List of Medical Marijuana Doctors

So, a lot of you have been asking us where to go to get your medical marijuana recommendation (both new & renewed). There are doctor’s offices popping up all over the place with recommendation prices from $40 to $150, so you need to make sure you do your homework. There are also a lot of scams with people pretending to be doctors and forging medical marijuana recommendations.

Here’s a list of all the doctor’s that are registered on NORML’s website for Orange County

Costa Mesa

Cali Green Rx

Dr. Abel Quesada

(877) 387-CGRX (2479)

440 Fair Ave. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 www.caligreenrx.com Map

Go Green Medical Evaluations

Dr. Marshall Salkin

(888) 420-RELIEF (7354)

129 Cabrillo Suite 205 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Map

Costa Mesa 420 Evaluations

Dr. Marc Rose

(949) 200-9843

779 West 19th St. Suite S Costa Mesa, CA 92627 www.cm420evals.com Map

Dana Point

Medical Marijuana of Orange County

Dr. Bob Blake

1 (888) 215-HERB

28 Monarch Bay Plaza Suite L Dana Point, CA 92629 www.mmofoc.com Map

CC for Wellness

Dr. Austin Elguindy

(877) CCW-4201

Dana Point, CA www.cc4wellness.com Map

Huntington Beach

Compassionate Cannabis Care

Dr. Thomas Powers

(866) 238-9874

16511 Goldenwest St. Suite 105 Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Map

Beach Medical Center

Dr. Aury Lor Holtzman

(714) 375-4745

17822 Beach Blvd. Suite 330 Huntington Beach, CA 92647 www.mybuddrh.com Map

Irvine

Medical Cannabis of Southern California

Dr. Sean Breen, (D.O.)

(877) 721-0047

17910 Sky Park Circle Suite 108 Irvine, CA 92614 www.MCSoCal.com Map

Mission Viejo

Orange County Medical Marijuana Evaluation Service

Dr. Alan B. Ross

(800) 259-3619

26302 La Paz Suite 103 Mission Viejo, CA 92691 Map

Santa Ana

Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers (MMEC)

Dr. Kien Tran

(800) 268-4420

1125 E. 17th Street Suite W237 Santa Ana, CA 92701 www.marijuanamedicine.com Map

Tustin

Dr. W. Robert Crumpton

(714) 669-4466

14642 Newport Ave. Suite 200 Tustin, CA 92780 www.cannabisdocofoc.com Map

Next we’ve copied NORML’s list of doctor’s in Los Angeles:

City of Industry

Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers (MMEC)

Dr. Kien Tran

(800) 268-4420

13200 Crossroads Parkway North Suite 430 City of Industry, CA 91746 www.marijuanamedicine.com Map

Claremont

Madison Burbank Medical Center

(909) 626-9131

678 S. Indian Hill Blvd. Suite 302 Claremont, CA 91711 www.medicaluseonly.com Map

La Puente

Total Health Care Clinic

Dr. Daniel K. Cham

(877) 420-3338

13050 E Valley Blvd. Suite 202 La Puente , CA 91746 www.THCclinic.com Map

Lawndale

Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers (MMEC)

Dr. Kien Tran

(800) 268-4420

15901 Hawthorne Blvd. Suite 460 Lawndale, CA 90260 www.marijuanamedicine.com Map

Long Beach

CC for Wellness

Dr. Austin Elguindy

(877) CCW-4201

110 W Ocean Blvd. Suite 805 Long Beach, CA 90802 www.cc4wellness.com Map

Education and Evaluation Center for Medical Marijuana

Dr. S. Myron Goldstein

(562) 427-6632

2880 Atlantic Suite 190 Long Beach, CA 90806 Map

Alternative Medical Consulting

Dr. Tom Zaharakis

(877) 215-4123

Long Beach, CA www.18772154123.com Map

Medical Cannabis of Southern California

Dr. Sean Breen, (D.O.)

