot, third-floor office in a professional building on Wadsworth Boulevard.

Sandra, her pigtails streaked with gray, sits in a solemn, bare-walled waiting room surrounded by people filling out paperwork or watching a marijuana video on TV. It's a scene that's playing out in similar waiting rooms across the country: the nonprofit, known as the THC Foundation, also has clinics in medical marijuana-friendly states like Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, California, Nevada and Michigan.

Eventually, Sandra is called into the office of Eric Eisenbud, a lanky Colorado ophthalmologist. Before Eisenbud has a chance to review Sandra's history — her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 1995, her MS-related leg spasms that qualify her for medical marijuana, and the recent discovery that she has degenerative disc disease in her spine — Sandra blurts out, "Thank you for being here for us." She's well aware how hard it is to find a doctor who will recommend patients for the registry. Before she found the THC Foundation in 2006, she asked her primary care physician to recommend her for medical marijuana — and says the doctor nearly threw her out.

Eisenbud's heard hard-luck stories like this before. "My feeling is that a large number of doctors in Colorado are open-minded, but they've been misinformed," he says later. Much of the confusion and apprehension in the medical community stems from the fact that after Amendment 20 passed, then-attorney general Ken Salazar warned doctors that they could face federal charges if they participated in the program. It doesn't help that the Colorado Medical Society hasn't taken a stance and that the American Medical Association has said it won't recognize the medical use of marijuana without further studies. (Other prominent medical groups, such as the American College of Physicians and the British Medical Association, have endorsed the idea of medical marijuana.)

Many doctors play it safe by not dabbling in marijuana at all. At Denver Health Medical Center, physicians are allowed to write letters to help patients get registered, says hospital spokeswoman Dee Martinez. But patient Eric Easter counters that notion, saying his doctors refused to recommend him for the state registry: "They said they don't do this even if you were dying of AIDS."

"That's where we come in," says Paul Stanford, the Portland-based founder of the THC Foundation. "When we first moved into Colorado, in 2006, there were only 700 medical marijuana cards statewide." Now, three years later, the Wheat Ridge clinic sees about seventy new patients a week, says Scott Carr, the foundation's regional manager in Colorado. Carr also believes the foundation has helped the medical community warm up to medical marijuana. According to the state, more than 500 doctors have now signed for patients here, and some insurance carriers cover THC Foundation visits. "I've had HMO nurses call and ask what the best vaporizer is for patients to buy," says Carr. The clinic even has a competitor — an operation called CannaMed that opened in Denver offering similar services. CannaMed representatives did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment.

But the THC Foundation also has at least one critic: its former doctor on duty, Shawn Elke Glazer. "They're all about making as much money as possible until marijuana gets legalized," says Glazer, a former Libertarian candidate for state representative who now runs the Colorado Green Cross medical clinic in Wheat Ridge.

She believes the THC Foundation signs up as many people as possible so they'll fork over the $200 visit fee, whether they warrant medical marijuana or not. The fact that a marijuana dispensary now operates in the same building as the foundation raises red flags as well, since it could put the clinic in violation of a 2003 Supreme Court ruling saying that doctors can't assist patients in obtaining marijuana.

Stanford calls that nonsense, but Glazer isn't the only one who has questioned the foundation's motives. In 2005, the Oregon justice department began looking into the Portland-based nonprofit for potential IRS violations, such as a $100,000 reimbursement it made to Stanford. "It's an ongoing thing. It has caused a little extra scrutiny, but it hasn't caused any problems whatsoever," Stanford says.

Carr notes that the Wheat Ridge clinic only works with patients who have medical records proving they qualify for the state law and turns away those who don't. He also adamantly denies association with any dispensary, including the one that operates in the same building. The owners of that business, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, concur that there's no connection.

Sandra has no complaints about the THC Foundation, and she'll follow it when it relocates to bigger digs near Speer Boulevard and I-25. Yes, the cost of the visit on top of the $90 annual state registration fee isn't easy on her budget, especially since she spends about $300 a month on marijuana. Still, she's grateful for its existence: "Thank goodness the service is here and it's helping me. This place is safe."

