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L.A. council committee to consider medical marijuana dispensary loophole
June 2nd, 2009 – A Los Angeles City Council committee today will consider eliminating a loophole that would allow nearly 500 medical marijuana dispensaries to operate despite a temporary ban that went into effect in the fall of 2007. Two years ago, the city council approved a temporary moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries. The…
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LAPD is Resisting Calif. Medical Marijuana Laws-Come on guys – lighten up and light up. You know you want to.
May 29th, 2009 – LAPD Detective Supervisor Holcomb from the Devonshire precinct in the San Fernando Valley claims the department closed four Los Angeles medical cannabis collectives in recent days. Speaking with defense attorney Bill Kroger, who represents one of the collectives, Holcomb said the City Council’s ongoing effort to regulate these facilities is irrelevant…
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Legalize marijuana to save California? Maybe…
Thursday, May 28, 2009 – Since 1996, California has allowed patients to obtain medical marijuana. The $42 billion budget deficit ($24.3 billion expected for next fiscal year) California has found itself in is forcing politicians to reevaluate the programs and policies that shape our budget. One area warranting serious scrutiny is the state’s criminal justice…
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Marijuana: Taboo medicine
May 26, 2009 “It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance” -DEA Judge Francis Young Many in this country are in an uproar over the recent arrest and prosecution, though delayed, of Charles C. Lynch, who provided patients with safe access…
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Inland observers don't expect flood of applicants for medical marijuana cards now that challenges to state law are turned away
May 26, 2009 – Some experts and health care providers say they don’t expect a surge in medical marijuana applications as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision not to hear challenges to California’s medical marijuana law. San Bernardino and San Diego counties had sued three years ago, arguing that federal drug law…
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Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke it
May 26 2009 – The battle over marijuana took a significant turn as the Supreme Court left California’s Compassionate Use Act, which allows the use of medical marijuana, intact by refusing to hear a suit filed by the San Diego and San Bernardino counties. Local officials in the two counties would not allow their residents…
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San Diego – Medical-marijuana patients await county's rollout of ID cards
May 26, 2009 – By Jeff McDonald OVERVIEW Background: San Diego County supervisors decided to sue in 2005 rather than implement state medical-marijuana laws. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the county’s final appeal. What’s changing: County officials appear poised to begin issuing government identification to qualified medical-marijuana patients –…
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Welter of confusion continues over medipot
May 26th, 2009 – THERE is silence now where once loud huzzahs erupted from medical marijuana advocates in California after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled this spring that federal authorities will no longer raid or interfere with medipot dispensaries in states where it is legal, so long as users abide by state law. That’s…
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Medical Evidence on Marijuana Blows Both Ways
May 25th, 2009 – Legalization debate is waging in America once again, but what does the research say? Sparked anew by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s call for the state to study the legalization of marijuana, both sides in the smoldering pot debate point to research to bolster their positions. Such recitation of conflicting marijuana studies can…
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3 myths about marijuana
May 23, 2009 – If we wish for our laws to prevent harm, they need to be based on evidence. Source-By ROB KAMPIA I worked at a large metro hospital for 10+ years. I NEVER saw someone admitted for a physical problem related to smoking too much pot. Yet I can’t even count how many…