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Blogs
August 23, 2013
Marijuana: DEA Bans Armored Cars From Picking up Pot Shop Cash
Medical marijuana is legal in California, but the combination of valuable drugs and what is often a cash-only business can attract some rough characters. That's why some dispensaries use armored car companies to get their money to and from their favorite bank (or elsewhere). But the U.S. Drug Enfor ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2013
Marijuana: Obama is Champion Spender on Medical Enforcement
President Obama has said cracking down on medical marijuana in states where it's legal, like California, wouldn't be a priority for his law enforcement agencies. But a new report by the group Americans for Safe Access not only says that Obama has been tough on weed, but that his administration's sp ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2013
Doctor Ran One-Stop Shop For Hydrocodone, Marijuana Prescriptions, Feds Allege
A West Hollywood doctor served as a one-stop shop for both hydrocodone (a.k.a. OxyContin) prescriptions and medical marijuana recommendations. So say federal prosecutors who today announced that James Eisenberg was indicted on suspicion of distributing hydrocodone and writing prescriptions in defia ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2013
Marijuana Shops In WeHo Raided As Gang-Related, Criminal Enterprises, Cops Say
Zen Healing, a marijuana dispensary in West Hollywood, announced on its website today that "we will be closed until further notice." Maybe that's because cops on Tuesday raided the place as part of what authorities claim is a gang-related "criminal enterprise" that uses "violence and intimidation t ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
Marijuana: L.A. Democrats Officially Support Shutting Down Most Dispensaries In Town
L.A. Democrats are getting behind a measure that would shut down most marijuana dispensaries in the city. In a statement today the local party is calling its endorsement of Measure D a "historic first" because " ... this is thought to be the first time the Los Angeles County Democratic Club has end ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2013
Marijuana In Vaporized Form Is Proven Painkiller, Says UC Research
The federal government has yet to recognize marijuana as anything but an outlaw street drug. But we told you about a recent study in which MRI analysis indicated that cannabis could work on pain. That's big news in L.A., the medical marijuana capital of the nation. Yet another fresh batch of resear ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2013
Henry Rollins Doesn't Smoke Marijuana. But He Has No Problem With It
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If the spread of marriage equality wasn't enough good news for you, recreational use of marijua ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2012
Marijuana Eases Pain In Research Using MRI Brain Scans
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says there's no legit use for marijuana. But British researchers say they have verified via MRI brain scans that the active ingredient in cannabis can ease pain. That's proof positive, innit? Well, not just yet:
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Teen Girl Caught Near Border With $35,000 Worth Of Meth, Say Feds
Kids these days, you say. They're so advanced with their iPads and texting and ... meth smuggling. Yeah, so says U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which alleges that a 15-year-old girl was caught near the Mexican border in Southern California with $35,000 worth of methamphetamine strapped to her. ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
Marijuana Dispensaries In Downtown L.A. Visited By DEA As Feds Warn Them To Close
Updated at the bottom: The feds hit Eagle Rock today. First posted at 4:23 p.m. Monday. Nearly three weeks after federal authorities rocked the L.A. medical marijuana world by targeting all shops downtown and in Eagle Rock for closure, a pair of DEA agents today went knocking on the doors of at lea ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
Marijuana's Medical Value On Trial In U.S. Court
The crux of the federal government's problem with medical marijuana in places where it's legal, like California, is that pot is not legit for anything under U.S. law: It's a schedule I drug, the highest-level of outlaw substance. And so, this allows the DEA, for example, to warn that every pot shop ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
2C-I, Drug Known as Smiles, in Spotlight After Johnny Lewis Murder Case
Every so often a drug invented by California psychedelic explorer Sasha Shulgin, the Godfather of Ecstasy, escapes the lab and becomes a headache for law enforcement. This is one of those times. Amid reports that actor Johnny Lewis might have been on 2C-I, or "smiles," when he allegedly flipped out ... More >>
Blogs
September 4, 2012
Griselda Blanco, Original Cocaine Kingpin With SoCal Ties, Assassinated in Colombia
Griselda Blanco, the cocaine queen who plied her trade in Southern California in the early 1980s, was fatally gunned down in her native Colombia yesterday. You're probably asking, What took so long? Blanco was one of the most murderous drug kingpin's in recorded history, having turned Miami into a ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
