PIDC's News & Announcements
Posted July 13, 2006
Alameda County offers marijuana IDs
Posted
from Oakland Tribune 07/13/06
Starting Aug. 1,
Alameda County will issue medical marijuana identification cards that
will be recognized by county marijuana dispensaries and by law
enforcement statewide.
The Alameda County Board of
Supervisors voted 4-0 Tuesday to set
a $50 fee for the cards, which will be issued by the Oakland Cannabis
Buyers' Cooperative. Board President Keith Carson was absent.
The cards will be the only ones
recognized by marijuana
dispensaries in the county's unincorporated areas, according to a
county staff report.
The cards will be issued as part of a
statewide
identification card system and will be recognized by state and local
law enforcement, according to the staff report.
County public health management
analyst Pam Willow said 20 counties are providing such cards, though
two — San Diego and San Bernardino — have
launched court challenges questioning their obligation
to provide medical marijuana or the
identification cards.
The public health department
estimates about 10,000 cards will
be issued in the county each year and about one-quarter of the people
applying for cards will qualify for a Medi-Cal fee reduction that will
cut the cost of the card in half.
Patients will need to provide proof
of identity, a doctor's
recommendation for marijuana and proof of Alameda County residency. The
cards will be good for one year.
2001 July 24
Oakland City
Council modifies
guidelines regarding: status of caregiver/patient; permitted
quantities of processed cannabis, and number of plants; and an
avenue of exception, when a physician certifies that a patient's needs
exceed Oakland's standard permitted limits on dried
cannabis, and plants in cultivation.
New Web site
posted by the Liberatian Party California, 215 NOW! please
visit and take part in the campaign to implementHealth and Saftey Code
section 11362.5. You should also visit marijuananews.com
for the most up to date tracking of news related to this issue.
The Oakland CBC is
now reopened! Due to a federal injunction, the OCBC is NOT
DISPENSING MEDICINE at this time. The OCBC is maintaining its patient
files, and is currently accepting applications for membership, to
qualify patients under Health and Safety Code section 11362.5.
LEGAL CANNABIS - The Hemp Store
Located in the same premises as OCBC, the hemp store is open to the
public and is a great place to buy hemp. Buying hemp helps
save the planet. Buying it at the OCBC helps support the
OCBC, and supports safe access to medical cannabis.
In order to read the
news releases below, please download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader by
clicking the following button:
September
13, 1999 - U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES FOR CANNABIS
CLUBS CLEARS
WAY FOR DISTRIBUTION TO PATIENTS WITH MEDICAL NECESSITY.
Click
here to read the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's ruling (This
is a pdf file so you must have the Adobe Acrobat
Reader plug-in). Or
click here to see the Court's ruling posted at marijuananews.com.
Oakland makes
OCBC staff members officers of the city, the July 28
ordinance passed unanimously by the City Council on the second of two
readings. The ordinance is intended to afford staff members legal
immunity through compliance with a provision of the Controlled
Substances Act that prevents federal prosecution of such officers
engaged in carrying out a city ordinance pertaining to controlled
substances. On its first reading, July 7, 1998, the ordinance passed
the Oakland Public Safety Committee and Oakland City Council
unanimously. The third and final reading produced a unanimous vote on
July 28, 1998 before the full City Council. The Oakland City Council
also approved guidelines
for cultivation and possession (see
news above, 2001 July 24) for medical patients
that live in Oakland, CA. This guideline, was modeled after the federal
Compassionate Investigative New Drug program that currently distributes
medical cannabis to eight legal patients. This guideline passed with a
unanimous vote on June 23, 1998, by the Oakland City Council. The
guideline was brought back to council for review for issues raised by
Mayor Harris. Then Mayor Harris and Council member Del Le Funte changed
their minds on the second reading, July 21, yielding a 7-2 vote, this guideline
still was approved without the former Mayors support. Note!
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the Ordinance (140,000
bytes) and Guideline (139,000 bytes) pdf files.
Do you
recognize the criminals below? These undercover agents tried to break
the law by buying medicine with forged doctor's recommendations and
were discovered by staff at the May 21 press conference (see
below). Click on picture to
see enlarged photo.
One news
account about the May 21 discovery of Undercover
infiltrators. (Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this site.)
A second news
account about the May 21 discovery of undercover
infiltrators. (Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this site.)
Click on photo to see enlarged photo.
May 21, 1998 press conference at the
co-op, from left, Yvonne Westbrook, Ima Carter, Ken Estes, and attorney
Jerald Ulleman
Preliminary federal injunction,
the two-page May 19 order from federal Judge Breyer ordering the
closure of the cooperative. Note! You must have
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file. (112,000 bytes) Judge
Breyer's complete May 13 ruling in the federal civil lawsuit against
six Northern California medical marijuana dispensaries, including the
cooperative, can be found here.
Institute of
Medicine, a nice follow-up letter from the independent
scientists who visited the cooperative on Dec. 13, 1997, as part of the
$1 million survey of marijuana research they are carrying out for the
Office of National Drug Control Policy. Note! You
must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this one-page .pdf file.
(184,000 bytes)
Click on photo to see enlarged photo.
Jeff Jones, right, shows some medicinal
herb starts to IOM scientists at the co-op Dec. 13, 1997
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