A Message from Stephen DeAngelo of Harborside Health Center: To all of our Esteemed Patients, We want to take this opportunity to inform everyone of the Discovery Channel decision regarding the future of our groundbreaking television program, “Weed Wars.” But first, we must take a moment to offer our personal thanks to everyone who [...]
At The Apothecarium, a quaintly upscale medical marijuana club in San Francisco’s Castro District, the vibe is even jollier than usual this month. To boost holiday spirits, the dispensary is giving a storewide 15 per cent discount to patrons who donate to its canned food drive, making year-end contributions to local charities and raffling off [...]
Governor Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against Arizona’s medical marijuana law took a beating today in federal court, where a judge told the state’s lawyers to pick a side on the issue. Brewer and her legal enforcer in the case, state Attorney General Tom Horne, campaigned against Prop 203 before voters passed it and later targeted it [...]
For the first time on television, a weekly series takes an up close and personal look at the controversial business of medicinal cannabis as WEED WARS premieres in a simulcast on Thursday, December 1 at 10PM E/P on Discovery Channel and Discovery Fit & Health. “WEED WARS fearlessly documents the hot button issue of medicinal [...]
A raid Oct. 12 on a Phoenix cannabis club is raising hackles on both sides of the medical marijuana fence and has sparked a media-borne spat between state Attorney General Tom Horne and Allan Sobol, the operator of the busted for-profit 2811 Club. In dueling news releases, Horne and Sobol flung a few phrases at [...]
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Steve DeAngelo the director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, Ca. Look for this insightful view into America’s largest dispensary in our next issue of Cannabis Now Magazine. One of the things we discussed? Their upcoming profile in the Discovery Channel’s Weed Wars, airing next month. Stayed tuned [...]
Oakland’s Harborside Health Center — the largest medical marijuana dispensary on the West Coast — lost the first round in a high-stakes battle with the Internal Revenue Service that could spell trouble for the booming pot industry. In a letter to Harborside late last week, the IRS ruled that the dispensary cannot deduct standard business [...]
Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel wants viewers to toke on its upcoming reality series “Weed Wars,” which follows two DC-raised siblings and their Oakland, CA clinic Harborside Health Center - the nation’s biggest dispenser of medical marijuana. Raised inside the Beltway where their dad worked for the Kennedy administration, the cannabis crusade of Harborside’s executive director Steve DeAngelo [...]
A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary may have violated state election and campaign finance laws by advertising free marijuana in return for registering to vote, local and state officials said Thursday. Officials from the Lansing city clerk to the state attorney general are investigating a recent posting on the Your Healthy Choice Clinic website that also [...]
Sacramento’s Fruitridge Health & Wellness Collective (FHWC) is inaugurating its 5-year pledge to UC Davis Health System, pledging $50,000, which will be distributed evenly between UC Davis Health Systems’ WeCare! Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer Peer Navigator Programs, which provide outreach, education and support to newly designated breast cancer and prostate cancer patients. “The generous support [...]