In the past, she didn't feel so safe obtaining her medicine. In 2005, before the THC Foundation opened, she went to a Loveland doctor who charged her more than $400 for the service. Then, to get marijuana, she relied on an operation run out of a former Denver church called the Colorado Compassion Club. The club operated at night and had armed guards at the doors, Sandra says. "There were all these people, and I didn't feel safe at all. It was like being in a bread line."

After that, Sandra was referred to Ken Gorman, a well-known Denver pot activist and one-time write-in candidate for governor.

"I don't have my medical certification up to date," she remembers telling Gorman when she reached him by phone. "Are you sick?" he replied. "That's all I need to know."

"Here was someone I'd never met, and he was so kind to me," says Sandra, who decided to make him her caregiver. She never got a chance to follow through. That weekend, on February 17, 2007, Gorman was shot and killed in his home.


Gorman's death, which is still unsolved, sent shockwaves through the medical marijuana community. It also created a vacuum that permanently changed the industry in Colorado.

Today there are storefront operations like Cannabis Medical, the Healing Center, North Reasonable Access Denver, Denver Patients Caregivers Cooperative and the Kind Room, and delivery services like Confidential Caregivers Unlimited and the Organic Medicine Club. Among them are settings to suit every taste, from dorm-room-like operations with mismatched thrift-store furniture and mega-sized posters of killer kind bud to dentist-office-like venues complete with cushy couches and bubbling aquariums.

Because state law doesn't explicitly sanction dispensaries, the businesses try to protect themselves by making sure that everyone involved is either a patient or a caregiver. "Most of their employees are patients themselves and are listed caregivers for some of these people," Edson says. "And most of the dispensary owners are listed as caregivers for some of the people. But the equivalent of a pharmacy just doesn't exist under the amendment." That's why dispensary owners typically consult with a cadre of lawyers, squirrel away documentation listing their patients and are reluctant to talk to the press.

"We hate to be this evasive," says Daniel Tsirlin, co-owner of Alternative Medicine of Southeast Denver, a newly opened dispensary. "Why not let people know? On the other hand, you don't want to be the first to do anything. Be the second."

That's a good approach, judging by the comments of Jeff Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Rocky Mountain field division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

"We are investigating some dispensaries throughout this region," Sweetin says, without giving specifics. "The DEA investigates large, well-organized, well-funded organizations. Some of these dispensaries rise to that level." Sweetin is concerned that elements of the medical marijuana scene are tied up with organized crime, in part because Amendment 20 doesn't include rules about where dispensaries can buy their pot.

Early last year, authorities busted a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring involving dozens of indoor grow operations in the north metro region — and Sweetin believes there's a connection to the medical marijuana scene. "It's the largest, most organized indoor grow operation I have ever seen," he says. "I don't believe that's coincidence. I believe they purposely moved that operation to Colorado."

For the most part, however, he says the dispensaries are the problem of local and state agencies — and so far, no one seems to know exactly what to do about them.

Police officers are frustrated by trying to differentiate between illegal drug users and state-certified patients and caregivers, says Captain William Nagle of Denver's Vice and Drug Control Bureau, especially since the only time state health employees can verify certifications is during weekday business hours — not the most conducive time for drug cops. When mistaken raids have occurred, judges have sometimes demanded that law enforcement return the confiscated marijuana and paraphernalia — though police say that by doing so, they could be breaking federal law themselves.

Dispensary owners have grievances, too. While they operate without problem in Denver, other cities haven't been as welcoming. Former Aurora dispensary owner John Chipman says he was hardly up and running before he was run out of town because a city ordinance there didn't allow businesses to operate in violation of federal law. "They said they don't have pit bulls, they don't have massage parlors and they don't want any dispensaries," he says.

Others have problems with crime. Last November, Fort Collins dispensary owner James Masters told reporters that his operation had been burglarized or vandalized nine times in a month. While Masters couldn't be reached for comment, several sources claim these crimes were part of a rash of medical marijuana robberies — including, according to Carr, an attempted break-in at the THC Foundation.

Patients have their own complaints, grumbling that the current business climate is filled with grandstanding and ego clashes, slapdash practices and exorbitant prices. There's no easy way for them to shop around to find better options, however, since they're required to designate only one caregiver.

