| Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Must Release Names, Addresses Of Pot Growers |
| SF Weekly - May 25th, 2011 |
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Medical marijuana patients don't seem to care where exactly their cannabis is grown. As long as the pot has been lab-tested and is free of mold and pesticides, patients seem satisfied. Read More |
| San Francisco and Daly City drug raids net eight arrests, $450,000 in pot |
| Contra Costa Times - May 23rd, 2011 |
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Police arrested eight people and seized an estimated $450,000 in marijuana Monday after raiding homes in Daly City and San Francisco.
The raids on nine homes netted 55 pounds of marijuana and 1,400 plants in various stages of growth that San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force Cmdr. Marc Alcantara said weren't connected to any known medical ... Read More |
| Where's Gascon on Ammiano's pot bill? |
| San Francisco Bay Guardian - May 23rd, 2011 |
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Some very good news from Sacramento (and since good news from that part of the world is rare these days, let's celebrate it). Assembly Member Tom Ammiano has a bill that would eliminate the mandatory felony charges for marijuana cultivation and allow district attorneys to charge some pot farmers with misdemeanors. And it's cleared committee and is ... Read More |
| IRS tells Fairfax medical marijuana dispensary it owes millions in unpaid taxes |
| WaccoBB.net - May 19th, 2011 |
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The Internal Revenue Service has notified the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax that it owes millions of dollars in unpaid back taxes, according to the alliance's founder and director, Lynnette Shaw.
Shaw said the IRS audited the alliance's tax returns for 2008 and 2009 and disallowed all of its business deductions. She ... Read More |
| California's Next Attorney General Can't Punt On Marijuana |
| Los Angeles Times - October 14th, 2010 |
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Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris appear reluctant to fully enforce Proposition 19 if it passes. No matter what happens on election day, drug policy is an issue California's next top law enforcement official must be ready to deal with. Read More |
| Marin Supervisors Explore Possibility Of Permitting Medical Pot Dispensaries |
| Patch - October 7th, 2010 |
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Last night, the Fairfax Town Council heard on second reading and voted to approve an ordinance that would place a temporary moratorium on new medical marijuana facility applications in town. Read More |
| Sonoma Council Candidates Agree- Water Is No.1 Issue |
| Press Democrat - October 5th, 2010 |
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Finding new sources of water for Sonoma bubbled up as the main issue Tuesday at a forum for candidates seeking election to the City Council Nov. 2. Read More |
| High On Proposition 19, Tom Ammiano Gets Regulation Bill Ready |
| SF Gate - October 7th, 2010 |
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State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano is so high (pun just in fun) on the chances of Proposition 19 passing in next month's general election, legalizing adult marijuana use, that he's already trying to get the state ready for oversight. Read More |
| Royal Oak Holds Off On Medical Marijuana Ban |
| The Macomb Daily - October 5th, 2010 |
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ROYAL OAK -- Medical marijuana users can breathe easy -- for now.
No action was taken Monday on a zoning law change that would have made possession and use of medical marijuana a civil infraction carrying fines of $250 for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. Read More |
| California Mayors Split On Pot Law |
| Mail Tribune - October 5th, 2010 |
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DUNSMUIR, CALIF. — Peter Arth doesn't mind being called "Mayor Juana" for his flamboyant advocacy of medical marijuana in this tiny town a little more than halfway between Medford and Redding.
The mayor is all too aware he has become a lightning rod for a pot war in Siskiyou County that is not being waged in the forests, but in the ... Read More |
| Harris On Top In Calif. AG Survey |
| Legal News Line - October 5th, 2010 |
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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - California Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris is leading her opponent, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, according to a recent survey of likely voters.
The survey, performed by San Francisco-based David Binder Research and released Monday, shows the San Francisco District Attorney winning ... Read More |
| Prop. 19 Offers Major Potential For Some Cancer Patients |
| Alter Net - October 4th, 2010 |
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en years ago I wrote – and AlterNet published – the very first bylined news story about the active ingredients in marijuana destroying cancerous tumors. The article was entitled, “Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in ’74.”
Much to its credit, AlterNet has archived the story for a decade and the link still gets picked up and ... Read More |
| Major Changes Are At Hand For Marijuana Politics |
| The Daily Caller - October 4th, 2010 |
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SAN FRANCISCO — The medical-marijuana political movement in America began the night police busted into Dennis Peron’s apartment with a warrant.
They twisted Peron’s arms behind his back and placed him in handcuffs. They forced Jonathan West, Peron’s boyfriend, to the ground, and an officer held him there, Peron said, with a boot ... Read More |
| Napa Medical Pot Clinic Owner Hit With Fine |
| Napa Valley Register - October 4th, 2010 |
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The operator of a Napa medical marijuana dispensary ordered shut in 2009 will have to pay $14,000 to the city, a Napa County Superior Court judge said in court papers.
Kimberly Pelham of American Canyon and her associates are permanently barred from operating any medical marijuana dispensary or any related business within the city ... Read More |
| Is Pot The Next Big Thing? |
| KPBS - October 4th, 2010 |
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California — Jeff Wilcox sits in an office chair, surrounded by 170,000 square feet of empty warehouse space and tells me we’re sitting in the “first commercial cannabis cultivation facility,” in the United States. Read More |
