Merced police shut down alleged marijuana dispensary
The Merced Police Department served search warrants Friday and shut down Kiona’s Farm’acy in downtown Merced, alleging the business operated as a marijuana dispensary.
The police also ordered an investigation into business owner Lakisha Jenkins for possible tax evasion.
But Jenkins says her business is a nonprofit and agriculture cooperative that has been operating in California for more than a decade. Though the Farm’acy does sell cannabis to some members, who Jenkins said mostly are cancer patients, it also sells hundreds of herbs, teas and organic produce. Jenkins calls it a “holistic health center.”
She said the Merced Police Department and Merced County Sheriff’s Department eradicated a cannabis garden Sunday in a raid.
“I had the displeasure of informing one of our 17-year-old patients with uterine cancer that she no longer had a (cannabis) garden,” Jenkins said.
Merced police reported that the Farm’acy violated conditions of its business license because...
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