There is no law broken for those ill patients with the correct MD recommendation. Serving the sick can take place in a old KFC, as long as they follow Prop. 215.

The medical marijuana movement is a viable business model and a friend to the communities in which they serve. With taxation, it could help with the increasing cost of public education.

There is no such thing as a prescription for any Schedule 1 substance. Marijuana can only be "recommended" by a doctor.

I love this story! Great marketing on the part of the dispensary owners.

However, something tells me KFC (the chicken corporation, not the chronic people) isn't going to see the humor in it.

Brand infringement lawsuit in 10, 9, 8....

I don't care for the sarcastic writer. Otherwise....

Seems that all of the dispensaries are in LA when they're needed up north in the central coast, Santa Barbara County areas quite badly.
I wish them well and the patients to get their medication as intended at the new location, congratulations.

yeah, I gotta say I'm a little disappointed as well.

As an MM patient, I take Prop 215 VERY seriously, and this makes it out to seem like 'ooh, hey stoners! check out THIS funny building!'

Medicinal Marijuana keeps me from puking every time I have chemo, and soothes the aches and pains of severe Rheumatoid Arthritis.

I understand what you're trying to do, but Prop 215 is NOT a joke and an article likes this perpetuates the stereotype.

This place almost makes me more sick than better. I don't have anything against marijuana, but this is just as bad as selling cigarettes. why? Because the people selling it, don't care about the people who are using it, they just want to make money selling drugs.

I came to this conclusion because they clearly just opened this to sell marijuana, they don't care about fixing it up, they just want to set up shop to make money off people need and addiction. I'm assuming they believe these people don't deserve any dignity. almost reminds me of a scene in a movie where a drug dealer picks the dirtiest alley to make the sale. except this is a legitimate trade.

But I'm sure things will change, and fast. Once they make the quick money, they're remodel. lets see how fast they make that money.

As an occasional smoker and supporter of complete legalization, I find myself embarrassed to see this place on my street. There was no need to turn the place into an eyesore. It was a KFC for Pete's sake. How the hell did they manage to make it look worse?

You can get a perscription for weed.My cousin does and he goes to a special place and picks it up.And it's all legal...

Wow, that is way cool dude, I like it!

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So we may enjoy with family here. Very good i like very much it

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you would think they would want to keep it low key.

Theyre completely going for it huh?
They can't do that!

AND YOU CAN'T DO THIS!
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I live across the street from this place, and that KFC has been closed for a loooong time. The windows were boarded up and there was trash littered everywhere around the outside of this building. Also the funnier thing is to the right of this kfc(to the right of the picture) there is another cannibis club store thats called (the post office) lol but its alot more discreet and is completely blacked out on the outside.

Right now the topic needs to be handled extremely seriously, because people against legalization are looking for proof that the opposite side is not legitimate. I think making jokes while selling it isn't the best idea right now.

HAHAHA i want to go to that kfc.
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Maybe they didn't have the money to remodel? Times are tough. There was an old gas station in my old neighborhood someone turned into a restaurant because they didn't have the money to remodel the building. They weren't just so anxious to sell food they couldn't bother with it. Maybe this is the same.

To others:
And apparently it was more of an eyesore when it was boarded up.

Nothing about a "post office" with blacked out windows says discreet.

And DCG don't say "CLEARLY" blah blah blah. There's one picture. How can anything be so clear? Or you so judgmental?

I love you, California.

I support this initiative.

I believe this will save lives.

Of cannabis consumers.

And of police officers.

The writer of this article is horrible and is obviously anti-cannabis. The writer didn't even do his or her homework. You can't get a prescription for medicinal cannabis in the state of California. You can only get a physician's recommendation for it. It is not the same thing at all. Brush up on your info before spewing out inaccurate nonsense.

Alcohol and tobacco are poisons, and yet, they are legal and taxed. Marijuana is used medicinally. They are not. No doctor will prescribe alcohol and/or tobacco to treat an illness. Doctors do and have prescribed marijuana for illnesses ranging from glaucoma to treating the nausea caused by chemotherapy. And yet, its not marijuana that is legal, it is our two poisons!!! I ceased long ago to expect common sense from our society.

