Berkeley’s City Council last night approved the wording for a November ballot measure that would amend the city’s ordinance regulating medical marijuana. The amendments would increase the number of licensed dispensaries in Berkeley from three to four, allow six non-dispensing locations for cultivation in the manufacturing district and change the status of the Medical Marijuana […]
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Berkeley pot dispensary takes consulting role in Maine
Berkeley Patients Group, the largest of Berkeley’s licensed medical marijuana dispensaries, is providing consulting services to the company that won licenses for half of the newly permitted dispensaries in Maine. SF Weekly reported today that BPG had in fact invested “over $100,000” in the Northeast Patients Group. According to Brad Senesac, director of communications for […]
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Marijuana growing business could expand in Berkeley
Berkeley’s medical marijuana industry might greatly expand under two proposed ballot measures that the city council is on the way to placing on the November ballot. Currently, there are three large-scale dispensaries in the city that provide medical cannabis to thousands of patients. The dispensaries are not permitted to grow or produce their own product, […]
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Berkeley postpones changes in marijuana regulations
After a few hours of discussion, the Berkeley City Council decided on Tuesday night to establish a subcommittee to examine whether to increase taxes and regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries. Mayor Tom Bates and Council members Linda Maio, Maxwell Anderson and Darryl Moore will sit on the new subcommittee. They will present their findings to […]
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Berkeley may look to marijuana dispensaries to solve budget woes
Berkeley is the latest California city to consider raising new taxes on medical marijuana collectives to close a growing budget deficit. The City Council will consider tonight putting a measure on the November ballot to increase the business license tax on its three marijuana dispensaries. They currently pay $1.20 per $1,000 of gross receipts, which […]
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Pot club move halted
The controversial move of Berkeley Patients Group, a medical marijuana dispensary, from San Pablo Avenue to the old Scharffen Berger factory has been stymied by a local developer buying the building, reports Doug Oakley in the Berkeley Voice. Wareham Development, one of the more vocal opponents of the move, has acquired the building on the […]
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Medical marijuana expansion to be proposed
The Oakland Tribune recently reported that Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission is proposing new rules that would allow the three existing marijuana dispensaries to expand non-retail operations and that would allow “groups of patients to grow marijuana or bake marijuana goods collectively at residences or in commercial spaces and to supply the city’s three dispensaries”. The […]
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Pot au chocolat: The Scharffen Berger decision
In a closed session meeting last night, the Berkeley City Council agreed to let a medical marijuana dispensary move into the old Scharffen Berger building on the corner of Heinz and 7th Street. A number of nearby organizations, including the Ecole Bilingue private school, supermarket Berkeley Bowl West and a local developer, had opposed the […]
