Title: Protest against federal attack on medical cannabisLocation: Federal Building, 255 E. Temple St., Los AngelesLink out: Click hereDescription: Join Californians in a peaceful and legal protest against the federal offensive against medical cannabis cooperatives and collectives. Sponsored by the Greater Los Angeles Caregivers Alliance and Americans for Safe Access. Details: 888-929-4367Start Time: 12:00Date: 2011-10-24
For Southern Humboldt resident Kristin Nevedal, an avid gardener and a trained herbalist, marijuana is just another plant. ”It doesn’t make sense to me that there’s not access to it, and it doesn’t make sense that you can’t grow it in your backyard,” she said, adding that any herbal plant can be abused if taken improperly. The key is education, Nevedal told Donna Tam of the Eureka Times-Standard. As the medical marijuana industry grows and evolves, residents like Nevedal are bringing their beliefs and craft to the forefront through trade groups such as the Humboldt [...]
Montel Williams has been the face of many things – host of a nationally syndicated television talk show and pitchman for prescription drug assistance products and a fruit-and-vegetable emulsifier. On Monday, Williams appeared in Sacramento to announce a partnership with a new enterprise, a medical marijuana dispensary, Miles Bennett-Smith reports in the Sacramento Bee. In a news conference at the newly renovated offices of the former Capital Wellness Center, Williams spoke about his own battle with multiple sclerosis and why he turned to marijuana to alleviate near-constant neurological pain. “We’ve been caught up in culture [...]
SAN BERNARDINO — Get out in the community and work with others to legalize marijuana was the message at Saturday’s Spring Gathering, a music festival and medical marijuana expo featuring such artists as Snoop Dog and Cypress Hill. The event also featured a panel discussion where speakers urged those attending to get involved politically and tell nonsmoking friends about the benefits of marijuana, Wes Woods II reports in the San Bernardino Sun. “Everything you can do,” said Stephen Gutwillig, state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, including supporting cannabis movement organizations, sympathetic elected officials, giving [...]
Alarmed by a police backlash against pot dispensaries in some California cities, lawmakers and advocates for medical marijuana are calling for statewide regulation of medical cannabis stores and new laws to clarify rules under which they operate. Additionally, some medical marijuana advocates are pushing lawmakers to consider regulations – similar to those in Colorado – that would permit medical marijuana providers to operate as for-profit businesses, Peter Hecht reports in the Sacramento Bee. Currently, under California law, dispensaries providing medical marijuana must operate as nonprofit “collectives” of registered medical marijuana patients who reimburse dispensaries for [...]
This weekend’s CalNORML reform conference in Berkeley sold out, prompting organizers to promise a larger venue next time. Their agenda was plenty big enough already, with complex issues facing medical cannabis advocates and proponents of legal, non-medical use. (Click here for CalNORML video coverage.) Steph Sherer, the national director of Americans for Safe Access, called for more civil discourse after Prop. 19 launched a war of words online. But she didn’t mince words when she targeted “outrageous” cannabis taxes, like the ones passed by conference host Berkeley and nine other California cities in November. “As [...]
SOQUEL — Nancy Black, called Granny Purps just like the marijuana dispensary she owns on 41st Avenue, is known for her palate-pleasing recipes for brownies, cookies and other treats containing medicinal marijuana. This holiday season, however, Black and co-owner Phil Hicks demonstrated that their recipe book also includes the secret ingredient to bringing in outsize donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank holiday food drive: a complimentary joint. For every four cans of food patients donated to Second Harvest, they received one free prerolled marijuana joint, with a maximum of three per day, Tovin Lapan [...]
In early March, the tension among the crowd at Cesar Chavez Park ran thicker than the wafting marijuana smoke. Medical pot patients protested across the street from the old Sacramento City Hall building, decrying a plan to close dozens of dispensaries and impose strict rules on a handful of cannabis stores that might survive. Before suspicious eyes, Max Del Real stepped onto a stage in one of his signature designer black suits, Peter Hecht recalls in “Weed Wars.” “As soon as I got to the microphone,” he recalls, “somebody yelled, ‘Capitalist! Get him off the [...]
WASHINGTON – The cannabis industry has flexed its muscles in 15 states, including California, where it’s legal to smoke marijuana for medical purposes. Now the industry is ready to go to work in Washington, Rob Hotakainen reports in the Sacramento Bee from McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington bureau. A new trade group, called the National Cannabis Industry Association, aims to bring together sellers, growers and manufacturers and to promote pot on Capitol Hill. “Our intent is to be the go-to organization in Washington for this industry,” said Aaron Smith, the group’s executive director. For the past five [...]
Title: Marijuana Reform Conference – BerkeleyLocation: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, BerkeleyLink out: Click hereDescription: Join with leaders of the marijuana reform movement, pubic officials, medical cannabis providers, patients and advocates for a post-Prop. 19 conference. Registration is $30 per person (includes lunch). Sponsored by California NORML. For sponsorship information, write to conference@canorml.org or call 415-563-5858.Start Time: 09:30Date: 2011-01-29End Time: 17:30
