A Santa Rosa man was arrested twice Wednesday night — first when he was pulled over for expired registration and police found pot and $55,000 in the car, and later when he bailed out of jail and came home to a squad of detectives raiding his house, where they seized drugs, a stolen handgun and [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.
There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone, the Associated Press reports. The issue received more attention this week after [...]

The number of narcotics cases that San Francisco prosecutors have dropped since the Police Department’s drug-lab scandal went public is up to 180, and the district attorney says more cases will be dismissed until the city’s police officers can perform basic tests on seized evidence in lieu of the closed lab.
The Police Department closed the [...]

From the stately New York Times comes this story about two high-profile shootings in Washington state tied to medical marijuana. Take note of stated law enforcement concerns about home-based grower/suppliers found in Washington; they sound similar to police complaints about storefront dispensaries in California.
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SEATTLE — A shooting and a beating death linked to medical [...]

Tehama County supervisors made a minor concession to medical marijuana advocates Tuesday, but the nod is unlikely to settle debate as the board moves toward an April 6 vote on medical marijuana regulation.
In its weekly meeting, the board gave the first reading to a medical marijuana ordinance that would link medical marijuana growth to property [...]

California’s cities can’t afford to wait for the state to fix the medical marijuana mess. The plan in the works in Sacramento is a reasonable local solution to a no-win situation, the Sacramento Bee editorial board writes here. (Site registration may be required.)
The proposal outlined last week at a City Hall hearing would cap the [...]

From NORML’s Stash blog comes this Friday speech by Paul Armentano given at the Students for Sensible Drug Policy international conference in San Francisco. Rarely do you see the word “fuck” mixed in with Gandhi references, but Armentano’s call for young adults to contribute their time and effort is timely and important.
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My name is Paul [...]

RED BLUFF – The short history of the city’s only medical marijuana collective ended this week with the sentencing of a mother-daughter team that operated Blue Toad Inc.
Lana Aguiar and Ashley Arnold were each fined $90 in Tehama County Superior Court on misdemeanor violations of land use and occupancy ordinances, a court clerk said. They [...]

An employee of a Los Angeles cannabis club was robbed of a backpack containing some cash and a jar of marijuana Wednesday night as he returned to his home in Thousand Oaks, according to Ventura County authorities.
The robbery was reported about 8:45 p.m. in the area of Sunset Drive and Los Robles Road in Thousand [...]

In a test of how much marijuana reasonably can be carried for personal medical needs, a Sacramento jury Tuesday convicted a man of felony transportation for attempting to take 3 pounds of pot through Sacramento International Airport.
The case of Matthew Zugsberger, 34, a deep sea diver injured in an oil rig accident, left jurors saying [...]