Dispensary operations course on Jan. 24 is postponed
Saturday, January 21st, 2012The course on medical cannabis cooperative and collective operations originally planned for January 24 in Pasadena has been postponed. I will announce a new date soon.
Coop & Collective Operations Course – Sept. 27 (Pasadena)
Friday, September 23rd, 2011UPDATE: The class has been postponed until Tuesday, October 25. Sorry!
You are iunvited to attend a new course I am teaching at the MCC Directory Training Center in Pasadena, CA, on Tuesday, September 27. The course will cover operations and professional procedures for supervisors, managers, and senior staff at medical cannabis cooperatives and collectives. My co-instructor will be Yami Bolanos, co-operator of Purelife Alternative Caregivers and President of the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance (GLACA). Yami and I have created a course that is ideal for operators and mangers who are committed to running their associations in a legal, ethical, and professional manner.
New medcial cannabis co-op & collective operations course – Sept. 27 in Pasadena
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Don Duncan and Yami Bolanos are widely known for their work as activists, collective operators, consultants and educators in the medical cannabis industry. The MCC Training Program is pleased to host this dynamic duo and the unique seminar they have developed for Collective and Cooperator Operators, those who contemplate opening a medical cannabis collective, or professionals who would like to service these entities.
Don and Yami developed the MCC 136 Seminar for the specific purpose of providing information to Collective or Cooperative Operators that will support the protection of medical cannabis facilities and the improvement of operations and patient member services. Additionally, they will take participants completely through the process of setting up a collective or cooperative. The course covers the nuts and bolts of how to do this correctly, and the political and government hurdles that must be overcome to establish and maintain a medical cannabis facility.
LA Times on Measure M
Saturday, March 5th, 2011From John Hoeffel writing in the LA Times today:
But in Los Angeles, where voters decide Tuesday whether to create a pot tax, medical marijuana activists who once urged City Hall to tax and regulate them are hoping to defeat the proposal, angered by the council’s decision to limit the number of dispensaries to 100 and choose them by lottery.
“The city has done nothing for the patients, and I don’t see why the patients have to pay a sin tax. We’re not a topless bar,” said Yamileth Bolanos, a dispensary operator who leads a group of the city’s oldest collectives. “The city hasn’t even been able to enact an ordinance that creates safe access.”
Read the entire artcile online. Get out to vote NO on Measure M on Tuesday!
So Cal Connected on Medical Cannabis in LA
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011KCET’s SoCal Connected recently ran this follow up piece to their award-winning series on the expansion of medical cannabis collectives in Los Angeles. City Council Member Ed Reyes, Community Organizer Mike Larsen, and I are all finally on the same page about one thing – we are tired of this controvesry. Unfortunately, there may be no end in sight. Collective operators should take no comfort in that. Growing frustration may lead to more enforcement, more onerous restrictions, or an outright ban on collectives.
