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 [...]

Once again we look outside the state’s borders for insight, this time in the form of a student editorial from the University of Iowa’s Daily Iowan. (If nothing else, scroll down to the California reference; many of our top cops think the same way.)
It’s encouraging to see good student writing these days; maybe there’s [...]

The Los Angeles city attorney Thursday escalated his bid to regain control over the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries, filing suit against three and sending letters to 18 to try to force them to stop selling the drug, the L.A. Times’ John Hoeffel reports.
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich had pledged to take aggressive action to shut down [...]