| Ammiano's Struggle On Pot, BART Cops |
| San Francisco Bay Guardian - March 13th, 2009 |
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Assemblymember Tom Ammiano is finding that the moderate Democrats up in Sacramento can be just as annoying as the Republicans. Take two of his top priorities right now, a bill to force the BART police to adopt civilian oversight, and a measure to legalize marijuana. Read More |
| Pot To Get Tighter Oversight |
| The Daily Journal - March 12th, 2009 |
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Hoping to clarify ambiguities set by the 1996 Compassionate Use Act, the San Mateo City Council is set to approve Monday a medical marijuana ordinance to regulate who can grow and distribute the drug within its borders.
The council will vote on the first reading of an ordinance at its Monday meeting. If approved, the council will have a ... Read More |
| Smoke This Recession |
| San Francisco Chronicle - February 20th, 2009 |
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It is a time of strange bedfellows and bizarre contortions and extraordinary responses to extreme situations, all overslathered with gobs of panic and dread and oh my God, I might have to sell the Range Rover. Read More |
| Recession Threatens To Burn Out Pot Clubs |
| The Examiner - February 17th, 2009 |
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One might guess that tough economic times would only fuel the desire for mind-altering substances. For San Francisco’s cannabis clubs, however, nothing could be further from the truth. Read More |
| San Francisco Weighs Ban On New Head Shops |
| Fresno Bee - February 13th, 2009 |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Counterculture tourists hoping to catch a whiff of Flower Power still make their way to the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead rock on in stores offering T-shirts, posters and pot-smoking paraphernalia.
While other businesses in the cradle of hippie culture are ... Read More |
| Oversight Now Has Meaning For S.F. Pot Clubs |
| SF Gate - January 26th, 2009 |
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Years after passing a groundbreaking law aimed at bringing San Francisco's pot clubs under government control and giving patients safe access to medical marijuana, the city is finally regulating those businesses, which for years operated with little oversight.
The Board of Supervisors approved legislation requiring medical cannabis ... Read More |
| 'Guru Of Ganja' Mounts Second Court Appeal |
| Inside Bay Area - January 15th, 2009 |
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A lawyer asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to overturn the re-conviction of Oakland's Ed Rosenthal, claiming the "Guru of Ganja" wasn't allowed to present a full, adequate defense at his second trial.
Attorney Michael Clough told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Rosenthal, now 64, was denied the ... Read More |
| Steve Kubby: Ninth Circuit Court hears Rosenthal case |
| Idependent Political Report - January 14th, 2009 |
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The high-profile case of author and medical marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal returned to the courtroom this morning and oral arguments were heard to determine whether Rosenthal was denied his rights during a retrial in May 2007 on cultivation charges. Rosenthal maintains that his conviction should be thrown out because he was not allowed to present ... Read More |
| It's the Law; High Time To Issue Cards |
| Times-Herald - January 13th, 2009 |
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It's hard to believe that a county looking at all possible ways to cut expenses has resources to waste on a losing court battle, but that would seem to be the case in Solano County.
Last week, the Board of Supervisors and the Health and Social Services Department were sued because Solano continues to disregard a state law that requires ... Read More |
| Landlords Of Medical Cannabis Centers Threatened With Real Estate Forfeiture |
| Coastal Post - January 1st, 2009 |
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Many Bay area medical cannabis dispensary operators, including Marin's own lyrical Lynette Shaw, rallied in Downtown San Francisco on December 20th in protest of the Drug Enforcement Administration's recent execution of another attack on medical cannabis dispensaries.
In an effort to overcome the obstacles raised in the raid tactics the ... Read More |
| Medical Pot Collective Moves Into Sausalito And County Might See At Least Two ... |
| Marin Independent Journal - December 15th, 2008 |
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Down an alley in the back of an aging commercial building on Gate 5 Road in Sausalito, members of the county's newest marijuana collective, Gate Five Caregivers, come to pick up their "medicine."
Inside the collective's steel-caged door sits Darryl Compton, a burly 22-year-old Marin City resident and collective member. Compton watches a ... Read More |
| S.F. Police Make Second Arrest In Slaying Outside Pot Club |
| SF Gate - December 8th, 2008 |
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San Francisco police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the slaying of a man in September outside a Mission District medical marijuana dispensary, authorities said today. Read More |
| Court Ruling Will Limit Solo Pot Providers |
| SF Gate - November 25th, 2008 |
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(11-24) 14:41 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Someone who supplies marijuana to a patient who has a doctor's approval for it can be prosecuted for dealing drugs, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a narrow interpretation of California's medical marijuana law. Read More |
| Cheech And Chong Return, Minus Dave |
| SF Gate - November 21st, 2008 |
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After more than 30 years, those comic poets of dope, Cheech and Chong, have reunited for their Light Up America tour, which arrives this weekend in the Bay Area. We caught up with the pair earlier in the week from a hotel room on the road and started by asking them why they've hit the road again. Read More |
| CA Medical Marijuana Advocates Concerned About Obama Appointments |
| Capitol Weekly - November 20th, 2008 |
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In this year’s presidential election, medical marijuana advocates in California were pretty clear on which candidate they were rooting for. On multiple occasions, Democrat Barack Obama has pledged to end the federal raids that have bedeviled the state’s dispensaries for years under the Bush administration. Read More |
