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# Peace in Medicine: Inside California's Medical Cannabis Industry
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/peaceinmedicine/
- Published: 2012-03-20T17:03:13.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:15:04.000Z
- Description: Go inside the professional operations of Peace in Medicine, a licensed cannabis dispensary in Northern California that finds itself under seige from the Federal government.
- Author: Charles Shaw
- Tags: Crime, justice & law, #Migrated, Health & care, California, The Exile Nation Project, Drug & Criminal Justice Policy Forum, Regulation, Drug Policy Reform, Medical Cannabis, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:19

Carl Kerwick, CFO of Peace in Medicine Healing Center in Sebastopol, California, takes you on a guided tour of their flagship dispensary, and explains the pitfalls of attempting to operate such a business in the current political climate.

This video was produced by Charles Shaw for ["After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World,"](http://www.opendemocracy.net/report-after-war-on-drugs) an openDemocracy symposium held in London UK, Sept 16-17, 2011\. Produced by openDemocracy, The Exile Nation Project, KnowDrugs.net, and the Tedworth Charitable Trust.

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