| "One Phone Call" Could Have Prevented Lengthy Stakeout, Raid Of Legal Pot Grower |
| SF Appeal Online NewsPaper - August 27th, 2010 |
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Legit medical pot growers insist they're willing to work with the San Francisco Police Department, even as those same growers are raided and hauled into court. Read More |
| New Move To License And Tax Medical Pot |
| Capitol Weekly - August 27th, 2010 |
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A last-minute attempt to license and tax medical marijuana is drawing fire from a leading pot legalization group, California NORML, which says the bill wouldn’t do anything to improve legal protections for dispensaries. Read More |
| Facebook Spurns Pro-Pot Ads. But You Still May See Them On Muni. |
| SF Weekly Blogs - August 26th, 2010 |
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Facebook's not so special. Updates to your Farmville aside, the de rigueur social networking platform is behind the curve, at least when it comes to denying cannabis-related businesses interests the right to advertise. Read More |
| Facebook Pot Ads Go Up In Smoke- Will It Hurt Medical Marijuana? |
| CBS News - August 25th, 2010 |
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(CBS) It's not clear what Facebook was smoking, but the world's largest social networking site has snubbed out an effort by pro-marijuana advocates to run ads on the site which promote the legalization of marijuana.
That's according to the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim. Read More |
| Legalizing Weed Via Prop. 19- For One Thing, It Might Take Them Out Of The Game |
| La Weekly Blogs - August 25th, 2010 |
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You would think that Prop. 19, the November ballot initiative that would fully legalize marijuana possession, would find some of its most ardent backers among the medical-pot trade, which relies on people coming to dispensaries and possessing weed, sometimes at their own peril when it comes to law enforcement. Read More |
| Obama Administration Issues New Medical Marijuana Policy (Video) |
| Loopholing Law Legal & Taxes - August 25th, 2010 |
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The Obama administration is calling off the dogs in the clash of state versus federal marijuana laws. According to the AP, Federal drug agents and prosecutors will be instructed not to pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued today, Monday acco. Read More |
| Meet Kestrel, The Hemp Car |
| East Bay Express - August 24th, 2010 |
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1) Fast Company reports on a Canadian vehicle to be built from hemp. "The vehicle, dubbed the Kestrel, gets its hemp ... from an industrial hemp farm in Vegreville, Alberta. Beyond the novelty factor, hemp actually makes sense as a vehicle material — it's lightweight, renewable, and as strong as glass composite."
2) Tiny Dutch border ... Read More |
| Marijuana Trading Cards Pitch The 'Sweet And Exotic' To Pot Fans |
| The Sacramento Bee - August 23rd, 2010 |
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Ever worry that you can't tell your Grand Daddy Purple from your Afghani Goo?
A Bay Area medical marijuana dispensary, the Berkeley Patients Care Collective, has a set of exquisitely photographed and crafted pot trading cards to ensure that weed connoisseurs can identify their favorite stains and extol the effects. Read More |
| Defense Files Motion To Dismiss Key Count In U.S. Attorney's Office Case ... |
| PR Web - August 23rd, 2010 |
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Defense lawyers for four individuals under prosecution by the U.S. Attorney for operating a medical marijuana dispensary in Hayward, Calif., recently filed a motion to dismiss an additional criminal charge of possession of firearms. Read More |
| Man Arrested For Growing Too Many Medical Marijuana Plants |
| Examiner - August 22nd, 2010 |
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Medical Marijuana has been a hot and controversial topic in Rhode Island. Now a man licensed to grow medical marijuana is in trouble with the law for allegedly growing too many plants. Read More |
| Blowing Smoke - Proposition 19 & Medical Marijuana |
| RH Defense - August 20th, 2010 |
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Yesterday, I drove to downtown San Francisco — something which, on a weekday, is definitely not on my list of favorite things to do — to the Hiram W. Johnson State Building for a meeting of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers. The topic of discussion was Marijuana & Federalism: California a Test Case: The Legal Implications of Proposition 19.1 Read More |
| Just Say Now |
| Rolling Stone - August 20th, 2010 |
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In 1996, California became the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for medical use. Now, with a ballot initiative up for a vote in November, it could become the first to ratify an even more striking landmark: the legalization of pot for recreational use. Proposition 19 — the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 — treats ... Read More |
| Bay Area Longshore Workers Want To Legalize Pot |
| SF Gate - August 19th, 2010 |
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The longshore workers have jumped aboard the pro-marijuana legalization bandwagon, as the 25,000-member Northern California District Council of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union say they are pro-Prop 19. Read More |
| Authorities Raid Pot Farms Near Mt. Tamalpais |
| CBS 5 News - August 19th, 2010 |
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Officials from the Marin County Sheriff's Office and other state and federal law enforcement agencies Wednesday afternoon wrapped up an eradication of numerous marijuana gardens found Wednesday morning in west Marin County in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, a sheriff's sergeant said. Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Ruling Leaves Future Still Unclear |
| Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - August 19th, 2010 |
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A highly anticipated ruling in a medical marijuana case in Anaheim has provided little clarity in the issue of cities' banishment of collectives and cooperatives.
Medical marijuana advocates and opponents statewide were waiting for an appeals court's decision on the ability for cities to ban medical marijuana cooperatives through ... Read More |
