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<br />. <br />Medical Marijuana Dispensaries <br />Page 2 <br />City of Oakland <br />0 Large criminal element drawn to the dispensary location <br />0 Marijuana dealers who have a doctor recommendation are purchasing from the dispensary and then <br /> conducting illegal street sales to those who do not have a recommendation <br />0 Street crirninals in search of marijuana are robbing medical use patients for their marijuana as they <br /> leave the dispensary <br />0 Thefts and robberies around the location are occurring to support the illegal and legal (by State) <br /> drug commerce <br />0 A shoe repair business next door to a dispensary has been negatively impacted because of the <br /> concentration of criminals associated with the dispensary. The business owner is contemplating <br /> closing the business <br />0 City imposed fines for violations are too small to control a lucrative business <br />0 Most of the crime goes unreported because the users do not want to bring negative publicity to the <br /> dispensary <br />0 The dispensaries have an underground culture associated with them <br />0 At least one of the dispensaries had a doctor on the premises giving recommendations on site for a <br /> fee <br />0 One location was a combination coffee shop and dispensary where marijuana was sold in baked <br /> good and for smoking <br />0 Dispensary management has told police they cannot keep the criminal element out <br />City of Havward <br />0 Robberies outside the dispensaries <br />0 Police noticed more and more individuals hanging around the park next to one of the dispensaries <br /> and learned that they were users in-between purchases <br />0 Experienced problems with user recommendation cards - not uniform, anyone can get one <br />0 One dispensary also sold hashish <br />0 Complaints that other illegal drugs are being sold inside of dispensaries <br />0 Dispensaries do not report problems, or illicit drug dealers, around their establishments because <br /> they do not want the police around <br />0 Police arrested a parolee attempting to sell three pounds of marijuana to a dispensary <br />0 City of Hayward recently passed an ordinance that will make marijuana dispensaries illegal under <br /> zoning law in 2006 <br />City of Fairfax <br />0 Problems with patients selling marijuana to non-patients <br />0 Problems with purchasers from dispensary congregating at a nearby baseball field to smoke their <br /> marijuana <br />0 Police arrested a person who purchased marijuana at the dispensary and took it to a nearby park <br /> where he tried to trade it to a minor for sex <br />0 Very small town with low crime rate <br />