With outlets in Oakland and San Jose, Harborside has 58,000 members, or patients, who can buy dozens of strains of marijuana packaged in vacuum-sealed bags or in edible forms ranging from cookies to gelato.
But Mr. Hennessy imagines that the case will soon contain another smokable product — marijuana, packaged attractively because "a rolled up joint in a baggy isn't going to do it," he said.
The community clean-up that yielded two pickup truck loads of burlap from smugglers who had unbundled marijuana packages.
Inside, glass cases display jars of various strains of marijuana, packages of cookies and chocolates, and lollipops.
Investigators monitored up to four phone calls at a time, painstakingly documenting details about methamphetamine prices, carjackings, marijuana packaging and gun sales that were later listed in indictments.
The marijuana was packaged in 56 bundles.
Instead, officers uncovered an "elaborate" marijuana farm in a converted garage, leading them to seize more than 200 marijuana plants, 5 pounds of packaged marijuana, two loaded guns, cash and packaging materials, according to Glendale Police spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.
The police also seized packaged marijuana, equipment and $10,000 in cash.
Investigators found Oxycodone pills, marijuana and cocaine packaged for sale at the scene.
The book also features shootings, beheadings with a chainsaw, masturbation, vividly described sex with varying numbers of participants and enough marijuana grown, grafted, packaged, sold, vapourised, smoked and otherwise ingested to keep Cheech and Chong happy for a month of Sundays.
Synthetic marijuana is often packaged under names like "K2," "spice," "herbal incense," and "potpourri".