Officials, law enforcement, caregivers and patients can agree on one thing: The industry should be regulated. They say they'd like to see consistent health standards and better communication between police, government agencies and medical marijuana operations, not to mention dispensary-specific rules and licenses. But since Amendment 20 is written into the Constitution, there's no easy way to tweak the law without a vote of the people, not to mention courting antagonism from either the state's growing medical marijuana community or the federal government.

"The reason you don't have clear and positive regulatory enforcement is that a lot of entities are afraid to piss off the feds by setting up any kind of regulatory environment," says Matthew Kumin, a San Francisco attorney who consults for numerous California dispensaries. "You have something that should be happening more but isn't because of fear."


Michael Lee runs his soil-dusted hands under the faucet at Cannabis Therapeutics. He's spent the morning planting new strains of marijuana seedlings in a grow room, preparing for his next big endeavor. He just got a call finalizing his purchase of $20,000 worth of dirt that he'll use to fill a 30-foot-by-97-foot plot of land he's obtained at an undisclosed spot along the Front Range. Eventually, he says, he'll ask United States Department of Agriculture officials to inspect the site, since his plan is to grow certified organic marijuana.

That way, even if he does sell Cannabis Therapeutics, he'll still be involved with producing medicine for it and other dispensaries. He'll also continue to operate Genovations Laboratories, the research-and-development company for marijuana-infused products that he runs out of a secure warehouse space near Cannabis Therapeutics. There, thanks to an expensive extraction machine and a full-scale chemistry lab, he's pulling THC out of plants and inserting it into tinctures, foods, maybe someday into self-replicating yeast. "I can medicate your hot dogs," he says. "I can medicate your hamburgers."

And while Lee may shift his business focus away from his dispensary, he and other owners say the proposed new regulations won't go through without a fight.

"We're probably going to rent buses. We are going to try to get 1,000 patients there," says Edson of the March 18 Colorado Board of Health hearing. "I've been dealing with these [medical marijuana] folks for ten-plus years. I don't think the attorney general's office and the health department appreciates what is about to happen."

The health department's Hyman understands that the meeting will be "energetic." The point, he says, is to include as many people as possible in the process, which is what Judge Naves said the department didn't do when he struck down the five-person-per caregiver rule in 2007.

Lee believes it will take another vote to make changes to Amendment 20, and despite his talk of selling Cannabis Therapeutics, he has many more plans. A few doors down from the dispensary, he's opened a patient activity resource center, where, amid a pool table, a massage chair and a cappuccino machine, patients meet with caregivers and receive alternative treatments for their conditions.

"It can't just be about weed," he says. "You're going to see more places like this once the bar is set, because the state will say places like this can stay open while others have to close."

And he has even bigger dreams for the day marijuana becomes legal for everyone: A gentlemen's club, ready from day one, with prices starting at $500 an ounce. After all, he says with a grin as he reaches for his bowl, "Why shouldn't I be a household name?"

 


1/27/07
The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) delayed consideration of a draft ordinance that would regulate medical cannabis collectives today after hearing strong, and sometimes emotional, opposition from the public. The City Attorney posted a revised version of the controversial ordinance on the city’s web page last night, just hours before the committee was to hear testimony. The latest draft of the ordinance bans edible preparations and concentrates of cannabis outright, requires patients who join collectives or grow medicine to register with the City Clerk’s office, and requires that hundreds of existing collectives in the city close until they are in compliance with the proposed regulations.
 
Chairman Reyes will convene a first of its kind meeting of stakeholders at his office in one week to discuss the ordinance. Then, the City Attorney will have 30 days to return comments or a new draft ordinance to the committee.
 
ASA regards the ordinance as unworkable, because it is based on the faulty assumption that storefront facilities maintained by patients’ collectives are unlawful and can not be regulated. The City Attorney’s opinion is in direct conflict with California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s guidelines for medical cannabis published in August of 2008, which state, “It is the opinion of this Office that a properly organized and operated collective or cooperative that dispenses medical marijuana through a storefront may be lawful under California law.”
 
Dozens of cities and counties in California have already adopted regulations for storefront collectives and cooperatives, including Los Angeles County and the City of West Hollywood. Research and experience shows that sensible regulations reduce crime and complaints. Patients and advocates have rallied behind Los Angeles City Council Member Dennis Zine’s efforts to regulate the facilities.
 
