cannabisnews.com: H.M.C.C. Meeting & Center's Practical Opening





H.M.C.C. Meeting & Center's Practical Opening
Posted by FoM on February 13, 2000 at 08:54:47 PT
By Mark Tide, A.J. Investigative Correspondent
Source: Arcata Journal
Humboldt Medicinal Cannabis Center finally opened up for business last week, inside its new building in downtown Arcata. This opening occurs amidst significant turmoil and controversy among both its members and Board, regarding both its organizational and operational structures.
"Are we ready to rumble?" excitedly exclaimed the Center's Vice-President, Lucy Tuck, as she disembarked from her vehicle in the H. M. C. C.'s parking lot on Sunday, the 6th of February, at just about high-noon. This question was a friendly greeting, to one of the first of the Center's now nearly 800 members. 4 hours later, time about equally divided between a tumultuous membership meeting and a closed-door session by the Center's Board of Directors -- held in an adjoining room from which loud voices were heard to emanate -- Ms. Tuck also disembarked from the Center's Board.Interviewed a few days later, Ms. Tuck explains that, "I knew the patients were going to band together and ask for explanations . . . . That Center belongs to those patients, --- not to the Board. If it wasn't for those patients there wouldn't be any Center for them to squabble about. Patients have been asking questions and they don't get honest answers."The atmosphere during this first open membership meeting in quite a while, was slightly surreal. Ironies looming so spectacularly, as to be reminiscent of a similar caliber of awe inspired by Dennis Peron's original operation in SF. Only this time, awesome ironies of troubled attitudes and approaches were clearly generating a negative rather than positive ambience.A wonderful cross-section of Humboldt Co. folks were present, and generally absent of any significantly "Hippy" characteristics, other than their ample use of cannabis -- in this case for medical reasons. A few younger persons were present, and an elderly membership liaison, who might have been so perceived. But nearly every person there would pass muster on any regular, conventional line-up.By dispersing these patients / members into any crowd at the mall, they would instantly meld within the mass of folks, who without a flinch we would all accept as our ordinary scope of peers. Variety, to an extent demographically anticipated, exists in these 40 or so members and Board who appeared, and no one could fairly accuse this crowd of being any nest of natty-dreadlocks.Promoting a certain version of relations, between this Center's members and Board, the meeting's chairs were initially arranged in a circular fashion. When the Board decided to begin the meeting, however, they took up a position upon a desk, off in the room's corner. Thus, in an act that seemed to exemplify an unmistakeable tone at the Center, all of its members were forced to rearrange their own chairs to face that desk, from which the Center's Board then exercised its authority.This authority flowed, for the most part, through a newly appointed Board Member and Chairperson, Don Landry, who threatened several times to have certain patients removed from the meeting for interfering with allotted speaking time (5 minutes), or for spontaneously remarking about matters. Those so threatened tended to be, it seemed, the patients with which Mr. Landry was more familiar and felt comfortable to challenge. Even the hint of such an attitude displayed toward certain other members, would probably have evoked more dire consequences for Mr. Landry. And interestingly, these other folks were evaluating his performance like seasoned lions watch a blustering young elephant bounce around a tarpit.Don Landry danced around the face of the crowd, talking at a dizzying speed. This high tension velocity is seemingly created by having to answer some basic questions about this Center's operations, while the Center's security person, also an unelected Board Member, roves about the room, seemingly looking for any sort of trouble. Members complain, and others confirm, that a free flow of dialogue wasn't really permitted to exist within this meeting, its format being arranged by the Center's unelected Boardmembers to accommodate their own pattern of control.Being jostled about during the noted recast of the meeting's seating style, this reporter was confronted at its opening by this security fellow, who asked, "What's your patient number?" To which I responded about being a member of the press, rather than of the club. "Where's your press pass? These meetings are usually closed to anyone but members . . . you're going to have to leave," was his reply. "What press?" he inquired, insinuating his strong disbelief, and unpersuaded by my slightly bewildered glower."I'm here for the Arcata Eye, for one," I responded. "You have to have papers or credentials or something," he insisted, or you'll have to leave -- now, the meeting's going to start." I suggested that perhaps one or two of their more long-term members, who knew me, might be allowed to vouch for my truthfulness. "I don't know that member, or what they know," he quarrelled.Thereafter, missing the opening section of this affair, your reporter dutifully marched over to the Eye's offices to fulfill this inconvenient and trustless demand. Happily, this security person, Tim Guyette, patient # 60, over days since then, becomes much friendlier and more engaging. His initial attitude of suspicion toward casual press conduct retreats in significance, when his