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Phil Urie, a deputy District Attorney with San Joaquin. County, said the way the county interprets the law, the retail. sale of marijuana, even those who have a doctor's recommendation, is not legal He said other counties throughout the state that allow storefront sales are wrong, as dispensaries are outside the realm of the proposition. "The law simply does not allow the sale of marijuana," Urie said. "People are allowed to posses and cultivate it, but They can't buy it. lt's a huge hole that's always been there in Prop. 21.5. There is no legal mechanism for obtaining marijuana." mmartiiier~i>,trivallevherald.com. Source: httna/www.visidebavarea.com/dai.lvreview/localnews/ci 4753809 Store selling marijuana, say police By LAITH AGHA Herald Staff Writer Ghetto-Tech in Seaside has a license to be in the clothing business. But Seaside police say the urban. apparel store's involvement in a different kind of business has its owner and an accomplice facing serious charges..... Following leads that connected Ghetto-Tech with drug activity, Seaside detectives said they apprehended Fitzgerald after he exited the stare. Police said they found more than two ounces of marijuana and $1,500 cash on him. Officers searching the store said they discovered marijuana stowed inside shoes for sale. Police said. they found four digital scales, baggies, cash and a loaded semi-auto2natie pistol.. Source: http://www.montereyherald.com/mldJmontereyheraldlnews/IocaU l 6202071.htm San Francisco Rejects Storefront Marijuana Shop Wednesday, December 27, 2006 This Los Angeles Times article details the interesting story of Kevin Reed, a medical marijuana dispenser in San. Francisco who had to close up shop despite the city's liberal reputation: Kevin Reed. launched his medical marijuana business two years ago, armed with big dreams and an Excel spreadsheet. Happy customers at his Green Cross cannabis club were greeted by "bud tenders" and glass jars brimming with high-quality weed at red-tag prices. They hailed the slender, gentle Southerner as a ganja good. Samaritan. Though Reed set out to run it like a Walgreens, his tiny storefront shop ended up buzzing with jazzy joie de vivre. Turnover was Starbucks-style: On a good day, $30,000 in business would walk through the black., steel-gated front door. Today, the 32-year-old cannabis capitalist is looking for a job, h.is business undone by its own success and unexpected opposition in one of America's most proudly tolerant places. Critics in nearby Victorian homes called Reed a neighborhood. nuisance. Although. four of five San Francisco voters support medical marijuana, the realities of dispensing the contentious medicine have proved far more controversial......Today, about 200,000 Californians have a doctor's permission to use cannabis, which they can obtain through more than. 250 dispensaries, delivery services and patient collectives - 120 of them in Los Angeles County alone. Medical marijuana, activists say, has become a $1-billion. business. There's been plenty of blowback. Local governments have been grappling with how to regulate storefront sales, still prohibited under federal law despite California's tolerance. 12 75A-86