The Los Angeles City Attorney has not kept pace with evolving medical cannabis law. More importantly, he does not wish to legitimize medical cannabis by regulating the facilities maintained by legal collectives. This represents a deep-seated opposition that is all too common among our elected officials. We can not let our optimism about likely progress in Washington, DC, lull us into a false sense of security on the local level. Medical cannabis opponents at the local level are still looking to roll back patients’ rights. We must stay vigilant to be sure they do not.
 
Join us at the next LA-ASA meeting at 1:00 PM on February 21 to find out how you can help fight for better regulations in Los Angeles. The meeting is at the Patient ID Center located at 470 S. San Vicente Blvd. in Los Angeles.

__________________
Don Duncan
California Director
Americans for Safe Access
http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan 27 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws, said President Barack Obama January 21, 2004. This quote comes from a video being passed via YouTube.com We need to rethink how we are doing the Drug War. Currently we are not doing a good job. Out of the wide group of candidates running for public office in California, one particular candidate - Craig X Rubin - stands out from the field because he claims legalizing marijuana will create jobs.

Craig X RubinBy all accounts this man should be behind bars as the government spent millions of dollars convicting and sentencing him to nearly five years in jail for marijuana possession and distribution, but he has yet to serve a day in our penitentiary system. Instead after losing his business, his employees, his house, his car and his pride the man of God is today running for mayor of Los Angeles.

When you hear the story of this pastor who opened a Temple on Hollywood Boulevard to minister to the lost and provide medical marijuana to the sick the question has to be, "What is going on with the Justice System?"

The Federal Department of Justice has been coming under fire for political reasons in recent years. Alberto Gonzales left his job among allegations that his department was hiring and firing U.S. attorneys not based on their qualifications, but based upon their political affiliations. Fox News' Geraldo Rivera is calling U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald's recent actions in the Blagojevich case shameful saying that he should not have arrested the Governor until he was prepared to bring charges.

Geraldo Rivera who interviewed the Governor of Illinois outside of the studios of the View seems to be sensitive the unfairness of our justice system saying, "This has the feel of a 'Kangaroo Court.' The court can make any rules they want. I think it is very unfair. I think he is getting screwed."

Geraldo is acting as a real man of the people on this one going against popular opinion to support and unpopular guy. "Blagojevich is getting a raw deal when it comes to justice, says Rubin, "Most people don't realize that a jury doesn't get to hear or see anything the judge doesn't allow in."

"I have a lot of respect for the law, but I will agree with Whoopie Goldberg in that I grew up in this country and had no idea how the system really works." Rubin was speaking of his own case where the judge decided that he was not allowed to mention the U.S. Constitution, medical marijuana, the First Amendment, quote from the Bible, or the California State Constitution.

Speaking about the Blagojevich case Geraldo Rivera complimented the Governor, "He is making a real point in letting people know how unfair the system is."

Geraldo also stopped Whoopie Goldberg outside the studio of the View and she stated, "I never heard the court can just make law up." Dumbfounded Goldberg continued, "I don't remember reading that when I was a kid. I always thought you could get a fair shake from the law. People have a lot to look at."

Rubin feels as if things are about to change under an Obama administration. On Fox's Business News David Asman recently announced marijuana was about to be legalized. MSNBC just did a special called, "Marijuana Inc." where they explained the simple economics of it, "It cost $400 to grow a pound worth $6,000 on the street."

Blagojevich arrested for "selling a Senate seat," is being impeached on charges having nothing to do with his arrest. He is being impeached for getting cheaper drugs for the elderly from Canada rather than buying them from U.S. drug companies. Jesse Ventura said when he was governor of Minnesota that the CIA acted illegally by operating domestically. Mike Ruppert former LAPD narcotics detective speaking to former CIA director Deutch on C-SPAN said, "The agency (CIA) has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time."

Rubin stated, "If the Bush policies from the Drug War continue we'll be a nation of political prisoners."

YouTube video of LAPD confronting CIA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3pl5Wxgyg

More information about Craig X Rubin for Mayor: www.Craigx4mayor.org.

All trademarks acknowledged.

Editorial note: all opinions are solely those of the above named individuals and do not reflect opinions of this website.


  NEWS SOURCE:  Craig X Rubin for Mayor
 Send2Press® is the originating wire service for this story.