personal features gain prominance outside of his more tension-filled behavior during Sunday's meeting. Other members confirm his genuinely compassionate nature and regret any tensions that become created by his occasional security-type functions as they are operated by the Board.Upon returning with a hopefully suitable document for this security person, the Center's patients had already begun to express themselves, according to a pre-arranged succession of speakers. Many of these members speaking at the gathering, despite an obvious pleasure at learning some form of media was covering their proceedings, nevertheless requested anonymity. Some others, who are named, did not.Peter, who identified himself as member # 3, explained how happy he was to have finally occupied the group's new building, after so many months of business being conducted in the parking lot, operating out of cramped, temporary quarters. "But, there's a lot of bickering in the unit, and that's sad to see." This remark was greeted with hearty applause.Members ask questions about why this organization's basic operational documents have never been seen by its regular members, and about money asserted to have been borrowed by the Center, but not actually or properly explained. Frank, the Center's amiable member liaison, proposed to those assembled that: "We need to make available to members, to peruse at their discretion, the lease agreement with the building and the corporate documents and records, and other materials. So, that instead of bickering, we could proceed in an orderly fashion." This opportunity was again very strongly supported by the hearty applause of the Center's members.After his remarks, Frank explains that, "Being on the board is a difficult and awesome responsibility. After the center grew to 250 patients, they found that the original trust wouldn't stand up to legal scrutiny. So, they dissolved the trust and founded a new non-profit corporation [Humboldt Cannabis Center, Inc.] with the board of the [old] trust as the [new] non-profit board."Of course, such a scenario raises serious issues about this group's structural integrity, and these questions clearly relate to this meeting's dynamics of turmoil. Why this Center failed to conduct a democratic election upon its incorporation seemed to be an acutely unanswered question. Answers of a sort were later discovered through an interview with Jason Brown, portions of which are found in the text below. This matter of the distribution of equity within this organization becomes the bedrock issue in the minds of several of its members.Interviews with Lucy Tuck, the Center's Vice-President, following this meeting elicited her assertion of the fact that Jason Browne basically appoints the Board of the Center, himself, never allowing any genuinely democratic form of succession within its leadership. She charges Jason with alienating a long string of persons (confidentially indicating more than a half-dozen such caregivers) who became involved in cultivating for patients at the Center. She indicates that last year 30 to 50 different varieties of cannabis were available to patients, but that sources are now drying up because of various problems with the Center's leadership, and with its public and member relations. In addition, she says that the vast sums of money required to renovate the Center's new building (estimates are around $30,000.00) have been obtained through keeping the prices paid by members for the Center's cannabis inflated at the black-market level.This new self-appointed governing board of the non-profit corporation is supposedly elected every three years (we haven't yet seen any documents), with most of that time coming up, ahead. Apparently, according to this corporation's by-laws which no one except the Center's Board has been allowed to see, the next opportunity for democratically oriented action within the membership is sometime in late 2002 or early 2003. Amazingly, as Frank's remarks make crystal clear, only this Center's Board have ever been privy to the Center's regular operational documents, and no one knows for sure.Documents pertaining to the Center's Board Meetings, including the minutes of meetings which Ms. Tuck indicates both the existence of and available access to, are now being formally requested by members. These documents will, according to Ms. Tuck, demonstrate that negotiations for the lease on the Center's building were misrepresented to its Board, by Mr. Browne and its President, Greg Allen. She indicates that they were asked to endorse a signature page on the word of Browne and Allen about the contents of the lease, and that their word wasn't worth very much, if anything at all. Once they saw the actual lease documents, matters were far different than they had been led to believe by Browne and Allen.Other members of the community at large have noted that in their quest for a location for this Center, Browne and Allen unnecessarily alienated a number of folks around town.Several persons, including Daniel Pierce, one of the most outspoken members who are openly complaining about the Center's operations, relates that he understands "Jason Browne chartered a plane to get here, after missing his regularly scheduled flight (from where its not yet clear)."During the portion of the meeting that was open to its members, Lucy Tuck, the Center's Vice-President, announces that although the Center claims in general to have 800 members, there are actually only about 150 dues-paying members. Several members say that their core group is of a shifting nature of composition, reflecting about a hundred members at any one time. Most members interviewed say that: the vast majority of the Center's earlier members have left due to its problems, while most of the current members have joined more recently.During Mr. Landry's lengthy and hurried explanations of financial matters, he indicates Police Chief Mel Brown and Arcata City's various inspectors are largely responsible for some of the various needs relating to this seemingly undocumented borrowing of several thousands of dollars. As for some of this borrowing, Mr. Landry explains that, "We couldn't get into the building because we couldn't pay the expenses, so had to borrow money. [ ] Some of the people donating have asked to remain anonymous." Daniel Pierce feels that, Mr. Landry "didn't want to address the issues, just jump around them. Also, the Center's volunteer response is sorely lacking, due to these problems with its leadership."Later on, a newer member wanting to remain anonymous describes his own rough add-up of the amount of money coming into the Center. "The medicine costs around $3,000 per pound," he says, "and they sell it for around $6,000 per pound, moving at least a half-pound per week. [Some members put the total at up to 5 pound per week, on average, adjusted for seasonal fluctuations.]""Add to that the fact of sharing equally [disputed by Mr. Browne, without further comment] in the $200 per patient charged by the Center's leading physician for patient visits. [Mr. Landry says that,"Dr. Mikuriya visits about once a month, sees about 35 patients, while about twice that number are turned away due to scheduling and/or documentation problems." Mr. Browne agrees with this assertion.], and also about $3,000 in monthly dues, and we're talking some real money. Where does all this money go to?"He believes that something is wrong at the Center, in terms of its management. He indicates that other folks around Humboldt County are beginning to think the same thing. This same member also asserts his optimistic belief that "before very long, all of these problems are going to be cleaned-up."Mr. Landry asserts that the Center is now beginning to "reach a point of critical mass, . . . and is planning to become more proactive." When asked by a member to briefly summarize in a few sentences his goals for the group, Mr. Landry rambles on for quite a bit longer than requested, and he almost always veers off on several tangents. At which point, one of the meeting's more humorous moments arrived with members' chatter from the back of the room. One member saying, "The man asks a simple question . . . ." To which a nearby member responds, "A lot of long-winded bullshit," with yet a third popping up -"Yes, it is."Mood of another kind was evident, when in reponse to rancorous members, the Center's President, Greg Allen, threatened that, "We might get another doctor, who might not write as many prescriptions," if the present arrangements of the organization aren't continued. He does respond to the demand for the organization's papers, promising to make them available as soon as possible, but just not on that particular day. On Friday, Feb. 11, these documents still remained elusive."Since we've been here, we've had a problem with money," Mr. Allen continues, describing his proposed solution: "What I see, is us [distributing] medical cannabis in LA, Orange and Santa Clara Counties, to begin with, then across the entire state, trying to get as much of the white market as possible. We want to bring in money from other places, so we can subsidize those folks here who don't have money for medicine. [Already] most of the money coming into the Center is coming from outside of Arcata. [ ] Implications for Humboldt County are huge. [ ] We'll have the established weed, the 'Real Thing,' like prescription medicine." [ ] "We're talking about a lot of value here. I see this as a way to increase our political voice in the state and county, and by paying taxes and having a payroll we could gain political clout."One member responds accordingly, with the colorful observation that: "This medicine is expensive. It's a fat hog and we need to get it."Another member shouts out:"Why is it we need to sell pot?"Both Mr. Landry and President Allen discuss some blurry notions about "caregivers" and "distributors," referring to this idea of Humboldt Co. and the H.M.C.C. serving the quite widespread medicinal cannabis needs of the state in general. Another murky subject was discussed by Mr. Landry, who stated that a personal income tax deduction might be available for those qualified for it, especially through some yet to be engineered pharmaceutical delivery method, or even at the present time.Later on in coversation, Mr Landry admitted that the real idea was to hope to slip such prospects through the tax process: as an illusion of sorts -- as carefully worded quasi-frauds potentially mistaken for permissible substances -- costs of which are allowed to be scheduled as tax deductions; at least until the federal law changes, and based on his belief that the risk of detection and prosecution is very small.Perhaps the tensest moments of the membership portion of the meeting arrived, when a long-time member, and former Board Member, Nelson, spoke in his permitted span: "I've been here a long time, the longest next to Jason, and I've seen a lot come and go. What I want to say is that this man is a liar, a thief and an embezzler, and there's been a long history of these kinds of things going on . . . ."Later, but still on the record, Nelson asserts: "Whenever Jason is near money, it