The fight over Long Beach’s new medical marijuana law is still smoldering. A judge ruled Friday against a Long Beach medical marijuana collective that had sought to continue operating despite being denied a permit, according to Long Beach Deputy City Attorney Cristyl Meyers. Also Friday, members of another collective that must close as well protested in front of City Hall, Paul Eakins reports in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. “This was not at all unexpected,” Meyers said of the legal challenge and other speed bumps that the city has encountered as it implements the complex and [...]
SANTA CRUZ — Armed men stole marijuana and $4,000 cash during what may have been a planned drug deal at a home near downtown Santa Cruz on Friday afternoon, authorities reported. No one was hurt in what became an armed home-invasion robbery, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports. The robbers stole the cash and a Tupperware-type container with several ounces of marijuana from the house, on the 300 block of Lincoln Street, according to Santa Cruz police Capt. Steve Clark. The robbers fled south on Washington Street in a black Ford Mustang with red racing stripes, [...]
Authorities said that two men who escaped from the scene of a shooting in a marijuana grow outside Kneeland on Wednesday hid in fear for their lives while the suspect in the case searched for them throughout the night. The two men had been hired by Mykal Xylon Wilde to tend the pot operation, along with another man who was shot and killed Wednesday, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said. After a dispute erupted at the grow, investigators said that Wilde opened fire on the men, killing one and injuring another. The third escaped unharmed, [...]
Doctors, patients, and industry are bashing the organizers of HempCon, which took place August 6-8 in San Jose, for running a de facto medical marijuana prescription mill out of the trade show. Eyewitnesses noted long lines of young adults without medical records quickly processed by seven or eight doctors for $40 per person. “I would consider one doctor a prescription mill. This was seven or eight. My best way to describe it was a price war,” said attendee Bob Katzman, who runs the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo. HempCon organizers Mega Productions — noted for [...]
Bud’s note: London Independent columnist Johann Hari offers this stinging indictment of drug-war violence in the Huffington Post. To many people, the “war on drugs” sounds like a metaphor, like the “war on poverty.” It is not. It is being fought with tanks and submachine guns and hand grenades, funded in part by your taxes, and it has killed 28,000 people under the current Mexican President alone. The death-toll in Tijuana — one of the front-lines of this war — is now higher than in Baghdad. Yesterday, another pile of seventy mutilated corpses was found [...]
A medical marijuana collective is taking the city of Long Beach to court today after it wasn’t allowed to submit an application for a permit under the city’s new marijuana law. Alternative Herbal Health Collective, 3702 E. Anaheim St., filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Aug. 16 asking the court to force the city to accept the collective’s application, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports. That hearing is set for Nov. 23, but Friday’s hearing in downtown Los Angeles is for a temporary restraining order against Long Beach to allow the collective [...]
ANAHEIM – An activist group working to legalize pot in California will host the county’s first large medical-marijuana expo Saturday, featuring hemp products, speeches from attorneys and a former judge and live reggae music. Organizers of the Know Your Rights Expo expect up to 20,000 people from across Southern California to attend the conference – across the street from Disneyland Resort – at the city-owned Anaheim Convention Center. Legal experts are scheduled to talk about the status of the state’s medical-marijuana laws and Prop. 19, a November ballot measure that would regulate and tax the [...]
A shooting at a large-scale marijuana growing operation east of Eureka Wednesday night left one man dead, another wounded and a third in custody on suspicion of murder. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reported that it responded to a report of a gunshot victim at the CalFire air station in Kneeland around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, after a man reportedly walked to the air station bleeding from a bullet wound. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reported that the suspect in the shootings, Mykal Xylon Wilde, 28, was arrested without incident at about 11 a.m. during [...]
Five men suspected of tending an illegal marijuana plantation bolted from their rustic campsite early Thursday, surprised by Nevada County narcotics agents, and sparked a wild chase through heavy brush and rugged terrain. One of the men was arrested after he was tackled by a ranger from the U.S. Forest Service who assisted in the raid, Liz Kellar of The Union in Grass Valley reports. Agents seized nearly 1,800 plants, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The 16 team members got to the plantation off Relief Hill Road, about 3 miles west of Washington in western Nevada [...]
This commentary was written by Gil Kerlikowske, John Walters, Barry McCaffrey, Lee Brown, Bob Martinez and William Bennett, directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. It appears here in the Los Angeles Times. Californians will face an important decision in November when they vote on whether to legalize marijuana. Proponents of Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, rely on two main arguments: that legalizing and taxing marijuana would generate much-needed revenue, and [...]
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