Augusta -
Maine has received 19 applications from
nonprofit groups hoping to operate a medical mairjuana dispensary
in either York County or Down East.
Maine's new medical marijuana law allows one dispensary in each
of the state's eight public health districts. Last month, three
companies were chosen to operate six of them.
Among the applicants are Lucas Sirois, a Farmington contractor who does business as Today's Herbal Care, and Freese Fuller of Hallowell.
Sirois submitted two applications - one for a dispensary in
Sullivan and another in Biddeford. He previously applied to open
dispensaries in western Maine, central Maine and York County.
Fuller, whose group is called The Healing Center, proposes to
open a clinic in Ellsworth.
19 Applications Received for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
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Suspects at large in pot dispensary robbery
Saturday, August 21, 2010
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (KABC) -- Whittier police were searching for two suspects who posed as customers at a marijuana dispensary and then took the security guard's gun to commit a robbery.
On August 10 before 10:45 p.m. the two male suspects were admitted to the dispensary on Alburtis Avenue. According to police they then struggled with the security guard and took his pistol.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7622673
Masked men rob Mission Valley marijuana dispensary
KFMB - 1 day ago
No one was hurt and police say they have a description of the robbers. If you have any information on this pot dispensary robbery, you're asked to call San ...
"Sheriff says pot dispensaries have become crime targets:
The industry has been 'hijacked by underground' drug dealers, Lee Baca says as a suspect is charged in last week's triple murder in West Hollywood, which allegedly has ties to medical marijuana"
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Wednesday took aim at the medical marijuana industry, citing last week's triple murder in West Hollywood as an example of how enterprising criminals have infiltrated some of the dispensaries.
Baca said the dispensaries have strayed from their original mission — to aid the seriously ill — and are now the target of criminals who see an easy way to make money and get drugs.
"The medicinal marijuana program that voters authorized years ago has been hijacked by underground drug-dealing criminals who are resorting to violence in order to control their piece of the action," Baca said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0902-baca-pot-20100902,0,5060998.story
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