disappears. In addition to that, Jason's a total control freak, who over time has alienated almost everyone who's become involved with the Center during the past 3 years." He goes on to explain several very recent accusations about such behavior. Jason responded both inside this meeting and later, stating that Nelson is simply a disgruntled member and former associate, who is lacking any proof of any of these charges of malfeasance.One point of recent controversy surrounds a picture in February's edition of High TImes Magazine, said to show a large cannabis garden near Red Bluff, with a caption about Jason Browne proclaiming this cannabis as medicine for the Center. According to numerous members, the Center has never received any of that cannabis. Mr. Browne explains that this cannabis cultivation was an affair between himself and 5 other patients in Red Bluff, and was totally independent of the Humboldt Center. He accuses High Times Magazine of making a mistake about this situation. Anonymous members have said that Mr. Browne allegedly harvested about 50 pounds of cannabis from this cultivation, and that the garden was somehow guaranteed protection by its association with H.M.C.C.Asked to comment on these reports by members that about 50 pounds of cannabis were indeed cultivated, Mr. Browne basically verified that item of information without being entirely specific. Otherwise, documents provided by Mr. Browne clearly and unmistakably indicate two things.Firstly, that law enforcement authorities in Tehama County did not recognize the validity of this garden in Red Bluff based on its being the property of H.M.C.C. Secondly, that High Times Magazine may have quite easily misread a correspondence from Mr. Browne, perhaps gaining an erroneous impression of this garden being closely associated with H.M.C.C.Thus, High Times Magazine has misidentified this aspect of the situation. And whether or not this garden in Red Bluff is in fact associated with H.M.C.C., is totally unrelated to these specific situations. Unless members of H.M.C.C. can point to specific agreements or other substantial reasons for their possessing any ownership interest in this garden, it looks as if Mr. Browne can legally defend his claim to ownership in common with 5 other patients from the Red Bluff area. However, this problem also clearly results from ambiguities that are present in Mr. Browne's own correspondence to High Times Magazine, and its liberal extensions thereof.Another lighter moment occurred in the parking lot, when a group of members standing around awaiting the Board's lengthy closed session to find an end, noticed a truck go by on the street, the driver of which looked a lot like former Assemblymember and Arcata resident, Dan Hauser. One member said he thought he detected a sneer roll across the driver's face. "He's probably saying something like, Why are those supposedly sick patients standing around there smoking pot in the parking lot?" Another responded with a question about whether Dan Hauser even understood that the patients / members [after their Center having already spent, by some estimates, as much as $70,000 for this building] aren't yet really permitted to smoke inside of it. Much confusion exists on this subject, so central to the smooth operations and practical justification for this building to begin with.According to Jason Browne's remarks the following day, "Lease payments on the building are $3400 per month, plus a portion of the landlords operational costs. Other costs, bills, insurance, [etc. that are usually applicable] are also all paid by the Center."An anonymous source later also complains that recently, patients have often been forced to wait, outside the building, on a line of unreasonable length, in order to receive a confidential visit to the "remuneration room," for their medicinal cannabis. This member expressed allied concerns about such an appearance to neighbors and passers-by. Other members confirm this situation existed until just recently. It has now changed, and patients are allowed inside in general.This issue of smoking at the Center remains. Daniel Pierce complains that on Wednesday, Feb. 9, he talked with Police Chief Mel Brown, who says there is no smoking allowed inside of the building. Mr. Pierce then talks with the Center's staff who say that smoking in the building is allowed under some common law principle or other. Both Lucy Tuck and Mr. Pierce agree that the initial arrangements for this facility included a "smoking room," which is ventilated to prevent smoke from moving through the building's regular ventilation system. Both of them also agree that serving patients' needs such as this would sadly be way down the list of Mr. Browne's priorities. Lost opportunities of possibly eliminating his presence on the Center's Board are now viewed with regret, by a number of former and current associates. He just manages, they say, to keep stacking the Board or manipulating its members to stay on the shrinking top, of what is fast becoming a mighty slippery slope.Although Mr. Pierce has a quite gentle and considerate, even contemplative, disposition, he has become annoyed by what he views as an absence of proper motivation and focus by this Center. So, he decided to help rally the Center's members to confront its Board and begin to demand some true equity and honest compassion be fostered."Things are settling down," sighed an obviously unsettled but still seemingly confident Jason Browne, upon leaving Sunday's lengthy meeting. Underneath, around and above him are swirling various manner of dissent