CA - San Francisco: Lots of local interest in marijuana ID cards

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As California officials are readying to start a pilot program to issue state identification cards to patients who use medical marijuana and to their caregivers, they had better brace for a lot of interest -- if San Francisco is any indication.

San Francisco's Department of Public Health started a model medical cannabis identification card program in 2000 and since then, 15,211 cards have been issued and 8,200 are valid, city officials reported this week.

The cards are intended to help law enforcement differentiate between medicinal and recreational users of marijuana. State law allows patients and their caregivers to cultivate pot for personal medical treatment with a doctor's OK.



Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Copyright: 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
Contact: Contact SFGATE
Website: SFGate.com

 

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I was just there this weekend getting my card fom the Oakland Compassionate Care and some one was mentioning that the CHP were going to issue the new cards of which the article spoke. Has any one else heard that?

The dispensaries up there are many and all well stocked. Diffferent product than the stores down south, less expensive too. A fun trip.