By Medicinal Michael Boris
IG: @medicinal_mike
One of the biggest success stories in the cannabis industry is the Weedmaps company. Established in 2008, Weedmaps has been on the forefront of the cannabis business community as the number one marijuana services locator in the nation.
Recently, Deputy City Attorney John Hemmerling stated publicly that he and cannabis task forces ‘could’ be working with Weedmaps to identify illegal delivery and dispensaries and shut them down.
A representative for the Irvine-based company stated, “Weedmaps has zero intentions of working with law enforcement to try and decipher who is and is not illegal according to state laws. And Weedmaps is not a policing agency, nor will it ever be.”
John Hemmerling
“These tactics are used to create distrust in the community, and a personal attack against Weedmaps,” they continued, assuring that the heart of the company still beats strong for patients. “Deputy City Attorney John Hemmerling knew exactly what he was doing by insinuating a partnership between the nation’s largest cannabis locator service and law enforcement. If we lose even one account because of the allegations, then law enforcement has succeeded in the quiet attack against us.”
City officials, the “cannabis czars” have once again lashed out against Weedmaps for its marketing tactics, insinuating that billboards displaying Weedmaps logos are the sole cause of underground cannabis marketing.
The city has threatened enormous fines for its use of tasteful advertising of the Weedmaps brand name, ignoring Google, Craigslist, and the entire internet itself as a resource to unlicensed cannabis dispensaries.
Considerably, most unlicensed dispensaries are unable to obtain a permit because of the ridiculous qualifiers that the state requires for a license, such as $300k in liquid
Weedmaps
assets. The strict requirements serve to take 90% or more of the small cannabis businesses out of the game permanently and pave the way for corporate cannabis to dominate the industry with controlled approved growing, manufacturing, and pricing of marijuana and taxes that are expected to increase exponentially in the coming years.
Correspondents mentioned that despite the threats of shutdowns, Weedmaps is continuing to operate as they have in the past.
“It is business as usual here. And don’t believe just anything you see posted on Instagram,” they explained. “We do have some IRS customer verifications to report the same as you would in any mainstream job to ensure we all pay our taxes but nothing has changed here at the Weedmaps family.”
Leafly, who is also a nationwide marijuana locator service that is popular in Oregon and Washington mentioned that it was dropping all illegal dispensaries from their site as of March 1.
When companies have to become a metaphoric police force against the green movement of cannabis, and prevent the pioneers of the cannabis movement to exist because of low assets, then you have to stop and ask yourself if we really did win anything by legalizing cannabis, or if we just blindly voted to take ourselves out of the game.
I believe you’ve hit the nail onna head , all that has happened in all reality is further complicate a already complicated situation , by rec legal gov. Now has its chance to regulate & lean towards corporate america .
As you said we the lil guys who actualy stood inna trenches devoted years for this LIFESTYLE will be simply thrown to the side
All ready have been. So, back in Dec. 2016 the management at my apartment complex puts an announcement on my door they want to do an inspection. I had been there from Jan 2016. I told them no thanks the next day. They said we are coming in anyway. When they got to the bed-room they found that I had a medicinal garden in there. O.M.G. they said, so I said ya and gave them my Medical Marijuana card. They left. Later that day they brought the card back, after copying it.
Two days later they give me a card. Marry X-Mass, get the hell out. You are found to be a criminal enterprise.
Next I find a two day evict for criminal position, then a five day. So I go down town and file papers. The Hearing Master said I was right and threw it out.
In January they refused my rent and a new year’s contract. Then they went back to the hearing master and got a new case and attached my old case to it and continued to try to evict me. This is not legal!!! So I filed papers again, this time they claim I am a nuisance. We have a hearing in front of the hearing master. They collude with the hearing master by whispering to each other on the other side of the court room. The only thing I could hear is when he asked me if I had a contract and if I had a helper. I answered but was ignored. I can’t recall if I told him they would not give me a new contract. This time he agrees with the landlord’s representative, it’s OK to evict me for no reason.
So I put up $250.00 to take it to a real Judge. Guess what? I did not see a real judge. My side was not heard. He agreed with the money, and locked me out Feb. 16th 2017 without warning. A Summery Eviction, they call it, for no reason! Then I am told they went in the day after and removed all my plants. But the plants were taken in February. That is why he asked me if my contract had expired. But he was not interested that they had refused to start another and refused my money.
So I sent a letter to the owners on record and got it back saying undeliverable??? Continued research says there is no business called Lake Tonopah apartments. There is no corporation by that name in Nevada. And there is no such person at the address given.
Where is my defense from unreasonable search and seizure? Why can corporations now hide from law suits? This one is registered as a “f. Limited Liability Corp. Do you know what that means? Foreign!
I thought all corporations had to be sitting ducks for law suits.
David McDonough
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