against his leadership of this Center, most recently in that day, the fact of Lucy Tuck's resignation. But the fact of her stormy departure never crossed his lips. One might suppose only an unavoidably direct question would have elicited this significant information from Mr. Browne. Thus, in an interview on Tuesday, these more detailed questions are subsequently answered by Mr. Browne: Mr. Browne: "Sunday was the first day the members have asked to see our documents, or that I heard anything about Daniel Pierce's troubles, and I was surprised. He's the Chai tea guy, and that's all he does. He really doesn't help us with anything else." Mr. Browne is totally unaware of any donations by Daniel Pierce to Center, which documents provided by Mr. Pierce indicate to be $4,000. While confidentiality about such records may explain a certain portion of this absence of awareness of the part of Mr. Browne, his lack of actual familiarity that might bring him such information naturally -- since Mr. Pierce is almost always present during the Center's hours of operation -- speaks volumes on the record.In its new field certification program,"two or three staff from the Center will personally go out and certify any garden that will be remunerating with HMCC," reveals Mr. Browne. This situtation is not viewed with favor by a number of persons, patients and caregivers alike. Mandatory inspections of cultivations are likely to substantially suppress availability, insists Lucy Tuck, who is familiar with these affairs.When asked about the state of relations between physicians and the federal government on this matter, Mr. Browne offers that, "I believe the 'Fern Smith Decision' is still binding." Mr. Browne is referring to a federal court's order of May, 1997, which protects physicians treating only very limited kinds of ailments (cancer, AIDs, epilepsy and glaucoma) against abusive federal conduct. "I don't even think that the physicians are even aware of this decision. They're just worried about reactions within the medical profession, and are of afraid of patients overwhelming them if they begin to [act within terms of P215]." Unfortunately, Mr. Browne's awareness of the details is off, which for someone so posed is disappointing. He believes that Multiple Sclerosis was covered under terms of that original, 3 year old order. At least, until he was informed otherwise.Discussions also reveal his quite sudden understanding, that an expansion of the class of physicians protected by this 1997 federal order might be very beneficial for legitimizing, precipitating, and best organizing physicians who might then be more willing to consider recommending or approving therapeutic cannabis use, under terms of P215.The notion of perhaps becoming more strategic and proactive, on this and other fronts, simply appears to have been outside the H.M.C.C. / Jason Browne circuit of advocacy. Mr. Browne describes results being produced during more than two years: its work with the County's long-standing and as yet unproductive P215 Committee, an outreach for the Center held, "at the Tribal Clinic in Trinidad and also one in Eureka with a group of physicians/psychologists," plus taking what some (including the Arcata City Council) have argued persuasively to be the wrong position on statewide implementation legislation; as somehow achieving appropriate advocacy.When asked about prospects for helping to forge associations of physicians for these purposes, something like a 'Physicians for P215 Implementation,' etc., Mr. Browne responds by accepting that we need to better "encourage doctors to team-up and come up with their own guidelines." He agrees that this tactic could help reduce isolaton and alientation factors among physicians. His advocacy just hasn't been very much applied on this focus.He admits to spending to spending a lot of time, "out in the boon-docks growing medicine." He has also made mention of a string of court appearances he's engaged in, serving as an expert witness on cases in this legal area."There's not much member participation, except to come here to smoke [and obtain, etc.]. The members don't have any real authority to demand to review the documents or to have elections. [ ] Elections are actually irrelevent. There's no practical or legal reason to hold elections. Having patients vote on the Center's Board is like having all the cable viewers voting on who serves on the ACAT Board. This Center is like an Elks Lodge, a private club with a specifically public function. It's not a public corporation. We have no [fiduciary] responsibility to members. We're specifically not obligated to do what the members want, because that's not the way we set it up."Lucy Tuck, the Center's former Vice-President,"resigned over a conflict of interest, since Steve is starting his own new center in Eureka," says Mr. Browne. Mr. Landry, also present during some of the interview, asserts that, "Lucy took us from nothing to make everything work and run properly. She created the whole system for the medium garden areas. She's done a great job."Mr. Browne states that,"There have been some past problems with misappropriation of funds," while Mr. Landry agrees about, "some suspicions of impropriety. Various problems like this."Mr. Browne indicates that, "We are right now instituting new, updated procedures. It's happening right now, as we speak." As for accusations that the Center's prices are the same as the high prices found on the black market, Mr. Browne responds: "Yes, I agree with them. It's outlandish. We've had to drop the hammer on some things." [ --- Off the