The Treatments, Herbs and Cannabis Foundation represents a large group of medical marijuana patients. We started as a small group in Sonoma County with a passion and a mission. Our group has grown quickly and the majority of our supporters are residents in the Bay Area. We are a new start-up and our board of directors are preparing to file articles of incorporation to become a statutory cooperative. We have identified multiple sites whose landlords are open to facilitating our operations in Petaluma, Novato, San Rafael, Sausalito and San Francisco. It has been almost 2 years since Petaluma's city council voted to prohibit medical marijuana "dispensaries", questioning the legality of the facilities. The decision was influenced by a situation with an unsanctioned "dispensary" in 2001, when a police officer was shot in the face. Marin County has been coping with "unsanctioned" dispensaries despite bans and moratoriums. San Francisco, according to the ONDCP, has gone from an alleged 98 marijuana dispensaries to a mere 23. California Attorney General Edmund G Brown JR. has released guidelines defining the difference between Statutory Cooperatives, Collectives and Storefront Dispensaries in August 2008; and US Attorney General Eric Holder has made statements indicating a shift in federal government policy with regard to legally operated marijuana providers. Therefore, we are sending letters to the appropriate Chiefs of Police, District Attorneys, CA Attorney General Candidates for 2010, Governor Schwarzenegger, President Obama and other Government Officials regarding the establishment of a legal medical marijuana business. We will also ask that these matters be resolved immediately, as given recent trends, we believe that unlicensed dispensaries will continue to serve the needs of medical marijuana patients if legal establishments do not.