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January 23"~; A silent 911 call forces police to check out a home on Simonston <br />Boulevard. in Markham. Whoever made it will regret the unexplained hang-up. <br />Authorities are surprised to find agrow-op on the premises. Mare than 100 plants were <br />inside and so were a 10 and. a 15-year-old. Both were turned over to the Children's Aid <br />Society. <br />January 24ti'; York Police visit an address on Weldrick Road in Richmond HiII and find <br />450 pot plants, a lot of hydroponics equipment and two kids. One is 12 years old, the <br />other only 11 months. <br />Source: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news 5562_a~x <br />As scrutiny has increased, some dispensaries have been exposed as mere money making <br />enterprises despite the supposed restrictions of "non-profit" or "reasonable <br />compensation". Even these blatant manipulations of Prop 215 and SB420 are defended <br />by the likes of the Americans for Safe Access and former Senator Sohn Vasconcellos. <br />Marijuana clinics prompts U.S. crackdown <br />The Associated Press /Published: March 10, 2007 <br />LOS ANGELES: U.S. drug agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche convertible <br />to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense <br />marijuana only to seriously ill people, and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable <br />compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car <br />suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit <br />clinic.....According to court papers, an investigation found records showing $2.3 <br />million was deposited in a clinic bank account over eight months starting in <br />December 2005, and Rose wrote himself weekly checks of $9,fi00 ($499,200 per yr). <br />California was the first of 12 states to allow the sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes; <br />and it is regarded as having the loosest regulations. Oversight is lax, and there are few <br />specific guidelines for buyers and sellers of a drug still illegal under U.S. law......Federal <br />officials raided 1 l Los Angeles-area dispensaries in one day in January, the largest such <br />crackdown....DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen said authorities chose clinics that were <br />making big money, had became hot spots for crime or were part of large franchises. The <br />raided clinics on average made $20,000 in profits each day, she said......Police, clinic <br />owners, activists and legislators -even the law's author -cannot say for sure how <br />much money clinic owners can legally earn. "A profit is in the eye of the beholder," said <br />Joseph David Elford, a lawyer for Americans for Safe Access, a medicinal marijuana <br />advocacy group. 1Llford said ahands-oft government approach to the clinics should <br />boost competition, keeping marijuana prices affordable for those who need it and <br />forcing owners to limit profits. Pullen said that has not happened. The author of the <br />2003 law, then-state Sen. John Vasconcellos, has no problem with clinic owners <br />earning Hefty salaries as long as they provide help for ill people........ "We're <br />helping people who are sick and they have this fascist mentality against good health <br />and pleasure," Vasconcellos said...... <br />Source: htt.p:/!www,i]}t.comlarticles/ap/2007/03/]0/america/NA-GEN-US-Medical- <br />Mari juana.php <br />13 <br />75A-108 <br />