General Cannabis Grows Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers to 11

General Cannabis, Inc. Opens 11th Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Facility. Their 11th marijuana medicine evaluation clinic is located in Victorville, CA. The 10 other clinics that General Cannabis manages are located throughout California, which include the following locations.

Victorville
12138 Industrial Blvd Suite 205 Victorville, CA 92395
Sacramento
5200 Sunrise Blvd Suite #5, Fair Oaks, CA 95628
San Jose
100 N. Winchester Blvd. #230 Santa Clara, CA 95050
Oakland
556 West Grand Ave. Oakland, CA 94612
Camarillo
333 N. Lantana St. #132 Camarillo, CA 93010
City of Industry
13200 Crossroads Parkway N #430 City of Industry, CA 91746
Woodland Hills
20350 Ventura Blvd. #240 Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Lawndale
15901 Hawthorne Blvd. #460 Lawndale, CA 90260
Orange County
1125 E 17th Street #W237 Santa Ana, CA 92701
San Diego
5205 Kearny Villa Way #100 San Diego, CA 92123

The ongoing expansion of clinic management is in step with the company’s long term goal of managing or owning at least 20 clinics by year end 2011.

On a slightly different but related issue, General Cannabis is on the fast track with its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Revyv, LLC. Revyv, LLC is a marketing company that specializes in the healthcare arena. The acquisition also includes a technology based proprietary verification system used by dispensaries and law enforcement officials to verify a medical marijuana patients status. Management believes the acquisition should be completed no later than December 31, 2010. The acquisition will increase the company’s healthcare marketing capabilities throughout states in which General Cannabis does not yet have a healthcare presence.

The Medical Cannabis Acquisitions World Grows Fat After the Nov 2nd Prop 19 failure.

As the U.S. internal debate over the outright legalization of marijuana continues, fueled in no small part by California’s fruitless attempt to pass proposition 19 last month. Savvy new sector investor’s are taking increased notice in the medical marijuana market and its growing viability.

Of the small-cap, publically-traded companies catering to the unique needs of the medical marijuana world and their Collectives, URL’s, and operational support needs, the stand out company would have to be General Cannabis (OTCBB:CANA), which has begun acquiring entities within the medical marijuana field, most recently purchasing Weedmaps.com and Synergistic Resources.

Weedmaps with 50,000 + members, and over 2 million hits per month has annual expected revenue of well over 3 million dollars. As the end user understands Weedmaps is a central hub for helping medical marijuana patients find their local medical cannabis dispensaries, and rate them based on the patients experience, and quality of medication for each collective.

As the acquisitions and consolidation phase of the medical marijuana industry continues, General Cannabis is leading the way announcing on December 6th, under their management sector US Cannabis, the signing of closing documents to acquire largely all of the assets of Synergistic Resources, LLC. Synergistic Resources runs Marijuana Medical Evaluation Centers (MMEC) and specializes in the turn-key management of medicinal marijuana clinics throughout California.

Steve Cooley is a Quitter... Thank God!

On the Eve of Thanksgiving Steve Cooley decided to give the 420 community the best holiday gift he could think of… He quit in his futile bid for the job of attorney general of Ca. I would personally like to thank everyone that made this possible.

Steve Cooley, the Republican candidate that single handedly decided to take on the voters of Ca., and Prop 215, when he declared that all medical marijuana collectives were operating illegally as far as he was concerned. And that regardless of the overwhelming voter approval of medical marijuana and its related medical marijuana dispensaries, Mr. Cooley saw it as his “duty” to follow his own moral compass and shut down all MMJ collective in L.A. County.

It was hard to watch them swapping leads (Ms. Harris and Mr. Cooley) for the last two + weeks, and it was not until she gained an insurmountable lead over the past week that Mr. Cooley came to the obvious conclusion that he couldn't win… in spite of his declaration to the contrary on election eve, where he declared his “victory”.

The Election results as of Thanksgiving afternoon had Ms. Harris leading 46% to 45.4%, with a margin of 58,000 out of more than 9,000,000 votes cast.

The DEA and Oakland's Medical Marijuana Farms

While Oakland keeps taking steps towards becoming the first major city in the
United States to allow marijuana cultivation for wholesale medical marijuana use, the budding cannabis cultivators who showed up at Oakland City Hall Monday night wanted some kind of guarantee that their sizable business investments will be sheltered from the DEA should they come to town.

