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Modesto Medical Marijuana News Edition Date March 10, 2010
Merced Sun Star - March 4th, 2010

LIVINGSTON -- The City Council on Thursday will consider an emergency ordinance to place a 45-day moratorium on opening medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

A city staff report prepared for the council explains that someone recently asked about the process needed to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Livingston. City Manager ...

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Siskiyou Daily News - November 21st, 2009

Yreka, Calif. -

The public had a chance to weigh in on a possible moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries Thursday night as the Yreka City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting with two related ordinances up for discussion.
The first commenter from the public told the council that she had tried various prescriptions ...

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The Modesto Bee - November 11th, 2009

Addison DeMoura still wants to do business in Oakdale, even after drug agents raided his medical marijuana dispensary and took him from his house -- handcuffed and in underwear, he said -- as a newspaper reporter snapped photographs.

Now, more than two years after his arrest, the case against DeMoura, 35, and the Oakdale Natural Choice ...

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The Modesto Bee - October 28th, 2009

A tip from a utility crew led Modesto police to a $1 million marijuana growing operation Monday in a home owned by the city in the Dry Creek river plain.

The city leases the house to a man through Wolverine Property Management, which has overseen five homes located within city parks since 2005.

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T Comp Consulting - July 25th, 2009
In a well rounded piece by J. Craig Canada, the owner of Weedmaps tries to backpedal on his disingenuous statement to the WSJ and AP this week. The boycott is growing and hopefully advertisers will realize this is not the type of rogue organization that they should be aligned with.

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Examiner - July 24th, 2009

Justin Hartfield, who owns weedmaps.com, a "medical" marijuana dispensary listing and referral website that pulls down $250,000 per year, told the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal this week that medical marijuana is "a joke" and he lied to his doctor to get his recommendation.

Weedmaps is a founder of The Dispensary Defense ...

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Free Tainted - July 23rd, 2009
In a time when so many patients are fighting for safe access in their communities, the last thing we need is a member of our community exploiting patients for personal gain and making outlandish claims about the community. Justin Hartfield, the owner of weedmaps.com, has now taken his story of deceit and tom-foolery to the Associated Press and ...

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Modesto Bee - January 20th, 2009

So we're expecting some sort of marijuana ID system to come before the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors ("Marijuana ID reviewed by county, Jan. 12, Page B-1) "sometime in the next few months?" Something that's been in the works for 2½ years?

Oh, spare us. Please.

Spare us the posturing, the preening, the "Reefer Madness" ...

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Modesto Bee - January 12th, 2009

A medical marijuana identification card program will come before the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors sometime in the next few months. It's a program that has been in the works for more than 2½ years.

Stanislaus is one of just 12 of the state's 58 counties that does not already have an identification card program, which is ...

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Modesto Bee - December 12th, 2008

Monday's sentencing of two Modesto men convicted on federal drug charges for operating a medical marijuana dispensary was postponed until Friday because one of the defense attorneys is finishing another trial.

Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Ruiz Montes, both 28, were convicted in May of manufacturing marijuana and distributing the drug, as ...

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Imperial Valley News - November 25th, 2008
Modesto, California United States Attorney McGregor Scott and DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña announced that United States District Judge Oliver W. Wanger sentenced Luke Anthony Scarmazzo, 28, of Modesto, Calif. to 21 years and 10 months and Ricardo Ruiz Montes, 28, of Modesto, to 20 years for conducting a continuing criminal ...

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Fresno Bee - November 21st, 2008
An aspiring hip-hop artist and his business partner in a lucrative Modesto medical-marijuana operation were given lengthy prison terms Friday for violating federal drug laws.

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Mercury News - November 21st, 2008

FRESNO, Calif.—Two men who ran a medical marijuana dispensary in Modesto are headed to prison after being convicted of running a criminal enterprise.

A federal judge in Fresno on Friday sentenced 28-year-old Luke Scarmazzo to nearly 22 years and 28-year-old Ricardo Montes to 20 years for manufacturing marijuana and possessing it with ...

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SF Gate - November 21st, 2008
A Merced County woman with back and neck pain and a clean 37-year driving record is the latest California medical marijuana patient to have her driver's license yanked by the Department of Motor Vehicles, says an advocacy group that has sued on her behalf.

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Capitol Weekly - November 20th, 2008
In this year’s presidential election, medical marijuana advocates in California were pretty clear on which candidate they were rooting for. On multiple occasions, Democrat Barack Obama has pledged to end the federal raids that have bedeviled the state’s dispensaries for years under the Bush administration.

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