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Grand Jury Slams Marin Officials Over Medical Marijuana

May 17, 2013 at 2:57 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Let the chronically sick folks smoke some pot, for crissakes, a Marin Civil Grand Jury is urging County officials. In a new report, titled “Medical Marijuana: Up in Smoke,” the grand jury laments the vast closure of medical marijuana facilities in the county and lambasts county and city officials for not have the backbone to support what 73 percent of Marinites voted for when the Compassionate Use Act was passed in 1996. A Justice Department crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries [...]

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California Supreme Court Allows Cities to Ban Weed Dispensaries

May 6, 2013 at 5:34 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of local governments to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, leaving intact a growing movement to outlaw the pot businesses despite a 1996 state law that permits the use of weed for medical purposes. In a 7-0 decision, the state’s high court concluded that cities and counties have a right to restrict the dispensaries within their boundaries, rejecting the arguments of medical marijuana advocates who maintain local governments cannot bar activity that is [...]

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California Lt. Gov. Calls on State to Lead Nation in Ending Marijuana Prohibition

April 24, 2013 at 8:05 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, in a piece for The Huffington Post, has called on his state to lead the nation in ending marijuana prohibition and the failed Drug War, as it led in adopting the nation’s first medical marijuana law in 1996. “It is time for California to decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana and decide who sells it, who can buy it legally, and for how much,” Newsom said. “When California became the first state to approve medical marijuana, we [...]

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LA Pot Ballot Initiatives Could Clarify Local Marijuana Laws

April 18, 2013 at 2:55 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

After 17 years of legal battles and uncertainty over legalized medical marijuana, some new clarity will be brought to the issue on May 21, when Los Angeles city voters will be asked to choose among three different measures regulating the growing industry. Propositions D, E and F offer a range of new requirements for medical marijuana dispensaries, including taxes, caps on the number that can open and limits on their locations. Prop. D was crafted by the Los Angeles City [...]

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California Medical Marijuana Patient to Get Weed Back from Arizona Cops

January 12, 2013 at 1:43 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

Valerie Ann Okun, a Southern California woman, is getting her medicinal marijuana back from the Arizona cops who seized it. But now the weed is nearly two years old. Okun seems to be the winner in a case that started in 2011 when cops found cannabis on her when she stopped her vehicle at a checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona: An Arizona state appeals court ruled yesterday that Okun, who’s from the North County San Diego beach community of Encinitas, could [...]

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Marijuana Now Legal for Californians?

December 24, 2012 at 8:08 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

LOS ANGELES — Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. Marijuana is, as a practical matter, already legal in much of California. No matter that its recreational use remains technically against the law. Marijuana has, in many parts of this state, become the equivalent of a beer in a paper bag on the streets of Greenwich Village. It is losing whatever stigma it [...]

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