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 [...]

“Karen,” who is “a typical stoner,” just made full professor. She uses marijuana for insomnia.
And she is featured in an advertising campaign by the Medi-Cann cannabis physician clinics, Sacramento Bee reporter Peter Hecht writes in his “Weed Wars” blog.
The medical pot network, which includes clinics in Sacramento, Elk Grove and North Highlands, advertises itself with [...]

Seeking to overturn the city’s medical marijuana ordinance even before it takes effect, a loose-knit coalition of Los Angeles collectives is quietly gathering signatures to force a referendum on the law.
The scrappy, largely volunteer effort faces a Monday deadline to turn in 27,425 valid signatures, reports John Hoeffel of the Los Angeles Times.
Update:
Times: Petition [...]

Filling in the last blank in the city’s medical marijuana ordinance, Los Angeles officials Friday recommended a number of fees dispensaries would have to pay to operate. Although the City Council passed the law in January, it cannot take effect until the council approves the fees.
In addition to standard charges for inspections and research, officials [...]

Sacramento officials Thursday night presented a plan to cap the number of marijuana dispensaries in the city at a dozen and impose strict requirements for their operations.
Faced with a packed room of pot shop owners and medical marijuana advocates, City Manager Gus Vina asked for measured input on “an emotional issue,” the Sacramento Bee’s Peter [...]

A Monterey medical marijuana dispensary has been ordered by the court to close immediately, city officials said Friday.
Superior Court Judge Robert O’Farrell issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the city, requiring MyCaregiver Inc. at 554 Lighthouse Ave. to shut down, said Assistant Monterey City Attorney Christine Davi.
Davi said the order would be finalized once [...]

For five years, Nevada County filmmakers Charlie and Bevin Hall have been documenting the trials and tribulations of California’s first medical marijuana collective.
With the help of Nevada City music promoter Mikail Graham as their sound man, the Halls expect to premiere their first feature length documentary, “La Vie en Verte: The WAMM Movie,” at the [...]

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 [...]

Over the passionate objections of a neighboring church congregation, the Cotati City Council said Wednesday that a medical marijuana dispensary can open on the city’s west side.
(Where the hell is Cotati? Click here for map.)
The Mercy Medical Dispensary Collective will be the first such business in Cotati, where last year a dispensary’s application was rejected [...]

Gotta break out this quote from a would-be dispensary operator: “Limiting it to two (dispensaries in Santa Cruz) is a slap in face to the medical marijuana community. I see it as Jim Crow and nothing else. We’ve gone from being criminals to second-class citizens.” Read on…
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The Santa Cruz City Council preliminarily approved a new [...]