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Berkeley Patients Group, Shuttered Pot Shop, To Reopen Down The Street (PHOTOS)

Beloved Berkeley Pot Shop To Reopen
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FILE - This Sept. 15, 2009 file photo shows marijuana plants in Seattle at a medical marijuana growing operation. Tax enforcers have started auditing medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington, escalating a dispute over whether the outlets should be collecting money for state government. The state Department of Revenue has worked since 2010 to tell marijuana establishments that they must remit sales taxes on their transactions. Some 50 dispensaries have registered with the state, helping the state collect some $750,000 in taxes from the industry over the span of one year. Officials believe that there are many other outlets that remain unregistered, and that some registered entities are improperly reporting that they had no taxable business. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - This Sept. 15, 2009 file photo shows marijuana plants in Seattle at a medical marijuana growing operation. Tax enforcers have started auditing medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington, escalating a dispute over whether the outlets should be collecting money for state government. The state Department of Revenue has worked since 2010 to tell marijuana establishments that they must remit sales taxes on their transactions. Some 50 dispensaries have registered with the state, helping the state collect some $750,000 in taxes from the industry over the span of one year. Officials believe that there are many other outlets that remain unregistered, and that some registered entities are improperly reporting that they had no taxable business. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- A Berkeley medical marijuana dispensary forced to shut down by the federal government in May is reopening down the street.

The Oakland Tribune says the Berkeley Patients Group was selling about $15 million in pot each year before it was forced to close.

The landlord evicted the dispensary after the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco threatened to seize the property because the pot dispensary was too close to two schools.

The city's largest medical marijuana dispensary is now sprucing up a 14,000-square-foot lot and 1,200-square-foot building down the street. The property isn't near any schools.

The date of the reopening hasn't been disclosed.

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