Woah, liberals! Don't get your panties all in a wad! Somebody makes fun of "Bible thumpin' rednecks" and you laugh about it, but the minute someone writes a light hearted article of your god of choice, and it's all pitchforks and torches. Where in this article did the author come out as "obviously anti cannabis"? And what's the big deal about pot anyway. You act as though weed is your bestest friend, big brother, saviour of the world, to be revered or something. Get over it. It's just a drug that numbs you and your brain - permanently, eventually. You're like a wino defending his bottle. Yeah, that's exactly what you are. Jeeez. Only in CA.

This is too fun to let go of just now...

They should have called it The PEP Boys (Pot Ends Pain) with a stylized picture of Cheech and Chong on the roof. I actually think its cool. They should come up with some Peter Max artwork for the windows, and a giant blunt next to a picture of young Obama. They could even have two mascots in weed costumes, oned called Harry Potty and one called Mary Jane - HAR!. They would stand outside, waving people in while smoke pours from the top of their heads. Instead of "two for one" specials, they could have "reefer one" specials. Oh, this is too easy. The girl at the counter would say "you want Doritos with that dime bag"?

Ok folks, let's hear some others. Come on!

Dear Tom Ulcak,

Both alcohol and nicotine have medicinal uses. Google it. In the case of nicotine, only the delivery method is considered deadly, just like the delivery system used by the majority of "medicinal marijuana" users. So far as alcohol and nicotine being "poisons", potassium, which is necessary for life, will stop your heart cold if you eat just a gram or two. The only difference between poison and medicine is dosage. Oh, water is "poisonous" too. Drink and keep down a gallon and tell me how that works out for you.

Medicinal Marijuana should be legal and thank god patients in CA can (for the most part) safely use and acquire their medication... but that's not this issue here.

IT'S IN A FREAKING KFC PEOPLE! How is that not funny? The KFC restaurant is already a favorite joke punch-line, and this just takes it to the next level. It's not like they took over the space and didn't have the money to remodel so they left it as is and now the writer is making fun of them-- NO WAY! The owners of this new dispensary filled the windows with neon paint toting their --ahem-- half-baked acronym! They took KFC and not only owned it, they embellished it! They are 100% in on the joke and that doesn't make them any less valuable to the community of patients that can benefit from their services.

The writer isn't making fun of anyone and I don't think he's anti-cannabis, but would you go to a "regular" pharmacy if it took over an old taco bell building and embraced the conventions/branding of the fast food company? Maybe so! But that doesn't make the fast-food-themed business any less silly.

BubbaBoBob - you suck. I drink a gallon of water daily.

Gerrit, if you drink a gallon at one sitting, it rather sounds like YOU suck. Not only that, but you are also a ghost.

I, on the other hand, drink a gallon of Jack Daniels. Every minute.

BubbaBoBob shut up you redneck go drink your booze that kills how many people a year and how many people do cigs kill a year. Now lets think about this how many people has pot killed, WOW you look up some info or better yet go back to touching your daughter.

B Bob
that was funny - good one.

Never tried one before, but clever nevertheless.

How in the world can you assume that the writer is 'horrible and obviously anti-cannabis' from this article?? Paranoid much?

Dustin

I dont want to shutup you shut up and goaway and dont botherme any more with your excellent typing and punctuation an stuf so what ezacly is it about me you dont like is it my booze that i drink by the gallon, WOW or my chuckling at how serious some people take POT?!?!?!?! U R A pothead.

Oanbytheway eversince I married her she aint my duaghter no more shes my WIFE. it comes in handy at Christmas as i can visit my kids my wife and my in-laws all at one time. you are a computer. byte me.

I wonder if there is enough security for the building...from the picture it looks like not! I worry more about the safety of the neighborhood then anything else??

Does anyone sense the racist overtone of the author?

"...probably serves similar clientele."

You could take this as a stoner reference, or a reference to the African American communities' stereotypes to like friend chicken and smoke marijuana.

Racist

i happen to know for a FACT that the author is either black OR loves KFC the restaurant... but not both.

Racist? Get back to work loser.

I am a DNA racist. I hate everyone that does not have my DNA. They're "different". It creeps me out.

DCG . . . Got some news for you. Marijuana is not an addictive drug. Sure, people act like they're addicted to it, but that's because of their own addictive personality traits. That's a fact.

