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Studio City Says No to 'Gentle Ban' on Medical Marijuana

Administrator — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:48:47 +0100

The Studio City Neighborhood Council rejected an attempt to pass a "gentle ban" on the medical marijuana dispensaries in the area.

Patch.com reports the council's vice president, Lisa Sarkin, called a special meeting to pass the measure in response to complaiRead More...

Arizona Lawmakers Looks to Stamp Out Medical Marijuana on College Campuses, Never Mind About ...

Administrator — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:52:02 +0100

Arizona legislators are proposing a law to prohibit the use and possession of medical marijuana on the state's college campuses. The law would not only apply to state colleges and universities, but private institutions are well.

The rationale of the law Read More...

Obama Maintains Silence on Drug Policy 'Change'

Administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:43:34 +0100

What's more important than a former LAPD deputy chief questioning current federal drug policy in an open YouTube forum directed at the president? If you thought "something important," you'd be wrong unless late night munchies, wedding anniversaries and tennis counts as "important."

Despite medical marijuana being voted into law by the people of California, its supreme court decided employers can still test and fire employees for using legal medical marijuana.

To alleviate this catch-22, Mark Leno, a state senator, introduced a bill to oRead More...

Threats from U.S. Attorney Scraps Mendocino's Collective Permits

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:48 +0100

Bowing to pressure from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the supervisors of Mendocino County revoked its permit program for cultivating medical marijuana.

The program allowed collectives to grow up to 99 plants. Each of the plants needed to be tagged with zipRead More...

Threats from U.S. Attorney Scraps Mendocino's Collective Permits

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:48 +0100

Bowing to pressure from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the supervisors of Mendocino County revoked its permit program for cultivating medical marijuana.

The program allowed collectives to grow up to 99 plants. Each of the plants needed to be tagged with zipRead More...

Newt Gingrich Smokes Pot in College, OK with 'Therapeutic' Use, But Wants Death for Smugglers

Administrator — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:49:52 +0100

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has some get tough on drug ideas — which is not surprising, considering the posturing that goes on during the primaries.

But former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who is also running for president as a LibertariRead More...

Feds Target More Medical Pot Storefronts in Costa Mesa

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:39:19 +0100

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced it is moving against five medical marijuana businesses in California's Orange County area, filing "asset forfeiture lawsuits" against their three property owners.

The business that were the cause of the lawsuits include thRead More...

L.A. Safety Committee to Begin Ban on Medical Marijuana in Closed Session

Administrator — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:47:28 +0100

The Los Angeles City Attorney's office will address the Safety Committee on Jan. 13 in a closed session at 8:45 a.m. in what's expected to be a recommendation to ban all medical marijuana collectives and dispensaries.

If the city council follows the Safety CoRead More...

Threat of Federal Lawsuit Shutdown Mendocino County's Grower's Program

Administrator — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:46:24 +0100

The federal government prompted the recent suspension of Mendocino County's program to permit and license medical marijuana growers, PressDemocrat.com reports.

The U.S. Attorney's Office warned the county that if it continued the program, it would sue to shutRead More...

California County Shuts Down Income-Generating Medical Marijuana Grower Permits

Administrator — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:49:30 +0100

Mendocino County's medical marijuana growers' permitting process, which generated over $663,000 in funds for the sheriff's department, is suspended due to the decision of a Southern California court that found county permits ran counter to federal anti-drug laws.

Rhode Island legislators are planning to decriminalize possession of pot in their state.

State Senators Joshua Miller and John G. Edwards, both democrats, will propose that citizens of the state can possess up to one ounce of marijuana, WPRI reports. MarijuaRead More...

Pot Vote Good to Go for Colorado Election

Administrator — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:28:53 +0100

Pro-legalization advocates turned in a whopping 160,000 signatures for a petition to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, placing it on Colorado's upcoming election, denverpost.com reports. The state only requires 86,000 signatures to authorize a petition to go to the ballots.

Pot leads to decreased beer consumption and a decrease in drunk driving deaths, two college professors concluded.

D. Mark Anderson, a Montana State University economics professor, and Daniel Rees, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the Read More...

Legalization Supporters Open New Front: Civil Rights for Former Drug Convicts

Administrator — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:31:01 +0100

Advocates of abolishing the nation's drug laws are looking further than just government-sanctioned pot and hash. They're arguing their position as a civil rights matter.

Citing the changing perceptions and positions of politicians and the population at large,Read More...

Dispensaries Ditching Stores, Takes Products on the Road

Administrator — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:40:32 +0100

Marijuana collectives in California are going mobile — though it's not for convenience. It's a response to the federal crackdown on medical pot storefronts, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Owners of the collectives admit they'd rather maintain a physicalRead More...

California Attorney General Goes to the Legislature to Clarify Pot Laws

Administrator — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:38:45 +0100

Amid the confusion and aggravation of the federal crackdown on collectives, California Attorney General Kamala Harris asks the state's legislature to clarify its laws regarding its medical marijuana laws, MercuryNews.com reports.

Harris is turning to the legiRead More...

Cannabis Clubs Get Into the Christmas Spirit

Administrator — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:01:06 +0100

Christmas music, black friday sales and seasonal treats aren't just for shops at the local mall. According to the Associated Press, medical marijuana collectives are also getting into the groove of the holidays.

"We have a whole bunch of decorations up, holidRead More...

The Real Cost of the U.S. Attorneys' Landlord Letters

Administrator — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:43:29 +0100

Millions of dollars in lost tax revenues and thousands of lost jobs — that's the negative economic impact the federal crackdown on medical marijuana shops, according to SanDiego.com.

"The city has turned its back on the only real booming industry in San DiegoRead More...

Government Finds Medical Use for Marijuana, Plans to Patents it — But Still Won't Reschedule It

Administrator — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:05:50 +0100

The current drug schedule the federal government's placed marijuana in is reserved for drugs that supposedly have no medical use.

However, the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients reports the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is about to grant an exRead More...