Marijuana Bust in Valley Should Scare Pot Shops Happy Over L.A. Ban Reprieve
See also: *Marijuana Dispensaries Get Reprieve After Ban is Put on Hold Thanks to Signature Drive. Even as medical marijuana advocates were successful this week in putting the brakes on a pot shop ban in Los Angeles, the LAPD has continued on its mission to shut down weed retailers in the West Vall ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
FBI Busts Massive L.A. County Meth Ring, Arrests 16 Gangsters With Names Like 'Fat Boy'
Bad news, meth heads: The feds just took the good stuff off the streets of the San Gabriel Valley. After 16 months on the trail, with a little help from the DEA and the ATF, a gigantic task force of investigators from the FBI, the Pasadena PD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and the California ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2012
Marijuana Dispensaries Could be Shut Down With Help of DEA if L.A. City Hall Has its Way
The L.A. City Council late yesterday decided to ask the feds for help in shutting down Los Angeles' medical marijuana dispensaries starting Sept. 6. Seeing how federal authorities have had no problem cracking down on pot shops in California, this could be a bad omen for L.A. weed stores, which have ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
Bath Salts, Synthetic Marijuana Can Now be Drug Tested (Hallelujah)
We here in the medical marijuana capital of the nation think drug testing is, in general, invasive and, frankly, un-American. Freedom also applies to your highness. But ... we'll make an exception for synthetic marijuana and bath salts, two recently outlawed drugs that make ecstasy look like a mira ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2012
Marijuana's Legitimacy as Medicine Heads to Federal Court
Is marijuana medicine? That's the question before a federal court this week as medical cannabis advocates celebrate a 10-year journey to overturn the government's classification of pot as an outlaw drug worse than cocaine. A challenge to a Drug Enforcement Administration denial of a petition to re ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Marijuana Has No Legit Medical Use, Feds Say; New SoCal Study Calls B.S.
Uncle Sam still doesn't recognize pot as medicine. In fact, under U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration rules, it's considered worse than cocaine: Cannabis is a top, "Schedule I" outlaw, which means it has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of ac ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2012
Matthew See: 'Spice' Marijuana Causes Man to Flip Out, Attack Elderly Couple
With the wide availability of medical marijuana in Southern California, we have wondered aloud what the appeal of synthetic, "Spice" pot was. Perhaps it's that it seems to make you completely, utterly insane. The DEA had already essentially outlawed what was once an over-the-counter drug. Cops in ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Daniel Chong's 5-Day Nightmare Behind Bars Sparks Outrage for Marijuana Nation
The case of Daniel Chong, the UCSD student who was locked up by the DEA and forgotten for nearly five days as he tried to commit suicide and drank his own urine, has fired up the marijuana nation. As news hit that Chong was filing a $20 million legal claim against the DEA, Ethan Nadelmann, executiv ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
Meth Drug Possibly Worth Millions Nabbed at LAX: It Was Headed to Mexico From China
We joke that meth is really just crack for rednecks. But that's an old stereotype. The truth is that the methamphetamine business has been taken over by Mexican cartels, which have shaped it into a massive, international phenomenon. Sort of like what Starbucks did for coffee. It's no longer a home- ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2012
Ginormous Drug Bust in L.A. Nets 160 Pounds of Meth: Alan Tamayo-Montoya Arrested
Authorities today said they seized enough meth to keep every trailer park in America humming for at least a year. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration along with El Monte and Santa Monica police too 160 pounds of redneck crack off the streets ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Marijuana as Religious Right? California Court Says It's Possible
Do some folks have the religious right to use marijuana as part of a sacrament? It's a question we joked off when L.A. marijuana dispensary owner NJ Weedman sued the city of L.A. after his Liberty Temple II was targeted for extinction: He claimed the religious right to cannabis because the shop was ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Oaksterdam Marijuana Raid Happened As 7 Were Shot At Nearby School: Critics Rip Feds
Monday's federal marijuana raid on Oaksterdam University in Oakland happened on the same day that a man opened fire at a nearby college campus, killing 7. That fact hasn't been lost on critics, who are railing against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the IRS f ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Oaksterdam University Raid 'Payback' For California's Marijuana Legalization Effort?
