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  World’s Largest Pot Club Prevails in Legal Battle Against Feds [VIDEO]

  February 21, 2013 at 11:28 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

  Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, which is notoriously considered to be the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the world today, won a legal battle on Friday when a court judge ruled that their landlord can’t evict them from their premises. The respective decision was made on the grounds that the business didn’t violate a federal law. “We are heartened by the robust support provided to Harborside by our elected officials and the California courts,” Harborside’s co-founder and executive director Steve DeAngelo [...]

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  Nation’s Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Fights in Federal Court to Stay Open in Oakland and San Jose

  December 21, 2012 at 2:18 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

  SAN FRANCISCO — For more than six years, the federal government watched quietly as Harborside Health Center grew to become the nation’s largest medical marijuana dispensary despite knowing that its operations were illegal under federal law.Those years of inaction could now become a central issue in a federal court action in which the federal government is seeking to seize properties in Oakland and San Jose from which Harborside sells marijuana to patients.In a drastic change of policy last summer, U.S. [...]

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