#harborside oakland

[allthenewzworld]

In February 2016, Kevin Hart, the former CEO of Apple computer repair outfit Tekserve, found himself standing inside an Oakland, California vault filled with many millions of dollars in cash. The vault belonged to one of the country's first medical marijuana dispensaries, Harborside, and the cash, derived from state legal medical marijuana sales, was nonetheless considered illegal drug money under federal law.

Hart, who is now the 65-year-old cofounder and CEO of Florida-based cannabis banking compliance company Green Check, was there to help Harborside build a payment processing system.

"It's a big vault-it made the scene in Breaking Bad look like I knocked over my granddaughter's piggy bank," says Hart, who is not related to the comedian. "That's how much money was there."

Hart turned to his host at the bank-the legendary California cannabis activist and entrepreneur Dress Wedding, who founded Harborside in 2006 with Steve DeAngelo-and asked why the hell they kept so much money around. Wedding explained that the dispensary could not get a bank account because marijuana was still illegal at the federal level.

That is when Hart realized that Harborside, and other state-legal cannabis companies, had a huge problem: they had nearly no access to America's mainstream financial system.

Keep reading at the link in the bio.

[kayapharmacy]

Jerry Garcia’s Grateful Dead cannabis brand is leaving California

Jerry Garcia is one of California's most iconic pot smokers. Born in San Francisco, Garcia led the Grateful Dead for 30 years as the city became an international beacon of the counterculture. He did it all while casually and openly smoking weed. His pot pipe is considered an artifact of California cannabis and thc Krt Carts history.

But even the iconic Jerry Garcia name couldn't survive California's turbulent legal pot market.

The Garcia Hand Picked brand, launched by the deceased musician's family in 2020, has pulled out of the state, a spokesperson confirmed to SFGATE. Garcia's exit comes as cannabis insiders predict a "mass extinction event" for California's pot and thc  Lions Carts industry, with thousands of companies expected to go out of business this year.

Andrew DeAngelo, a cannabis consultant and former owner of Harborside, one of the state's pioneering medical cannabis dispensaries, said the Garcia brand probably learned the same thing that all of California's pot and thc  Muha Meds Carts companies have realized: "You can't make any money in this market."

"Not only is Garcia leaving, a lot of people are leaving," DeAngelo told SFGATE. "It's a real shame that California is losing out. We're losing out on jobs and economic activity and other places are benefiting from that."

Like most celebrity brands, Garcia selected who to contract out its cannabis, growing and manufacturing to partner companies and then stamped Jerry Garcia's face on the packaging. The company said they are looking for a new cannabis or thc Orchid Vape supplier but declined to be interviewed for this story. It did not elaborate on how long the brand would be on hiatus in California. Garcia Hand Picked is still available in five other states.

"We're taking a pause in California. We want to ensure CA consumers have the highest quality flower for the long term, so we are in the process of choosing a new local partner for cultivation, production, sales and distribution of Garcia Hand Picked in CA," a spokesperson from Holistic Industries, the brand's parent company, said in an email to SFGATE.

California's cannabis and thc  Pure One Carts industry has faced substantial economic hurdles in its first four years of legal sales. The state's complicated cannabis regulations and high taxes add costs to legal operators, while widespread illegal farms and retailers undercut legitimate companies. Limited access to banking means these companies pay exorbitant fees for simple banking services and have almost no access to loans. Federal law blocks pot companies from deducting most business taxes from their federal taxes, making pot businesses pay an effective federal tax rate as high as 80%.

These factors have made California a painful place to run a legal pot business. Most small legacy cannabis farms are on their way out of business, and even the country's most prominent cannabis/ vape companies such as Rove carts are leaving the state. 'This is very painful for them.'

Nearly a dozen states had legalized cannabis by the time Jerry Garcia's surviving family decided to start a pot brand built around the Grateful Dead front man, who died of a heart attack in 1995. But the Garcias chose to launch their brand in California, where Jerry was born, spearheaded an artistic movement, and died.

The Golden State featured prominently in that initial launch. An air-stream painted with swirling psychedelic colors crisscrossed the state in late 2020, announcing the new brand. Esquire profiled the family as they smoked a bong in Oakland and asked, "If Jerry Garcia were a kind of weed, what would the high feel like?" The family told Esquire they were planning on opening a Jerry Garcia-themed cannabis consumption lounge at a dispensary in San Francisco, which never materialized.

