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US: The pot pharmacy is open - Valley dispensary is a far cry from
Brad Greenberg Daily News
Sunday 30 Apr 2006 The pot pharmacy is open Valley dispensary is a far cry from '70s `head shops' One of the San Fernando Valley's newest medical marijuana dispensaries sits in a black stucco building, adjacent to the Xposed full nude club. Racy business cards for the club and next-door bar, The Wet Spot, are stationed throughout the inside of Collective Caregivers pharmacy, which opened in Canoga Park in late March. Inside is "Taylor," a tall brunette with red and blonde highlights, a nose ring and a deep tan. On a recent day, she was wearing a black Korn T-shirt knotted to reveal six inches of midriff, a belly-button ring and a butterfly tattoo on the small of her back. Once a patient has been cleared, Taylor, who doesn't "do last names," presses a button that unlocks the pharmacy door. They enter a temperate room with two jewelry-display cases, an ATM and a safe with 4-inch-thick steel. The dispensary sells smokeable leaves and candy edibles: Peanut Butter Cup, Cannabis Cookie and sugar-free milk chocolate candy bars. Marijuana buds come in 20 varieties, such as Tidal Wave, Train Wreck, Organic Grapefruit Haze. The $10 candy bars, labeled "Keep out of the reach of children," have several grams of fat and half a gram of marijuana. The leaves are grown across the state, said Brad Barnes, who identified himself as the general contractor, and cost $15 to $30 a gram. Collective Caregivers is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., about three hours later than any other dispensary in the Valley. Barnes insists the co-op is just for those who qualify under state law. "You can't just say, `I want to get some bud today' and walk in here," Barnes said. "This is a medical office. It doesn't look like you are walking into a 1970s head shop: There are no beads on the wall, no orange shag carpet." http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3767862
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