THE DISPENSARIES

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THE DISPENSARIES
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The Customers

• THE MYTH MEDICAL MJ IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE
  SERIOUSLY ILL
• THE FACT MEDICAL MJ CAN BE RECOMMENDED FOR ANY
  AILMENT THAT MJ PROVIDES RELIEF

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The Sick?

• Marijuana is recommended for any ailment. The
  majority of these recommendations are for
  insomnia, anxiety, depression and muscle pain.
• Of the records we have seen, Cancer, Glaucoma,
  and Aids patients made up less than 3 of the
  people receiving medical MJ from the dispensaries

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Customer Ailments
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Dispensaries Sell to the Young

• The Majority of the patients are under 30 years
  old.
• The number of patients over the age of 50 equals
  the number of patients under 20.

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San Diegos Youthful Ill
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Widespread Ability to Buy Marijuana

• THE MYTH MJ WILL ONLY BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO
  NEED IT
• THE FACT PATIENTS ARE ROUTINELY PROVIDED MJ
  RECS THAT LAST FOR A YEAR WITH NO FOLLOW-UP CARE.
  A RECOMMENDATION CAN BE OBTAINED IF YOU CAN STATE
  YOU SUFFER FROM ANY AILMENT AND MARIJUANA MAKES
  YOU FEEL BETTER.

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THE DOCTORS

• ADVERTISE IN THE READER
• SOME PREQUALIFY PATIENTS ONLINE
• DRS GIVING OUT MJ RECS FOR EVERY AILMENT
  INCLUDING PMS, A.D.D., TOURETTES SYNDROME,
  SCHIZOPHRENIA, ALCOHOLISM ETC
• MORE THAN 50 OF THE RECS FOUND AT THE
  DISPENSARIES CAME FROM 2 DOCTORS.

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THE RECOMMENDATION A MARIJUANA
PRESCRIPTION?
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Legalization of Marijuana by Doctors

• MYTH A DRS RECOMMENDATION FOR MARIJUANA WORKS
  JUST LIKE A PRESCRIPTION.
• FACT A RECOMMENDATION HAS NO REASONABLE CONTROLS
  ON THE AMOUNT OF MJ A PERSON CAN POSSESS.

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• A RECOMMENDATION HAS NO SET AMOUNTS OR A SET
  AMOUNT BY THE PATIENT
• IT IS NOT TAKEN BY THE PATIENT AND IS JUST USED
  TO PROVE HE/SHE CAN POSSESS MARIJUANA.
• THERE IS NO RECORD KEEPING OR CONTROLS ON THE
  AMOUNT OF MARIJUNA A PERSON IS ACTUALLY USING,
  GIVING AWAY, OR SELLING.
• IT SOMETIMES EVEN RECOMMENDS HOW MANY PLANTS YOU
  CAN HAVE DESPITE THE YIELD OF A PLANT BEING A
  TOTAL UNKNOWN.
• THE LACK OF CONTROLS ON THE AMOUNTS A PATIENT CAN
  POSSESS MAKES IT SIMPLE FOR A PATIENT TO
  ILLEGALLY SELL OR DIVERT MARIJUANA

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What is the dosage amount a recommendation
allows a Marijuana patient to have?

• The answer is as much as the patient says he/she
  needs...
• The marijuana medicine sold at the
  dispensaries is sold off a menu board like a
  cafe and not only can a patient obtain various
  varieties of marijuana, but they also can get
  items containing marijuana, such as candy bars,
  marinara sauce for two, pie, baklava, oils,
  creams and honey. Whatever they need.

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How long does a marijuana patient need marijuana?

• The recommendations are routinely 1 year no
  matter what you suffer from.
• Even if you no longer need marijuana for the
  illness it was recommended for, the
  recommendation is still good for the year.
• Renewal from year to year is easily obtained
  because the recs are so easy to get in the first
  place.

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Primary Caregivers
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• The law provides that medical marijuana patients
  can have a primary caregiver.
• Primary caregiver means the individual,
  designated by a qualified patient ... Who has
  consistently assumed responsibility for the
  housing, health, or safety of that patient.. (HS
  CODE 11362.7(d))

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Is This Providing Care?

• MYTH A PRIMARY CAREGIVER IS ONLY SOMEONE WHO
  IS NEEDED TO HELP PROVIDE CARE FOR A PERSON WHO
  IS SO SERIOUSLY ILL THAT THEY CANT HELP
  THEMSELVES.
• FACT DISPENSARIES HAVE PATIENTS THAT THEY HAVE
  NO RELATIONSHIP WITH AT ALL DESIGNATE THEM AS
  THEIR PRIMARY CAREGIVER. THEN THE DISPENSARY
  SELLS THEM WHATEVER MJ THE PATIENT WANTS.

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HOW IT WORKS

• I GET REC FROM A MEDICAL MJ DOCTOR FOR 1 YEAR.
• I DESIGNATE MY FRIENDS AS MY PRIMARY CAREGIVER(S)
• NOW MY FRIENDS AND I HAVE DOCUMENTATION THAT ON
  ITS FACE ALLOWS US TO POSSESS MARIJUANA FOR
  MEDICAL PURPOSES.
• NOW, IF POLICE SHOW UP AT ONE OF THE FRIENDS
  HOUSE AND FIND PLANTS OR MJ, THE CAREGIVER JUST
  SAYS, I AM GROWING FOR THE PATIENT I CARE FOR.

