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Though two dozen cities and seven counties -including Los Angeles, Riverside and Santa Barbara -have approved regulations allowing dispensaries, more than 90 others have passed. moratoriums on new suppliers or banned them. outright.......His operation generated local controversy in San Francisco's Fair Oaks community -- located between the Mission District and the Noe Valley neighborhood -- when it started becoming more like a ca»nabis club for the healthy and hi~~ than a weed venda~ to the afflicted. FAIR Oaks locals, most of them. believers in medical marijuana, at first were laid back about the little pot shop. But feelings hardened as customers flocked in. Reed says his bi.g mistake was revving up business with a newsweekly ad offering ahalf--off special. Pot patients arrived from across the Bay Area, many bereft after a dispensary crackdown in Oakland's downtown "Oaksterdam." Residents compared the revolving door of 300 daily patrons to a beehive on a sunny afternoon. They grumbled about customers double- parking, blocking driveways, flipping off homeowners..... Neighbors watched some youthfirl customers emerge and share their wares with. friends, high-fiving all around. A few reportedly harassed some eighth-grade schoolgirls. One patient was robbed at gunpoint. Crime worries grew. "I saw people coming up on bikes and skateboards, with backpacks, healthy-looking young men," said Dr. Charles Moser, a physician who, like many in Fair Oaks, voted for Proposition 215. Neighborhood critics said they were all for cannabis compassion, but not this free-for-all. Proposition 215 encouraged government plaruiing for safe and affordable distribution, but it didn't mention pot clubs. Source: http://burkeanreflections.blog~ot.com12006/l.2/san-.francisco-reiects- storefront.html. CannaHelp owner to defy city cease-and-desist letter The Desert Sun December 19, 2006 CannaHelp, th.e medical marijuana in Palm Desert, is staying open. in defiance of a cease- and-desist letter from the city. "I'm going to stay open by myself," said owner Stacy Hochanadel, after sending his other employees home. "I don't think it's right what they're doing." The city issued the letter, which Hochanadel received today, following a City Council vote in closed session last Thursday, said City Attorney David Erwin..... Councilman. Robert A. Spiegel said the reason. for the closed session vote was an investigation "not by our police department but by another police department in California. "When they were investigated, they sold marijuana to an undercover police person who did not have correct credentials to buy marijuana," he said.......Hochanade] signed an agreement with. the city earlier this year that the dispensary would only sell medical marijuana to patients with a medical. marijuana identification card issued by Riverside County. But, he said, that part of the agreement had been put on hold following discussions with then-Mayor.lim Ferguson, due to the financial impact on the business which would have had to turn away significant numbers of customers...... CannaHelp has had a business license issued by the city since it opened in October 2005. The dispensary was closed briefly earlier this month when the Special Investigation Unit of the Riverside County Sheriffs Department served a search and seizure warrant on the business But, said Capt. Steve Thetford, chief of the Palm Desert Police Department, "The Palm Desert (department) hasn't made any significant arrests out of CannaHelp" in recent months, the county investigation notwithstanding.. ,.. ]3 75A-87