The man who bankrolled California's closest shot yet at fully legalizing marijuana, Prop. 19, saw his Oaksterdam University cannabis college in Oakland raided by federal authorities yesterday. And pot advocates are fuming. The Drug Policy Alliance suggests the raid by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adm ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for SmokeOut at City Hall (With Photos)
SmokeOut for Safe Access Rally Los Angeles City Hall 3-1-12 See also our rally slideshow Around 4:20 yesterday afternoon about 150 people marched in protest to recent federal threats to medicinal marijuana. The event was organized by Americans for Safe Access, the Music & Medicine Project and B-Re ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
PCP Bust in L.A. Worth $100 Million Reminds Us That PCP Still Exists
Cholos from the 1988 Dennis Hopper movie 'Colors.'Who knew PCP was even around anymore? What is this, a 1980s gang movie with cholos wearing white t-shirts and puffing on "sherm?" Anyway, federal agents say they found a whopping $100 million worth of the drug -- by the gallon. One-hundred-th ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Jimmy Luong, L.A. Ecstasy Kingpin, Gets 22 Years Behind Bars
And then there was agony. Jimmy Luong, a 30-year-old from Monterey Park, was somewhat of an Ecstasy kingpin in these parts, responsible for the distribution of at least 1 million pills in just a few months' time, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. Now he'll be living in a cell ...
Blogs
January 20, 2012
NJ Weedman Quits Marijuana Dispensary Game After DEA Raid, Asks for $4.20 Donations
NJ Weedman, our favorite pot shop owner (with the best name), says he's quitting the business after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided his shop and grow operation and basically left him without cash and supplies. The raid last month happened at his Liberty Bell Temple II dispensary on ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
Don Ferrarone: The Ex-D.E.A. Badass Who Finds Stories for Hollywood
In the credits he's usually listed as associate producer. What it really means is that he's the guy who finds stories. Don Ferrarone, ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agent, finds the real-life people -- the bodyguards, serial killers, narcs, dealers, soldiers, assassins, snipers, henchmen, sp ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2011
NJ Weedman's Marijuana Dispensary Liberty Bell Temple II Raided by DEA, He Says
Updated at the bottom with confirmation from the DEA. First posted at 7:03 a.m. Wednesday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration played The Grinch when it raided a Hollywood dispensary popular with celebs in the days before Christmas, its owner, NJ Weedman, tells LA Weekly. The DEA cleared the ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2011
Adderall Shortage of 2011: Los Angeles Feels the Pain at Year's End
The media has dubbed this year's dry spell of ADD meds as the Great Adderall Shortage of 2011. And for Angelenos, at least, it looks like the drought may carry over into the new year. (Don't worry, the hopeful bit comes later.) Venice Beach advice columnist Amy Alkon, known for roasting L.A. city d ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Marijuana Legalization: East Coast, West Coast Governors Call For Legit Medical Cannabis on a Federal Level
Medical marijuana supporters this week were high on statements from the governors of Washington and Rhode Island, who have joined a chorus of support for making medical marijuana possible across the land. Christine Gregoire of Washington and Lincoln D. Chafee of Rhode Island have formally asked fed ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2011
Marijuana Prosecution Memo From Feds Indicates 999 Plants is Okay, 1,000 is Not
DEAFederally legal?Marijuana advocates today circulated a transcript of a memo that appears to define U.S. Department of Justice guidelines for marijuana growing and possession prosecution targets. In other words they got their hands on the blueprint for what it takes to get the DOJ to crack ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2011
Medical Marijuana's Abundance in L.A. Has its Advantages: Synthetic Weed Linked to Heart Attacks in Teens
DEAMore synth than Thomas Dolby.Synthetic marijuana is just a wonder drug. We previously told you about how it can allegedly cause psychosis, mental chaos and other dark trips. Now research is suggesting it might also be correlated to heart attacks in teenage users. What's not to like? T ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Marijuana Legalization Petition Gets Blown Off by Obama Administration
DEAObama is not your bud.Admit it: You got all excited when President Obama opened up an online petition process -- promising to respond to top signature-getters -- and one advocating the full-legalization of marijuana went to the top of list. The president would have to respond. So he did. ... More >>
News
October 27, 2011
Obama's War on Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Marijuana Raid of Licensed Grower That Delivers to Los Angeles Area Has California Pot Advocates Worried About Federal Crackdown