record material --- ] We now want to provide medical cannabis for between 5 and 10 dollars per gram. Never more than 10 dollars/gram." Of course, hash or trim may be otherwise, as might be expected.Ten dollars/gram equates to 280 dollars/ounce, and most persons would agree that this is well in the range of black market retail of ounces. Even at 140 dollars/ounce, affordability to patients in general seems to remain an issue. The word "affordable" appears in the actual language of P215, as one of the two premises essential for local government sanctioned distribution to be legitimate. What "affordability" means in this law has never been addressed, which gives a vivid impression of the condition of patient advocacy involved in P215 implementation.Further proof of this problem of accountability occurs several days after this interview, when members were still buying medicinal cannabis at the rate of 15 dollars per gram, despite what Mr. Browne declared about some more affordable program being immediately begun. A rate of 15 dollars per gram equates to nearly seven thousand dollars per pound."Persons who show up to volunteer are very important, and work more closely with us than the ususal members. [ . . . ] I don't want staff to be high while their working [yet volunteer staff do get free smoke, and some on the job, as would be expected of patients, according to several sources], explains Mr. Browne."During several hours of interview, Mr. Browne found occasion to conveniently misstate the flow of events related to SB 848, last years attempt at the Capitol to design a statewide plan for implementation. His description of the bill's history made it clear that he's liable to transform -- and perhaps juggle and tailor -- facts to suit his own views. He complains that this bill's actual problems occurred as a result of very late amendments forced on the measure by powerful law enforcemnt interests. Although a late inning cave-in of this fashion did happen, SB 848 was opposed in its earlier form by the Arcata City Council, because of severe and unacceptable problems that Humboldt Medicinal Cannabis Center was willing to tolerate, because it heartily supported this version of the bill. If adopted, this measure would have injured the interests of patients, reasoned the City Council, and it just as heartily opposed it.Another troubling problem came to light, during the course of reporting on this subject. This reporter was approached in the Center's parking lot by persons who looked to be in obvious need of medicinal cannabis, and he was asked for help because of a temporary intake roadblock they met at the Center. Without getting into all of the details involved, the problem now at issue arose when Mr. Browne, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Landry were all three asked both in common as well as individually, about the existence of any written procedures for the intake of new patients into the Center.They all clearly announced the existence of such written procedures, but somehow found it difficult to produce these noted documents, seemingly with a vague hope that I'd somehow lose my interest in seeing them --- experience with some other local journalists, perhaps. Toward the end of our interviews, Mr. Browne remarked about how journalists covering the Center have generally been less tenacious and challenging. Probably the case, as I'm aware of some examples in that category.Corey, the intake staff relevant to this matter, who was interviewed later on during that day, basically contradicted what was said earlier in the day by the three Boardmembers, about the existence of written intake procedures. Showing some form of admirable common sense, when describing his best approach to a hypothetical situation, Corey states that,"I'd have a Board member present to approve any oral recommendations or approvals," especially in light of not possessing any written procedures.He's been working about a year doing intake, and has -- never -- used any form of written intake guidelines. "Old intake forms were obsolete due to the changes in the organization. We'll have some soon, but there is nothing in writing now." states Corey. "Recently, we have about 2 patients a day on average coming through our intake process."Thus, it seems that the once famous method, found so reliable by Arcata Police Chief, Mel Brown, for verifying the authenticity of physicians and their medical judgments -- through using oral telephone contacts -- has been either forgotten or meaningfully abandoned by the Center. The prospective new patient was interviewed before leaving and found to be improperly informed of options regarding oral means of satisfying terms of P215. It's a sad matter to have to so report.This evolving news story will be updated very soon, with interviews of several persons involved in Arcata's P215 implementation program. One item of interesting news, of which the City is apparently already aware, is the impending opening of another medicinal cannabis center. Please stay tuned to this electron flow, because an interview with the person starting Arcata's second medicinal cannabis outlet will very soon be found, right here as an extension to this article.'Til then, happy trails.By Mark Tide, Arcata Journal Investigative CorrespondentNote: Mark Tide is a regular reader of Cannabis News! Thank You, Mark!Web Posted: February 11, 2000Arcata Journalhttp://www.arcata.org/CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives:http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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