Chris Roberts offers this enjoyably pointed blog post in S.F. Weekly, which provides useful context about the landmark medicinal marijuana report released last week.
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It’s not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . [...]

Marsha Taffett says her husband’s death led her to look into herbal remedies for depression, visit a medicinal marijuana dispensary featured on CNN and now propose a wellness center in Capitola that would dispense medical cannabis.
California allows storefront facilities for medical marijuana but they are neither specifically allowed nor banned by Capitola’s zoning ordinance, the [...]

The Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act was reintroduced into the California Assembly on Thursday after its first iteration expired last month, the Eureka Times-Standard reports.
The bill, also known as AB 2254, covers many aspects of regulation, but some of its main goals are to legalize and regulate marijuana for adults 21 and older in [...]

Democratic candidates for state attorney general yesterday took varying positions on the merits of legalizing marijuana, but agreed that medical marijuana needs to be much more heavily regulated than it is now.
Assemblyman Ted Lieu of Torrance said he opposes legalization, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. Assemblyman Alberto Torrico of Fremont and Chris Kelly, chief privacy [...]

Anderson Planning Commission members narrowly approved an ordinance with numerous restrictions on the cultivation of medical marijuana within city limits Monday.
While allowing for cultivation only under certain guidelines, Anderson residents with a verified doctor’s recommendation will no longer be allowed to grow medical marijuana inside a residence or outdoors, should the City Council approve what [...]

A federal judge on Monday sent back to prison a Chico man who was the first medical marijuana dispensary grower to be tried in federal court.
Bryan Epis, 42, was told by U.S. District Judge Frank Damrell Jr. in Sacramento that he had exhausted his appeals and was ordered back to prison after a six-year hiatus, [...]

MIAMI — In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.
Long a [...]

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 [...]

OROVILLE — Tuesday, Butte County supervisors will be asked to extend a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries for 22 months and 15 days.
On Jan. 12, the supervisors adopted an “interim urgency ordinance” that established a 45-day moratorium on new dispensaries or the operation of existing ones, the Chico Enterprise-Record’s Roger H. Aylworth writes.
The urgency measure [...]

LOS ANGELES – Three decades ago, Bruce Perlowin was smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds of Colombian marijuana to California in fishing boats passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. His childhood friend, David Tobias, was trafficking dope across turquoise Caribbean waters to Florida and Georgia, the Sacramento Bee’s Peter Hecht writes here.
On Saturday, at a [...]