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Merced County supervisors ban medicinal marijuana dispensaries By CORINNE REILLY / MERCED SUN -STAR / December 21, 2007 MERCED -- Merced County officials passed an ordinance this week permanently banning medical marijuana dispensaries across the unincorporated county. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to support the ordinance, which mirrors ordinances adopted by the cities of Modesto, Ceres, Merced, Patterson, Atwater and Los Banos. Many other cities have moratoriums on dispensaries ...... Besides attracting crime, they can lower property values, disrupt nearby businesses and increase illegal drug use and demands on police, county planning officials said....... Source: http: / /www.modbee.com /local /story /158805.html Marijuana Dispensaries Banned in Brentwood Posted by Sarin Kodchian on Dec 23, 2007 BRENTWOOD— Tuesday night, the Brentwood City Council unanimously approved a permanent ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. Police Capt. Brian Strock and Brentwood Planning Manager Heidi Klein made a presentation on the ordinance before the voting...... What the year long investigation proved was an increase in crime and illegal marijuana use and possession. The detailed search included over 14 months of consultations, surveys, and detailed research on the negative effects in connection to dispensaries. Armed robberies, violence, illegal sales and consumption are among the most prevalent negative effects reported........ Source: http://www.canyon - news.com /artman2 /Dublish/Local News 10/Mariivana Disbensaries Banned in Brentwood.nhn The media has begun to investigate the marijuana dispensary system. Articles delving into the process of obtaining a marijuana recommendation as well as the concept of medical marijuana has been the focus of a few investigative reports. The Debate On California's Pot Shops Reporter: AP / Dec 31, 2007 / (CBS) This segment was originally broadcast on Sept. 23, 2007. It was updated on Dec. 30, 2007. Eleven years ago, California became the first of a dozen states in the nation to legalize medical marijuana...... Well, how is the California state law working? As correspondent Morley Safer reports, the answer involves another statute: the law of unintended consequences ...... it's clear there are legions of people buying medical marijuana for the sole purpose of getting high. For both them and the truly ill in California, it's become an easy matter: just drop by your little pot shop around the corner . .... There are hundreds of such stores in the state, and as many as 400 in southern California alone. The people who run them are members of the state's latest entrepreneurial class, calling themselves "caregivers." The feds call them something else. Case in point is a young man of many faces named Luke Scarmazzo...... in his case, business was good: in the town of Modesto, population 200,000, he sold $4.5 million worth of medical marijuana in two years. And he was paid a good salary, too. "I took home $13,000 a month," he says. "I was working a lot of hours. ".....And even one of the key proponents of medical marijuana says things have gotten out of hand. "It's just ridiculous the amount of money that's going through these cannabis clubs. It's absolutely ridiculous," says Scott Imler, a minister in the United Methodist Church who has long been active in promoting medical marijuana ...... Imler has second thoughts. "The purpose of proposition 215 was not to create a new industry. It was to protect legitimate patients from criminal prosecution," Imler says. The aim back then, reflected in television spots, was for a highly regulated system in which licensed pharmacies would dispense medical marijuana to the seriously ill...... A decade later, if you've got a note from a doctor, you can buy medical pot for just about any imaginable condition. "Let me just ask you plain and simple. Is there this proliferation because people are simply using, quote, unquote, medical marijuana, to get high ?" 13