Berkeley Patients Group on San Pablo Avenue needs to move. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Last Tuesday afternoon, around 1:30pm, Rebecca, who describes herself as a “50ish” recent transplant from Los Angeles, headed over to the Berkeley Patients Group at 2747 San Pablo Avenue. For the past six months, ever since she moved north, Rebecca has gone […]
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Commission ponders growth of unlicensed pot groups
The Medical Cannabis Commission at its September meeting. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission agreed on Thursday to send a letter to the city manager expressing concern about the proliferation of cannabis collectives in areas that are not zoned for them. The commission noted that two collectives — Forty Acres and Perfect Patient’s Plant […]
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Berkeley cannabis collective struggles with back taxes
It’s been four months since the Berkeley Patients’ Care Collective on Telegraph Avenue received formal notice that it owes the state $639,000 in back taxes, yet the group still doesn’t know how it is going to pay its bill. The medical cannabis group, which has deliberately kept itself small to retain its customer-friendly atmosphere, sells […]
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Berkeley cannabis collectives slapped with huge tax bills
The state Board of Equalization is contending that the Berkeley Patients Group, one of the oldest and largest medical cannabis dispensaries in California, owes $6 million in back taxes, Berkeleyside has learned. The board claims that the dispensary on San Pablo Avenue did not pay taxes on the medical marijuana it sold from July 2004 […]
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Measures S and T would grow city’s cannabis industry
A tray of cannabis at Berkeley Patients Group waiting to be examined Berkeley residents will vote on two ballot measures on Tuesday that could lead to a greatly expanded medical cannabis industry in the city – and hundreds of thousands of new dollars for the city’s coffers. Measure T would increase the number of places […]
