the dispensary drew wide support from the Fairfax community. Not only did the town's council and mayor specifically pass a resolution supporting the business, but Marin Alliance owner and director Lynette Shaw, a medical marijuana patient herself, was careful to never violate any state or local laws.
Date: Dec 23, 2011
Category: Health
Source: Google
Local and federal officials crack down on medicinal marijuana
Lynette Shaw is the owner of Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana. Since 1997, she said, she has worked with the town of Fairfax to develop rules for the dispensary, which town officials credit for helping to reduce street-corner marijuana dealers.
"This is ridiculous - after 14 years of paying taxes and doing everything else we were supposed to do," said the dispensary's founder and owner, Lynette Shaw. "I think that Obama has turned his back on the medical marijuana movement, the people who worked hard to put him into office."