 

NEWS BLOGS

Valley task force arrests nine in marijuana 'grow house' raids

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009

A drug task force took nine people into custody, served 13 warrants and seized hundreds of marijuana plants Wednesday in raids focusing on marijuana "grow houses" in the Central Valley.

Those arrested were Fresnans Abram Ducas, 23; Dominac Ducas, 32; Reuben Garcia, 41; Ali Miller, 37; Robert Orndoff, 55; Anthony Osborn, 29; and Amber Osborn, 28. Also booked were Lino Munoz, 32, of Clovis and Marvin Puckett III, 32, of Madera County.

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said more than 100 law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies targeted a network of marijuana cultivators in Fresno County, Clovis, Auberry and Madera County.

The raids grew out of the seizure of 200 plants from a home on the 6200 block of North Marks Avenue in November 2007, she said.

Along with 700 marijuana plants, officers on Wednesday also confiscated 65 pounds of processed marijuana, a pound of hashish and $20,000 in cash. Sheriff's deputies were joined by agents from the state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency as part of the Central Valley Marijuana Investigation Team.

The marijuana was grown in rented homes converted into indoor farms, Mims said. The houses suffered extensive environmental damage, such as growth of mold, because growers sought to replicate the humid, tropical conditions in which marijuana plants thrive.

Mims said that those who operate grow houses threaten otherwise safe neighborhoods.

"They have large amounts of cash," she said. "Criminals know where they live and they are armed."

The reporter can be reached at jguy@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6339.

 

 

 

RECENT SO. CAL DEA RAIDS

11:45 AM - Thursday, December 18, 2008
Ashmoon Caregivers
21610 Ventura Blvd 
Woodland Hills, CA 91364

11:29 PM - Thursday, December 18, 2008
HC Remedies
21146 Ventura Blvd. Ste. 206 
Woodland Hills CA 91346

Special Report from the New Yorker Magazine 7/29/2008

Bloomington man sentenced for marijuana grow operation
Posted at: 07/23/2008 03:00:44 PM
By: Phillip Halliday

A Bloomington man was sentenced to over 7 years in prison Wednesday in connection with a large marijuana grow operation in Apple Valley.

Dung Anh Nguyen, 35, was convicted on June 9 of one count of Attempted Controlled Substance Crime in the First Degree, one count of Controlled Substance Crime in the Third Degree, and one count of Controlled Substance Crime in the Fifth Degree.

 

Along with 86 months in prison, Nguyen was fined $10,000 and ordered to pay restitution to Dakota Electric for the theft of electricity and HSBC Bank USA for damages to the home resulting from the operation.

In June 2007, Dakota Electric employees noticed that an Apple Valley residence was drawing excessive power from a transformer that was causing it to fail. Employees also noticed a smell of what they believed to be marijuana coming from the home and notified police.

After obtaining a warrant, Dakota County Drug Task Force located numerous marijuana plants throughout the house in various stages of growth. The officers removed over 1,200 marijuana plants from the residence along with grow lights and other equipment associated with the manufacturing of marijuana.

Through county property records, it was determined that Dung Anh Nguyen was the owner of the property.

Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom stated that the plants recovered could have been harvested for up to $1,000,000 street value of marijuana each year.

 

===========================

Indoor pot farms raided; millions in marijuana seized

Homes rewired, refurbished to hide operations

Thousands of marijuana plants that could have generated millions of dollars a year in illegal profits were seized Tuesday during raids on three homes in Riverside County, authorities said.

Marijuana-growing facilities were shut down in Eastvale, Hemet and Riverside, in an operation targeting a total of eight homes in three Southern California counties. Four people were arrested, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

“Drug traffickers are using sophisticated equipment and measures to transform their seemingly quiet suburban homes into illicit marijuana grow operations,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Landrum.

“These lucrative illegal operations can function with little scrutiny, which makes them attractive to the criminal element, but put our communities in harm's way.”

This morning's sweep involved DEA agents, Riverside County sheriff's deputies, Riverside police, San Bernardino County sheriff's personnel, IRS and U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents, according to DEA agent Sarah Pullen.

A search warrant was executed at one home in San Bernardino County and four homes in Los Angeles County, according to Pullen.

She said five indoor marijuana cultivation facilities were identified — three of which were in the Riverside County locations — containing 5,600 plants, which could have yielded $60 million a year worth of marijuana sales.

