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Four months later, a masked gunman fired four shots into a dispensary worker's car as he pulled into the parking lot. The worker hit the gas and plowed through a fence to make his getaway. In July of this year, one of the club's customers was ambushed and killed at a nearby gas station and his pot taken. And this past February, the brothers themselves were involved in a shootout at a Fremont hotel. "These girls lured them to a party through MySpace," Rosenthal said. "Six guys showed up heavily armed and the bullets started flying." Both brothers were wounded, and both have had to undergo repeated operations ..... According to a federal indictment, these are the year -by -year sales at Winslow and Abraham Norton's Compassionate Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary outside Hayward: 2004 $74,000, 2005$1.3 million, 2006 $21 million, 2007 $26.3 million" Sales for first six months of the year. Source: http: / /sfgate.com /cgi- bin /article.cgi ?f = /c /a /2007 /11 /05/BA90T4PQP.DTL During this quarter, several cities have either banned dispensaries in their jurisdiction or have begun the process to do so. Another City Says No to Marijuana Dispensaries Story Created: Oct 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM PDT Moorpark is about to join the growing list of local cities saying'no' to medical marijuana dispensaries. Just Monday night the city of Goleta voted to stop medical marijuana dispensaries.... Tonight Moorpark City Council is expected to ban dispensaries within its city limit, becoming the third city in Ventura County to do so ..... Several other Ventura County cities have already banned medical marijuana dispensaries; Oxnard and Simi Valley. Source: http: / /www.keyt.com /news /local /10620492.html Rush on to regulate medical pot By HARRISON SHEPPARD MediaNews / Monterey County Herald (California) / August 20, 2007 SACRAMENTO More than a decade after California voters passed legalized medical marijuana, an explosion of dispensaries and patients has cities and counties scrambling to regulate the operations. In Los Angeles where the number of dispensaries soared from just a handful to more than 200 in the last two years stunned city officials recently passed a moratorium on new clinics until they can develop guidelines. Hundreds of other cities up and down California have no regulations at all on medical marijuana dispensaries, including at least 28 where clinics or delivery services are operating, according to a Daily News analysis. Law enforcement officials state that a lack of local oversight could allow dispensaries to open near schools or parks, with no way for authorities to remedy the situation. "I think they could easily be surprised," Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden, who chairs a statewide task force on medical marijuana. "They're not prepared for the issues that will surround dispensaries opening up." According to Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group, 26 cities and eight counties in California have ordinances allowing and regulating dispensaries. An additional 55 cities and two counties have enacted bans (which some advocates maintain are illegal), and 75 cities and six counties have imposed temporary moratoria. The remainder of the state's 478 incorporated cities and 58 counties have yet to specifically address the issue. Throughout California, there are at least 400 known medical marijuana dispensaries and likely hundreds more that are unpublicized ...... Pro-legalization groups estimate there are 150,000 to 200,000 medical- marijuana users in California up from about 30,000 just five years ago. Law enforcement agencies remain concerned about the potential for unregulated dispensaries, with their stashes of drugs and cash, to attract crime to neighborhoods. And some of the facilities, they say, are simply profit - making enterprises that sell at stiff prices to healthy youths and the seriously ill alike. The Los Angeles Police Department has reported an increase in crime near some of facilities, and has received complaints about activities such one dispensary handing out flyers for free marijuana samples to students at Grant High School in Valley Glen........ Source: httD:/ /www.innovations.harvard.edu /news /54621.html ?n =1 11