(877) 721-0047

1777 N. Bellflower Blvd. Suite 212 Long Beach, CA 90815 www.MCSoCal.com Map

Los Angeles

Dr. William Eidelman

(323) 463-3295

1654 N. Cahuenga Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 www.dreidelman.com Map

Dr. Bob Blake

(888) 215-HERB

1700 Westwood Blvd. Suite 201 Los Angeles, CA 90024 www.1888215HERB.com Map

Dr. Anna Gravich

(323) 954-0231

425 S. Fairfax Ave. Suite 302 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Map

420 Evaluation Center

Dr. Louetta Westphal

213-353-6100

2010 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 710 Los Angeles, CA 90057 www.420center.com Map

Total Health Care Clinic

Dr. Daniel K. Cham

(877) 420-3338

8001 Irvine Center Drive Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA www.THCclinic.com Map

Total Health Care Clinic

Dr. Daniel K. Cham

(877) 420-3338

11400 W. Olympic Ave. Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90064 www.THCclinic.com Map

Dr. Sona Patel

(888) 436-2420

4964 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90029 www.SonaPatelMDInc.com Open daily 12-7 Map

Dr. Sona Patel

(888) 436-2420

314 W. Florence Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90003 www.SonaPatelMDInc.com Open daily 12-7 Map

The Holistic Clinic

(888) 420-2546

818 N. Spring Street Suite 301 Los Angeles, CA 90012 www.my420clinic.com Map

Medical Advisory Center

(323) 965-0420

4221 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 170-15 Los Angeles, CA 90010 www.420MAC.com Map

Medimar

Dr. Kenneth Johnson

(877) 627-1644

404 West 7th St. Suite 1406 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Map

Marina Del Rey

GreenBridge Medical Services

Dr. Allan Frankel

(310) 821-9600

3007 Washington Blvd. Suite 110 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 www.greenbridgemed.com Map

North Hills

Compassionate Care Consultants

Dr. Bruce P. Hector

(818) 894-4200

8660 Woodley Ave. Suite 107 North Hills, CA 91343 www.sb420doctor.com Map

North Hollywood

Organic Medirex Consultations

Dr. Katharine Durso

(818) 505-8805

11335 Magnolia Blvd. Suite 2D North Hollywood, Ca 91601 www.organicmc.com Map

Northridge

Natural Care for Wellness

Dr. Cristal Speller

(818) 701-0420

8349 Reseda Blvd. Suite 111 Northridge, 91324 www.naturalcare4wellness.com Map

Palmdale

Natural Care for Wellness

Dr. Cristal Speller

(310) 975-5832

38345 30th St. East Palmdale, CA 93550 www.naturalcare4wellness.com Map

Garrison Family Medical Group

Dr. Ric S. Garrison

(661) 947-7100

41210 11th St. West Suite A Palmdale, CA 93551 Map

Pasadena

Dr. Roger Barnes

(626) 344-7596

50 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 www.pasadenamarijuanaevaluations.com Map

Santa Monica

Dr. Christine Paoletti

(310) 319-6116

1304-15th St. Suite 405 Santa Monica, CA 90404 www.cannadvise.com Map

Sherman Oaks

Aldridge Medical, Inc.

Dr. Sean Aldridge

(818) 386-1273

4898 Van Nuys Blvd. Suite 204 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Map

Alternative Medical Consulting

Dr. Tom Zaharakis

(877) 215-4123

13371 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 www.18772154123.com Map

Silver Lake

CC for Wellness

Dr. Austin Elguindy

(877) CCW-4201

2815 W. Sunset Blvd. Suite 107 Silver Lake, CA 90026 www.cc4wellness.com Map

Whittier

The Holistic Clinic

(888) 420-2546

11454 Whittier Blvd. Whittier, CA 90601 www.my420clinic.com Map

Dr. Sona Patel

(888) 436-2420

7007 Washington Ave. Whittier, CA 90601 www.SonaPatelMDInc.com Open daily 12-7 Map

Woodland Hills

Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers (MMEC)

Dr. Kien Tran

(800) 268-4420

20350 Ventura Blvd. Suite 240 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 www.marijuanamedicine.com Map

Blue Mountain Medical

Dr. Stuart Kramer

(818) 716-5179

19730 Ventura Blvd. Suite 104 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Map

Hopefully these lists will help you guys find a decent medical marijuana friendly doctor. Don’t forget to bring any and all prescriptions, doctor notes, health exams, and other things that will help prove your case. Also do your research! Google these doctors and any other doctors you find. If you’re looking for a doctor not in Orange County or Los Angeles here is the link where we found these lists http://listings.canorml.org/physicians/listings.lasso

After you get your doctor’s recommendation don’t forget to come see us to pick up all of your meds, we’re at 24601 Raymond Way, Suite 9B. Lake Forest, CA 92656.

