Did you hear about the IRS ruling that was released yesterday? The IRS ruled that Harborside Health Center in Oakland, CA, a California State sanctioned medical marijuana outlet can not deduct the costs of employee labor, rent or the costs of buying the cannabis to sell from it's taxes because it sells an 'illegal' drug, which will effectively will close not just Harborside, but every legal Medical Marijuana outlet in the country.
Harborside has been upheld by many state and local officials as the Gold Standard of how Medical Marijuana outlets are supposed to operate within the framework developed by the State of California. Our President Barack Obama has said he would allow Medical Marijuana laws to go forward and operate without Federal interference so long as those outlets abided by the laws of the state they operate in.
The IRS thinks otherwise. Yesterday they spanked President Obama's ass.
Honestly cannabis shouldn't be a Schedule 1 drug, but since all our elected representatives are too chicken shit to change that, we've had to go this route to not be criminals in the eyes of the law. I am a cardholder and my wife is a breast cancer survivor who would not have come through chemotherapy nearly as well as she did without the assistance of cannabis.
Please contact your local elected officials regarding this. Yea, it probably won't do much good to most, but doing nothing is not an alternative. Let's see if we can get some traction on this issue.