Pot hasn't killed anyone. Morons doing stupid things after smoking, that may be another story, but still you can't blame this drug for a persons actions. The old "I'm sorry, I was drunk" statement applies here. You were drunk, yes, but you were aware enough to do it.

Some people really need to come out of the dark ages here and stop buying into the hype that was started back in the 30's so that DOW could corner the plastics market.

Don't forget kids . . . Napoleon went to war to control the hemp trade! Gee, what's hemp? Oh yeah . . . MARIJUANA!

Jimmy,

It's nice that you speak so kindly of friend chicken. He's my friend too, especially when I smoke weed. I think stereo types of all communities like friend chicken, and friend cow, and friend goose. But NOT friend farmer. He does not smoke weed.

Stereotypes aside, it's a fact that marijuana makes you hungry; that's one of its big benefits for chemo patients who lose their appetite.

The munchies is not a myth, and therefore "probably serves similar clientele" seems like a perfectly acceptable (and witty!) conclusion to draw.

I think you have to dig pretty deep to find racism in this article, unless you're already looking for it before you beign.

I just noticed that the author's name is Noah Galuten. I think that's German for "small butt".

Mmmmmmmm weeeeeeed.

Wow BBB. You are clearly the only reasonable person on this website. Personally, I'm pro-weed (for med. and recreational use), but reading the comments here almost makes me ashamed of my pothead brethren.

dude thats great stuff man

Yup. East coast retard humor.

Yeeee haaaaw.

i wonder if they are hiring i need a job

Tator, 'zat you?

(I got a dog named Tator. He writes much better than me.)

All I need to say is : For those of you who do not like the "KFC", you really need to do your research on the facts about marijuana. Here's some help : U MUST WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY!!! The Union: The business behind getting high. Knowledge is power without ignorance.

If I was a med patient I would just grow my own pot. Wait - I already do...

i got a bitch name BubbaBoBob ane she cant spell oh shit it u bitch get off the computer hoe

Tator Head,

Computer hoe? Is that some kind of high tech gardening tool? The appropriate useage is "get off the computer, ho". I implore you, if you are going to make a lame attempt at insulting me, please spell the urban colloquialisms correctly.

Also, if you have a bitch named BubbaBoBob, you must be gay. Tator. Gaylord.

Oh Come on......... They are just keeping it FRIED :)

I think this is a great idea. The owners took an abandoned, boarded up, littered with trash commercial building, and saved money by incorporating their LEGAL business with the history, and obvious appearance, of the building. They've cleaned it up nicely and have brought jobs to the area. In a time of recession, how can this be anything but promising?

I don't take the purpose of the business any less serious, I think it's brilliant. I'm glad people suffering from illness, disease, and pain have another dispensary available to them so they can safely purchase the medicine they need.

Dear Ms Cannabian,

Technically it's not legal, as state law cannot supercede federal law. Should you doubt this, just ask a shop owner that has been busted by the feds. It's not like he can sue for a civil rights violation or anything.

I would also question just how many of those who purchase pot under this program are genuinely "suffering from illness, disease, and pain". It's not that I am against it, it just that they should not use this ruse to buy their drugs with. It makes it appear all the more insiduous. Law abiding people should not fake illness in order to get what is essentially for them, a recreational drug, and I would wager that a huge number of the obtainees have no underlying condition that could not be treated as effectively with conventional medicine.

These that do this seriously undercut the effort to legitimately legalize the drug.

This business is operating illegally in the City of Los Angeles, in violation of a 2-year old moratorium, and is not paying local business taxes. Totally ridiculous.

Hey, marijuana is less harmful than fried chicken. check out the movies Food, Inc. or Fast Food Nation or Supersize Me. What you eat at fast food places isn't even food: it's fat, salt and sugar recombined and flavored to seem like food. and it's more addictive and harmful than most "drugs." in fact fast food is a drug. watch the movies and you will see what i mean. California is turning into Amsterdam and pot doesn't make people fight and yell like booze does.

"Fried chicken spot becomes weed dispensary, probably serves similar clientele."