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HOW IT WORKS

• THERE IS NO RECORD KEEPING OF WHO THE PRIMARY
  CAREGIVERS ARE.
• DOCTORS WILL SELL YOU A CAREGIVER FORM OR GIVE
  YOU A BLANK FORM SIGNED BY THE DOCTOR.
• ONE OF THESE FORMS WAS USED TO BUY MJ FOR A
  NARCOTICS K9 AT A DISPENSARY.

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DISPENSARIES PRIMARY CAREGIVERS?

• DISPENSARIES HAVE THEMSELVES DESIGNATED AS A
  PRIMARY CAREGIVER DESPITE THEIR ONLY
  RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PATIENT IS THEY SUPPLY MJ
• IF YOU HAVE YOUR PAPERWORK, YOU GET MJ. THERE IS
  NOTHING TO PREVENT THE PATIENT FROM GETTING MJ
  FROM OTHER SOURCES SUCH AS ANOTHER DISPENSARY.
• THE ONLY CARE THEY PROVIDE IS THEY SELL MJ TO
  WHOEVER HAS PAPERWORK

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MARIJUANA DEALERS AS CAREGIVERS

• MYTH DISPENSARIES ARE LEGITIMATE HEALTH CARE
  FACILITIES THAT PROVIDE CARE AND COUNSELING TO
  PATIENTS.
• FACT THE DISPENSARIES ARE A STOREFRONT FOR THE
  ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF MJ TO ANY ONE WHO CAN GET
  A REC OR WHO GETS A PRIMARY CAREGIVER FORM.

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LOTS OF MEDICINE CHOICES
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• MYTH A PATIENT GOES TO A DISPENSARY TO GET
  HIS/HER REQUIRED AMOUNT OF MJ BASED ON HIS
  RECOMMENDATION
• FACT THE DISPENSARY SELLS MJ, CANDY, AND FOOD TO
  THE PERSON BASED ON WHAT THEY ASK FOR WITH NO
  RECORD KEEPING OF HOW MUCH THEY HAVE SUPPLIED AND
  TO WHO IT HAS BEEN SUPPLIED.

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Unlimited Marijuana

• YOU CAN GO IN DAILY TO A DISPENSARY AND BUY MJ.
• YOU CAN GO TO MULTIPLE DISPENSARIES ON THE SAME
  DAY
• PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS ARE GOING INTO THE STORES
  AT THE SAME TIME AND THE PRIMARY CAREGIVERS ARE
  BUYING MJ FOR THEMSELVES AND THE PATIENTS ARE
  ALSO BUYING MJ FOR THEMSELVES.

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WHO SUPPLIES THE DISPENSARIES?

• DISPENSARIES ARE SUPPLIED BY VENDORS WHICH IS A
  POLITICAL CODE FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN SELL THEM
  MARIJUANA.
• DISPENSARIES ARE JUST A STOREFRONT THAT ALLOWS MJ
  DEALERS TO SELL THEIR MARIJUANA.

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• RECENT CASE INDIVIDUAL SHOWED UP TO A
  DISPENSARY AS A VENDOR AND WAS IN POSSESSION
  OF A POUND OF MJ AND LOADED SEMI-AUTOMATIC
  HANDGUN WITH AN EXTENDED MAGAZINE.
• NUMEROUS DEALERS AND GROWERS NOW STATE THEY ARE
  MERELY SUPPLYING MJ TO DISPENSARIES FOR
  COMPASSIONATE USE AND SHOW LAW ENFORCEMENT
  PRIMARY CAREGIVER FORMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO
  ATTEMPT TO AVOID PROSECUTION.

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• WE EVEN HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO SET THEMSELVES UP AS
  MOBILE DISPENSARIES. THESE INDIVIDUALS JUST
  GET THEMSELVES DESIGNATED AS A CAREGIVER FOR
  ANYONE WITH A RECOMMENDATION AND THEN DELIVER
  WHATEVER MJ IS ORDERED FOR CASH.
• THEY DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PERSON THEY
  ARE CARING FOR OTHER THAN THAT THEY HAVE
  PAPERWORK AND THAT THEY HAVE CASH. THEY DO NOT
  KNOW IF THE PATIENT IS GETTING MJ FROM OTHER
  SOURCES NOR DO THEY KNOW HOW MUCH THE PATIENT
  NEEDS FOR HIS/HER CARE.
• THE OLD NAME FOR MOBILE DISPENSARY WAS
  NEIGHBORHOOD DRUG DEALER.

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Where are the dispensaries?

• Some are located near residential neighborhoods
  and schools
• More are appearing every month
• In the last year and a half we went from no known
  dispensaries to in excess of 20 storefronts. Not
  including numerous mobile dispensaries

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DISPENSARIES ARE ILLEGAL

• State law was  expanded in 2004 by a new law, SB
  420 (Health Safety Code 11362.7-8), which  (1)
  authorizes caregivers who provide marijuana to
  patients to be compensated for the costs of their
  services, though not on a for-profit basis and
  (2)  allows patients to form cultivation
  "collectives" or "cooperatives."  On careful
  examination however, neither of these provisions
  provides a green light for sales of cannabis.
  Those dispensaries that are selling marijuana
  over the counter accordingly do so at the
  tolerance of local authorities.
• THE ABOVE EXCERPT IS FROM THE CANORML WEB SITE
  THE CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL
  ORGANIZATION TO REFORM MARIJUANA LAWS.