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ARCATA <br />• There are two dispensaries in town that share a building. <br />The two dispensaries have an ongoing disagreement with each. other that has <br />resulted innumerous calls for police services to settle disputes, <br />• The facilities do not have the correct electrical support and continuously blow out <br />the electricity in the area. They have not complied with upgrading their electrical. <br />systems or responded to fire department concerns regarding proper exits and <br />sigmage. <br />• There have been numerous instances where people have purchased marijuana at <br />the dispensary and then resold it at a nearby park. <br />A doctor has came to the dispensaries and, for a fee, will provide a medicinal <br />marijuana recommendation for just about any complaint the patient makes. <br />(Source Staff Report to Davis City Council: Medical Marijuana June 13, 2005) <br />BAKERSFIELD <br />Sep 8th, 2005. DEA arrested three subjects in raid on the Free and Easy cannabis <br />dispensary. Kern County sheriffs sununoned the DEA after being called to investigate a <br />robbery at the facility. Police found plants growing at one subject's home plus 20 lbs of <br />marijuana, and illegally possessed firearms. . <br />(Source) http://www.canorml.org/news/fedmmjcases.html <br />BERKELEY <br />March 30, 2000: Two males armed with sawed off shotguns forced entry into a residence <br />and forced the occupant at gun paint to turn over a safe. A subsequent investigation <br />revealed that a second resident who was not home at the time was a former director of a <br />IvIMJ Dispensary and was the intended target of the robbery. <br />October 2001, December 2001 and June 2002: The 1vIM:J Dispensary on University was <br />robbed. Largos sums of money and Marijuana taken.. <br />March 2003: A home invasion robbery over marijuana cultivation escalated into a <br />homicide. <br />December 2003: TheMMJ Dispensary on. Telegraph was robbed. (No further info <br />provided) <br />April 2004: A home invasion. robbery investigation. resulted in the seizure of $69,000.00, <br />ten. pounds of Marijuana and a "Tech 4" machine pistol. <br />"While recognizing the medical needs of the cannabis using patients, staff is concerned <br />about the potential for crime and violence associated with the distribution and cultivation. <br />of Marijuana" <br />{Source) City Manager's report to the Berkeley City Council <br />6 <br />75A-15 <br />