Tag: california

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November 29, 2012
11/29/2012
Harborside Health Center Must Stay Open, Oakland Says

Harborside Health Center Must Stay Open, Oakland Says

Forfeiture proceedings against a medical marijuana dispensary should be stayed while a federal judge considers claims that such regulation belongs to the states, the city of Oakland...
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November 28, 2012
11/28/2012
Harborside Health Center Dispensary Can’t Catch a Break With Landlords

Harborside Health Center Dispensary Can’t Catch a Break With Landlords

A medical marijuana dispensary has renewed pleas to stop its landlord from upending the business amid federal forfeiture proceedings. Harborside Health Center defended its Oakland location last...
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November 26, 2012
11/26/2012
Marijuana Dispensary Closed By Feds Re-Opens…Is the Crackdown Over?

Marijuana Dispensary Closed By Feds Re-Opens…Is the Crackdown Over?

San Francisco’s Shambhala Healing Center has decided to reopen its doors after Obama’s Justice Department assault on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries this summer. Recently there’s been no letters...
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November 22, 2012
11/22/2012
Weedist is Thankful For…

Weedist is Thankful For…

Happy Thanksgiving Have a smoke, snack on some edibles, or hit the vaporizer and reflect with us on the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday. Many of us...
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November 21, 2012
11/21/2012
Fox Marijuana Legalization Sitcom in the Works

Fox Marijuana Legalization Sitcom in the Works

Fox is developing a sitcom, The Happy Tree, based around the legalization of marijuana, The show is from former Entourage and How To Make It In America executive producers Rob Weiss, Mark Wahlberg,...
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November 21, 2012
11/21/2012
7% of California Drivers Test Positive for Marijuana, but Are They Impaired?

7% of California Drivers Test Positive for Marijuana, but Are They Impaired?

For the 20 states in which marijuana is legal, either for medicinal or recreational purposes, there’s a new challenge for law enforcement: judging whether stoned users are too...
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November 21, 2012
11/21/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.20)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.20)

012, 02:35pm It’s been fairly quiet on the dispensary front, but action is beginning to heat up at state houses in preparation for the 2013 legislative season....
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November 19, 2012
11/19/2012
Steve Kubby Ends Long Activist Career

Steve Kubby Ends Long Activist Career

Steve Kubby, one of the prime movers behind the original California Proposition 215 that gave us medical marijuana, is planning to leave not only the entire marijuana activist...
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November 15, 2012
11/15/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.14)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.14)

04:52pm All eyes may have been on the election last week, but the battles over medical marijuana didn’t go away. Here are the highlights from the...
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November 14, 2012
11/14/2012
Inside a California Marijuana Grow House in the San Fernando Valley

Inside a California Marijuana Grow House in the San Fernando Valley

There is a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley that looks like any other, but inside there are rows of marijuana plants under intense lighting, fans, classical...
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November 13, 2012
11/13/2012

CNN Video: CA Gov Jerry Brown Champions States’ Rights On Cannabis

California Governor Jerry Brown was on CNN’s State of the Union this past Sunday November 11, 2012. Candy Crowley and Governor Brown discussed the recent election results, his push...
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November 12, 2012
11/12/2012
Bill Maher To Mason Tvert: Help Cali Legalize Cannabis and I’ll Fund It

Bill Maher To Mason Tvert: Help Cali Legalize Cannabis and I’ll Fund It

Mason Tvert, Executive Director for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol, was on last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and talks...
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November 8, 2012
11/08/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.07)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.11.07)

05:33pm There was medical marijuana-related election news — see our Chronicle coverage this week — but the ongoing battles over medical marijuana also continued. Let’s get...
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November 8, 2012
11/08/2012
More Drug-Related Election Results, Good and Bad

More Drug-Related Election Results, Good and Bad

04:23pm We’ve covered the two-out-three victories for the statewide marijuana legalization initiatives and we’ve covered the medical marijuana initiative victory in Massachusetts, but there was more...
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November 6, 2012
11/06/2012
Chronicle Book Review Essay: Two Faces of the Drug War

Chronicle Book Review Essay: Two Faces of the Drug War

02:59pm Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History, by James Higdon  (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $16.47...
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November 6, 2012
11/06/2012
Rudy Reyes: Medical Marijuana Patient Turned Politician

Rudy Reyes: Medical Marijuana Patient Turned Politician

Undoubtedly most all cannabis law reformers’ eyes will be fixated on both the presidential election (a contest between the former leader of Hawaii’s Choom Gang and expert...
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November 5, 2012
11/05/2012
Northern California Town Pushes Back Against Industrial Pot Growers

Northern California Town Pushes Back Against Industrial Pot Growers

Arcata, in Humboldt County, California, will vote on Measure I next week, which would impose a 45% tax on households that use three times the amount of power a...
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November 2, 2012
11/02/2012
November 6: An Election to Stop the Drug War

November 6: An Election to Stop the Drug War

09:27pm We are now only five days away from Election Day, and it’s starting to look very much like at least one state will vote to legalize...
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November 2, 2012
11/02/2012
DEA Sweeps Two San Bernardino Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

DEA Sweeps Two San Bernardino Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday raided two medical-marijuana clinics on Highland Avenue, seizing dozens of pounds of marijuana, hash and edible products containing the drug.
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November 1, 2012
11/01/2012
California Medical Association Calls on Governor Brown to Urge for Marijuana’s Reclassification

California Medical Association Calls on Governor Brown to Urge for Marijuana’s Reclassification

More than two weeks ago, with less fanfare than it deserved, the California Medical Association (CMA) voted to urge Governor Brown to petition the federal government to reclassify...
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