Have a great day!

California Bill Could ‘Zone Out’ Dispensaries

 

The California Senate will vote soon on a bill that will make it much more difficult to establish a legal medical cannabis patients’ cooperative or collective. Senator Lou Correa’s (D-Santa Ana) SB 847 will require that all cooperatives and collectives be located at least 600 feet from residential zones or use – effectively excluding vast portions of most California cities. This would be on top of the existing requirement that facilities be located 600 feet from schools.

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is calling on medical cannabis patients and supporters to oppose SB 847 today. ASA’s Online Action Center makes it easy to find your Senator and send a message right now.

SB 847 is burdensome. It is already hard enough for patients to organize and operate legal cooperatives and collectives. This new rule may make it almost impossible in some cities. Most medical cannabis patients rely on cooperatives and collectives for access to medicine, so onerous restrictions like this serve to choke off safe access. That is not what voters intended when they approved Proposition 215 calling on lawmakers “to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.”

SB 847 is unnecessary. Research conducted by ASA and more than fifteen years of experience with medical cannabis in California have taught us that sensible local regulations reduce crime and complaints. We do not need to usurp local control on medical cannabis. Instead, legislators should be cooperating with local government and other stake holders to adopt state laws that facilitate safe, reliable, and legal access to medicine.

Email your California Senator today and ask him or her to vote no on SB 847.

Don Duncan
California Director
ASA

P.S. – ASA needs your help to keep fighting for safe access in California and Washington, DC. Please make a special contribution to support our work today.

Support Marijuana Legalization And Get Ypur Name On A Virtual Brick

Two weeks ago, we launched our new organization, the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform (CCPR), to bring citizens together to work toward legalizing marijuana in2012.

Already, thousands of people like you have stood up and pledged their support for going back to the ballot next year.

With that kind of support, I am confident that we can win. Together, we’re going to build this organization, brick by brick, and lay the foundation for an even stronger grassroots movement — but we need your help to do it.

That’s why, today, we are launching our Founding Members program. With a contribution of $25 or more, we’ll place your name on your own personalized virtual brick on our website’s Founders Wall, publicly recognizing you as a Founding Member of the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform.

Contribute $25 to our Founding Member drive today — and have a brick added in your name to our virtual wall!

To recognize friends like you, we’re building a virtual brick wall, symbolizing the support we have for cannabis policy reform.

Each brick represents a supporter of the cause, with his or her name engraved on the front, along with a personalized comment. Our virtual wall will let the world know everyone who is a part of this new effort from the very start.

Every contribution counts. If we build our virtual wall with just 1,000 bricks, we’ll have already raised $25,000 for our cause.

Will you buy your own personalized brick right now — so we can add your name to our Founding Member wall?

Show your support for building the grassroots movement that will tax and legalize cannabis in California: Contribute $25 and get your own personalized brick added to our Founding Member wall!

Your contribution to CCPR will help us build the movement we need to end cannabis prohibition in California. Together, we can lead the nation to a more sensible drug policy — brick by brick.

We are extremely grateful for your support.

Dale Jones
Chair
Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform

P.S. Want to check out how the Founding Member wall is already shaping up? Click here to check it out — and then click here to buy your own personalized virtual brick.

Drug Warriors Won’t Play Cannabis Reformers In Softball

Photo: Anastacia Cosner

The One Hitters are already kicking the Drug War’s ass — now they want to beat the drug warriors in a softball game

Once again, the softball team representing the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has backed out of playing a softball game against the One Hitters, a team consisting of members of several drug policy reform organizations and others who want to end the “War On Drugs.”

A game between the two teams had been scheduled for May 25, but the ONDCP Czardinals chickened out shortly after scheduling the game, with ONDCP public liaison coordinator Quinn Staudt claiming an “accidental double-booking.”

This is not the first time the Czardinals have refused to play the One Hitters.

