Maggie Gutierrez was concerned that Manteca’s new laws restricting marijuana use would make it illegal for her husband to get the only “medicine” that has been effective at easing pain from a severe back injury that used to keep him bedridden.
Larry Teunissen was worried that the new city laws would make it impossible to grow medicinal marijuana in his back yard.
City leaders Tuesday assured those who are complying with Proposition 215 won’t be impacted with Manteca’s move to prohibit pot dispensaries from opening up within the city limits as well as rules designed to [...]
California’s medical marijuana dispensaries generate as much as $1.3 billion in sales and $105 million dollars in state sales taxes, according to new — and dramatically increased — state sales estimates.
The new calculations by California’s Board of Equalization reflect both a burgeoning legal medical pot trade and improvements by the state in calculating the scale of the industry.
“It’s based on further research in the last year,” said BOE spokesman Anita Gore. “We just have better data.”
The BOE earlier this year estimated medical marijuana transactions at only $98 million, the Sacramento Bee reports, with $8 million [...]
All four candidates running for Mendocino County’s 5th District supervisor seat favor a November ballot initiative that would expand marijuana legalization beyond medicinal use to include personal use for all adults in California.
“I probably will vote for it,” Mendocino business consultant Wendy Roberts said during a Thursday night candidates debate in Ukiah.
The 5th District stretches from the Mendocino Coast to the Ukiah Valley, where it abuts the city of Ukiah and includes Hopland. It’s known for its diverse and largely progressive views, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reports, even compared with the rest of the liberal-leaning [...]
Bud’s note: I don’t always agree with “Radical” Russ Belville, who stirs things up on NORML’s Stash Blog most days of the week. Regarding this post, for example, Belville seems genuinely surprised that not all cannabis users support legalization in general or Tax Cannabis 2010 specifically. What, are we stupid?
Yet cannabis users constitute a large and politically diverse group; robust debate about legalization proposals is to be expected and encouraged. Belville does a good job here countering the most common arguments made by TC 2010 opponents, and he confesses his own discomfort with how [...]
San Clemente resident Shelly White writes in the Orange County Register that medical marijuana access is critical for her adult daughter’s serious health problems. White objects to city-led efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in her area.
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Recently, our daughter, Malinda, was faced with a life-threatening situation. Her health was failing and we were out of options. Never did we imagine it would be marijuana that would save her life.
As a mother of a daughter and a teenage son in a beach community, I tried very hard to keep marijuana out of our home. My [...]
What a treat to stumble across this Mark Cromer piece in L.A. Weekly, aptly headlined “Cannabis Rising.” Good reporting coupled with writing that entertains and makes you think.
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Maybe somewhere high above L.A., on a big, wispy puff of a magic-dragon cloud, Daryl Gates found himself with Jack Herer looking down on his old, literal stomping grounds.
What the heavenly odd couple, who died a day apart in mid-April, might have thought as they mulled over a gathering tribe downtown in the City of Angels is anyone’s cosmic guess — even if the former LAPD chief made [...]
OAKLAND — City Attorney John Russo last week endorsed the state’s ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, and the City Council seems poised to do the same soon.
Californians this November will vote on a measure that would legalize adult use and personal cultivation of marijuana. Russo called it an overdue change in the state’s policy on marijuana.
“What we’ve been trying to do is fight a raging fire with a watering can,” Russo said. “The better way is to cut off the oxygen.”
Marijuana remains outlawed by the federal government. But Russo and others compare the ban on [...]
Siskiyou County sheriff’s officials are investigating whether a popular outdoor writer from Weed was part of a larger drug operation, an official said Thursday.
Tom Stienstra, 55, was arrested March 25 on suspicion of having marijuana for sale. The case was forwarded to the Siskiyou County District Attorney’s Office, but the case was sent back to the Sheriff’s Department for further investigation, District Attorney Kirk Andrus said in an interview last month.
Andrus could not be reached at his office Thursday, the Redding Record-Searchlight reports. But six weeks after that raid, Stienstra still has not been charged.
Siskiyou [...]
Among all demographics, Republicans are the ones who like marijuana and the potential to legalize it (whether for recreational or medicinal purposes) the least. But one group of Republicans have learned how to make lemonade out of lemons — the Orange County GOP in California is accused of conning petition signers into registering with their party when they thought they were signed up in support of legalizing marijuana.
An Orange County Register investigation found nearly 100 instances of apparent fraud, where petition signers who thought they were supporting legal pot, cancer research, clean beaches and [...]
Kenny Mack, a self-described “multi-platform content provider” and Santa Monica Daily Press columnist, leads the media pack with his confident prediction that Tax Cannabis 2010 will pass in November.
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From week to week, there are five basic topics that a columnist covers. In ascending order of importance they are sports, pop culture and the arts, local politics, national politics, and predictions. Depending on the reader, there is some debate about whether local or national politics is number two, but there is no question that the most important skill any good columnist possesses is the ability to [...]
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