cannabisnews.com: Med Pot Clinic Will Be Open Three Days a Week Med Pot Clinic Will Be Open Three Days a Week Posted by CN Staff on December 14, 2004 at 10:26:37 PT By Andrew Bird, The Times-Standard Source: Times-Standard Willow Creek -- It looks like it belongs in the 1960s. In the center of town here, on the south side of state Highway 299, sits a funky, multi-colored two-story building that will soon become the first county-authorized medical marijuana clinic and dispensary.The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors last week approved a permit for the Humboldt Patient Resource Center to operate inside this building the same type of growing/dispensing operation it has operated in Arcata for years. It is not clear when the HPRC will open up shop in Willow Creek.Neither Linda Anne Cummings nor Connor Hawkins, the HPRC's directors, could be reached for this story.After a public hearing at last week's Board of Supervisors meeting, the board voted 3-1 to grant a permit for the Willow Creek building, tacking on a number of restrictions.The clinic, which will grow marijuana inside the building, will be open for business just 21 hours per week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.Cummings told the Board of Supervisors the HPRC needed to open a clinic in Willow Creek because about 50 of its Arcata customers travel regularly from this community and the surrounding region.Only those with medical marijuana recommendations issued by doctors in Humboldt County will be allowed to purchase from the clinic.A caretaker will live full-time at the building.The building itself operated briefly early this year as a medical marijuana dispensary. In recent years the building has housed a beer bar and was home to a river rafting company -- also briefly.Claude and Lillian Perras of Fortuna own the building, which boasts a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor.Jill Geist, the Board of Supervisors chairwoman whose District 5 includes Willow Creek, said the board did what the state Legislature has failed to do."What it boils down to is the people of the state gave the charge they wanted medical marijuana recognized," Geist said."The state has taken no responsibility for production and distribution -- the state has abdicated its responsibility," Geist continued.By all accounts, the HPRC has gotten along well in Arcata."There have been no law enforcement problems -- there have been no complaints along that line," Arcata Police Chief Randy Mendosa said.Tom Conlon, Arcata's community development director, said the clinic has operated within all of the city's code requirements."Connor Hawkins has been great to work with from the city's standpoint," Conlon said.However, there is considerable opposition to the clinic in Willow Creek. Several local residents showed up at the hearing to try to dissuade the supervisors from granting the permit, including Patrick Bryant."The whole group that was there was highly disappointed," Bryant said Monday. "It's still a federal crime isn't it?""The supervisors don't care about us," he said."I have to go to Eureka to go to my doctor," Bryant added. "Why can't they drive to Arcata?"Source: Times-Standard (CA)Author: Andrew Bird, The Times-StandardPublished: Tuesday, December 14, 2004Copyright: 2004 MediaNews Group, Inc.Contact: editor times-standard.comWebsite: http://www.times-standard.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmMedical Pot Clinic Approved for Willow Creek http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19996.shtml Supervisors Pass Medical Pot Ordinancehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19182.shtmlProposed Medical Pot Guidelines Fair, Mercifulhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19173.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #6 posted by mayan on December 14, 2004 at 18:51:24 PT WHAAAAA!!! "The whole group that was there was highly disappointed," Bryant said Monday. "It's still a federal crime isn't it?""The supervisors don't care about us," he said."I have to go to Eureka to go to my doctor," Bryant added. "Why can't they drive to Arcata?"So, I guess Bryant isn't an advocate of states' rights. Nobody makes you drive to Eureka, you dolt! It's amazing how some people can be so ignorant and cruel.Ohio Update: http://www.votecobb.org/THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...9/11 Black Boxes Found: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4772First-hand Accounts of Underground Explosions In The North Tower: http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/underground/underground_explosions.htmToward New Criminal Investigations into the Events of 9/11: http://www.justicefor911.org/9/11 Was an Inside Job - A Call to All True Patriots: http://www.911sharethetruth.com/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by siege on December 14, 2004 at 18:23:09 PT artificial Drugs if you DON'T have 3 hour erections then something is 'wrong' and you need their pill? YES and then if you can not do it for 3 hours you fell bad and, They can sell you the antidepressive to make you fell better. It is that way with any of there artificial Drugs. The worst they make you fell the more they sell!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by lombar on December 14, 2004 at 17:47:10 PT TV should be taken in moderation I just read an interesting viewpoint about TV advertising. How showing the 'beautiful' people to us normals creates a subconscious (sometimes obsessive) sense of inadequacy which they then follow up with products to 'fix' us. http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/35662.phpThe author also claims that its used to further white supremacy but I disagree with that. Its to ensure 'elite' supremacy and the rule of the few. To keep the current mass delusion that things can never be different, class war et al. It is likely true that the bulk of the 'elite' are indeed white but I do not know that for certain.Sam Adams: Can you see that they are really implying that if you DON'T have 3 hour erections then something is 'wrong' and you need their pill? Same theme...SAD->paxil , grey hair -> grecian formula , no hair -> rogaine, etc. You are all broken and we can fix you...but you are a criminal if you use non-approved medications.It is only the really dense or totally brainwashed that do not see the hypocrisy of the current drug policies and the complicity of the mass media. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Sam Adams on December 14, 2004 at 15:54:45 PT one more thought I wonder if the multi-colored, funky building is as fun-looking as those Big Pharm ads with the people flying through the clouds & all?Last night I was watching Monday Night Football & there was a great Levitra ad. This sexy 40ish lady with huge, wet & glossy lips was leering at her executive-looking husband for most of the ad. The ad cautioned that "in the rare event of an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, contact medical help immediately". I was like, whoa! So a 3 or 4 hour erection is normal with this stuff? Who wants a nonstop erection for 4 hours? Who wants their kids watching this garbage? Why are the religious zealots picking on us when this sort of crap airs every night? Beer ads and expensive hard-on pills. God Bless America! [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Sam Adams on December 14, 2004 at 13:56:56 PT feds "The whole group that was there was highly disappointed," Bryant said Monday. "It's still a federal crime isn't it?"Yes, it is. Many thousands of criminals have also been created by buying purchasing their prescriptions from Canada pharmacies. I predict in the next 10-20 years we'll see many more absurd federal laws and many more states saying "F-you!" [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by siege on December 14, 2004 at 12:19:15 PT Two for two This is two in two days for the SCJ's to work with in calif. Calif. is going for it all the way. If they keep going the SCJ will have nothing to DO. do they know something that no one eles knows. Or is it state Law and they have too."I have to go to Eureka to go to my doctor," Patrick Bryant. added You Appear to be one of the luckie one's if you can drive! So where is your god loving ability to help your brothers and sisters! [ Post Comment ] Post Comment