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Donor Keeps Marijuana Dispensary Alive
Posted by CN Staff on January 16, 2004 at 08:20:46 PT
By Michelle Meyers, Staff Writer
Source: Tri-Valley Herald 
Hayward -- A 30-year-old Hayward businessman spent $11,000 to keep Hayward Hempery owner Cheryl Adams -- someone he had never met -- from being evicted from her downtown shop. The man, a Tennyson High School graduate, said he had once visited The Hempery and its medical marijuana dispensary. A medical marijuana patient himself, he read with interest about her business' potential demise in an ANG Newspapers' publication and decided to bail her out, he said.
"It's the oldest (dispensary) in town, and I thought it would be a shame to let it go," he explained. The lifetime Hayward resident, who asked that his name not be published, said he was a big proponent of Proposition 215, which legalized pot in California for medicinal purposes. His father had his stomach removed due to cancer and was given just four months to live, he said. Marijuana made it easier for his father to eat and he ended up living for two years, he said. Adams and the man both said they consider one another partners in the business, located on the corner of Foothill Boulevard and B Street. Adams was forced to vacate the building at the end of last year because she was behind several months in rent, said Mountain View Realtor and property owner Ron Ikebe. She had until sometime this week to come up with the money before the eviction became final. The man went into Ikebe's lawyer's office in San Jose on Tuesday and gave him a cashier's check, Ikebe confirmed. Adams said she was surprised, but happy, not just for the man's willingness to help, but to have a partner to help run the shop. She's been cleaning up the shop after a recent burglary and vandalism, and hopes to open again by Monday, she said. In the meantime, the city notified Ikebe that he had to remove the stucco overhang on the building, which was starting to come loose. So some construction is ongoing. Adams and her Hayward Patient Group dispensary have been in the spotlight lately as the City Council struggled to come up with a way to allow her dispensary and two others to exist in combination with conflicting state and federal drug laws and efforts to revive downtown. Possibly complicating the issue could be Adams' arrest in Newark last month on felony marijuana possession charges. Plus, her business has been the victim of several recent burglaries. The City Council agreed last month to grandfather in the three dispensaries, all of which had been operating in violation of the city's zoning law. According to the agreement, Adams' dispensary and the neighboring Local Patients Cooperative are allowed to operate for three years, under certain conditions. Hayward Patients' Resource Center (HPRC), also nearby on Foothill Boulevard, is allowed to operate for one year. If one of the other dispensaries closes in the upcoming year, however, HPRC can stay open for three years, the agreement states. So the possibility of The Hempery's closure gave HPRC's some hope its future could be more certain.Michelle Meyers covers Hayward, Cherryland and Fairview. Note: Businessman gives $11,000.Source: Tri-Valley Herald (CA)Author: Michelle Meyers, Staff WriterPublished: Friday, January 16, 2004 Copyright: 2004 MediaNews Group, Inc.Website: http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Contact: apacciorini angnewspapers.com Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmHempery Owner Will Fight Drug Chargeshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18049.shtmlRobbers Invade Oakland Pot Clubhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17771.shtml 
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Comment #3 posted by Virgil on January 16, 2004 at 11:59:39 PT
News from the UK
From http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342&highlight=Source: BBC Online 
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Date: 17 jan 2004 
--- A north Wales man has been cleared of supplying cannabis to sick people in 
what may be a landmark case. Jeffrey Ditchfield, 43, from Rhyl, was found not guilty of the possession 
of cannabis with intent to supply after he told a jury at Chester Crown 
Court that he had only supplied it to the sick to try to help them. The shopowner used the defence of "necessity", arguing that the supply of 
the drug to sick people was not a misuse under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The Crown Prosecution Service in north Wales said after the verdict it was 
the first time it had heard of anyone using such a defence in a supply of 
cannabis case. Judge Elgan Edwards told Mr Ditchfield he should not take it as approval 
for what he was doing. "If you do the same thing again you could be prosecuted again," he said. "You are an intelligent and sincere man but you do run the risk." During the trial the court heard that Mr Ditchfield was not involved with 
cannabis until a friend with multiple sclerosis said it helped her 
condition three years ago. Bulked out He then began to research its benefits and discovered that much of what was 
being sold on the streets contained very little cannabis, claiming it was 
sometimes bulked out with plastic, diesel, coffee, or henna. He told the court his view on cannabis had changed, and he felt that purer 
cannabis should be available to help sick people. Speaking after the verdict, Mr Ditchfield said he could not have wished for 
a better result. He said he would stop supplying cannabis to sick people once it was legally 
made available to them, but in the meantime, he said, he would not turn his 
back on them. He claimed the verdict was a landmark ruling. 
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 16, 2004 at 11:08:09 PT
Very Generous
Helping out someone who is having a hard time and who is trying to make an effort to do what they feel they should do is honorable to me.PS: How much is rent out there I wonder?
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on January 16, 2004 at 11:04:16 PT
The measure of a man
This was a big thing this guy did. He is just a guy that knows we are all in this together.Maybe I am alone in saying that the whole situtation is not about left or right but up and down. The whole idea of a trickle down economy was absurd to start with, and is no longer mentioned. All the trickle down has ended and it is about evaporating up.But on the issue of CP, it is not a left or right issue either. The Conservative position does not even justify a national drug war. It is opposite of everything they believe. I really would not know how to define the 100 scale of Liberal heaven, but there are not liberals out there saying we must win the drug war.What does it mean to be a big man. Does it mean that on a scale he has a lot of weight or does it mean that he is tall when measured with a ruler? The WOD and CP should be viewed in terms of authoritarian/libertarian scale with totalitarian just as easily substituted for authoritarian.It is a tug of war except instead of ropes the concentrated wealth that demand more wealthfare hold their powerful magnets against a piece of iron on one side and all the other people get their refrigerator magnets and hold up on the other side. Of course the measuring iron is now on the side of totalitarianism and will take one huge setback if Bu$h is elected because of the extreme judges that will serve authoritarian rule for the next two or three decades.This guy is making a difference for the common man. He is trying to straighten out what the powerful magnets have done. It is another price paid in the battle of class warfare. The wealthy spend taxpayer money for pulling things along the lines of their agenda and the little man sacrifices to right a wrong. It is all so senseless. It is all so wrong. It is all so un-American.
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