I’m sorta glad that I delayed posting anything sooner about new research showing long-term cannabis use in youth can be linked to psychosis later in life. This well-written article arrives courtesy of L.A. Times Health and Science Editor Tami Dennis; careful reading is recommended.
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Early, and then continued, use of marijuana does seem to be associated [...]

4:20 Update: Apologies again for switching theme horses mid-stream. The new theme looked nice in some respects, but after kicking the tires for a while it became clear the old theme was better. It’s like deja vu all over again.
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In case you haven’t noticed, the look of the Web site has changed dramatically. That’s because [...]

A state organization representing medical marijuana dispensaries filed suit Tuesday challenging a new Los Angeles law that restricts where the clinics can operate, the L.A. Daily News reports.
Americans for Safe Access filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking a temporary restraining order against the city, which has launched an aggressive effort to close down [...]

The doors apparently have shut – at least temporarily – at Yorba Linda’s first marijuana collective after the city determined it was operating in violation of the city’s Municipal Code.
Salubrious RX was sent a letter by the city notifying the business of the alleged violation, the Orange County Register reports. The collective opened for business [...]

The Sacramento Bee has added a new online feature: a marijuana blog called “Weed Wars.”
Go ahead and giggle (that’s been a common reaction). You can even supply your own joke, Bee editor Melanie Sill writes here.
But this blog is driven by news, not whimsy – news about California’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry and our [...]

The Associated Press was aggregating news for newspapers before news aggregates were cool, but it also does some original coverage. The Sacramento Bee offers this excellent “AP Impact” article about Mexican drug cartels, which have set up massive pot-growing operations on public lands in California and across the U.S.
This is hardly a new problem, [...]

No medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Mountain View, at least not until April 18 of next year.
At their meeting Tuesday night, Mountain View City Council members voted to ban pot clubs for now, but they made it clear they intend to eventually allow them after city officials develop some restrictions.
“There is an interest [...]

RED BLUFF – Eight months after it first waded into the choppy waters of medical marijuana regulation, Tehama County has released the draft of a new ordinance that will be up for discussion next month.
“The idea was to give everyone ample opportunity to review the document,” county Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Warner said Wednesday, [...]

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 [...]

The nation’s main advocacy group for medical marijuana threatened Tuesday to challenge Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich’s legal assault on dispensaries, saying it is “unlawful, unconstitutional, and contravenes the spirit and letter of the governing laws.”
The city prosecutor’s office filed three lawsuits last week seeking court injunctions to force Organica in the Venice area [...]