Whoever the lucky four medical marijuana farmers are will have to pay an annual permit fee of $211,000. That being said, they also stand a chance to make millions for themselves and the city of Oakland. Nevertheless, they are in unexplored legal waters and one of the principal threats out there will be the federal government and the DEA.

There were around 75 applicants attending the meeting to gain knowledge of how to apply for the one of the four (golden ticket) permits allowing for the development of medical marijuana on a large scale manufacturing level. From all I’ve read it will be a “blind selection” process.

Of course there will be rigorous environmental and safety regulations that will have to be meet by all four medical marijuana farms.

How can all of this be done when CA state law is in direct disagreement with federal law on this issue? Many of these applicants will invest somewhere around five to eight million dollars, and would like to know if the city will defend them if the DEA decides to come to town and do a search and seizure on their cannabis farms.

Arizona's Prop 203 30 most interesting facts...

The votes are counted and Arizona’s Prop 203 – the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act – has passed by a margin of 4,341 votes (841,346 YES, 837,005 NO). We’re receiving many calls and emails from people interested in the details of the new law. Here are the highlights of the measure:

1. The allowable amount of marijuana for patients and caregivers is 2.5 ounces.
2. IF a patient or caregiver is allowed to cultivate, the limit is 12 plants that must be grown in an “enclosed, locked facility”, defined as “closet, room, greenhouse, or other enclosed area”.
3. Qualifying conditions: cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s), Crohn’s, Alzheimer’s, cachexia or wasting syndrome, severe and chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures (like epilespy), and severe and persistent spasms (like multiple sclerosis).
4. Caregivers must be 21 years old and pass criminal background check for certain felonies.
5. Caregivers can serve no more than five patients, must keep a card for each one
6. Caregivers may receive reimbursement for actual expenses – not labor – from their own patients only.
7. Patients’ and Caregivers’ medical marijuana cards last for one year and will contain their photo, name, address, birthdate, and indication whether medical marijuana is allowed to be cultivated at home.
8. If the state has not issued a card within 45 days, a copy of the application shall have the same force as the card.
9. Patients and caregivers must submit fingerprints to law enforcement and sign a statement that they will not divert marijuana to non-patients.
10. Patients and caregivers may share marijuana with other patients for free, as long as they don’t knowingly cause the patient to exceed 2.5 ounces.
11. Non-profit medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed.
12. A patient who lives within 25 miles of a dispensary may not cultivate their own medical marijuana.
13. Patients and caregivers may not possess medical marijuana on a school bus, school, or correctional facility.
14. Patients may not smoke marijuana on public transportation or in any public place.
15. Patients may not drive under the influence of marijuana; however, marijuana metabolites shall not be proof of impairment.
16. Fees for non-profit dispensaries shall not be greater than $5,000 or $1,000 for a renewal license.
17. Dispensaries must cultivate their own medical marijuana, which they can do onsite or at one separate physical address
18. Patients and Caregivers may give marijuana to dispensaries, but not for any compensation.
19. Neither the dispensary nor the cultivation address may be within 500 feet of a school.
20. There can be no more than one dispensary for every ten pharmacies, except that there can be at least one dispensary in every county.
21. The cards or recommendations for visiting patients from other medical marijuana states will be recognized in Arizona, but they may not shop at the dispensaries.
22. Patients in assisted care facilities can be limited to non-smoking methods of use and only in certain areas; however, such facilities are not required to enact these limitations.
23. Dispensaries must have a single secure entrance, a strong security system, and no medicating is allowed on the premises.
24. Dispensaries must track patients’ acquisitions to ensure they receive no more than 2.5 ounces from any dispensaries within a fourteen day period.
25. There shall be a secure, web-based confirmation system accessible by law enforcement and dispensaries, that reveals patients’ and caregivers’ names but not addresses and how much marijuana the patient received from all dispensaries in the past sixty days.
26. Non-patients cannot be punished for being the vicinity of lawful medical marijuana use by patients or providing paraphernalia to patients.
27. Schools and landlords cannot discriminate against medical marijuana patients and caregivers, unless they are subject to federal penalty.
28. Employers cannot discriminate against patients and caregivers and a positive test for marijuana metabolites is not cause for disciplining or terminating a patient.
29. Medical facilities and treatments, including organ transplants, cannot be denied to patients for their medical marijuana use.
30. Parental rights of patients cannot be denied solely for their medical marijuana use.