The proposed 44-unit project aims to take advantage of Berkeley’s move to eliminate parking requirements at new apartment buildings.
Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers’ Collective
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Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner faces fraud and extortion charges
The former chair of Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission (MCC) is scheduled to appear in federal court today, Sept. 23, to face extortion, fraud and money laundering charges connected to his dealings with cannabis dispensaries in Berkeley, Oakland and Las Vegas. Daniel Rush, who used to serve as the executive director of the cannabis division of […]
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11 groups vie to open Berkeley’s 4th cannabis dispensary
The owner of Amoeba Music, former managers of the largest cannabis dispensary in Oakland, a current Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner, and a group that has filed numerous lawsuits against the city, have all applied to open the fourth dispensary in Berkeley. Most of the 11 applicants want to locate their dispensaries along Berkeley’s main arterials, […]
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Forty Acres’ new cannabis site is illegal says Berkeley
Three months after the city council ordered the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers Collective to shut its doors at 1820-1828 San Pablo Ave. because it was a public nuisance, the medical marijuana organization has relocated to 1510 Ashby Ave. – and is once again operating illegally, according to city officials. Chris Smith, the co-founder of Forty […]
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12 apply to operate Berkeley’s fourth cannabis dispensary
Twelve organizations have submitted applications to open a fourth medical cannabis dispensary in Berkeley, according to city officials, but the public won’t know who they are for 45 days. The deadline to apply for one of the lucrative franchises was 4 p.m. on March 20. But Berkeley won’t release their names during a review period […]
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Op-ed: Forty Acres cannabis club is a nightmare
I support medical marijuana, decriminalization of marijuana, even recreational marijuana for those who enjoy it. But I opposed Forty Acres’ cannabis club and was dismayed that some of the city council made supportive noises about finding a way to permit the business as currently owned and run. It isn’t just the traffic congestion, the double […]
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Berkeley tells cannabis collective to shut down
Even though more than 40 people testified about the importance of the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers Collective to the black community, the Berkeley City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to declare it a public nuisance. But the decision, which came almost four years after Berkeley officials first told its co-founder, Chris Smith, that his […]
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Berkeley council to decide if cannabis collective must go
Almost four years after Berkeley first informed the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers’ Collective that it was operating illegally in its San Pablo Avenue location, the Berkeley City Council will consider declaring it a public nuisance tonight. The city has been tussling with Forty Acres and its co-founder Chris Smith for so long that the […]
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Zoning Board says cannabis collective a public nuisance
Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board voted unanimously Nov. 6 to declare the Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers’ Collective a public nuisance – the latest step in Berkeley’s three-year odyssey to shut the place down. ZAB officials listened to two and a half hours of testimony at the hearing, including impassioned pleas from neighbors who said the area […]
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Berkeley dismisses official who made ‘insensitive’ racial comment during cannabis collective appeal
The city of Berkeley on Thursday dismissed the official who was overseeing the nuisance abatement appeal by the Forty Acres medical cannabis collective after he made “insensitive” remarks concerning race during the hearing. It is the fifth hearing officer to be assigned, and then withdrawn, from the case. Berkeley officials are now uncertain how to […]
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Berkeley City Council: Let’s add 4th cannabis dispensary
The Berkeley City Council took a huge step Tuesday night towards the approval of a fourth medical cannabis dispensary, but deferred passing an ordinance until July 1. The Council voted unanimously to adopt regulations put forth by the Medical Cannabis Commission, with some amendments, to set up a process to select a fourth dispensary and […]
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Berkeley still battling Forty Acres cannabis collective
The lawyers for Chris Smith, the owner of Forty Acres Medical Marijuana Grower’s Collective, will ask an Alameda County judge Friday to force the city of Berkeley to hold a public hearing on Smith’s appeal of the declaration that his collective is a public nuisance. Berkeley officials have scheduled a closed-door hearing, with no press […]