More than 50 people crowded into a room at City Hall on Feb. 4 to listen as the Medical Cannabis Commission selected three finalists for the fourth dispensary. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission selected three finalists for the city’s coveted fourth dispensary opportunity Thursday. This despite the fact that a number of the commission’s members […]
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6 groups vying for dispensary permit hold meetings
The owners of Amoeba Music would like to open a cannabis dispensary on the property. Photo: Tom Dalzell The owners of Amoeba Music would like to open a cannabis dispensary on the property. Photo: Tom Dalzell When David Prinz goes before a gathering of Telegraph Avenue neighbors Thursday to talk about the cannabis dispensary he would like […]
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Report: Berkeley Patients Group earned $15m in 2009
As Berkeley Patients Group prepared to shut its doors on May 1, it advertised a delivery service behind the front desk. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley Patients Group took in $15 million and paid its top executives $911,000 in 2009, while only donating $18,083 to charities, according to a story released Wednesday by California Watch. Etienne […]
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Berkeley cannabis lawsuit reveals bitter infighting
Rebecca DeKeuster. Photo courtesy of Portland Press-Herald Rebecca DeKeuster’s first job at the Berkeley Patients Group in 2004 was selling medical marijuana to patients for $14 an hour. Within six years, DeKeuster was one of Berkeley Patients Group’s most powerful executives and visible representatives. She served on the city’s medical cannabis commission, appeared regularly at […]
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Berkeley exports its cannabis expertise
Debby Goldsberry: a BPG founder and one of three people who have applied to open a cannabis dispensary in Albany In a sign of the growing professionalization of the medical cannabis industry, Mark Rhoades and Ali Kashani, the owners of the Berkeley development company Citycentric Investments, have teamed up with Debby Goldsberry, a founder of […]
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Berkeley cannabis dispensary looking to expand
Berkeley Patients Group, the city’s largest marijuana dispensary, not only hopes to go into the large-scale growing business in Berkeley, but in Oakland as well. Debby Goldsberry, a founder of BPG, told the Associated Press that the group will apply to become an industrial grower in Oakland, which started accepting permits Monday for the creation […]