Photo: Anastacia Cosner

The One Hitters dominate the Congressional Softball League

​ In six years, the team of drug warriors has managed to find one lame reason or another to avoid taking the field against the One Hitters, made up of individuals dedicated to reforming the out-of-date and ineffectual policies promoted by the ONDCP.

This behavior is being mimicked on the national stage by the ONDCP as well, according to the reformers.

While Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske claimed he would no longer use the rhetoric of a “War On Drugs” and President Obama said he wants to treat drug abuse more as a health problem than a criminal justice issue, little has been seen in the way of action in that direction.

The President has also said he does not support the legalization of any drug — even marijuana — despite the inarguable damage marijuana prohibition does to society, individual users, medical patients that benefit from cannabis treatments, governmental budgets, and respect for the rule of law.

“It is really disappointing that the ONDCP not only refuses to have an honest debate with drug policy reformers about the absolute failure of drug prohibition, but also keeps ducking out of softball games with us,” said One Hitters team captain Jacob Berg.

“We think it would be a great opportunity to advance the discussion between drug law reformers and the people ostensibly in charge of drug policy in this country,” Berg said. “I wonder if they are afraid to have that conversation.”

“The drug czar said ‘legalization’ isn’t in his vocabulary, but it’s just a friendly softball game!” Berg said.

The One Hitters still hope that Czardinals will put aside ideological differences and accept their invitation to play a softball game this summer on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Photo: Anastacia Cosner

The mighty One Hitters strike fear into the hearts of the ONDCP Czardinals and drug warriors everywhere.

Stoner Photo of the Day: Hot Girl Rolling/Smoking Blunt

Come by Cafe Vale Tudo
24601 Raymond Way, Suite 9B
Lake Forest, CA 92630
(949) 454-9227
Open 10 am to 10 pm every day!

How To: Make Weed Wine (Recipe)

Cannabis is often added to alcohol to make a quick and effective drink that will keep. However, we suggest consuming this red wine concoction on the night of making, and of course sharing it. This simple recipe serves 6-9 people and is an easy way to rid yourself of any trimmed leaves you may otherwise be discarding.

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle of good red wine
• 4 cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• an orange to stick the cloves into
• 28 grams (1 ounce) of trimmed cannabis leaves

Directions:

Combine ingredients in a large pan and warm gently for 2 hours. Then strain and serve.

How To: Make Baked Marijuana French Toast – French Toasted! (recipe)

Marijuana French toast?  Yep, you read that right, and there’s no tastier way to completely ruin your early-morning motivation.

(source: Dee Adams)

Ingredients:

• 1 French baguette
• 1 ½ tbsp. butter
• 3 tbsp. cannabutter
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• ¼ cup sugar
• 3 tbsp. maple syrup
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• ½  tsp. salt
• powdered sugar

Directions:

Lightly butter a 13 by 9-inch (32.5 by 23-cm) baking dish.  Cut the baguette crosswise at an angle into 8 slices. Each should be about ¾ inch (2 cm) thick.  Using a small bowl, cream the  pair of butters together until thoroughly combined.  Now spread the butter onto a single side of each of your 8 slices and then arrange them butter side up in your prepared baking dish.

Next, whisk together the eggs, sugar, milk, syrup, vanilla, and salt. Pour the mixture over the bread and press the slices down into it before covering the dish and allowing it to refrigerate for 8 hours.

When ready to cook, preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C). Once heated, place the uncovered baking dish in the oven and bake for 45 minutes or until the tops are golden brown. Dust them with powdered sugar and serve.

Stoner Photo of the Day: When Your Parents Find Out You Smoke

That sucks. Maybe she just wanted to know where you buy your marijuana? Haha.

Marijuana Advocates Sue Government Over Rescheduling Delay

Photo: MyMedicineTheBook.com

The federal government refuses to reclassify marijuana as medicine — despite the fact that it has sent Irv Rosenfeld and a handful of other patients hundreds of joints a month for close to 30 years.

A coalition of medical marijuana advocacy groups and patients filed suit Monday in D.C. Circuit Court to compel the Obama Administration to answer a nine-year-old petition to reclassify medical marijuana.

The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) has never received an answer to its 2002 petition, despite a formal recommendation in 2006 from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which is unfortunately the final arbiter in the rescheduling process.

As recently as July 2010, the DEA issued a 54-page “Position on Marijuana,” but failed to even mention the pending CRC petition.

