A few days ago the famous Berkeley’s Patients Group, aka The BPG, closed its doors—ending employment for seventy people and safe access to medical marijuana for 9,000 patients. Why? The Federal Government hates pot smokers. And so does Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for Northern California.
The threat-filled letter Haag sent to the BPG cited assorted federal law violations and pointed out that BPG’s location was within 1,000 feet of two schools: The Center for Early Intervention on Deafness and Cole Bilingual de Berkeley, a French bilingual grade school.
Despite being located closer than 1,000 feet to a pot club, Jill Ellis, executive director of the Center for Early Intervention on Deafness seemed supportive of the dispensary. She told California Watch: “They really have been caring, supportive neighbors, concerned neighbors, clearly very interested in our mission, our families. Their security provides a great asset and enhancement to our community. We’ve never had any incidents at all.”
But Haag isn’t trying to hear all that. She rebutted with, “People in the community may be supportive of the dispensary, until there’s an armed robbery and people come running out of the dispensary shooting guns.”
Despite a nasty legal battle between two former employees, BPG’s co-founder and a senior manager, plus owing Uncle Sam hella cash—about $6.3 million in back taxes, interest and fees for marijuana sales from 2004 to 2007—BPG plans to move forward by launching a new medical marijuana delivery service set to begin later this month. Interested in signing up? Click here.
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Insane!! And thats indeed how she looks.
I bet you medical greedheads are sorry you sunk Prop 19 now that the Feds are coming for you. And you thought it was going to be nothing but sweet monopoly money rolling in, didn't you?
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