An Eastvale residence contained 1,200 marijuana plants, with an estimated value of $3.5 million, according Riverside County sheriff's Investigator Jerry Franchville.

He said the 3,500-square-foot home, which lies at the edge of Providence Park in the unincorporated community, was rigged with assorted electrical devices to saturate the home with indoor light.

“There's all kinds of wiring in this house,” Franchville said. “There's extra circuit breakers, grow lights that assimilate the sun, timers. It's pretty intricate.”

He said the marijuana growers reconfigured the home's electrical system to bypass the local utility meter, stealing roughly $4,000 a month in wattage.

“The way law enforcement usually identifies these places is through the inordinately high electricity usage,” Franchville said.

According to Pullen, in most of the growing facilities, carpets were torn out and holes were cut through floors, ceilings and doors to accommodate wiring. Closets and bathrooms served as storage areas for light ballasts, chemical supplies and fertilizer, she said. Windows and sliding glass doors were covered with drywall.

“These sophisticated growing operations pose an extreme hazard to our neighborhoods with their dangerous electrical wiring and changes made to the house infrastructure,” said U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien. “In addition, any large narcotics operation invites violence, which further endangers families in these suburban communities.”

Most of the converted homes were purchased in newer housing developments for between $500,000 and $800,000, according to Pullen.

According to Pullen, Tuesday's arrests and seizures stemmed from a yearlong investigation that, to date, has led to the dismantling of 33 marijuana grow operations and the seizure of more than 19,000 plants.

===========================

Newcastle man sentenced for medical marijuana operation

Richard Marino, 54, of Newcastle was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton for money laundering and narcotics conspiracy in connection with a medical marijuana operation.

He pleaded guilty May 6 to the charges arising from Capitol Compassionate Care, which had gross sales of $2.3 million between Feb. 3 and Aug. 31 in 2004.

Federal agents searched Marino’s home in Newcastle and the business on Sept. 3, 2005, and they seized 189 pounds of hashish, 1,175 pounds of processed marijuana, 617 live marijuana plans and more than $100,000 in cash.

Marino’s business operated for the nearly exclusive purpose of selling marijuana, according to assistant U.S. Attorneys William Wong and Matthew Segal, who prosecuted the case.

The case was the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Unit.

Business records showed Capitol Compassionate Care has sold some 482 pounds of marijuana, and that Marino used Compassionate Care proceeds to pay for a down payment for his home, a housekeeper, an apartment, loan payments, dinners and payments on credit cards.

Marino was also ordered to forfeit over $91,000 in cash as well as a house in Newcastle in a separate civil forfeiture case.

===========================

Oakland House Fire Leads To Marijuana Bust

7-15-2008

OAKLAND (CBS 5 / BCN) ― A house fire in the 4400 block of Morage Avenue in Oakland on Tuesday morning led to the discovery of a marijuana-growing operation, according to police and fire officials. 

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said about 150 marijuana plants, as well as various cultivating paraphernalia, were found inside the house by Oakland firefighters.

"That's what caused the fire," Holmgren said. "Nine times out of 10 we stumble on these grows because of some sort of electrical fire."

The Oakland Fire Department got a call about a single-alarm fire at 8:04 a.m., and extinguished the fire at 8:31 a.m. Once inside the house, they found the plants and paraphernalia and alerted Oakland police.

A 35-year-old man who rented the home was among two men who were arrested, with one having to be treated for smoke inhalation, according to officers.

Holmgren said that the names of the suspects would not be released until the police investigation was completed.

===========================

Owner of 6 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Arrested

Medical Marijuana Arrests protest
A protester who identified himself as 'Farmer Dave' holds a sign protesting Drug Enforcement Agency raids on medical marijuana clinics in Los Angeles 
Tuesday, May 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

================

Yesterday, Drug Enforcement Agents arrested Virgil Grant, 41, who owns six medical marijuana dispensaries around Los Angeles, after an incident that allegedly involved product from one of his stores, reports the Los Angeles Times.  

The accident that prompted authorities to begin investigating Grant occurred after CHP Officer Anthony Pedeferri had just pulled over Andreas Parra, a 20-year-old motorist from Phoenix, during a routine traffic stop.

