Monday, July 9, 2012

Cash only marijuana

  • High FICO score be damned: Your credit is no longer any good at California medical marijuana dispensaries, whose accounts with credit card processors have been canceled, thanks to pressure from the federal government.
  • (SF Weekly (blog))
  • (CBS/AP) OSLO, Norway - Norwegian media are reporting that Snoop Dogg was briefly detained after entering the country with marijuana and a large amount of cash.
  • (CBS News)
  • Vapor Room customers will have to go cash-only, joining hundreds of thousands of other patients nationwide, as the U.S. Department of the Treasury pressures credit/debit card servicers and banks to close legal medical marijuana business accounts.
  • (East Bay Express)
  • The city needs to increase fees on medical marijuana businesses to pay for the costs of inspections, audits and criminal background checks of employees. It's difficult for the city, for example, to audit a cash-only business, LeBlanc said.
  • (Durango Herald)
  • but that puts the county at odds with the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, which only allows local jurisdictions to impose reasonable zoning restrictions for dispensaries, and requires local zoning approval before a permit is processed by the state.
  • (Drug War Chronicle)
  • Ron LeBlanc, city manager of Durango, Colo., said marijuana dispensaries use only cash because banks, which are federally chartered, are reluctant to run afoul of federal laws banning marijuana use. Theres room for mischief, he said.
  • (vcstar.com)
  • possession of marijuana, and possession of drug-related objects.
  • (Post-Searchlight)
  • He remains in the Wapello County Jail on a $10,000 cash-only bond. On Friday, two suspects were brought into the Wapello County Jail on Wapello County warrants related to marijuana. They include: -19 year old Dion Johnson, of Ottumwa, IA.
  • (heartland connection.com)
  • Man thats only half of it. He would not let the deputy search his car. Hutchins was placed under arrest and a search of the vehicle turned up a duffel bag with approximately two pounds of medical marijuana, as well as $10,000 in cash.
  • (KGUN 9)

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