But there's now only one jar of Garcia Hand Picked available in San Francisco, according to Weedmaps, and there's no sign that any more will return to the Bay Area. DeAngelo, who said he did some early consulting work for Garcia Hand Picked but is no longer involved with the brand, saying leaving California was probably hard on the family.

"This was a hard decision for them, they love California," DeAngelo said. "They were born and bred here. This is very painful for them, I guarantee that."

Eli Melrod, the CEO and co-founder of the Soulful dispensary chain, which deal in thc Wonka Oil said the brand's exit from California was a sign of a struggle for even good cannabis brands to make money in the state.

"California is probably the most competitive cannabis market in the country, it is a market where there are a lot of brands fighting for shelf space," Melrod told SFGATE. "I think for some folks the margins and the challenges in California make it better for them to focus on other states."

The brand is still for sale in Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Oregon. It offers a range of cannabis flowers, thc carts  Big Chief Carts , pre-rolled joints, and colorful pot-infused gummies shaped like guitar picks. Its packaging features Jerry Garcia's face connected to swirling, psychedelic colors, akin to Milton Glasser's iconic 1966 poster of Bob Dylan.

Melrod said he usually doesn't sell celebrity brands at his stores because most celebrities have poor-quality products, but Garcia was different. He said they had good cannabis grown by some of the state's best outdoor cannabis growers, like Moon Made Farms and Sonoma Hills Farms.

"We start from a place of skepticism because we've seen a lot of celebrity brands launch in cannabis that are really just basically a celebrity name on a product that is marked up," Melrod told SFGATE. "We really appreciated the approach that the Garcia Hand Picked team took to sourcing. They worked with a lot of great legacy farmers in the Emerald Triangle."

The Garcia brand's departure also signifies that customers are tired of celebrity pot brands. There are so many famous people selling weed that even rock stars are noticing that it might not be an accessible business to invest. David Crosby told the Los Angeles Times last year that he wanted to start his pot brand but said, "Celebrity brands didn't turn out to work nearly as well as anyone thought they were gonna."Can we say Buddha Bear Carts ?

Indeed, Garcia Hand Picked isn't even the first Grateful Dead pot brand. Drummer Mickey Hart launched his pre-rolled joint brand called Mind your Head in 2019, although that brand also appears to be on hiatus. Its website is down, and a brand representative could be contacted for this story.

Garcia Hand Picked and Mind Your Head could return to the state, but Deadheads in California will have to get by without smoking any cannabis blessed by the legendary band.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Yeah, that’s what I thought, too...but after applying for NINE different positions at Harborside Oakland, it became apparent that the only reason I didn’t get the job was because I was TOO OLD (and this was four years ago, when I was just 60).

Age-ism runs rampant at Big Cannabis dispensaries, which Harborside Oakland is. 

It’s nothing but another fucking EVIL CORPORATION taking advantage of young workers and not hiring older people who have a world of experience, who could work circles around them.  You go in there on any given day and NO EMPLOYEES in the store are older than their 20s.

I refuse to set foot in Harborside now.

Fuck Harborside.  Ageist assholes!

I got a new strain of cannabis today at the dispensary. It’s deadass called “starfire sunshine” and if that isn’t the coolest name, I don’t know what is.

I have always thought of “work” as this dreadful, stressful thing. But I’m actually loving it!! I adore my coworkers already, and I’m being paid to go talk to people about cannabis and research it. That’s so neat.

It almost feels like the job was tailored to me

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Ageism in the Cannabis Industry

I’ve been actively trying for the last three years to get even a lowly ENTRY LEVEL position in the Cannabis Industry here in California.  After applying for literally dozens of jobs at different dispensaries, I can only say that this industry practices blatant and obvious AGE-ISM and AGE DISCRIMINATION.

I’m 61.  I’ve run record stores, I’ve managed grocery stores.  I’ve run my own business.  I have a lifetime of experience.  I’ve applied for NINE DIFFERENT JOBS at my favorite dispensary, HARBORSIDE OAKLAND, and was only given ONE INTERVIEW, on my very first application, and since then I’ve been soundly ignored.

I’ve actually had the girl who interviewed me be my cashier the last few times I’ve been in there.  She looks at me sheepishly, and lowers her head so she doesn’t have to look me in the eye...like she KNOWS they NEVER intended to give me a job, but just gave me a PITY INTERVIEW and hoped I’d go away.