Pedeferri had dismounted his motorcycle and was talking to Parra when [suspect Jeremy] White's pickup drifted out of the northbound lanes of the 101 Freeway near Ventura and careened into Parra's SUV. Parra was killed.

Pedeferri, a triathlete and the father of two girls, was knocked out of his boots and thrown 20 yards into brush along the side of the road, according to news reports. He was left paralyzed by his injuries.

White's blood was tested and a forensics lab supervisor said White had the highest levels of marijuana concentration he'd ever seen.

DEA agents conducted stings at each of Grant's stores, which included purchasing "a pound of marijuana for $5,700 out of the back door of the facility." Grant is charged with drug conspiracy, money laundering and operating a drug-involved premises within 1,000 feet of a school and his wife was also charged with drug conspiracy and 22 counts of money laundering.

In late July, the Los Angeles City Council disapproved of the DEA's actions of raiding medical marijuana storefronts while placing a moratorium on any new Dispensaries so rules could be drafted to better regulate them. However, city attorneys say Grant misled the type of operation on his business license, which has also expired.

================

 

 

 

 

420HWY OPINION
Brought to you by www.420Lawyer.com 

 
Of course it is difficult to discern what is fact from what is fiction in a story such as this, but there are still tell-tale signs that this was just not a properly organized or run patient grow facility.

Let's start with the basics of 700 plants.  That's a pretty large amount, but what is not said is how many were in each cycle.  This is an important fact that I hope whomever is counsel for the accused remembers to mention.  There is also no mention if there were patient files or proper labeling of the plants that were seized.

Although 65 lbs may seem to be a lot at initial glance, it is again dependant on how many licensed MMD's they were properly assigned the rights to grow.  The pound of hashish, even that has been agreed by the Attorney General that it is just a concentrated form that is equally protected my Proposition 215; I only dislike that everyone has not adopted the name "concentrate" to help to differentiate the street drug lingo from the accepted medicinal lingo.

Why there was $20,000 in cash is beyond reason.  Large sums of money made from a properly organized business should be deposited in the bank and reported on tax returns.  I can only surmise that this was not the case here and this is another problem that I have seen with the movement; mismanagement of cash and failure to follow proper corporate structuring and operations.

Now converting rented homes into indoor growing facilities is nothing new, but does not make it right.  There are locations that are zoned for commercial and agricultural use, these are the proper locations to run a business of this type, not a residential neighborhood.  There are proper means to be licensed for neighborhood use, but this requires following the proper legal channels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not know about Ashmoon, never been there, but the procedures at HC Remedies were shotty at best and the place was not up to code.  Learn more about the codes for businesses by clicking here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yet once again someone chooses to steal power to run their operation.  Collective grow operations are NOT illegal if done properly as outlined under the California Health and Safety Code §§11362.5, et seq.

This is just a shame to see this continue to go on like this.

 

 

===========================

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===========================

Again, this is looking like greed here people.  5,600 plants, why so many?

1,200 more at another location?  

 

Look, if you guys have the $500,000 to $800,000 to plop down on a house, then add the conversions and lights, then why not visit an attorney and do it properly?  There are correct ways to set up grow operations, what was done here, was the incorrect way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===========================

 

OK...if someone has this much product, this much cash and has not declared crap to the IRS or the State Board of Equalization, they are just asking for trouble.

Talk to a lawyer first

we recommend www.420Lawyer.com 

but at least talk to one first

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===========================

 

Doesn't mention if the renters are patients or not...that part always seems to escape the news media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===========================

 

 

This owner was obviously not following all the rules.  Not following the rules is one certain way to get in big trouble. (We bold-faced the violations of which dispensary owners need to pay attention.)

Marijuana / Cannabis IS a medication, but there are too many people who treat it like there is total legalization...MARIJUANA / CANNABIS IS NOT LEGAL FOR ANYONE & EVERYONE...IT IS PERMITTED ONLY FOR PATIENTS who have received a written recommendation from a properly licensed California medical doctor or osteopath.

================

 

 

 

 

Loading...

 

 

WHY TAKE THIS CHEMICALLY MADE PHARMACEUTICAL...

WHEN YOU CAN LEGALLY CONSUME THIS NATURAL FORM OF RELIEF?

