What Does California Law Say About Non-Profit Sales of Medical Cannabis to Qualified Patients?
How can we account for what is perhaps one of the most dramatic legal disparities in medical cannabis to date? The issue of non-profit “sale” of medical cannabis to qualified patients via collectives and cooperatives. There’s nothing else like this dispute. What do the experts say about this anyway? Steve Cooley, The Los Angeles District Attorney, disagrees with Jerry Brown, the California State Attorney General. How could two prominent state-employed attorneys come to wholly different conclusions on the answer? First the Los Angeles District Attorney claims “all sales are illegal”. The California State Attorney General was sure enough to write in his guidelines that “storefront collectives may be legal under state law”. How could this be? After all, each attorney is looking at the same thing, right? So what is the answer? What does the law say? COMPASSIONATE-USE ACT 1996 Proposition 215 which was approved by a majority of Californians in 1996 and it became known as the Compassionate-U
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