They have given me NO FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS, no matter how many times I’ve applied, or have written them back asking why I have not been selected.  I’ve applied for NINE DIFFERENT POSITIONS AT HARBORSIDE OAKLAND.  I have received absolutely no acknowledgement, past that first “pity interview”.

I’ve wanted to work in the Cannabis Industry for years, and figured moving from Texas to Cali, I was sure to be able to land a job at least as a BudTender quickly.  I was not prepared for this kind of discrimination, to say the least.

With my life and work experience, I should at least qualify for an assistant manager’s slot at any dispensary!  Nope.  I’ve applied at four different dispensaries, besides Harborside, and have had absolutely NO communication from any of them, not even an acknowledgement of receipt of my application.  I then return the next week and see THREE OR FOUR NEW EMPLOYEES (ALL OF THEM UNDER 25!).  You can’t tell me this is not ACTIVE AGEISM/AGE DISCRIMINATION!

I am 61...I’m not fucking DEAD.  I’m intelligent and have experience that is useful, and I would make a damned valuable employee.  I got my first job in 1975 as a Sophomore in high school...I know what a “work ethic” is.

The California Cannabis Industry, and HARBORSIDE OAKLAND IN PARTICULAR, need to RE-EVALUATE THEIR HIRING PRACTICES.  I am tempted to find a lawyer to file a lawsuit alleging AGEISM and AGE DISCRIMINATION in Harborside’s hiring practices. 

I wonder how they’d respond to THAT!

[treesncans]

Team work makes the dream work

[womensvisionarycongress]

The Women's Visionary Council is grateful to Harborside Health Center for sponsoring 10 scholarships to our Women & Cannabis Salon in Oakland on March 4th. Harborside is the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, and sets an important example for how profitable cannabis businesses can support diversity, sustainability, and economic justice in the industry. Thank you for helping us bring 10 incredible elders, students, and people of slender means to our Salon, Harborside! 

[cannabisbusinessexecutive]

Save the Cannabis Industry: Topple The Pyramids!

Save the Cannabis Industry: Topple The Pyramids!

by Steve DeAngelo In early October of 2006, I founded Harborside Health Center in Oakland CA; which had just received one of the first six licenses granted anywhere in the United States for commercial cannabis activity. Like every other new licensee; I had gained my cannabis experience and knowledge in the underground, legacy market. There was no alternative in those days. Cannabis corporations…

[cannabisresins]

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 1, 2018 file photo, a customer purchases marijuana at the Harborside marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., on the first ... Read More...

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[laliberty]

Marijuana merchants in California, who began legally serving recreational customers on Monday, complain that they are overtaxed, and they have a point. Of the eight states that have legalized marijuana for non medical use, California has the second highest total taxes, beaten only by Washington, where legal recreational sales began in 2014. Alaska, where state-licensed pot shops first opened for business in 2016, has the lowest taxes (although not the lowest prices). ...

High marijuana taxes make it harder for state-licensed merchants to compete with black-market dealers, who also escape the regulatory burden imposed on legal businesses. In an interview with The New York Times last fall, Tawnie Logan, who chairs the board of the California Growers Association, estimated that an eighth goes for $20 on the black market in her state. At the Harborside dispensary in Oakland, by contrast, the price ranges from $40 to $55, and that's before the retail taxes, which together add 34.25 percent.

"I don't think that the current tax rate for cannabis in California is sustainable," Harborside CEO Steve DeAngelo told KPIX, the CBS station in San Francisco. "In our shop here, the tax rate has gone from 15 percent all the way up to almost 35 percent for adult consumers. "That is a huge hit. And it's going to mean that a significant number of people, less affluent consumers, are going to turn to the lower prices of the underground market."

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[cannabisbusinessexecutive]

Save the Cannabis Industry: Topple The Pyramids!

Save the Cannabis Industry: Topple The Pyramids!

