LA Turns to Raids to Enforce Ordinance, Shut Down Dispensaries
Tue, Jul 06, 2010 2:28 pm
In the wake of the LA City Council’s ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries that registered with the city after its 2007 moratorium, the LAPD has adopted an aggressive stance to shut down illegal shops.
Law enforcement has assembled a team of narcotics officers to conduct raids of dispensaries that are operating illegally. To date, the LAPD has raided four medical marijuana dispensaries.
The most recent raid resulted in two arrests and officers confiscated 40 pounds of marijuana and $17,000 in cash. However, there are questions as to whether the collective was illegal or if it simply was operating under a different name than the one it registered with the city in 2007.
The ordinance allows the city to combat illegal dispensaries by obtaining court orders and imposing civil fines but, according to the LA Times, “that is costly, ponderous and often ineffective.” Instead, the city is using raids to confiscate marijuana and money and prosecute dispensary operators.
This approach has angered many in the medical marijuana community. “It seems ridiculous. These are peaceful people. It seems to me that there’s still reefer madness … It doesn’t make any sense to just steal the cash and the herb,” said Dege Coutee of the Patient Advocacy Network.
The city has been receiving five to 10 complaints a day via email about illegal dispensaries.
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WizardOfSmoke
Jul 30 2010, 12:52 pm
nobama
Jul 28 2010, 2:12 pm
gstlab3
Jul 19 2010, 8:31 pm
LIFE IN PRISON FOR BEING UNLUCKY AND ADDICTED TO WHATEVER OR FOR WHATEVER REASONS WE AND THEY SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS THOSE WHO DO HARM FOR THE SAKE OF DOING HARM ITSELF OR FOR PROFIT!!!!!!!!
THIS IS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM AND A VERY PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL EDUCATION PROBLEM ON TOP OF THINGS.
WE NEED TO PUT A BAN OR A LAW OUTRIGHT BANNING STUPID PEOPLE LIKE THOSE ON TOWN COUNCEL/GOVERNMENT EVERYWHERE FROM IMPEIDING THE PEOPLES RIGHTS TO BE FREE FROM GOVERNMENT HARASSMENT AND INTRUSION INTO OUR PERSONAL HABITS AND FREE FROM THE TYRANY OF BIG PHARMA!!!
HEALTH CONCERNS IN THE HOMES OF NATURAL MEDICINE USERS SHOULD BE JUST THAT., HEALTH CONCERNS AND GETTING WELL!!! NOT SOCIAL DERISSION AND JAIL AND PRISON AND SUFFERING!!!
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO REBEL WHEN ALL COMMON SENSE AND MORALITY ARE TRADED FOR THESE POLITICIANS EGOS AND BANK ACCOUNTS!!!!!!
IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!
THEY HAVE FOOLED A'LOT OF THE PEOPLE FOR LONG,LONG TIME AND NOW THE GIG IS FINALLY UP AND THE PIPER IS CALLING HIS DUE.
SCREW THESE POLITICIANS AND WHAT THEY SAY!!!!!!
ARE THEY TELLING US THEY ARE BANNING FREEDOM!?!?"
GROW YOUR OWN, SELL YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND,
FREE THE PLANET!!
ss
Jul 19 2010, 1:29 pm
pete
Jul 15 2010, 2:07 pm
gstlab3
Jul 14 2010, 11:56 pm
THANK YOU., AND GODS SPEED TO YOU AND YOURS.
I'M NOT PRETTY BUT I DO PACK A GOOD SOLID WALLOP AND I'M ALSO GOOD AT STIRRING UP THOSE PREVERBIAL BEES NESTS!!!!!!
THESE ARE TRYING TIMES FOR THE MARIJUANA CULTURE.
I FEEL TERRIBLY SORRY IT HAS COME TO THIS.,
DISPENSARY WORKERS ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN MURDERED OVER THIS?? THE FEAR AND CONTROL MACHINE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OUT TO ENSLAVE US ALL!!!
