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After years of sneers that selling medical marijuana is a back-alley operation, Adele Morgan felt vindicated Thursday.
The owner of We Are Hemp on Lewelling Boulevard in Cherryland got an early Christmas present: an Alameda County Sheriff's Department letter stating her business has tentative approval for a permit to sell medical marijuana in unincorporated areas.
"I am glad, and I do feel vindicated in a sense," said Morgan, who opened her storefront business five years ago, after 29 years as a nurse and seven years with the county probation department.
"We have been here so long, and have been no trouble," she explained. "I have a clean, clean background; we cater to older people here."
Thursday was a day of contrasts for the six existing dispensaries competing for the three prized permits:
. The Garden of Eden on Foothill Boulevard in Cherryland also received a letter of tentative approval, along with We Are Hemp and the previously notified Compassionate Collective of Alameda County on Mission Boulevard in Cherryland.
. A Natural Source on Foothill Boulevard in Ashland got the equivalent of a literary lump of coal. The sheriff's department cited the dispensary's proximity -- about a block -- from a Montessori school as the reason for denying its permit application.
It has 10 days to appeal the denial to a panel of county administrators.
Sheriff's Captain Dale Amaral said location only, and not criminal problems -- including the shooting death of a suspected robber outside A Natural Source last August -- was behind the denial.
Amaral said The Health Center and Alameda County Resource Center, both on East 14th Street in Ashland, may be able to ask county supervisors to overturn denials by the sheriff's department and administrative panel as soon as Jan. 10.
Both cannabis clubs were denied permits because they are too close to schools and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting hall.
Source: Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA)
Copyright: 2005 ANG Newspapers
Contact: herlet@angnewspapers.com
Website: https://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald
The owner of We Are Hemp on Lewelling Boulevard in Cherryland got an early Christmas present: an Alameda County Sheriff's Department letter stating her business has tentative approval for a permit to sell medical marijuana in unincorporated areas.
"I am glad, and I do feel vindicated in a sense," said Morgan, who opened her storefront business five years ago, after 29 years as a nurse and seven years with the county probation department.
"We have been here so long, and have been no trouble," she explained. "I have a clean, clean background; we cater to older people here."
Thursday was a day of contrasts for the six existing dispensaries competing for the three prized permits:
. The Garden of Eden on Foothill Boulevard in Cherryland also received a letter of tentative approval, along with We Are Hemp and the previously notified Compassionate Collective of Alameda County on Mission Boulevard in Cherryland.
. A Natural Source on Foothill Boulevard in Ashland got the equivalent of a literary lump of coal. The sheriff's department cited the dispensary's proximity -- about a block -- from a Montessori school as the reason for denying its permit application.
It has 10 days to appeal the denial to a panel of county administrators.
Sheriff's Captain Dale Amaral said location only, and not criminal problems -- including the shooting death of a suspected robber outside A Natural Source last August -- was behind the denial.
Amaral said The Health Center and Alameda County Resource Center, both on East 14th Street in Ashland, may be able to ask county supervisors to overturn denials by the sheriff's department and administrative panel as soon as Jan. 10.
Both cannabis clubs were denied permits because they are too close to schools and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting hall.
Source: Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA)
Copyright: 2005 ANG Newspapers
Contact: herlet@angnewspapers.com
Website: https://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald
