Bud’s Blog: Focus on prohibition laws in 2012, attorney says

 Advocates, Legalization, Marijuana Law
Feb 132011
 

One of the joys of having your own blog is setting your own deadlines. Sure, it’s been a couple of weeks since the California NORML reform conference in Berkeley, but it’s taken that long to figure out my new video-editing software. So the game plan is to play catch-up over the next week or so with fresh videos from that uber-important conference; contact me if you like what you see and/or think I should stick to writing. ;o) Today’s selection features Joe Rogoway, a criminal defense attorney who’s involved with the California Cannabis Initiative, which [...]

Bud’s Blog: CalNORML conference sets cannabis agenda

 Bud's Blog, Legalization, Medical marijuana
Feb 012011
 
Bud's Blog: CalNORML conference sets cannabis agenda

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 [...]

S.F. Weekly’s Snitch blog recaps the year in pot

 Cultivation, Marijuana News, Media
Dec 132010
 

How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges — and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There’s still time yet before 2011 — who knows what the next few weeks will bring?. In any event, here’s your recap of the Year in Pot (to date), courtesy of Chris Roberts at S.F. Weekly’s Snitch blog. Regulated Edibles Means Hidden Cookies The year opened with ambitious rule changes from [...]

Marijuana Reform Conference set for January

 Advocates, Events, Legalization, Medical marijuana
Dec 012010
 

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

CalNORML’s Gieringer wins High Times honor

 Advocates, Legalization, Marijuana News, Medical marijuana
Dec 012010
 
CalNORML's Gieringer wins High Times honor

So it’s not exactly the Nobel Peace Prize. But then again, when it comes to weed activism, maybe it is. Veteran California marijuana author and advocate Dale Gieringer was honored in Amsterdam Nov. 25 as the High Times magazine “Freedom Fighter of the Year.” Gieringer has been the California director of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws since 1987, Peter Hecht reports in “Weed Wars.” He is a co-author of the Marijuana Medical Handbook, billed as a “practical guide to the therapeutic uses of marijuana.” He was also a leading supporter of the [...]

Analysis: Prop. 19 wasn’t supported by minorities

 Legalization, Marijuana News, Media
Nov 122010
 

Who killed Proposition 19? It’s a question that cannabis legalization proponents will be asking themselves for weeks to come, Robert Gammon observes in the East Bay Express. Was it the Tea Partiers who came out in droves this year? Was it apathetic young voters who stayed away from the polls? Or was it the marijuana-producing counties of Northern California, which feared losing market share of their main cash crop? Each of those story lines have already received plenty of attention. But a closer look at election results and exit polling data points to a different [...]

Time columnist makes doctor’s case for legal cannabis

 Health and science, Legalization, Media, Opinion
Nov 102010
 

Dr. Scott Haig is an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His Doctor’s View column on cannabis appears in Time magazine: =============== We don’t really know how many people smoke it. Some sources say 10 million Americans, others say 35 million. But a lot of people smoke pot and they don’t seem very sick. Marijuana just won’t go away. Everybody talks about it—many quite fondly. About everyone I know under 55 has smoked it. And they’re all right. A few have that pothead “oh wow” personality, but [...]

Filmmaker points lens at Humboldt’s pot culture

 Cultivation, Marijuana News, Media
Nov 092010
 

Five young trimmers sit out on the deck, surrounded by buds, sunlight and the open air of Southern Humboldt. The scene is set nicely for local filmmaker Mikal Jakubal, who is intent on capturing a slice of life within Humboldt County’s marijuana industry, Donna Tam reports in the Eureka Times-Standard. One trimmer, a seasoned hand who has a sunny disposition and no shoes on, talks as her fingers nimbly pluck buds and trim them with Fiskars, a brand of scissors. She said she isn’t a pot smoker and had no position on the recently failed [...]

Prop. 19 may boost 2012 bid for legal cannabis

 Advocates, Legalization, Marijuana News
Nov 082010
 

Despite Proposition 19′s loss at the polls last week, marijuana legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for 2012 and are almost giddy about their prospects. They see the election as a trial run that could lead to a campaign with a better message, a tighter measure and more money. Both the winning and losing sides say California’s voters rejected this specific initiative, but remain open to legalizing the easily obtainable drug. The proponents have a huge head start compared to where they were two years ago, John Hoeffel reports in [...]

Sequel to Prop. 19 could come as early as 2012

 Legalization, Marijuana News
Nov 082010
 

California voters likely have not seen the last of efforts to legalize marijuana despite last week’s defeat of Prop. 19. Legalization advocates are weighing a return to the ballot in 2012. And the author of an unsuccessful Assembly bill to legalize pot intends to introduce similar legislation early next year, Jim Miller reports from the Sacramento bureau of the Riverside Press-Enterprise “We had a debate that was just heard around the world. The conversation has only begun,” Dale Jones, a yes-on-Prop. 19 spokeswoman, said after Tuesday’s election. But the initiative’s critics said proponents of legalizing [...]

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