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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Dumanis Continues Raiding in San Diego, While Court of Appeals Tells Her She is Wrong

Dumanis Continues Raiding in San Diego, While Court of Appeals Tells Her She is Wrong

On Wednesday, October 24, a dozen armed, masked NTF agents stormed Next Generation, a legal medical marijuana collective located on San Ysidro Blvd. in San Diego. The raid came just...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Suit Before Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Seeks To Halt Federal Actions Against CA Medical Cannabis

Suit Before Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Seeks To Halt Federal Actions Against CA Medical Cannabis

On Wednesday, October 24, a group of California dispensary operators, medical cannabis providers, and patients, as Plaintiffs, filed their Opening Brief before the Ninth Circuit Court of...
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October 24, 2012
10/24/2012
Medical Marijuana Advocates File Brief with DC Circuit Alleging Federal Policy Harmful to Patients

Medical Marijuana Advocates File Brief with DC Circuit Alleging Federal Policy Harmful to Patients

Less than a week after oral arguments in the landmark federal case to reclassify marijuana for medical use, the plaintiffs filed an additional brief late yesterday at...
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October 18, 2012
10/18/2012
DC Circuit Orders Supplemental Briefing in Federal Landmark Medical Marijuana Case

DC Circuit Orders Supplemental Briefing in Federal Landmark Medical Marijuana Case

Just hours after the US Court of Appeal for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments in the federal landmark case Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, the court ordered...
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October 18, 2012
10/18/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.10.17)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.10.17)

04:14pm The federal rescheduling petition got a day in court, the feds keep up the pressure in California, a dispensary may actually open in New Jersey,...
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October 17, 2012
10/17/2012
Initiative Watch (2012.10.17)

Initiative Watch (2012.10.17)

05:36pm With less than three weeks to go until election day, there is a lot of activity on the state-level initiative front–but not everywhere. Some campaigns...
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October 17, 2012
10/17/2012
Where To on Cannabis Reform? Navigating Around Federal Apathy

Where To on Cannabis Reform? Navigating Around Federal Apathy

As Americans for Safe Access battles cannabis scheduling nationally, advocates need to push social movement locally. On Oct. 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. considered the...
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October 17, 2012
10/17/2012
Appeals Court Hears Case On Medical Value of Marijuana

Appeals Court Hears Case On Medical Value of Marijuana

This morning, the federal Appeals Court for the DC Circuit heard an appeal in the case called Americans for Safe Access v Drug Enforcement Administration. The case is...
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October 16, 2012
10/16/2012
Comics, Economics and the War On Drugs

Comics, Economics and the War On Drugs

War on Drugs is a powerful, well-produced comic that purveys a message that cannabis advocates empathize with. For some time, Milton Friedman and his fellow economists have witnessed the ills...
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October 16, 2012
10/16/2012
Former Drug Czars Try Cannabis Scare Tactics on CO, OR and WA

Former Drug Czars Try Cannabis Scare Tactics on CO, OR and WA

Yesterday, former DEA and Office of National Drug Control Policy czars voiced a strong reminder to the DOJ that even if voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington...
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October 12, 2012
10/12/2012
Seven Long Beach Medical Marijuana Sites Raided by Police, DEA

Seven Long Beach Medical Marijuana Sites Raided by Police, DEA

The Long Beach Police Department and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency raided seven medical marijuana dispensary sites Wednesday afternoon, making more than 40 arrests, according to police.
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October 9, 2012
10/09/2012
Medical Marijuana Advocates Hope Lawsuit Relaxes US Drugs Policy

Medical Marijuana Advocates Hope Lawsuit Relaxes US Drugs Policy

A US appeals court will hear evidence on medical marijuana benefits – a claim with which the federal government disagrees.
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October 8, 2012
10/08/2012
Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Reviewing Scientific Evidence Reaches Federal Court

Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Reviewing Scientific Evidence Reaches Federal Court

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a United States Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s...
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October 4, 2012
10/04/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.10.03)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.10.03)

03:24am Mitt Romney (mis)speaks out on medical marijuana, the LA dispensary ban is repealed, and the feds keep on grinding away at medical marijuana providers with...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Federal Sentencing of Legally Compliant Medical Marijuana Providers Highlights Harmful Obama Policy

Federal Sentencing of Legally Compliant Medical Marijuana Providers Highlights Harmful Obama Policy

Five medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court next week, highlighting the human cost of the federal government’s intolerance for state medical marijuana...
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September 28, 2012
09/28/2012
Human Collective Fourth Target of Oregon Medical Marijuana Raids

Human Collective Fourth Target of Oregon Medical Marijuana Raids

The Human Collective, located at 11509 SW Pacific Highway in Tigard, Oregon, is the fourth provider targeted in a series of Oregon medical marijuana raids. At around 9am...
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Officials Seize Less California Marijuana, But See More

Officials Seize Less California Marijuana, But See More

As California’s outdoor marijuana growing season nears its end for 2012, drug officials are reporting a sharp decline in crop seizures for the second year in a...
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.09.26)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.09.26)

03:27am The DEA strikes again in Los Angeles, and the feds are moving to eliminate dispensaries in downtown LA. But the push-back against the crackdown continues....
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September 24, 2012
09/24/2012
If I-502 Passes in WA, How Will Federal Government Respond?

If I-502 Passes in WA, How Will Federal Government Respond?

Jonathan Martin explores how the federal government might respond if Washington voters pass I-502 and legalize recreational marijuana sales. Arrests of state-licensed marijuana growers? A big legal fight...
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September 21, 2012
09/21/2012
Raids Shut Down Big Medical Marijuana Suppliers in Oregon

Raids Shut Down Big Medical Marijuana Suppliers in Oregon

Hundreds of medical marijuana cardholders in eastern and southern Oregon will have to find a new way to get their pot after federal authorities raided and shut...
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