| LA Countersues Over New Medical Marijuana Rules |
| Google News - August 26th, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to support the city's move to shut down more than 130 medical marijuana shops under a new ordinance.
The city clerk determined that only 41 pot shops comply with the ordinance, surprising city officials who aimed to allow 70 clinics in the city. Read More |
| River Falls Wisconsin Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Backers File ... |
| Examiner - August 26th, 2010 |
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MADISON: A River Falls alderman who has been coordinating a campaign to gather enough signatures to place a medical marijuana advisory referendum before City voters this Nov. 2 reports they have enough signatures to make the ballot.
Bob Hughes says supporters filed 99 pages containing a total of 892 signatures with the city clerk's ... Read More |
| Los Angeles Medical Marijuana- City Rules Only 41 Dispensaries Can Stay Open |
| The Huffington Post - August 26th, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles officials said Wednesday that only 41 medical marijuana dispensaries can stay open under a city ordinance, and letters were sent to 129 clinics notifying them that they may be shut down. Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Rides Into LA On Questionable Conveyances |
| Los Altos Town Crier - August 24th, 2010 |
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Despite city bans on medical marijuana dispensaries, the pot market is thriving in Silicon Valley. Ever-expanding collectives are literally driving through loopholes, using delivery services to provide members with their medicine – a phenomenon that has arrived in Los Altos.
Shade of Green Collective (SoGC), founded by seven medical ... Read More |
| Board To Consider Nipomo Medical Marijuana Shop |
| San Luis Obispo Tribune - August 23rd, 2010 |
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A proposal to create a medical marijuana dispensary in Nipomo near a gymnastics studio will go to the Board of Supervisors for a vote Tuesday.
Applicant Robert Brody appealed to the board after the Planning Commission turned him down on a 3-2 vote in May. Read More |
| More Medical Marijuana Shops Bring More Concerns |
| Bakersfield Now - August 21st, 2010 |
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Kern County has shot up in recent months, and that's prompting more concerns by neighbors and county leaders. Kern County supervisors will look at freezing the number of facilities while they consider more regulations. Read More |
| Still Looking For Guidance On Pot Dispensaries |
| Bakersfield - August 20th, 2010 |
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It's well past time for the courts to give California cities and counties a definitive answer on the legality of medical-marijuana dispensaries. Conflicting state and federal laws are sending contradictory messages to law enforcement agencies, medicinal-marijuana advocates and the communities they all call home. Those laws are interpreted and ... Read More |
| Thousands Of Marijuana Plants Found In Granada Hills Park |
| Los Angeles Times - August 19th, 2010 |
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For weeks, LAPD narcotics officers kept watch over hundreds of marijuana plants they had discovered in O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills, hoping to catch the person cultivating them.
They would hike the mile and a half from the parking lot and wait in the bushes. A man showed up Aug. 12 and began tending the plants and the extensive ... Read More |
| Appeals Court Declines To Rule On Whether California Medical Marijuana Laws Bar ... |
| Los Angeles Times - August 19th, 2010 |
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A state appeals court declined Wednesday to decide whether California’s medical marijuana laws prevent cities and counties from outlawing dispensaries, sending a closely watched dispute over Anaheim’s 3-year-old ban back to the lower court for more hearings. Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Ruling Leaves Future Still Unclear |
| Inland Daily Bulletin - August 18th, 2010 |
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A highly anticipated ruling in a medical marijuana case in Anaheim has provided little clarity in the issue of cities' banishment of collectives and cooperatives.
Medical marijuana advocates and opponents statewide were waiting for an appeals court's decision on the ability for cities to ban medical marijuana cooperatives through ... Read More |
| Science Is Clear; Why Aren't We Paying Attention? |
| The Recored Search Light Redding - August 18th, 2010 |
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The Record Searchlight’s call for further scientific study on the safety and efficacy of marijuana (editorial, Tuesday) as a medicine is commendable, but hardly goes far enough. The real challenge is demanding that pundits, politicians, and the media actually pay attention to the research that is presently available. Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Used To Treat Autism (Video) |
| Autisable - August 16th, 2010 |
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My mother-in-law mentioned this to me on Facebook. I was horrified at the thought, and didn’t do anything about it for a week. I did some looking around and have found that some doctors are prescribing medicinal marijuana to children with autism. I still think that it is wrong to do this, but that’s my opinion. What’s yours? Here is a ... Read More |
| Marijuana Maven Won't Butt Out |
| Times- Herald - August 15th, 2010 |
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n the 1940s and '50s, Stan Eby was part of a strong-man balancing act, traveling the country and becoming a regular in the early days of Santa Monica's famous "Muscle Beach."
Some 60 years later, Eby runs a marijuana dispensary - Stan the Man Collective - on the outskirts of Vallejo, and is under legal fire for alleged illegal ... Read More |
| Most Of L.A.s Outlaw Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Have Closed |
| LA Weekly - August 13th, 2010 |
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More than two months after most of the medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles were outlawed, the City Attorney's office told LA Weekly that all but 20 to 30 of 439 illicit pot shops have closed their doors or were otherwise shut down. Read More |
| Business Groups Amp Up Campaign Against Marijuana Legalization |
| Los Angeles Times - August 13th, 2010 |
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Analysis by the California Chamber of Commerce says Proposition 19 would allow workers to be high on the job and severely limit employers' ability to take action against them.
The California Chamber of Commerce and other groups representing employers are starting to line up to oppose the initiative to legalize marijuana, charging that ... Read More |
