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L.A. cracking down on medical-marijuana growers
July 10, 2009 – LOS ANGELES — Daniel Halbert moved here from Phoenix this year to invest his life savings in what he hoped was a golden opportunity: the medical-marijuana business. But on Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council told him to shut down his dispensary, part of a broad crackdown against a growing and…
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San Diego's War on Medical Marijuana Continues –
July 7, 2009 – In California it has been over a decade since the Compassionate Use Act. Several years since SB420, and almost a year since the California Attorney General’s guidelines. We have even had The California Third District Court of Appeal last week issue a ruling reaffirming patients rights to collectively cultivate medical marijuana.…
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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Thrives on Twitter
Juyl 7, 2009 – Twitter has been used to fight tyranny, deliver tragic news, follow politics, and now some California residents have found another innovative purpose for the micro-blogging service: marketing weed. A medical marijuana dispensary in California has begun gravitating to online mediums, including Twitter, to get the word out, according to Fox News.…
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Need Some Weed? Just Check Twitter
July 07, 2009 – Some California pot sellers are living the high life this summer — because high-tech social-networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are allowing them to legally swap street corners for the Internet. “Just in! Baby Crunch, Spy Diesel and Critical Mass! Buy a quarter, get a gram,” read the “tweets”…
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Medical pot users, growers can sue over raids
July 3, 2009 – Medical marijuana patients and growers can sue police for illegally raiding their property and destroying their plants, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2-1 decision by the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento was the first in the state to allow a patient or grower to sue claiming that…
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California Court Says Medical Marijuana Patients Can Grow Pot
July 2, 2009 – SACRAMENTO — The California Third District Court of Appeal issued a landmark ruling today on the right under state law of patients to collectively cultivate. The 2-1 appellate court decision stems from the case County of Butte v. Superior Court involving a private medical marijuana collective of 7 patients in Paradise,…
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After Jackson, US agency renews warnings on drug abuse
June 28th, 2009 – Amid questions about the possible role of drugs in Michael Jackson’s demise, the US Drug Enforcement Administration Friday renewed concerns about rising deaths from misuse of prescription pills. Some people close to the 50-year-old pop icon revealed Friday they had been concerned for some time about his use of drugs, a…
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Illegal L.A. marijuana dispensaries lose exemption loophole
June 20, 2009 – The City Council eliminates a provision in the 2007 moratorium that allowed outlets with pending applications to stay open. The city will continue to work toward a permanent ordinance. Seeking to halt the spread of medical marijuana dispensaries, the Los Angeles City Council on Friday sealed a legal loophole that had…
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State rules marijuana smoke is a carcinogen, may require dispensaries to post warnings
June 20th, 2009 – Joints and baggies sold at California’s medical marijuana dispensaries will soon carry a new warning label. Next to tags like “Purple Haze” and “White Widow” will be the advisory: Contents may cause cancer when smoked. On Friday, California added marijuana smoke to its official list of known carcinogens, joining the ranks…
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Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot
June 16th, 2009 – NEW YORK (AP) — The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, “Yes — I inhaled.” These developments and others are kindling unprecedented optimism among the many Americans who want to see marijuana legalized. Doing so, they contend…