Let’s not get too smug about polls that suggest California voters are poised to legalize marijuana. Even if the Tax Cannabis initiative passes by a landslide, you can bet cops, prosecutors and elected officials will undermine the law in every way possible. After all, they’ve had plenty of practice with medipot.
While it’s too soon for [...]

The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat urges tighter regulation of medipot in this editorial, but its proposed solutions are every bit as vague as the law itself. Strangely absent is any mention of legalization, perhaps the most useful tool available to cure what ails the medipot industry. Guess I’ll have to write my own editorial…
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Anecdotal evidence of [...]

As the era of medical marijuana in California moves through its 14th year, laws on the matter have only grown increasingly murky, the Chico Enterprise-Record opines in this editorial.
It truly seems the people drafting these measures were stoned at the time, embracing ideas that might have seemed really cool under a THC fog, but that [...]

Once again we look outside the state’s borders for insight, this time in the form of a student editorial from the University of Iowa’s Daily Iowan. (If nothing else, scroll down to the California reference; many of our top cops think the same way.)
It’s encouraging to see good student writing these days; maybe there’s [...]

Sometimes it’s helpful to shift focus from California to other states, if only to see the same issues from a fresh perspective. From the Fort Collins Coloradoan comes this excellent editorial, which laments the federal government’s mixed signals about whether dispensaries risk federal prosecution. (Special kudos to the writer for using “moratoria” correctly.)
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Colorado communities face [...]

Cannabis author Chris Conrad wrote this guest column in the Crescent City Daily Triplicate in conjunction with Redwood Coast Collective. I haven’t read a more concise summary of the recent Kelly ruling by the state Supreme Court, and Conrad’s calls to action in Del Norte County would be well-heeded elsewhere.
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A new California Supreme Court ruling [...]

Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar offers this guest opinion column in the L.A. Times.
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The Los Angeles City Council last week finally adopted a medical marijuana ordinance. Though not perfect, it balances the needs of local communities with those of patients who truly need access to medical marijuana. And it will rein in an out-of-control [...]

This L.A. Times guest opinion column is written by Skip Miller, chairman of D.A.R.E. America, the top drug-abuse prevention and education program in the United States, and a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Miller Barondess.
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The City Council’s vote Tuesday to shut hundreds of so-called medical marijuana dispensaries across Los Angeles was a welcome [...]

Jon Martin professes to be “just a person concerned for persons” in authoring this editorial posted on OpEdNews.com. Works for me. Lightly edited, with a brief Bud’s Nugz added at the end.
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All around us the country is mired in an economic depression of epic proportions. The people of California have an opportunity, right now on [...]

This guest opinion column by Dan Lutz, president of the Los Angeles Collective Association, appeared in the Ventura County Star.
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Re: various columns and letters to the editor dealing with the legalizing of marijuana:
The Los Angeles Collective Association appreciates the comments on the efforts to legalize marijuana in California. Much of the collective wisdom around this [...]