northstoneorganics.comMatt Cohen.Updated at the bottom: The DEA gives us a cryptic response. First posted at 1:02 p.m. A Northern California pot farm that delivers cannabis all the way to Los Angeles was raided by DEA agents today, according to an announcement from California NORML. NORML s ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Jeffrey Keith Joseph, Marijuana Dispensary Owner, Gets a Year Behind Bars For ... Selling Marijuana
A flier for an Organica event.The guy who has appeared a few times in these pages, accused of running a rogue pot shop that some neighbors alleged marketed its wares to nearby high school kids, is headed for a year behind bars. The District Attorney's office today announced that 42-year-old ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
James Rosemond, Alleged Tupac Attack Orchestrator, Indicted For Interscope-Related Cocaine Ring
James RosemondUpdate: Interscope reps have responded to allegations that their L.A. offices were involved in the narcotics ring described below. Washing their hands of Rosemond, they call reports of Interscope's involvement "erroneous and completely unsupported," asserting that his alleged us ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2011
Marijuana Could be Used to Treat Cocaine Addiction, According to Federal Research
A joint will fix you right up.Are you one of those partiers who gets caught in this cycle: You're a little plastered, so you reach for the nearest line of cocaine. Then you're a little too up, so you reach for the nearest joint. And so on. (Coughs -- Lindsay Lohan. Joking). Maybe you're onto ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Marijuana Remains a Top Outlaw Drug Under U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Ruling Today
It's no use.A nine-year effort to get the government to reclassify marijuana as a drug with at least some legitimate uses ended in a FAIL today after the DEA just said no. Pro-pot forces, however, say they'll appeal the decision to the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington. As it stands, cannab ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
Legalize Marijuana on a National Level? It Could Happen as Barney Frank Introduces Bill in Congress Today
Sign it if you got it, Mr. President.Legal medical marijuana from coast to coast? It's possible. Not that anyone in California is about to get up and cheer, since it's been legal here for 15 years and pot shops have flourished in L.A. for nearly five. But think about your brothers in the fl ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, Rap Manager Allegedly Responsible for 1994 Tupac Attack, Arrested
James "Jimmy Henchman" RosemondAs just reported by Dennis Romero on our news blog, The Informer, James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was apprehended this morning in New York. Rosemond was collared this morning after a foot chase near Park Avenue and 21st St., a federal official told the Weekly. ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Marijuana Market Targeted by Scotts Miracle-Gro Fertilizers And Pesticides
DEAIt's a miracle.Marijuana might still be a federal outlaw. But it's so mainstream that one of the country's biggest gardening concerns, Scotts Miracle-Gro, wants in on the action. Scotts CEO Jim Hagedorn told the Wall Street Journal that he wants a piece of the medical marijuana cultivatio ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
Aaron Scott Vigil, Rialto Cop, Busted by FBI For Allegedly Accepting Bribe And Promising to Make an O.C. Prosecutor's Case Go Away
Andy ClymerLittle, money, lots of burn in this case, it would seem. FBI agents today arrested a Rialto cop and an Orange County defense attorney for allegedly taking cash for a defendant in exchange for telling prosecutors he was an informant who deserves easy treatment. The alleged bribe w ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Medical Marijuana From Sea to Shining Sea? A Lawsuit Wants to Force Feds to Say Yes to Pot
1ncognitoMarijuana advocates filed a suit in a U.S. Circuit Court today to force the Obama administration to answer a petition that seeks to have the federal government recognize cannabis as a drug with acceptable medical uses. The suit wants the court to order the administration to answer t ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Synthetic Marijuana Caused Psychosis For Southern California Users Who Ended Up in a Hospital
AirplaneMaybe the DEA had good cause when it banned so-called synthetic marijuana in an emergency move that took effect in March. Researchers recently revealed that the drug can cause up to eight days of psychosis and, in some cases, "months" worth of mental chaos. And you thought shrooms w ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Marijuana Bust in San Gabriel Valley Nets 1,000 Plants From Indoor Growing Operation, Authorities Say
DEAThis is what an indoor grow looks like.Wonder where all that wonderful, hydroponic, strangely market-rate marijuana (it's supposed to be nonprofit) at pot shops comes from? We don't. There's been a correlation between busts of grow-houses, which cops have said are often run by gangs and o ... More >>
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