Jobs, revenue lost in pot dispensary crackdown

Jobs, revenue lost in pot dispensary crackdown

Chris Roberts, Special to The Chronicle
Friday, November 25, 2011

The federal Department of Justice's crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in California has meant the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue, according to cannabis advocates and government statistics.

An estimated 2,500 people statewide have lost their jobs since late September, when California's four U.S. attorneys sent letters that threatened jail sentences for dispensary owners and the possible seizure of buildings that house the pot clubs, said Dan Rush, director of the United Food and Commercial Workers' national medical cannabis division. The union began organizing medical marijuana workers in May 2010.

Of those jobs, which union officials say include people who are directly employed by marijuana dispensaries as well as those with indirect ties to the industry, about 50 have been lost in San Francisco and dozens more around the Bay Area.

Three city dispensaries have closed since receiving warning letters from Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for Northern California...





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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5070611 in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2378939 in GD

I quit worrying about that years ago..

:sarcasm:

Imagine how far he would have been able to go had he gotten treatment for his drug use back in the day..

I hear it's very popular

United States Patent 6,630,507
Hampson, et al. October 7, 2003

Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

Abstract

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia..."

>>Much Much MORE<<

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

Now it's pretty simple to tell the people that there is no medical use for Cannabis when most people don't know that the very people that spout those lies are lying. And even more curious, when told of the conflict of interest, many (most?) don't seem to care, or even realize the significance, at least from what I've seen here.

Tick Tock Round The Clock the insanity goes on