Members of Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission,(l to r): Michael Cooper, Stewart Jones, Karen Marie Rice, Damond Tims, Tina Ferguson and Charles Pappas, heard pitches from six dispensaries Jan. 28. Photo: Lisa Tsering By Lisa Tsering One offered expanded services to senior citizens living with chronic illness. Another pledged to provide strict round-the-clock security. Still another promised […]
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Berkeley marijuana dispensary robbed at gunpoint
The Berkeley Patients Group has been on San Pablo Avenue in varying locations for more than 16 years. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The Berkeley Patients Group has been on San Pablo Avenue in varying locations for more than 16 years. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Police are looking for three masked robbers with a gun who tied up a security guard […]
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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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Berkeley cannabis dispensary selection proceeds, despite mayor’s suggestion to stop process
Berkeley City Council, Jan. 27, 2015. Photo: Emilie Raguso A plea by the chair of the Medical Cannabis Commission to reinstate his application for Berkeley’s fourth medical cannabis dispensary was ignored by the City Council Tuesday night, but council members did vote to slightly jigger the selection process. The City Council voted 6-1-1, with Mayor Tom […]
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Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner faces fraud and extortion charges
Dan Rush addresses a group at the Cannabis Workers Rising Symposium in Winchester, Nevada. Photo: Facebook 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 […]
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3 men held to answer after fatal Berkeley shooting
Photo: Kamahl Middleton An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that three young men charged in the fatal shooting of a Pinole man in Berkeley in December must now stand trial. Judge Thomas Reardon said Monday afternoon, after a lengthy preliminary hearing that began in May, that the prosecution had presented enough evidence to demonstrate a […]
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Man tried to shield fiancée during fatal Berkeley shooting
Photo: Kamahl Middleton Moments before being struck by a fatal shotgun blast, a Pinole man killed in Berkeley in December used his body to try to shield his fiancée from the gunman, she testified in court Wednesday. Rebekah Cleberg of Pinole described the Dec. 29, 2014, shooting in West Berkeley as a medical marijuana exchange that quickly […]
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11 groups vie to open Berkeley’s 4th cannabis dispensary
Marc Weinstein, the owner of Amoeba Music, wants to open a cannabis dispensary next door to the store at 2465 Telegraph Ave. Photo: Tom Dalzell Marc Weinstein, the owner of Amoeba Music, wants to open a cannabis dispensary next door to the store at 2465 Telegraph Ave. Photo: Tom Dalzell The owner of Amoeba Music, […]
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Forty Acres’ new cannabis site is illegal says Berkeley
Forty Acres is operating from 1510 Ashby Ave., which the city says is an illegal use. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel 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 […]
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12 apply to operate Berkeley’s fourth cannabis dispensary
Forty Acres cannabis collective may be one of the applicants for Berkeley’s fourth medical cannabis dispensary, according to Charley Pappas, the chair of the Medical Cannabis Commission. Pappas’s group, Community Partnership 4 Health, is also applying. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Forty Acres cannabis collective may be one of the applicants for Berkeley’s fourth medical cannabis dispensary, […]
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Police arrest 2 more after December homicide in Berkeley
Photo: Kamahl Middleton Authorities have arrested two more men tied to the fatal shooting in West Berkeley that killed Kamahl Middleton, a 36-year-old El Sobrante man, in December. Authorities tracked down one of the men — 18-year-old Khalil Leroy Phanor of San Leandro — in Washington state, and arrested him Thursday night. The Alameda County district attorney’s […]
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2 men charged after fatal Berkeley shooting
Photo: Kamahl Middleton Two men have been charged with murder after the shooting death in December of an El Sobrante man in a West Berkeley parking lot. Carl Young Jr., 20, and 18-year-old Khalil Leroy Phanor, both of San Leandro, were charged Monday with murder, second-degree robbery and assault with a firearm by the Alameda County […]
