MARIJUANA COLLECTIVE REOPENS IN OLIVEHURST

A medical marijuana collective in Olivehurst is open again, weeks
after Yuba County shut it down for permit violations.

The Garden Shop, at 5040 Olivehurst Avenue, reopened Tuesday at noon
while an appeal of the permit violation is pending.

Employees at the collective Tuesday would not give their names, but
provided a copy of the appeal, which disputes the county's reasons for
revoking the original permit.

"The application was for retail use of the premises as a shop. There
is no code section that requires a business owner to describe in
detail every item that may be available for sale at the location.
There was no misrepresentation," states the appeal, written by
Sacramento attorney Jeffrey Kravitz.

At the Yuba County Board of Supervisors meeting earlier Tuesday, Larry
Koshman, who identified himself as a third-generation rice farmer in
Pleasant Grove, asked supervisors to keep an open mind about his
business. He said outside the meeting the collective would reopen.

Koshman's Inc. is described as the store's lease holder in the
appeal.

The Garden Shop has growing supplies, which appear to be aimed at
medical marijuana patients growing their own plants, as well as a
small dispensary with scales and price boards for different strains of
marijuana.

Store officials said only collective members will be able to patronize
the storefront, which shares the building with a liquor store. The
front doors of The Garden Shop still show both notices of permit
revocation by the county and the appeal written by Kravitz.

Ads for the collective have run in the Appeal-Democrat and on local
radio over the last few days.