|
LEGAL |
||||||||||||||||||||
California ID Card Sample of state issued ID card. Get your state ID card at your local county vital statistics dept this is were they issue birth and death certificates. This ID card is verifiable 24hrs a day 365 days a year on the state of California web site and gives more legal rights to patients, including being a state registered health care provider. This is a must for all patient vendors, and growers. Below is a list of counties in our area... |
||||||||||||||||||||
Rx Wellness Center News Headlines |
||||||||||||||||||||
Montel Williams Helps Open High End Sacramento read more...June 13, 2011 6:16 PM |
||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, May 3 2011 ORANGEVALE, CA - The new owner of a former backyard store on Greenback Lane has told neighboring merchants he's opening a marijuana dispensary. The new pot shop will join two others right around the corner in Orangevale, and like the others, it will be illegal. Lorraine Silvera owns a glass shop across the street from the new dispensary and is outraged the dispensary's owner seems unconcerned that it's a zoning violation. "There is no zoning for medicinal marijuana locations in Sacramento County," Silvera said. "Most of them are just trying to get away with it for as long as they can." Silvera also sits on the Orangevale Community Planning Advisory Council. Sacramento County's zoning ordinance does not specifically prohibit the sale of medicinal marijuana, but because pot sales are not expressly permitted in commercial zones, they are therefore illegal. Dan Holbert, manager of the Rx Pot Shop in North Highlands, said his is one of at least 60 dispensaries operating outside the law in unincorporated communities of Sacramento County. Holbert argued unsuccessfully Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors that his business is fundamentally no different than a nearby Rite Aid. Steve Pedretti, the county's building and code enforcement chief, said he's aware of the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries in the unincorporated communities, but his staff can't move more quickly to shut them down. "We've denied (their permit applications) and we're attempting to close them," Pedretti said. "But there's a legal process that has to be followed and it takes some time." Pedretti said county staff is drafting a marijuana dispensary ordinance that would either regulate pot shops or expressly prohibit them. He said the ordinance would be ready for board action within 60 days. by George Warren, GWarren@news10.net News10/KXTV |
||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, May 3 2011 - watch hearing video here, scroll down to #49 or forward to 11:00am
Today the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously denied the Rx Pot Shop appeal to the zoning violation at 6705 Watt Ave in North Highlands, CA. The County argued that nobody is allowed to operate a business in the county of Sacramento, unless your business is specially listed in their zoning code, even if it is simular to another business. As of today there is no mention of medical marijuana dispensaries in the Sacramento County zoning code. Today Rx Pot Shop argued that the distribution of medical marijuana is legal under state law and has been classified by the State of California Board of Equalization department as over-the-counter drug sales. Rx Pot Shop submitted written documentation to the board from the California Board of Equalization stating medical marijuana sales are considered over the counter drug sales and should be taxed. The County of Sacramento states that based on their research, medical marijuana is not the same as over-the-counter drug sales (but cannot offer any proof). The Rx Pot Shop Collective shares a common wall with a Rite-Aid pharmacy in the same shopping center. Rite-Aid pharmacies conduct over-the-counter drug sales, and Rx Pot Shop is located in the exact same zone.
Be sure to check this site regularly. We will be promoting upcoming board of supervisors candidates who are compassionate and are eager to help Sacramento patients. Check back to see who you should vote for. |
||||||||||||||||||||
Randall Benton/rbenton@sacbee.comDan Holbert, operator of the Rx Pot Shop near North Highlands, moved his shop to its current location after the county ordered him to close. He's unhappy with the county's approach to pot stores. read more here
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Dispatches from the California Marijuana FrontA medical marijuana patients group has posted photos of Sacramento County building inspectors and code enforcement officers in an on-line 'wanted' poster accusing them of 'patient rights violations' for the county's effort to close pot dispensaries. Officials have delivered closure orders on a dozen medical marijuana outlets operating in unincorporated areas of Sacramento County, declaring that there is no county ordinance that permits their operation. Now a local advocacy group, Sacramento County Patients, has posted photos of four county officers taken from videos made by advocates during inspections of the pot shops. "WANTED for patient right violations," the site declares. It goes on to declare that the county crackdown violates the will of voters that approved the Proposition 215 medical marijuana law in 1996. "Overriding a voter enacted law by a small group of officials is not democratic," the site declares. Carl Crawford, who directs the county's code enforcement decision, said his employees - featured on the site with their photos, county e-mail and phone numbers - were carrying out the directives of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. "These are public employees who apparently had their photos taken during the inspections," Crawford said. "We're just doing what the board is directing us to do - enforcing the zoning code." Posted by Peter Hecht
9:28 AM
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Q. - Is medical marijuana legal in the state of California? A. - Yes |
||||||||||||||||||||
SUMMARY: Fifty-six percent of voters approved Proposition 215 on November 5, 1996. The law took effect the following day. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess a "written or oral recommendation" from their physician that he or she "would benefit from medical marijuana." Patients diagnosed with any debilitating illness where the medical use of marijuana has been "deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician" are afforded legal protection under this act. Conditions typically covered by the law include but are not limited to: arthritis; cachexia; cancer; chronic pain; HIV or AIDS; epilepsy; migraine; and multiple sclerosis. No set limits regarding the amount of marijuana patients may possess and/or cultivate were provided by this act, though the California Legislature adopted guidelines in 2003. |
||||||||||||||||||||
AMENDMENTS: Yes. Senate Bill 420, which was signed into law in October 2003 and took effect on January 1, 2004, imposes statewide guidelines outlining how much medicinal marijuana patients may grow and possess. Under the guidelines, qualified patients and/or their primary caregivers may possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana and/or six mature (or 12 immature) marijuana plants. However, S.B. 420 allows patients to possess larger amounts of marijuana when such quantities are recommended by a physician. The legislation also allows counties and municipalities to approve and/or maintain local ordinances permitting patients to possess larger quantities of medicinal pot than allowed under the new state guidelines. Senate Bill 420 also grants implied legal protection to the state's medicinal marijuana dispensaries, stating, "Qualified patients, persons with valid identification cards, and the designated primary caregivers of qualified patients ... who associate within the state of California in order collectively or cooperatively to cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, shall not solely on the basis of that fact be subject to state criminal sanctions." |
||||||||||||||||||||
| MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATUTES: California Compassionate Use Act 1996, (Act; Health & Safety Code, § 11362.5, added by voter initiative, Prop. 215, Gen. Elec. (Nov. 5, 1996)). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| USA Map of Medical Marijuana States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Super Lawyers
|
||||||||||||||||||||
CONTACT INFORMATION: For more information on California’s medical marijuana law, please contact: California NORML |
||||||||||||||||||||
For detailed information on county or municipal medical marijuana California State ID card application Form cost $150 in Placer County Verify a Doctor with the California State Medical Board Verify a Doctor with the Osteopathic Medical Board of California Verify a California State Issued Medical Marijuana ID card Read the Complete Senate Bill SB420 here Cannadoc.org Prop 215 Dr's recomendation over the phone - $180 |
||||||||||||||||||||
Active State Medical Marijuana Programs - see if your state has one |
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