Screw you.

holy crap! i lived next to that KFC for ages! just moved last month. wow. used to drool for that fried chickeny smell that drifted in the window-- guess there'll be a NEW smell wafting on the breeze now--

marijuana should be as legal as letuce is

Have you heard the new radio comercials for the new movie "WOODSTOCK REVISITED"?
the big laugh line in the bit is a goofy guy coming into a room and announcing
We've brought BROWNIES"
- and then it gets some canned laughter to encourage you to see his crazy movie where real people eat somethig really funny to the squares- BROWNIES!
notice how these enlightened hollywood trypes get around from actually saying "MARIJUANA"
out loud.

rossocorsa:

I also live on Hughes, and like I said earlier, the place was an eyesore (although it has only been closed for a little more than a year), but it's more so now. The Post Office if much more discreet and doesn't attract the same shadiness that this "KFC" already has begun to do in its two weeks or so of being in business. In fact, I go to The Coop weekly and hadn't even noticed The Post Office until you mentioned it. I just thought it was a rent-a-mailbox place with tinted windows, which seemed normal considering how large the windows are.

i'm 21yrs of age... i'v been smokeing pot since i was 16....arthritis (i failed spelling in school) runs in my family... i was born with a spinal deformity... n i hav bad knees... i'v lived with pain all my life... never to be free from it till the first day i got high... not only that it got me through my depression, if not for it i would have starved to death... n it helps me sleep at night.... i have little girl almost 2yrs old... i only smoke after she's gone to bed at night... its not a drug its n herb.... god put it here... n i trust god...

Blisster you're write, its not addictive, but just stupid people are using it.

Marijuana does have a very bad reputation, when it really shouldn't. Sorry if I came off anit MJ, really not, I do have friends who use it and really helps with their medical issues.

But ohmy, Marijuana is CLEARLY not a joke. It's clear when you live a block from it. I have to see this every morning to work. I probably am judgemental, but really, people who have such lack of taste are clearly young douche bags jumping on the MJ band wagon.

The dude 1977 you are completely wrong and should not speak of what you do not know. Thanks

i smoke weed although i have no underlying medical condition. everyone knows it's a rec drug as well as a medicinal one. why does everyone have their panties in a bunch? who cares if they're not remodeling the building? the fact remains that it's a weed dispensary. they can make it look like a legit pharmacy and potheads and genuine patients would still flock to it. get over it.

Do you really need this?

Sorry I am from England, Naturally I shall be misunderstood as my English is not "American".

YEA! long live pot and meade spirits! fuck off everyone else who hates

cmariee, I think people are just irritated that they're making a joke about this. Marijuana is still not federally legal, it's dispensaries like this one that gives the opposition an argument.

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Link to documentary about first pot club in usa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-DsZR6vq4&feature=PlayList&p=2123D1E3D2AE6179&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

Can I have a bucket of weed please & plenty of biscuits for when I get the munchies afterwards

This is hilarious! The jokes could go on for ever.... I don't think the author is making light of the pros and necessity of marijuana for those in need. It truly does work for many medical conditions. But come on, it's a KFC....it's FUNNY! Sorry there are so many people out there with no sense of humor. Give me MORE stories like this!

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I have to start off by saying that I don't smoke marijuana OR medical marijuana. BUT I LOVE this story. And I LOVE the humor that this place has done. I don't think they are making light of anyones illness or need to use what they offer. Just bringing a little humor to something serious. I use to live near this KFC. When the owner died, the place closed. And what a mess it was after. Junk cars abandoned, trash all over, graffiti, homeless defecating all over it, over grown weeds (not the smoking kind lol) it looked like a dump. NOW look at the place, it's clean !! Repainted, and giving life to the area. Plus I went in just to look at what it was like in side ( I was only allowed into the lobby area) they were very nice to me, even when I said I was just looking. Also they have someone there that is disabled working. That's right boys and girls, they even built a ramp so he could enter and work in the store. He told me the entire place was built for disabled people to freely enter and move around. So, my hat is off to these people that are making the area better, cleaner and employing people that might not have such a job otherwise.

hey mike I myself went to the coops very often (because the owner is probably one of the kindest people ive met) and didnt know the post office next door was a cannabis shop. I didnt realize it until one night(while at the coops) I saw a hooker/transvestite get buzzed in to the store.Then it hit me(the smell of marijuana and pizza) and I went about on my way. I was living on palms/jasmin but I moved now so I havent been to that area in about a month.

