75A - PH - MEDICAL MARIJUANA - PROHIBIT

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• Problem of patients selling to non-patients (similar to providing alcohol to a juvenile waiting outside a liquor store • Documented cases of robberies outside MMJ Dispensaries • Dispensaries create alternative methods to market products -such as food items called Buddafingers, Munchy Way, Rasta Reese's and Puff-a- Mint Pattie • Complaints from patients that other illegal drugs are being sold at the dispensary • Marijuana dispensaries perpetuate asub-culture that openly supports behavior consistent with criminal activity and publishes instructional material on th.e web. Examples include: 1. Assume you are under surveillance if you are in any way involved in providing medical marijuana to patients. 2. Do not discuss sensitive matters on the phone, through the mail, by e-mail, or in you home, car, dispensary collectives or office. 3. Don't gossip, brag or ask for compromising or unnecessary information about medical marijuana operations and activities. 4. You. should be cautious of theft. Many patients and care providers have been robbed because the wrong person knows sensitive information • Management from an established dispensary told police that they cannot keep the criminal.element out. CALIFORNIA NARCOTIC OFFICERS ASSOCIATION Agents have conducted sting operations on web sites such. as "Craigslist" and. recently conducted an investigation which resulted in the arrest of a subject for the sate of three pounds of marijuana as well as possession of an additional four pounds. This subject was an employee of a local MMJ Dispensary. In atl of these communities, law enforcement leaders were concerned with the impacts to the .public health, safety and welfare by the commercial marijuana dispensing enterprise. All wished that they dial not exist in their community. The trouble seems to occur when a large number of marijuana users, legal (under State law) and illegal gather at one location making them. easy targets for illegal drug dealers; those freelance illegal drug dealers who are trying to recruit individuals with a doctors recommendation to legitimize (under State law) their sales and possession; and those who wish to prey upon the ill to steal their marijuana. This is compounded by the vast amounts of cash and little or no oversight of the processes of prescription, procurement and sales of MMJ. Al.l of these impacts are avoidable if the commmercial marijuana dispensing business were not allowed to locate in our community. 29 75A-38