MARIJUANA AND THE CONTROL OVER THE WEALTH IT HAS BEEN LEFT TO CREATE UNTO ITSELF., "BECAUSE OF ITS ILLEGALITY" AND THOSE WHO PREY UPON THE SICK AND DYING AND THE MENTALLY WEAKENED AND TORTURED., "THE MEDICAL PHARMECEUTICAL COMPANIES.," ARE FIGHTING FOR CONTROL OVER A MARKET THAT BELONGS TO THEM AND ONLY THEM.
THE ONLY WAY TO END THIS FIGHTING OVER NATURAL OCCURING DRUGS IS TO GIVE THE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO GROW THEIR PAIN RELIEVING PLANTS., ae: "OPIUM POPPIES" AND MARIJUANA.
ONLY WHEN WE TAKE THE NOVELTY AND THE IGNORANCE AND THE MONEY OUT OF THE EQUATION WILL WE HAVE THEN WON THE GREAT WAR AGAINST THE CONTROL MACHINE IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY AND THOSE FUCKERS IN THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR DUMBING DOWN OUR CHILDREN AND OUR CULTURE!!!
THE KNOWLEDGE OF HERBAL MEDICINE AND THE RIGHTS TO BE FREE FROM PAIN AND ENSLAVEMENT TO A TYRANICAL GOVERNMENT AND MEDICAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE POPULAR CULTURE AND MINDSET!!!!!
DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!!!
A BIGGER GOVERNMENT MEANS A BIGGER TAXPAYER OBLIGATION TO THE SUPER STATES APPITITE FOR MONEY AND CONTROL OVER HOW MUCH OF IT YOU CONTROL.
THANKS AGAIN REAL DEBATE!!!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!
more attacks.
Jul 13 2010, 1:44 pm
http://www.kmj580.com/pages/landing_news?Same-Man-Arrested-Seven-Times-for-Burgla=1&blockID=270288&feedID=806
who's the real threat? dispensaries?
second.
Jul 13 2010, 11:07 am
the police is all being federalized, go to prison planet dot com to find out why our votes don't count any more, now the city councils and law enforcement has been hijacked by a criminal group that stole trillions of dollars from the federal reserve.
Guess what?
Jul 13 2010, 11:05 am
Sunflower
Jul 12 2010, 6:30 pm
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@gstlab3
Jul 12 2010, 10:43 am
stopain
Jul 11 2010, 7:35 pm
Hempster
Jul 11 2010, 12:37 pm
@gsblab
Jul 9 2010, 8:57 pm
the 2nd
Jul 8 2010, 10:47 am
anonymous
Jul 8 2010, 9:28 am
Common Sense
Jul 8 2010, 7:20 am
Heists.
Jul 7 2010, 9:48 pm
I bet they have huge laughing parties where they get piss drunk shoot up some steroids and laugh about their victims, and how they lock medical cannabis dispensary personnel after robbing them and manhandling people who don't bow at the government's bureaucrats, tyranny and disregard of the law Proposition 215 they are supposed to enforce.
If you think that medical cannabis has no medicinal value then I wish you the best and hope you can get all the Oxys and Vicodin you need from the pharmaceutical cartels, go and support them, leave people who choose natural medicine to make their choice, we don't need your expectations to rule our lives, stop trying to impose your myopic views to knowledgeable and well informed people.
Go and drink some Obama cool-aid.
every day we loose rights, we must get rights back and stop being treated like a heard of dummies.
we don't need bureaucrats and politicians to control our lives.
Real Debate.
Jul 7 2010, 9:28 pm
GstLab3 is a good man an a patriot, no doubt, and he is entitled to voice his opinion, this is America and he can berate the incompetent bureaucrats that have decimated the American dream with a direct attack against the constitution.
@GstLab3 keep contributing to the most pressing issues with your refreshing, straight forward approach, I look forward to reading your latest comments, I read your comments.
