A Clockwork Orange: Pot Bust Harshes the Mellow Sunday Sacraments at the Church of Peace and Glory
ONWARD CANNABIS SOLDIERS
The Devil’s weed was sold illegally at the Church of Peace and Glory, sayeth the Law.
California’s new Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) participated in the arrest of Omid Delkash, who is accused of operating an unlawful marijuana dispensary in the Costa Mesa location that has a sign on the window that reads, “Sacramental services every Sunday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.”
Delkash, 47, of Newport Beach, was charged Aug. 27 with four misdemeanor counts of unlawful transportation, sale and furnishing marijuana, according to a joint statement from the BCC, the Orange County district attorney’s office, Costa Mesa’s Police and Code Enforcement departments, the California Department of Taxes and Fee Administration, and the state Department of Consumer Affairs’ Division of Investigation-Cannabis Enforcement Unit.
In March, the Church of Peace and Glory opened at 1673 Irvine Ave., Ste. K (for Kush?), Costa Mesa, and it has been listed as a marijuana dispensary on WeedMaps and other sources ever since. The spot is in the Irvine Center strip mall near Irvine Avenue and 17th Street that includes a 7-Eleven and, across the parking lot, La Cave restaurant. Newport Harbor High School is also nearby.
Costa Mesa’s Measure X forbids any type of retail sales of marijuana and/or cannabis products within city boundaries, including the medical variety. With a city-issued business license, wholesale medical-marijuana distributing, manufacturing, processing, transporting, as well as laboratory research and development can be conducted. California law requires a license from one of the state’s three cannabis-licensing authorities before undertaking any commercial marijuana activity. Enforcement of the state law can be undertaken by state or local law enforcement.
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