Bud’s note: What happens when you mix a complaint-driven code-enforcement posse with a mom who quietly campaigns against medical marijuana dispensaries? A one-woman spike in complaints, as San Diego CityBeat’s John R. Lamb reports.
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Less than a mile from at least eight medical-marijuana collectives, Marcie Beckett lives in the same modest Pacific Beach home she grew up in with six brothers and sisters.
President of her early-’70s graduating class at Mission Bay High School, Beckett went on to a career as a research physiologist at San Diego’s prestigious Naval Health Research Center, focusing her studies on the [...]
SANTA CRUZ — The two medical marijuana shops in town could be allowed to stay open more than some standard pharmacies.
The city Planning Commission voted 4-3 on Thursday in favor of amending the zoning ordinance related to medical marijuana dispensaries to expand operating days to include Sunday, which would permit the drug to be sold 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Commissioners Scott Daly, Rod Quartararo and Mari Tustin voted against the proposed 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday operations, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
“It just seems like a lot of time. I can’t [...]
Jun 052010
Modesto police are investigating a marijuana-growing operation that firefighters discovered when they were called to a home off McHenry Avenue.
Firefighters were dispatched to the Semple Street home on a report of a potential structure fire, according to Battalion Chief Hugo Patino of the Modesto Fire Department.
Firefighters found and extinguished a small fire in a room of the empty house that contained the indoor crop, Patino said, the Modesto Bee reports. They called police.
Sgt. Pat Kimes said there were about 30 plants that were not “fully mature,” estimating them at about 18 inches to 2 feet [...]
California’s November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use may well ride on a potent voting block — people who currently smoke marijuana or have used pot in the past.
All told, past and present pot smokers comprise 37 percent of registered voters in California, according to a recent poll undertaken by the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences and the Los Angeles Times.
That’s well more than the number of registered Republicans (31 percent) and independent voters (20 percent) and within striking distance of the number of Democrats (just under 45 [...]
OAKLAND — Buckingham Boulevard residents are hypervigilant about watching out for their neighborhood, quick to report anything suspicious. But a police detective’s early morning knock at one neighbor’s front door was the first clue that something illegal was happening inside the house across the street. The detective said there would be a raid, and suggested the neighbor might want to leave in case there was gunfire. When the man drove back up the canyon a few hours later, police were still hauling out marijuana plants, bags of buds, money and growing equipment from two expensive, [...]
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday morning shot down a bid by medical marijuana patients to block the city’s ordinance regulating dispensaries from taking effect Monday.
A group of 12 patients with illnesses ranging from anxiety and menopause to lupus and AIDS had sued the city and asked the judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the city from enforcing the ordinance, which is expected to shut down more than 400 dispensaries.
They contended the law would unconstitutionally bar patients’ access to their medicine, the Los Angeles Times reports.
L.A. Daily News coverage
Judge James Chalfant said [...]
Possessing an ounce or less of marijuana would be treated as an infraction instead of a misdemeanor under a state Senate bill that passed Thursday by a 21-13 vote. The measure now goes to the California Assembly.
SB 1449 eliminates the possibility that such minor cases could end up in court-clogging jury trials, according to Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the bill’s author. As the L.A. Times reports, the penalty would remain the same: a fine of up to $100 but no jail time.
“This is a waste of time and money at a time when we [...]
Jun 042010
Marijuana may be the renowned cash crop in Humboldt County. But two reports in recent months suggest it is bad medicine for the regional environment.
In an article in the North Coast Journal, two research engineers at the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University took issue with excessive energy use of thriving indoor marijuana grow rooms.
“There are environmental consequences of what we’re doing,” wrote Peter Lehman and Peter Johnstone. They suggested that Humboldt pot rooms use enough electricity to power “13,000 typical homes” and put “20,000 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.”
“And that’s [...]
A phone rings in an office with no sign in a San Jose industrial park, and a caller places an order for delivery. But it’s not your ordinary delivery service — the caller wants pot, not pizza.
A driver for the Green Access collective then loads packages of marijuana bearing names of strains like Bubble Berry and Grapefruit and heads out, often to San Mateo County, to make a delivery in what is an increasingly common way for medical marijuana to change hands.
But whether it’s legal or safe depends on whom you ask. One thing many [...]
Buddy’s Cannabis Patient Collective will stay open in Mountain View — at least for a couple more days.
Though Mountain View officials sought a preliminary injunction to shut down the medical marijuana dispensary on Bayshore Parkway that opened in April despite a city ban, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph Huber said after a hearing Wednesday he would review the request.
Huber said he is concerned about the difference between a permanent injunction and the requested preliminary injunction, which would shut down Buddy’s immediately while lawsuits between the dispensary and city are resolved. A preliminary injunction [...]
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