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Jul 7 2010, 4:58 pm
Barry S
Jul 7 2010, 4:29 pm
gsblab
Jul 7 2010, 4:26 pm
Real World Wisdom .
Jul 7 2010, 4:22 pm
Oprah
Jul 7 2010, 4:14 pm
@ hand of god
Jul 7 2010, 3:26 pm
To: @ everyone who hates gstlab
Jul 7 2010, 1:37 pm
Bunch of YOUNG BUCKS that don't have real life exsperience, as of yet. Let them play with the fire long enough and they will surely get burned!
United we stand, divided we fall.
What kind of peaceful, cannabis user would call other cannabis supporters names and wish them dead? Come on guys, you wish he/she would overdose on herion?
hand of god
Jul 7 2010, 1:12 pm
gstlab3
Jul 7 2010, 12:22 pm
HOW ELSE DO I DESCRIBE TO YOU THAT YOUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES ARE IN GRAVE DANGER?
ALL THE EVIDENCE HAS BEEN GATHERED AND STILL YOU WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE GOVERNMENT RUN NEWS!?!?"
IT IS ALL BEING RUN BY THE WRONG TYPES WHO PLAY TO THE GOVERNMENT ELITE.,
INSTEAD OF BEING A BENIFICIAL AND CRITICAL LENS THE MEDIA HAS POLARIZED AND DIVIDED THE COUNTRY WITH THE NON NEWS AND PROPAGANDA OF THE DAY.,
WHO ELSE WOULD WANT TO SHUT OUT OUR RIGHTS TO BUY SELL AND GROW MARIJUANA FOR PROFIT AND OUR RIGHT TO NATURAL AND GOOD HEALTH?!?!?
WHO SIDE ARE YOU PEOPLE ON?
I'M FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND HIS RIGHTS PERIOD NO QUESTIONS.
@ everyone who hates gstlab
Jul 7 2010, 12:17 pm
dr.blue
Jul 7 2010, 11:31 am
@ gslab
Jul 7 2010, 11:26 am
@ gslab blab
Jul 7 2010, 11:23 am
re: to gstlab3
Jul 7 2010, 11:03 am
You don't think some of the shit he's talking about is going on right now? Read before you pass to typing stupid comments like giving us potheads a bad name. It is dangerous living in the border States now. If you live in a city over 200.00 pop. in cali you will hear the music of 9mm's.
to gstlab3
Jul 7 2010, 10:13 am
to below
Jul 7 2010, 10:12 am
gsblab
Jul 7 2010, 10:01 am
Real World Wisdom
Jul 7 2010, 10:00 am
gstlab3
Jul 7 2010, 12:27 am
SET UP A FAKE MEDICAL DISPENSARY FULL OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE LOTS OF JUICEY WEED AND LOTS OF FREE FLOWING CASH INSIDE!!!
THEN HAVE A BUNCH OF HIPPIES AND THE LIKE HANG OUT MAKING A SCENE OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
JUST WAIT!!!! A DO GOODY TWO SHOES WILL SEE THIS AND CALL THE POLICE TO RAID IT AND THEY WILL.,
WHEN THEY BELIEVE THERE IS MONEY TO BE HAD AND EASY CRIMES TO PROSECUTE TOO?!?!? OH MAN!!! IT WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO STAND BY AND THEY WILL COME.
THEN WHEN THE BASTARDS LEAST EXPECT IT THEY GET HIT!!!!!
HIT WITH WHAT?
A LAWSUIT? OR ROTTING MEAT FROM PIGS AND ROTTING SEWAGE FROM HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS IN THE CEILING TILES!!!!!
OR YOU COULD JUST WIPE THEM OUT LIKE A GOOD OLD BOY SHOULD!!
TAKE US TO THE CLEANERS WILL THEY!!???!!!??"
FUCK THEM!! AND FUCK THEIR COMMUNIST BUDDIES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!
THE POLICE WILL NOT STAND FOR LOOSING THEIR COMMRADS OVER THE WEED FOR LONG!!!!
