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Nation’s Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Fights in Federal Court to Stay Open in Oakland and San Jose

December 21, 2012 at 2:18 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO — For more than six years, the federal government watched quietly as Harborside Health Center grew to become the nation’s largest medical marijuana dispensary despite knowing that its operations were illegal under federal law.Those years of inaction could now become a central issue in a federal court action in which the federal government is seeking to seize properties in Oakland and San Jose from which Harborside sells marijuana to patients.In a drastic change of policy last summer, U.S. [...]

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Arizona Superior Court Judge: State-Licensed Dispensing Of Medical Cannabis Is Not Preempted By Federal Law

December 20, 2012 at 12:02 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director December 18, 2012 A 2010 voter-approved Arizona state law authorizing “the local cultivation, sale, and use, of medical marijuana” is not preemptedby the federal Controlled Substances Act, according to the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County.The ruling, issued earlier this month by Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon, allows for the establishment of state-licensed medicinal cannabis dispensaries within Arizona — the first of which opened its doorslast week. State-licensed medical marijuana facilities now operate in [...]

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The Next Seven States To Legalize Pot

December 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Why Oregon, California and more are likely to follow Colorado and Washington toward legalization By Tim Dickinson December 18, 2012 9:00 AM ET The Berlin Wall of pot prohibition seems to be crumbling before our eyes. By fully legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As many as 58 percent of Americans now believe marijuana should be legal. And our political establishment is catching on. Former president Jimmy Carter came out this [...]

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First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in New Jersey

December 18, 2012 at 11:43 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

MONTCLAIR — Behind the doors of its Montclair storefront, the Greenleaf Compassion Center has the look of a comfortable doctor’s office, with floral prints hanging on creamy beige walls, oversized leather chairs and a big flat-screen TV. But when it opened those doors at 10 a.m. yesterday, the center made history: New Jersey’s first medical marijuana dispensary was officially in business. By day’s end, 20 registered patients had slipped inside under tight security to discuss their chronic illnesses and [...]

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Man Sues Colorado Police for $210,000 for Destroyed Marijuana Crops

December 18, 2012 at 9:08 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A man jurors acquitted of multiple marijuana felonies has sued the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office after his 42 plants were destroyed, according to a lawsuit recently filed in 8th Judicial District Court. Denver lawyer Rob Corry said his client expects to receive $5,000 per plant (totaling $210,000), based on what law enforcers have testified a marijuana plant is worth, in addition to attorney fees. Kaleb Young, 34, had been growing the plants in a Wellington home in compliance with Colorado’s [...]

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Ohioans Divided on Legalizing Marijuana

December 18, 2012 at 1:16 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Ohioans remain split on whether marijuana should be legal, despite recent votes in Colorado and Washington. The state was even with 47 percent supporting legalization and 47 percent opposing it in a Quinnipiac poll released this past week. Ohioans were slightly more conservative on the topic than the nation at large. Fifty-one percent of Americans supported legalization of the drug and 44 percent opposed legalization, according to a poll released earlier this month. Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana through ballot [...]

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December 17, 2012 at 10:09 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

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Obama’s Marijuana Comments Prompt Call for Official Policy from California Advocates

December 17, 2012 at 1:37 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO — President Barack Obama says he won’t go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use. But advocates argue the president said the same thing about medical marijuana – and yet U.S. attorneys continue to force the closure of dispensaries across the U.S. Welcome to the confusing and often conflicting policy on pot in the U.S., where medical marijuana is legal in many states, but it is increasingly difficult [...]

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Obama Won’t Go After Marijuana Use in Colorado or Washington State

December 16, 2012 at 4:43 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

President Barack Obama says the federal government won’t go after recreational marijuana use in Washington state and Colorado, where voters have legalized it. Obama was asked whether he supports making pot legal, in a Barbara Walters interview that aired Friday on ABC. “I wouldn’t go that far,” Obama replied. “But what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you’ve seen the voters speak on this issue.” But the president said he won’t pursue the issue in the [...]

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