A judge will decide Tuesday whether to shut down Gilroy’s medical marijuana dispensary even as the community debate over the collective ramps up, the Gilroy Dispatch reports.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Mary Jo Levinger is slated to rule in San Jose on Gilroy officials’ request for a preliminary injunction that would close MediLeaf, a [...]

Members of the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department maintain that the medical marijuana collectives in Siskiyou County are operating illegally and they want them shut down, according to this Siskiyou Daily News article. This mirrors the stance taken by district attorneys in Los Angeles and San Diego, and it follows a flood of dispensary bans enacted [...]

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CBS News blogger Shira Lazar has posted her video interview with Dr. Allan Frankel, who is known by many as the “pot doc” after founding founded Green Bridge Medical in Marina Del Rey in 2008.
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He has since become a leading expert in the field and a proponent of the cause, [...]

The Los Angeles City Council has put off further consideration of the city’s medical marijuana ordinance until next Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports here.
Council members were scheduled to approve the ordinance at today’s meeting, but they expressed concerns that its ban on dispensaries within 1,000 feet of homes was too restrictive. They said they [...]

In this editorial headlined “Rx for dope,” the San Diego Union-Tribune opines that medical marijuana dispensaries should operate “only as police-regulated businesses, just like massage parlors, strip joints, pawn shops and numerous other businesses. Would-be dispensary owners and operators should be required to submit their applications to the police department and they and their employees [...]

The L.A. Times reports that the Los Angeles City Council took several key steps Tuesday toward completing an ordinance that would regulate the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.
The decisions, reached after hours of often heated debate, came more than 4 1/2 years after the council first looked at the issue. At that time, there were four [...]

A suspected principal figure in a large Butte County medical marijuana fraud case will serve 270 days in jail and pay fines totaling $36,000, according to this Chico Enterprise-Record article.
Prosecutors alleged Matthew Robert Eubanks was one of 15 individuals involved in an elaborate scheme to use the Compassionate Use Act as a cover to illegally [...]

According to this article in the Siskiyou Daily News, the Montague City Council unanimously approved two marijuana-related ordinances at its Thursday meeting.
The council first OK’ed Ordinance 09-07, termed “an Uncodified Interim Urgency Ordinance of the City Council of Montague Extending Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 09-06, which imposes a Temporary Moratorium on the Establishment of Medical [...]

A San Francisco-based blogger for Fox News (“Fair and balanced … because we say so.”) offers this snippet of wisdom about Hayfork, a rural town in Trinity County.
“Tucked amid the vast forestland of Northern California’s Trinity County, the small town of Hayfork is – literally – going to pot…with marijuana being smoked, grown and sold [...]