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Ordinance No. 1937 Page 4 of6 WHEREAS, news reports and other public information from as recently as 2006 related to negative secondary effects of dispensaries includes: . Marijuana being grown in warehouse in Livermore resulted in the arrest of more than 30 people and confiscation of abut 1,400 marijuana plants. Defendants claimed marijuana for medical use. (Jan. 2006 Contra Costa Times) . Federal Drug agents confiscated from dispensaries in Emeryville and Oakland marijuana which was packaged into candy-like names such as Trippy, Stoney Rancher, Toka-Cola, Pot Tart and Budtella, which agents were concerned will appeal to children. (March 2006 San Francisco Chronicle) . Seven persons were arrested in Berkeley, Oakland, Castro Valley and Brentwood related to four indoor marijuana growing facilities with 5,800 plants. While persons arrested claimed marijuana was for medical purposes, the DEA asserts that arrestees are armed fugitives responsible for other drug-related murders. (April 2006 U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration) . The City of Dublin summarized violent and non-violent crimes in Alameda County and the San Francisco Bay Area related to medical marijuana dispensaries in a report to the Dublin City Council on May 2, 2006 . The City of El Cerrito compiled information about crime related to medical marijuana, including "an 'invasion-style' armed robbery in November 2003 at a medical marijuana club in Oakland's so-called Oaksterdam District. Four men took several ounces of marijuana and cash but no one was injured. In Berkeley, dispensaries have been robbed several times since 2000. In Santa Rosa, there was a homicide during a residential robbery where the suspects sought medical marijuana cultivated for a dispensary." (June 2006 ANG Newspaper; cited on the Americans for Safe Access website at: http://safeaccessnow.orglarticle.php?id=35l6 ) . Marijuana being grown on U.C. Berkeley campus property near Grizzly Peak. Arrested persons claim it is for medicinal use. (June 2006 San Francisco Chronicle) . Ten men indicted for growing marijuana in their homes in San Francisco, Daly City, and Oakland. Defendants raise medical marijuana defense. (June 2006 San Francisco Chronicle) WHEREAS, based upon these negative secondary effects, including the crimes which pose an immediate danger to the public health, safety and welfare of the community, the City Council considered the staff report and attachments (SR 06: 185) at a public hearing on July 18, 2006, and extended the moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries for an additional twelve months; and