I find it interesting that this article has gained so much attention from commenters.. So what if it was a former KFC? Do you feel the patients that require medical marijuana are bad people? or are branded pot heads?

As stated in the article recreational smokers are not allowed into\to purchase any items from the store.. All customers are screened for required documentation before entry.. There is nothing about this business that violates prop 215 in California..

One poster pointed out that the federal law in California supersedes state law which is also correct.. It's unfortunate though that these kind of events occur.. The resources that are used to "bust" medical marijuana dispensaries sickens me.. The resources could be much better used targeting some of the worst drugs in history such as cocaine or heroin. I have a feeling these busts occur more to have frequent press releases and to boost statistics for the federal government's war on drugs.. Not for the real reason of actually doing good and getting drugs off the streets as these drugs don't end up on the street..

Personally I think that the fast food vending system is one of the most efficient in existence and if the process to vend medical marijuana can be made more efficient or helpful then that's a good thing. You ever get pissed off waiting in a queue for a prescription? Good on you for helping the sick.

i lived next door for so long, but more importantly, all the culver city kfc's are now getting gutted.

Do they have a drive thru??

You are all a sad bunch of tools. It's funny, now move along.

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If they do have a drive-thru, I'll bet it's busy!

BTW, I'm a patient and I just want to say judgmental people (on both sides) suck. Patients should not be harassed, and neither should the people providing their medicine. Who died and made the Feds King?

FWIW, I also think no one has any business telling others they can't do pot, either. If people are held responsible for their actions, their pot use isn't going to have any effect on you.

If you think this belief has anything to do with my use of it, you're wrong. I didn't become a patient until I was in my 40's, and I used it ONCE (around 19, and didn't liked it) before that. I've always maintained that being stoned is the business of stoners (and not necessarily a bright idea.)

to everybody saying this dispensary is a "joke", i must strongly disagree. To say that the people who opened their dispensary in an old KFC don't care about their marijuana prescribed customers is rediculous. Also, medical marijuana can be recommended by a licensed professional, OR it can be prescribed by a doctor. These people aren't trying to do the bear minimum to "make money off selling drugs", they are helping sick people in a more lively manner. medical marijuana dispensaries are anything but shady or greedy.

Marijuana for legitimate medical use is fine, but we dont have so many sick people in Los Angeles that we need hundreds of these shops.

90% of the medical marijuana is consumed by poeple who have no medical need.

If you really support medical marijuana, you have to face up to this and get behind efforts to clean it up or no one will ever take medical uses seriously.

holy fuck

Whenever I wanted the Jimi thing in my younger days the kid working the counter at the local burger stand always hooked it up with no hassle.

I enjoyed the read but if you smoke marijuana and find that you are becoming tired and de motivated and you do not want to quit using marijuana. Try vaporizing your marijuana and you will get more a of a clean headed high buzz.

Like tobacco, marijuana smoke contains toxins that are known to be hazardous to the respiratory system. Among them are the highly carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, a prime suspect in cigarette-related cancers. These toxins are essentially a byproduct of combustion, separate from the pharmaceutically active components of marijuana, known as cannabinoids, which include THC. When you burn marijuana it produces quite a lot of tar. Pipes and joints generally do not have proper filters. Bongs are not the answer, because you inhale concentrated smoke.

The vaporizer certainly reduces the level of tar. You will not have to worry about the harmful carcinogens your body is absorbing when you inhale marijuana smoke.

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Forget smoking it... eat it. the safest medicine on earth.

HAHA... THis was pretty funny. If you are looking for a safer way, I heard that the new
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The writer is a hack.

You suck, sir.

Another bad issue about food again? Last news I heard about KFC is that, they are injecting something to the chicken to get fat? And now Marijuana. What's next?

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kind for cures has excellent medicine! they're pricing is fair, they have a great 3 for 25$ deal on all edibles, and when the appetite starts getting voracious there is an awesome pizza and sub place across the street called "the coop"

I love KFC, it's great chicken.

Your girl Mary :)

LOL. Funny. Thanks for sharing.
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Now if they only sold chicken, then they would make a killing. The people who use the weed get the munchies, and then they buy the chicken. It's the proverbial win/win.