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**Payaso** · 04-14-2010, 06:29 PM

Harborside's Steve DeAngelo is in favor of bigger, and better dispensaries able to serve not only patients; but in the future with legalization, the general public.

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For Sacramento and other California cities wanting fewer medical pot clubs, Steve DeAngelo offers a potential model: the world's largest marijuana dispensary.

DeAngelo is executive director of the Harborside Health Center, a 48,000-member patient collective he says serves more marijuana users than anywhere else. For sure, the Oakland dispensary – one of just four allowed in the city – is a titan in California's legal medicinal pot trade.

Greeting up to 800 people a day, Harborside's Oakland center has a neuropathic primary care doctor, an acupuncturist and a chiropractor. Its staff teaches yoga, stress management and "universal life force energy" – and doles out a harvest of weed.

Harborside, which recently opened a second dispensary in San Jose, handles $20 million annually in pot transactions at its Oakland facility, DeAngelo says.

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festivus · 04-14-2010, 06:42 PM

Go for it Harborside, I hope you become the model for the dispensaries of the future!

04-14-2010, 07:36 PM

I'm from the bay and Harborside is definitely massive. I dunno about MJ being big business but it does need to be monitored. The worst thing imaginable would be getting someone sick or poisoned from some improperly treated product. Perhaps pesticides or mold. Either way, when we start talking about some super volume then it might happen if no one is taking care of the oversight. The FDA needs to be involved and sadly their stance on MJ isn't one that allows them to be a watchdog of the industry.

Hydrosun · 04-14-2010, 09:59 PM

I want Costco to get into the game. Then you outdoor growers could see your lbs on the shelf in a week and gone in two

04-14-2010, 10:01 PM

yay,Harborside!

nomaad · 04-15-2010, 12:47 AM

Ha. This is the move we have all been waiting for. Harborside as cartel. Woo hoo!

I am hoping for a different model... I like my ganja to come from people... not a monopoly of "health facilities" with statewide logistics and power over the marketplace.

The Gang of Four rule Oakland... it would be sad to see them go on to rule the entire State in the same fashion. In Oakland, it seems they filled a vacuum in the political scene... lots of cash and a plan to raise Oakland from its economic woes... in exchange for complete control of the city's marijuana marketplace. Whether or not they do a good job as a dispensary, their power-hungry political aspirations send up huge warning signals to this pot farmer.

Yes4Prop215 · 04-15-2010, 04:14 AM

^i hear that nomad....fuck monopolies..

mexicangreen420 · 04-15-2010, 05:28 AM

yeah, screw BIG COMPANIES, especially non-profits. let the smart people have theirs... let all the dummies buy their chronic from wal-mart.... oh shit.... looks like china might be growing our weed soon.

04-15-2010, 04:15 PM

yeah harborside will be the mcdonalds of collectives, theyll start setting up franchises in every legal state.

I am definitely not a fan of monopolies.

ixnay007 · 04-15-2010, 05:35 PM

I'm not a fan of medicine being sold along side snake oil (until chiropractics and acupuncturists are anything more than glorified masseurs and people relying on the placebo method to make you want them to poke you full of needles)..

Yes, this means that MJ is medicine (with studies to demonstrate the efficacy) and chiropractors and acupuncturists are not doctors.

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festivus STAY TOASTY MY FRIENDS! Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Valley Isle Posts: 2,605	Go for it Harborside, I hope you become the model for the dispensaries of the future! __________________ Seed Buyers Beware! Don't waste your money on hype. If you have to buy multiple seed packs to find that "keeper", you're getting ripped off. Every female in a pack of seeds should be a keeper! We've been led to believe that lots of variation in a cross is a good thing, because some vendors would rather you buy several packs of their gear, instead of them actually doing the selections to fix that nag champa or golden clit trait themselves. For hobby growers, pheno hunting is fun. But mono-croppers who grow to pay the bills prefer a consistent product that regularly delivers the desired trait package.
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Hydrosun I love my life Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Mostly in my own head Posts: 4,961	I want Costco to get into the game. Then you outdoor growers could see your lbs on the shelf in a week and gone in two __________________ "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it." ~Thomas Jefferson The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ~Fed 47, A. Hamilton & J. Madison
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nomaad Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: somewhere in the 707 Posts: 4,472	Ha. This is the move we have all been waiting for. Harborside as cartel. Woo hoo! I am hoping for a different model... I like my ganja to come from people... not a monopoly of "health facilities" with statewide logistics and power over the marketplace. The Gang of Four rule Oakland... it would be sad to see them go on to rule the entire State in the same fashion. In Oakland, it seems they filled a vacuum in the political scene... lots of cash and a plan to raise Oakland from its economic woes... in exchange for complete control of the city's marijuana marketplace. Whether or not they do a good job as a dispensary, their power-hungry political aspirations send up huge warning signals to this pot farmer. __________________
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Yes4Prop215 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: In the hills mang....i DEEED it... Posts: 10,100	^i hear that nomad....fuck monopolies.. __________________ Cured Bud pictures Flowering pictures
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mexicangreen420 Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: outside the realm of normal... Posts: 354	yeah, screw BIG COMPANIES, especially non-profits. let the smart people have theirs... let all the dummies buy their chronic from wal-mart.... oh shit.... looks like china might be growing our weed soon. __________________ Mexicangreen420's 165w PL-L Cab of DOOM- https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=169517 seedlings in now. Currently growing in the "CAB OF DOOM" BOGbubble + Roadrunner Seeds to pop- bogglegum, sweet cindy, sour lifesaver, sour bubble, trainwreck ][, SOL donk, legends ultimate indica, atomic northern lights x blueberry, kushage, power kush, viet black x meao
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04-14-2010, 07:36 PM	#3
2Lazy Guest Posts: n/a	I'm from the bay and Harborside is definitely massive. I dunno about MJ being big business but it does need to be monitored. The worst thing imaginable would be getting someone sick or poisoned from some improperly treated product. Perhaps pesticides or mold. Either way, when we start talking about some super volume then it might happen if no one is taking care of the oversight. The FDA needs to be involved and sadly their stance on MJ isn't one that allows them to be a watchdog of the industry.
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04-14-2010, 10:01 PM	#5
TrichyTrichy Guest Posts: n/a	yay,Harborside!
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04-15-2010, 04:15 PM	#9
Teeg420 Guest Posts: n/a	yeah harborside will be the mcdonalds of collectives, theyll start setting up franchises in every legal state. I am definitely not a fan of monopolies.
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ixnay007 "I can't remember the last time I had a blackout" Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,348	I'm not a fan of medicine being sold along side snake oil (until chiropractics and acupuncturists are anything more than glorified masseurs and people relying on the placebo method to make you want them to poke you full of needles).. Yes, this means that MJ is medicine (with studies to demonstrate the efficacy) and chiropractors and acupuncturists are not doctors. __________________ "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
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