Plaintiffs in the case include the CRC, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), Patients Out of Time, as well as individually named patients, one of whom is listed on the CRC petition but died in 2005.

“The federal government’s strategy has been delay, delay, delay,” said Joe Elford, chief counsel of ASA and lead counsel on the writ. “It is far past time for the government to answer our rescheduling petition, but unfortunately we’ve been forced to go to court in order to get resolution.”

Photo: ASA

Joe Elford, ASA: “The federal government’s strategy has been delay, delay, delay. It is far past time for the government to answer our rescheduling petition”

​The writ of mandamus filed on Monday accuses the government of unreasonable delay in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act. A previous cannabis (marijuana) rescheduling petition filed in 1972 were unanswered for 22 years before being denied.

The writ argues that cannabis is not a dangerous drug and that ample evidence of its therapeutic value based on scientific studies in the United States and around the world.

“Despite numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies establishing the marijuana is effective” in treating numerous medical conditions, the government “continues to deprive seriously ill persons of this needed, and often life-saving therapy by maintaining marijuana as a Schedcule I substance,” according to the writ.

The writ calls out the government for unlawfully failing to answer the petition despite an Inter-Agency Advisory issued by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006 and “almost five years after receiving a 41-page memorandum from HHS stating its scientific evaluation and recommendations.”

The federal government maintains its Schedule I classification of marijuana even as it gives out hundreds of federal joints every month to a handful of patients — which it has done since 1976, when it created the Investigational New Drug Compassionate Access Program.

Every month, the federal government still sends tins of 300 joints each to the four surviving patients of the original program, which suspended accepting new patients after President George H.W. Bush realized in the early 1990s that a wave of HIV/AIDS patients was on the way.

Photo: ASA

Steph Sherer, ASA: “Adhering to an outdated public policy that ignores science has created a war zone for doctors and their patients who are seeking to use cannabis therapeutics”

​ The two largest physician groups in the country — the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians — have both called on the federal government to review marijuana’s status as a Schedule I substance with “no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”

The National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes for Health, added cannabis to its website earlier this year as a Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) and recognized that “Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years prior to its current status as an illegal substance.”

Medical marijuana has now been legalized in 16 states and the District of Columbia, and has an overwhelming 80 percent approval rating among Americans, according to several polls.

In an 1988 ruling on a prior rescheduling petition, the DEA’s own Administrative Law Judge Francis Young recommended in favor of reclassification, saying “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.”

A formal rejection of the CRC petition would enable the group to challenge in court the government’s assertion that marijuana has no medical value.

“Adhering to outdated public policy that ignores science has created a war zone for doctors and their patients who are seeking to use cannabis therapeutics,” said Steph Sherer, executive director of ASA and a plaintiff in the writ.

“The Obama Administration’s refusal to act on this petition is an irresponsible stalling tactic,” added Jon Gettman, who filed the rescheduling petition on behalf of the CRC.

A synthetic form of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in the cannabis plant, is currently classified as a Schedule III substance for its use in a prescribed pill trademarked as Marinol®. The pill goes off-patent this year and companies vying to sell generic versions are petitioning the government to also reclassify the more economical, naturally derived THC (from the plant itself) to Schedule III as well.

The rescheduling process involves federal agencies such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), HHS, and DEA. On average, it takes six months from HHS review to final action, but it’s been almost five years since HHS issued its recommendation on the CRC petition — more than twice as long as any other rescheduling petition reviewed since 2002.

More Information

Writ filed today [PDF]

ASA backgrounder on rescheduling [PDF]

CRC rescheduling petition [PDF]

2006 HHS recommendation [PDF]

2010 DEA “Position on Marijuana” [PDF]

How to Make: Weed Coffee (Recipe!)

As in Turkish coffee houses, or in bars of 16th century Amsterdam, this recipe has been a favorite for centuries.

Ingredients:

• 300 milliliters (½ pint) hot fresh coffee
• 1-2 grams finely ground hash
• ½ teaspoon caster sugar
• 1 tablespoon of Tia Maria

Directions:

Brew some fresh coffee and divide it into two cups. Add the sugar, liqueur and hashish to each. Top with whipped cream and dust in cocoa.

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