 

 

 

 

 

THIS ADVERTISING SPACE FOR RENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prop 215 Patient?  Need Legal Assistance?  Contact 420Lawyer.com - 626-578-0708 -  Working with Dispensaries, Collectives & Vendors since 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS ADVERTISING SPACE FOR RENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

420Hwy.com serves the following cities and communities in Southern California:

Los Angeles County:
Agoura Hills, Alhambra, Arcadia, Artesia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bellflower, Beverly Hills, Big Pines, Burbank, Carson, Century City, Cerritos, Chatsworth, China Town, City of Industry, Claremont, Commerce, Compton, Covina, Culver City, Downtown LA, Downey, Eagle Rock, El Monte, El Segundo, Encino, Gardena, Glendale, Glendora, Granada Hills, Hawaiian Gardens, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Hidden Hills, Highland Park, Hollywood, Inglewood, Irwindale, Japan Town, Korea Town, La Canada/Flintridge, La Crescenta, La Habra, La Mirada, La Puente, La Verne, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lenox, Lomita, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los Nietos, Lynwood, Manhattan Beach, Marina Del Rey, Monterey Park, Montrose, Northridge, Norwalk, Palmdale, Palos Verdes Estates, Paramount, Pasadena, Pico Rivera, Pomona, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Reseda, Rolling Hills Estates, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel, San Marino, Santa Clarita, Santa Fe Springs, Santa Monica, Signal Hill, South Pasadena, Temple City, Torrance, Valinda, Van Nuys, Ventura County, Verdugo City, Walnut, West Covina, West Hollywood, Westlake Village, Westwood, Whittier and all other cities and communities of Los Angeles County.

Orange County:
Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Balboa Island, Brea, Buena Park, Capistrano Beach, Corona Del Mar, Costa Mesa, Coto de Caza, Cowan Heights, Cypress, Dana Point, El Modena, El Toro, Foothill Ranch, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, La Habra, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Leisure World, Lemon Heights, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, Modjeska Canyon, Newport Beach, Orange, Orange Park Acres, Placentia, Rancho San Margarita, Rossmoor, San Clemente, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Silverado Canyon, Stanton, Sunset Beach, Surfside, Tustin, Villa Park, Westminster, Yorba Linda and all other cities and communities of Orange County.

San Bernardino County:
Adelanto, Apple Valley, Argus, Baker, Barstow, Big Bear, Bloomington, Chino, Chino Hills, Cima, Colton, Daggett, Devore, Earp, El Mirage, Etiwanda, Essex, Fawnskin, Fontana, Forest Falls, Grand Terrace, Harvard, Helendale, Hesperia, Highland, Hinkley, Hodge, Ivanpaw, Joshua Tree, Kelso, Landers, Lenwood, Loma Linda, Lucerne Valley, Ludlow, Montclair, Morongo Valley, Muscoy, Needles, Ontario, Oro Grande, Phelan, Pinon Hills, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Running Springs, San Bernardino, Twenty Nine Palms, Upland, Victorville, Wrightwood, Yucaipa, Yucca Valley and all other cities and communities of San Bernardino County.

Riverside County:
Anza, Arlington, Banning, Beaumont, Blythe, Cabazon, Calimesa, Canyon Lake, Cathedral City, Cherry Valley, Coachella, Corona, Desert Hot Springs, Edgemont, El Cerrito, Gilman, Glen Avon, Glenn Valley, Hemet, High Grove, Home Gardens, Homeland, Hot Springs, Idyllwild, Indian Wells, Indio, La Sierra, Lake Elsinore, Lakeview, La Quinta, Mecca, Mead Valley, Meadow Brook, Mira Loma, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Murrieta Hot Springs, Norco, Nuevo, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Perris, Quail Valley, Riverside, Rancho Mirage, Ripley, Rubidoux, Sage, San Jacinto, Sun City, Temecula, Temescal Canyon, Thousand Palms, Valle Vista, White Water, Winchester and all other cities and communities of Riverside County.

Imperial County:
Brawley, Calexico, Calipatria, El Centro, Holtville, Imperial, Westmorland and all other cities and communities of Imperial County.

Ventura County:
Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, San Buenaventura, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and all other cities and communities of Ventura County. 

 

Copyright 2008
Another
Another eWebNation Creation Creation