START TO., "COST THEM" THEIR MONEY AND THEIR MORTAL FUTURES ON THIS EARTH!!!!
YOU MIGHT GET SOME RELIEF IF YOU START PLAYING LIKE THEY DO AGAINST US!!!!
LET THE PEOPLE GROW CALIFORNIA!!!!!
WASHINGTON D.C. STAY OUT OF OUR SOVREIGN STATES AND GIVE US OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES AND GOD GIVEN FREEDOMS BACK!!!!
OR PAY THE PRICE OF A CIVIL WAR AND SOCIAL UPHEAVAL LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!!!
SCREW LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCEL MEMBERS AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE FOR THEIR SPINELESSNESS AND FEAR MONGERING AND SUCKING UP TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT !!!!!!!!!
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IS BROKE!!! BROKE!!!! BROKE!!!!!
NO MONEY AT ALL!!! NONE!!!! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PLANING ON TAKING YOUR SOVREIGN STATE FROM YOU!!!!!!
TOO BIG TO FAIL CALIFORNIA?!?
THE FED PLANS ON BAILING YOU OUT.., IF YOU TAKE YOUR MARIJUANA CULTURE AND HAND IT OVER TO THE LIKES OF THE D.E.A.,AND THE NATIONAL GUARD.
THE TROOPS ARE COMING NEXT TO MAKE SURE YOU COMPLY WITH BIG BROTHERS NEW RULES FOR YOUR BROKEN ASS STATE!!!!
THIS WAR ON DRUGS AND THE SITUATION IN MEXICO IS A SPRINGBOARD FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO INSTITUTE MARSHAL LAW ACCROSS THE BOARDER REIGIONS FIRST.,
THEN THE INNER CITIES WILL BE PUT ON CURFEW AND CHECK POINTS SET UP TO DIVIDE AND CONQURE CALIFORNIA.
THE ROADS LEADING WEST ARE BEING SET UP FOR CLOSURE!!!!
JUST LOOK AROUND OUT IN THE DESERT GOING WEST FROM
LOS'ANGELES AND FOLLOW THE OFF ROADS AND SEE HOW MANY ROADS HAVE BECOME NEW DEAD ENDS AND IN SOME PLACES CHAIN LINK FENCES HAVE GONE UP WITH NOTHING BEHIND THEM!!!!!
BEEN THEIR DONE THAT AND HAVE NEVER BEEN SO GLAD TO GET BACK INTO THE HILL COUNTRY OF THE BIBLE BELT!!!
WE'RE PREPARED UP IN THESE HOLLOWS FOR THE EVENTUAL IMPLOSSION OF OUR HAPPY TYRANTS AND THEIR OVER SPENDING GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON D.C..,
THIS BAILOUT IS'NT PAID FOR YET AND THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING AND THE STARVING MASSES OF CHINESE ARE GOING TO COME UNHINGED GIVEN ONE MORE EXTENDED CROP KILLING DROUGHT OR WORSE THE NEXT SOCIAL UPENDING THEY EXPIERIANCE.,
HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE YOU PAYING FOR A LOAF OF BREAD OR A GALLON OF MILK?, OR A DOZEN EGGS?? AND A GALLON OF GAS RIGHT NOW?
KEEP TELLING YOURSELVES BIG GOVERNMENT WILL HELP AND FIX EVERYTHING AND MAKE IT ALL RIGHT AND YOU ARE SURE TO HAVE A VERY RUDE AWAKENING!!!!!!!
VOTE OR FIGHT FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT AND SAY NO MORE!!! LIFELONG RETIREMENT PENSIONS ON THE TAXPAYERS BACK AND YES TO TERM LIMITS FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES!!!
GROW YOUR "OWN", FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!!!
UNTILL THEY CAN ENGINEER ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK THAT IS,
YOU MIGHT WANT TO START WORKING ON A PLAN TO GET OUT AND AWAY FROM THE BOARDER REGIONS AROUND MEXICO!!!!
