California Assembly Passes Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill
By Dale Gieringer, Director, California NORML SACRAMENTO, May 31. The California Assembly approved a path-breaking bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, AB 2312 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano...
View ArticleReform Groups Swing for Justice
Taking the battle to a different venue, marijuana policy reformers smoked out the White House staffers at a softball game last week.
View ArticleOrgan Transplant Denied To Second Medical Marijuana Patient
A second patient at the world-renowned Cedars Sinai hospital has been removed from the transplant list due to their use of medical marijuana.
View ArticleJovan Jackson’s Conviction Reversed: California Appeals Court Finds Medical...
Chalk up a victory for lawful medical marijuana patients today in California. If you get busted running a collective, you should be able to raise a medical marijuana defense in court. According to a...
View ArticlePatients Choose Best Buds at Americans for Safe Access Fundraiser – The...
Little known fact: elite judges pick Medical Cannabis Cup winners, not us commoners. So it makes sense then that the San Francisco chapter of the medical cannabis lobby Americans for Safe Access gears...
View ArticleLos Angeles Medical Marijuana Initiative Signatures Filed
Cannabis is legal in two states, but the metropolis of Los Angeles has yet to regulate medical access to the plant. Hoping to exit the quagmire, a coalition of medical cannabis patients, providers and...
View ArticleMoney Is the Only Problem Stopping the Legalization of Marijuana
Money Is the Only Problem Stopping the Legalization of Marijuana – Pot Smokers Need to Donate to End Prohibition There is one problem stopping the full implementation of medical cannabis laws and the...
View ArticleShould Los Angeles Have 128, or 472 Medical Pot Dispensaries? Voters Will Decide
Los Angeles’ ongoing debacle over how to regulate its medical cannabis dispensary industry just got more complicated. A second voter initiative appears to have gathered enough signatures to earn a spot...
View ArticleActivists Decry Marijuana Rescheduling Catch-22
A US Appeals Court ended an attempt to re-schedule marijuana today, citing the lack of human studies on the drug. But here’s the catch: the U.S. generally doesn’t permit human trials of cannabis. Talk...
View ArticleA Grand Plan for California Pot Legalization in 2016 Revealed
SAN FRANCISCO — Energized by pot legalization in Colorado and Washington, marijuana law reformers revealed huge plans Sunday for the next four years in the U.S. But sobering realities lurked just...
View ArticleYup, Pot is the New Gay Pt. 2
Left-leaning news site Talking Points Memo argues that those surprised by the speed of the gay rights movement are going to be dizzy from impending marijuana law reform. In the post “Surprised at speed...
View ArticleUpdated: DEA Raids Four L.A. Area Dispensaries, Arrests 3
We’re getting several reports from groups like Americans for Safe Access that the Drug Enforcement Administration is raiding two Los Angeles area dispensaries today. D.E.A. agents are raiding Marina...
View ArticleHow Will the California Supreme Court Ruling on Dispensary Bans Affect Me?
What just happened?: The California Supreme Court upheld the right of cities and counties to ban medical cannabis dispensaries today in a unanimous decision with major ramifications in the state. So is...
View ArticleRegulated Dispensaries, Delivery Services, Street Dealers Win in the...
Eleven a.m. on a bright Sunday morning in San Francisco, and Mission Organic Center in the far south near the town limits is doing brisk business. “Can I see the Yoda Kush,” a customer up front asks,...
View ArticleLos Angeles Medical Marijuana Showdown: Vote Yes on Measure D, E, and F, Says...
Voters in the world’s largest medical marijuana city, Los Angeles, head to the ballot box May 21 to potentially decide the fate of their estimated 1,000 pot shops. This week, the California Chapter of...
View ArticleActivists deplore Feds’ $500 million medical marijuana war
Medical cannabis patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access issued a report Thursday deploring the Federal government’s estimated $500 million war on medical marijuana patients. The report,...
View ArticleHigh Times Medical Cannabis Cup San Francisco 2013 Winners, Photos
So that’s why the Bay fog seemed so thick Sunday. Ten thousand medical cannabis patients and other fans of the herb celebrated America’s second favorite inebriant at California’s county fair of...
View ArticleHot Kush Girls Singled Out
“Why Women Aren’t At Home in the World of Weed” by New York Magazine‘s Anne Friedman July 22 took aim at Anaheim Kush Expo’s Hot Kush Girl contest; “boob fairy” budtendresses; the gender gap in...
View ArticleNIDA Lies: Says Pot More Dangerous Than Alcohol
Despite statistical and scientific evidence to the contrary, the National Institute on Drug Abuse this week claimed that there was no substantial proof that marijuana was less toxic than alcohol....
View ArticleLeaked: Cops Obtain ‘Confidential’ Colorado MMJ Patient Registry
Participants in Colorado’s medical marijuana program were shocked this week to discover that, according to a June 2013 investigation by the State Auditor’s Office, the Colorado Department of Public...
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