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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Berkeley may consider new rules for cannabis grow sites
Cannabis being inspected at Berkeley Patients Group in 2011. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Update 11/19/14: The City Council voted on Nov. 18 to refer this item to the Planning Commission for further review. Even though Berkeley residents voted in 2010 to allow six commercial cannabis grow sites to operate in the city’s manufacturing zone, none has […]
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Berkeley to consider 4th medical cannabis dispensary
Berkeley City Council will tonight consider two proposals regarding new operating guidelines for dispensaries and the creation of a ranking system to select new dispensaries. Photo: Flores y Plantas Despite the recent federal crackdown on medical cannabis operations, the Berkeley City Council will discuss tonight expanding the number of dispensaries from three to four – and […]
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Berkeley fights feds’ attempts to close cannabis business
Berkeley Patients Group opened its doors at 2366 San Pablo Avenue in December 2012. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The city of Berkeley filed a claim Wednesday to stop the federal government’s attempts to shut down Berkeley Patients Group, the city’s largest medical cannabis dispensary. The suit claims that the closure of BPG will materially harm the city […]
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Berkeley Patients Group pays fraction of tax bill
Berkeley Patients Group opened its doors at 2366 San Pablo Ave. in December 2012. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The state Board of Equalization and Berkeley Patients Group (BPG) have worked out a compromise that reduces the dispensary’s delinquent tax bill from $7.5 million to $49,500. Despite selling millions of dollars in medical cannabis each year and […]
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Berkeley delays 4th medical cannabis dispensary
Berkeley’s mayor says a fourth medical marijuana dispensary will not be feasible in the current political climate. Photo: Flores y Plantas/CC The Berkeley City Council has delayed discussion on opening a fourth medical cannabis dispensary since the current federal attitude toward dispensaries has made it all but impossible to site them in Berkeley. At Tuesday’s […]
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Officials oppose Feds’ suit to shut pot dispensary
City Councilman Darryl Moore speaks out against a federal lawsuit that could shut down BPG. Sean Luse, BPG’s COO, is on the left. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel City Councilman Darryl Moore speaks out against a federal lawsuit that could shut down BPG. Sean Luse, BPG’s COO, is on the left. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Update 9:00 p.m.: […]
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Berkeley Patients Group finds new home on San Pablo Ave.
A bulldozer rips up the parking lot at the new San Pablo Avenue home of Berkeley Patients Group. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel [Article is updated at the bottom.] Three months after the federal government forced it from its long-term home on San Pablo Avenue, the Berkeley Patients Group has found a new location just a few […]
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Sadness surrounds closing of Berkeley Patients Group
Security guards check the credentials of a patient on the last day of operations of Berkeley Patients Group. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The mood was somber Monday at Berkeley Patients Group as the 12-and-a-half-year old cannabis dispensary got ready to shut its doors. Like every day, patients streamed in at a steady rate, handing over a […]
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Concern over future location of cannabis collective
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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Berkeley Patients Group says it is moving, not closing
Berkeley Patients Group on San Pablo Avenue: says it is moving, not closing. Photos: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley Patients Group, which had declined for weeks to confirm or deny that the federal government had told its landlord it had to move, sent out an email Thursday night saying it was not going out of business. “Recent […]
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Berkeley’s largest cannabis dispensary to close May 1
The consumption lounge of Berkeley Patients Group, which will close its San Pablo Avenue location on May 1. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Medical cannabis patients in Berkeley will have a more difficult time getting marijuana after Berkeley Patient’s Group shuts down on May 1. California Watch is reporting today that BPG has signed a legal agreement […]