THE CARTELS DO NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF LOOSING MORE OF THEIR PROFITS TO THE BIG TIME HOME GROWERS IN CALIFORNIA.
IT'S YOU GUYS I"M WARNING.., "THEY" THE CARTEL DOGS.,
THE BANDITOS NARCOS HAVE YOU IN THEIR SIGHTS AND ARE PLAYING HARD BALL EVEN WITH THE MEXICAN ARMY AND THE U.S. D.E.A., C.I.A. AND EVEN OUR SECRETE SERVICE AND OUR UNDERCOVER AGENTS IN FIELD IN THE SOUTHERN MOST PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED AND OR KILLED FOR USE AS PROPAGANDA A REAL WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES INTERESTS HERE!!!
IT'S GOING TO GO BIG WHEN IT DOES GO AND I HOPE IT COMES WITH SOME COMMON SENSE AND RESTRAINT ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS WAR THAT IS COMING TO YOUR AMERICAN STREETS.
Libby Swanner
Jul 6 2010, 11:45 pm
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Fair
Jul 6 2010, 11:29 pm
anonymous
Jul 6 2010, 10:00 pm
Kushman
Jul 6 2010, 9:12 pm
Kushman
Jul 6 2010, 8:57 pm
BigToe
Jul 6 2010, 8:56 pm
How Long?
Jul 6 2010, 8:25 pm
Government follows no rules to maintain control of the heard, it will just be deemed justified by the bureaucrats and international banker cartel. Prison Planet dot com
http://www.lucifereffect.com/about_synopsis.htm
http://www.extremeskins.com/archive/index.php/t-28188.html
the constitution was written by the founding fathers to keep the bankers and the tyranny of government from snatching away our freedom.
they are banning our rights in spite of the constitution and our basic human inalienable rights, given to each and every man individually by our creator.
follow the money.
Jul 6 2010, 7:47 pm
we are not the property of the politicians, with the advise of competent physicians, many are choosing natural medicine that works, It takes something like Fifteen years to become a doctor, most politicians never had a real job, ever.
What gives them the right to attack innocent non-violent medical cannabis patients, against the better judgment of a physician, why are politicians so corrupt and have no accountability, how can they just go in and rob the dispensaries and spend thousands of dollars prosecuting, non-violent people, our prisons are overcrowded, they are releasing the violent predators, to make room for people who don't agree with the tyranny.
License to Steal
Jul 6 2010, 7:36 pm
looks like the war on drugs is really an all out attack on ordinary citizens, while the real drug dealers who make billions are having a good time. Prisons are being filled with non-violent medical cannabis activists and dispensary personnel, soon there will not be any room for the violent predators. we need to wake up to the tyranny, it is a sad day when you will be restrained and brutalized, by people in tidy uniforms, paid by the cattle tax payer, simply for having a few plants, and using natural medicine, not made by the pharmaceutical cartel, that runs our government and the FDA, who are you hurting if you are quietly self medicating in the privacy of your own home???
why does big brother feel they have a right to invade our homes, with their guns and their violence, forcing us to coward in the ground like a dog with no human rights?
how far will they go? check out "The Lucifer Effect" by Philip Zimbardo, they are drunk with power and authority and will not hesitate to harm you to make an example and to teach others to worship big brother government, like they do in Korea, where they refer to their murderous tyrant as a deity or something sacred. this is what the new carbon tax and the new world order want, every day they take away our rights, Proposition 215 is the law and they will not comply with the law, we the citizens never get any new rights.
anonymous
Jul 6 2010, 6:16 pm
Reality Check
Jul 6 2010, 5:06 pm
meluvhead420
Jul 6 2010, 3:41 pm
maraijuana movie night
Jul 6 2010, 3:12 pm
johnny1
Jul 6 2010, 3:02 pm
sounds like the same person making 10 complaints.
The people voted for prop 215. making MMJ legal in Ca.
city officials want to close down as many shops as they can.
reefer madness
damn
Jul 6 2010, 2:36 pm
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