Pot-club Workers In Oakland Unionize

[Richard]

"So, son...what are you planning on doing now that you've graduated from high school?"

"I've been accepted to Oaksterdam University's pharmacological school."

And so it goes...

Richard's $.02

Pot-club Workers In Oakland Are First To Unionize
USAToday, 28 May 2010

Marijuana workers of the world unite? At least in Oakland, Calif., where a major union has become the first to organize U.S. employees of medical-pot dispensaries.

Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers has announced that about 100 employees of Oaksterdam University — "Quality Training for the Cannabis Industry" — and two subsidiaries have voted "to enhance job security and gain a clearer voice on the job." One new job classification being negotiated: "bud tender," which the San Francisco Chronicle describes as "a sommelier of sorts who helps medical marijuana users choose the right strain for their ailment."

Imagine the benefits package.

The union said it intends to try to organize the state's other pot clubs, which observers say will bolster efforts to legalize marijuana. Californians will vote on that in November even though growing and selling marijuana remains illegal nationwide. California patients need a prescription to receive medical weed.

The Los Angeles Times and the local NBC affiliate have more about the organizing effort.

Oakland is the first U.S. city to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, and it may soon be the first to allow and tax commercial pot growing.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...-to-unionize/1

[Utah Bob]

Alas, Colorado may not be far behind. There's even a medical marijuana dispensary in little Cortez now. They have a medical doctor on Tuesdays in case you need a quick check up and a prescription. And a full time massage therapist.
Right across the street is a Hydroponics Gardening Supply store now.
Probably a coincidence.

Monday at the Dolores County commission meeting in Dove Creek they discussed banning pot growing.
The local reporter and newspaper owner objected strenuously on the grounds that it's legal and would help the economy.
God help us.

[Last hard class]

Think positive. Most "420 friendly" do not vote.
They suffer from manana man disease.

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

There's even a medical marijuana dispensary in little Cortez now. They have a medical doctor on Tuesdays in case you need a quick check up and a prescription. And a full time massage therapist.
Right across the street is a Hydroponics Gardening Supply store now.
Probably a coincidence.

We should open up a munchies store next door.

[Kyobanim]

I wonder how they keep focused on their union orgnizing

Proabably the same way the union people drinking in a bar do.

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Last hard class

Think positive. Most "420 friendly" do not vote.
They suffer from manana man disease.

We should open up a munchies store next door.

Alas, they got the Medical Marijuana on the ballot and the sheeple voted for it. Their ranks include lawyers and cagey businessmen nowadays and they are more politically savvy than in the past.
Careful wording on a ballot can get the most ridiculous things passed.