While some cities successfully managed pot collectives, Los Angeles fumbled and dispensaries sprouted across the city.
The money would be generated by attaching an excise tax to each ounce of pot sold in the legalized dispensaries.
And the government has already failed in its obligation to take over LET's assets, which include schools, dispensaries and hospitals.
Until recently the city had more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks outlets a remarkable statistic considering that the company is headquartered there.
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The family lives in Mahavir Enclave on a 6-foot-wide lane off a decrepit street lined with shoe shops, dispensaries and jewelry stores.
They found that about half of the estimated 130 rural surgeries with their own dispensaries had turnovers of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Surgeries in rural parts of Scotland developed their own dispensaries after it was thought that local populations were too small to support a pharmacy.
President Obama appears unlikely to push the Justice Department to take a hard line against state-sanctioned dispensaries, but a Republican successor could easily view things differently.
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And presidents have pursued the Drug War with full ferocity, shutting down marijuana dispensaries legal under state law and threatening landlords who rent to pot suppliers.
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Similar to the financial blockade against Wikileaks, but admittedly on a smaller scale, banks have refused to offer regular banking and payroll services to medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Pasties are sold in bakeries, in some older pubs and increasingly at pasty-specific dispensaries like the West Cornwall Pasty Company, which has more than 50 locations.
But more and more pharmacists are applying for - and being granted - permission to open shops following the discovery that some of these dispensaries are extremely profitable.
Aside from the constant threat of raids and civil asset forfeiture, medical marijuana dispensaries also have to contend with payment blockades and outright refusal of banking services.
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It would allow states to handle the problems associated with drug use on their own, and allow legal medical marijuana dispensaries to operate without the threat of federal raids.
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The members of Congress have a point if their states allow pot dispensaries for medicinal use, how is it remotely fair for dispensaries to be taxed in an arguably confiscatory way?
In Oakland, CA, meanwhile, folks in need of weed can visit several medical-marijuana dispensaries, which operate under what are comparatively relaxed regulations and allow for treating a wide array of ailments.
So now dispensaries are being attacked and shut down.
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Voters also were judging three competing ballot proposals to manage the city's proliferation of pot shops, forcing residents to weigh the needs of the sick against complaints about crime around the dispensaries.
Industry observers say the Legislature will likely heed the advice of the task force, whose members include representatives for the owners of medical dispensaries, as well as law-enforcement officers and elected officials.
After a marijuana strain called Bio-Diesel won a quality competition in 2009, the name started appearing in dispensaries around Denver, says Ean Seeb, owner of Denver Relief, the outfit that produced the prized variety.
But law enforcement officials say marijuana from Colorado's dispensaries often makes its way to the black market, and even the head of the Colorado agency charged with tracking the medical pot industry suggests no one should copy its measures.
Pot from Colorado's medical marijuana system often described as the most closely regulated in the world routinely makes its way into Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and points east, often from dispensaries that have sold out the back door, he said.
The same situation has in fact played out in other states that approved medical marijuana and dispensaries drug use rates either decline or stay the same (usually they decline) and crime rates are either unaffected or decline (in big states crime tends to drop).
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The company's Leafly iPhone and Android apps, among the most popular of a burgeoning class of electronic ganja guides, help medical marijuana users chose among more than 500 strains (with names like Wonka's Bubbilicious and Blue Dream), find nearby dispensaries, and then post their reviews.
Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, has been dragging her feet ever since medical marijuana was legalized last year, using a lawsuit against the Department of Justice as an excuse not to authorize the 100 dispensaries that by rights should be up and running in the state.
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But when the prohibition and enforcement of drug laws helps cause young men of more than one race and ethnic group to routinely destroy lives, we talk if at all about putting more cops on the street, putting more military hardware in the hands of police forces, and shutting down more pot dispensaries.
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