By Steve DeAngelo In early October of 2006, I founded Harborside Health Center in Oakland CA; which had just received one of the first six licenses granted anywhere in the United States for commercial cannabis activity. Like every other new licensee; I had gained my cannabis experience and knowledge in the underground, legacy market. There was no alternative in those days. Cannabis corporations…

[hemplife420]

As the country grapples with structural racism and ensuring equity in Black communities, a San Jose cannabis company is helping people of color — many of whom were targeted in drug wars — in a new way. Harborside this month launched an initiative to highlight Black-owned cannabis brands such as Oakland Extracts, the Congo Club, Cannabis on Fire and Viola. Harborside dispensaries across the state, including those in San Jose, are promoting Black-owned brands with promotional materials and displays. But even if the campaign brings them more attention, Black-owned business owners say it took the eruption of protests against racism nationwide to see this change and much more still needs to happen. “I know buyers are definitely looking for Black, brown and social equity brands. I will say that prior to (the protests) it was really, really tough to get on shelves,” said Amber Senter, founder the Congo Club, a cannabis brand and Supernova Women, a coalition for women of color in the cannabis industry. “Even when I know the dispensary owners, it’s still hard to get on the shelves because the buyer is some kind of white guy with an agenda and the agenda is not adding Black or brown or women-owned brands, whatever it may be, to the shelves,” Senter added. Business owners say it’s an exhausting grind to move up in the industry. Having entered the cannabis industry as a budtender, Terryn Buxton understands how the day-to-day tasks of being a guide to customers in dispensaries can stifle people of color trying to cultivate a business. Buxton and his business partner, Aaron Tran, own Oakland Extracts. He said he hopes Harborside’s campaign leads to upward mobility in commercial marijuana. “It took the company a minute to realize that I was actually kind of worth promoting because it does start to feel like when you’re a budtender it can be a dead-end job,” Buxton said. He said he routinely gives advice to budtenders of color on moving up in the business. #blackownedbusiness #cannabiscommunity #blacklivesmatter #cannabis #marijuana #cannabiscommunity #hemplife420magazine #thc #hemplife420 #hemplife420news #mmjlife #cannabisculture #medicalcannabis (at San Jose, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxf1B_Jlaw/?igshid=x2qug4b2kupo

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The most common cannabis coops in the U.S. can be found in California. The largest of these is the Harborside Health Center in Oakland. Since opening in February 1996, Harborside has grown into a multi-million dollar industry. While its primary business is to supply medical cannabis, it also runs other businesses such as a store and a restaurant. Its biggest rival is the largest of its kind, Oaksterdam University. Both sell marijuana, but Harborside is the biggest, by far.

A number of factors have contributed to the popularity of Harborside. The first being the fact that it is the largest licensed medical cannabis provider in California. Second, the fact that there are only six employees to run everything from food service to security. And third, the location of the store makes it accessible to thousands of patients in a relatively small space. Also, since the store is located in a state with a strong medical marijuana law, it can't be fined or forced to close because of non-compliance. So even if the cannabis coop isn't a huge success, it shows that even with a limited initial budget, there's still hope for a successful cannabis business. Whether it's a cannabis joint, a bag of pot, or a coffee shop, there are ways to start a cannabis coop.

[rapid-apathy]

the real reason weed is becoming legal:

With the legalization of adult-use cannabis, the city and the state will increase taxes on cannabis sales at all California dispensaries and delivery services. The specific tax increases depends on your city. For Harborside locations, Oakland taxes will increase from 14.25% to 34.25%, and San Jose taxes will increase from 19.25% to 34.25%. These tax increases start January 1, 2018.

[peraltacolleges]

@harborside_oakland The change in our country’s landscape as a result of disenfranchised black populations, and systematic racist policies, have made this a critical moment for all of us. We recognize this and we will not turn away from that which is happening in our communities. Today, we are increasing our commitment to support the community at the local level by announcing a $10,000 #charitable #contribution to @peraltacollegesfoundation based in Oakland, CA. Along with this financial commitment, we are working with the Peralta Foundation to develop a Cannabis Certification program from the ground floor and contribute our own knowledge base to the core curricula. The Peralta Colleges serve a diverse population of over 21,000 students, largely consisting of African American, Hispanic American and Asian American young adult students. We hope this program will create more opportunities for our community members to participate in the thriving cannabis industry that exists here in Alameda County. Harborside chose to partner with Merritt College on this program because we want to help those who enter our business develop a portfolio of skills that will allow any graduate to confidently say they have a deep knowledge of the cannabis supply chain and understand the financial side of consumer market demands. We believe in constructing a future where social equity for all is the norm. This includes access to a great education, opening doors for leadership opportunities, and guaranteeing everyone has a voice. “I look forward to working with Harborside in designing our Cannabis Certification program at Merritt College. We believe through certification and skills preparation our students will be well prepared for jobs in the industry,” Dr. David M. Johnson, President, Merritt College @merrittcollegeofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWmNQfhKsv/?igshid=kew6hwfw1mka