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.

Please check the web page to learn more about the syllabus, instructors, and course. You can register there.

What:  Medical Cannabis Dispensary Operations and Procedures

When:  11:00 AM – 4:00 PM * Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Where:  MCC Directory Training Center, 50 N. Mentor Street, Pasadena, CA 91106

Info & Register:  http://www.mccdirectory.org/medical_cannabis_training.lasso?-token.classid=136

I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

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.

The seminar is designed specifically for those who might be in interested in becoming Collective and Cooperative Operators, existing operators who want to know more about the process, or professionals such as lawyers, doctors, and accountants who want to be at the forefront in the advancement of healthcare services under California’s Medical Marijuana Program.

This is an historic occasion. It’s the first time this sort of class has been taught by seasoned activists. Don is the co-founder of Americans for Safe Access, and Yami founded the first and oldest trade association for Medical Cannabis Collectives in the United States, The Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance. Both have operated medical cannabis facilities for many years, and are some of the most seasoned and respected collective operators in Los Angeles.

Registration & course Syllabus: http://www.mccdirectory.org/medical_cannabis_training.lasso?-token.classid=136

See you Tuesday!

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!