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Blogs
July 7, 2011
Marijuana Advocates Fuming Over Obama Administration's Confusing Stance on Medical Marijuana Enforcement
Obama, smoking.One would think that President Obama, an admitted onetime pot smoker who is about as liberal a leader one could get in the White House, would be somewhat of a hero for the medical marijuana movement. His administration even told feds to stand down on pot enforcement in states ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Marijuana Dispensaries Near Homes Could be Outlawed Under Proposed California Law
Marijuana supporters say a California bill that would ban pot shops from residential areas is a buzz kill. SB 847 faces a crucial vote in the state assembly's Health Committee on Tuesday and the activists are reaching out to supporters in hopes they'll call key legislators and urge them to b ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Obama a FAIL on Marijuana Policy, Says Pro-Cannabis Group
Obama is no bud to medical marijuana, say advocates.On a day when President Obama was visiting L.A., the marijuana dispensary capital of the nation, the pro-Cannabis group Americans for Safe Access, gave him a failing grade for weed policies. An ASA statement blames Obama's government for "u ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
$1.7 Billion Medical Marijuana Market to Rival Viagra Sales This Year, According to Report
DEABuddha is gold.Born in California in 1996, medical marijuana has grown from a baby bud to a full-blown industry flower that has blossomed across the nation. Legal in 15 states, medical pot sales this year are projected to reach $1.7 billion, according to the self-proclaimed "first ever in ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2011
Burning Issue: L.A. Times Passes on City Medical Marijuana Tax
Green for parks and libraries?And you say we're the party poopers when it comes to coverage of L.A.'s marijuana scene? Take a look at Sunday's Los Angeles Times. The paper's dead against the March 8 ballot measure that would let the city tax medical pot shops. Just say no, argues the Times. ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
L.A. Warns Prospective New Pot Shops Not To Open In The City
The city of L.A. is not your bud, pot dispensaries.The city of L.A.'s top attorney on Friday warned new pot shops not to open their doors despite a judge's recent order telling City Hall not to enforce much of its new medical marijuana dispensary law. In other words, hold your horses, weed p ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Pro-Pot Shop Protesters Plan To Urge L.A. County Not To Ban Marijuana Dispensaries
L.A. county just says no to medical weed.Pot-patients rights advocates are up in arms over L.A. County's ban of medical marijuana dispensaries. Ahead of a final vote on the matter Tuesday morning cannabis supporters will be outside the county Board of Supervisors meeting to try to get the bo ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
L.A. City Council Candidate Rudy Martinez Fought Smoking Bans In California
Mayor SamRudy Martinez, servin' up charitable turkey and wishin' on a smoke breakUpdated after the jump: A reformed Martinez says he supports last month's stringent smoking ban. Originally posted Nov. 30 at 5:42 p.m. Yet another item on which reality-TV star and District 14 hopeful Rudy Mart ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Washington, D.C. Medical Marijuana Lobby With California Ties Launches, Wants Full Cannabis Legalization
Dispensary owners now have a bud in Washington.Tobacco has a lobby. Alcohol has a lobby. Now medical marijuana has its own lobbying group in Washington, D.C. The National Cannabis Industry Association officially unveiled itself Tuesday as "the first national trade group representing the inte ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
Arizona Doesn't Want Illegal Mexicans But, As It Legalizes Medical Pot, Illicit Mexican Weed Might Be Another Story
Arizona says yes to medical pot.While California couldn't muster the votes to pass full legalization of pot, our friends to the east in Arizona got word over the weekend that its medical marijuana effort, Prop. 203, passed by the thinnest of margins. That would make Arizona the 15th state in ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Could Marijuana Legalization Save The Pot Shop From Would-Be State Attorney General Steve Cooley?
Americans for Safe AccessWould Steve Cooley as A.G. spell the end of the pot shop?Here's a scenario: Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, loses. Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles District Attorney who wants to become Attorney General, wins. Cooley has been no friend of the L.A. pot ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Pro-Medical Pot Group: Defeating Steve Cooley More Important Than Prop. 19
Americans For Safe AccessAn anti-Cooley posterWith Prop. 19 way down in the polls, some pro-marijuana groups are turning their attention to the dead-even race for attorney general.Americans For Safe Access, which supports medical marijuana, has launched a "Not Cooley" campaign. The group is telli ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
LA County Sheriffs Warn Narco Candy as Next Big Threat to LA Children's Health
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentIt doesn't look anything like the real thing Just when you thought Halloween was safe for children again, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued a new health warning: your kids could be ingesting (gulp!) marijuana-laced goodies! This morning ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
California Cannabis Association Is Against Proposition 19 Pot Legalization? Really? Yes.
Counterintuitive news of the day: The California Cannabis Association is opposing the Proposition 19 pot legalization initiative on the November ballot. It's not as crazy as you think. This trade group of sorts represents medicinal marijuana dispensaries, and they fear Prop. 19 will make life h ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
Should Medical Marijuana Patients Naturally Support Prop. 19, The Pot Legalization Initiative?
Do you have a medical marijuana card? Are you voting for Prop. 19, or are you, as our comment of the day suggests, smugly satisfied with the status quo because you're already set as far as your cannabis supply goes? In a post about how the dispensary group California Cannabis Association opp ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
DEA Raids Las Vegas Pot Shops; L.A. Party People Bummed
Just this week marijuana dispensary backers were whining to the Los Angeles City Council about its tough pot-shop law (even though it's not even being enforced). They're lucky they're not in Las Vegas, L.A.'s own Jersey Shore in the desert, where the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Pro-Pot Group Says Court Decision Means California Cities Can't Ban Pot Shops
After a California court of appeal rejected the city of Anaheim's argument that marijuana's federal outlaw status allowed the municipality to ban medical pot dispensaries, a pro-cannabis group is urging all cities in California that ban pot shops to change course. "It's long past time for lo ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2010
Medical Marijuana Entrepreneurs Aren't All For Legalizing Weed Via Prop. 19: For One Thing, It Might Take Them Out Of The Game
You would think that Prop. 19, the November ballot initiative that would fully legalize marijuana possession, would find some of its most ardent backers among the medical-pot trade, which relies on people coming to dispensaries and possessing weed, sometimes at their own peril when it comes t ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Is Oakland More Pro-Marijuana Than Los Angeles, Capital Of The 'Pot Shop?'
While our much more liberal neighbors up in Oakland have embraced industrial-size marijuana growing operations, Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries have been bombarded with city ordinances and regulations, at least according to one blog's point of view. According to CNBC and the Marij ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Marijuana Advocates Use Veterans Affairs' Pot-Friendly Policy To Challenge U.S. Stance On The Drug
Medical marijuana advocates have seized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' new marijuana-friendly policy to challenge federal law that deems there is no legitimate medical benefit for marijuana. The group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) this week filed a legal brief in its own longstan ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Rastafarian Temple Raided For Alleged Medical Marijuana Sales Sues City, States Pot Use Part Of Its Religious Freedom
Updated after the jump with reaction from the temple. Originally posted at 7:05 a.m. Leaders of a Rastafarian temple/alleged pot shop in Hollywood sued the city this week following its crackdown on medical marijuana retailers: The suit claims that the temple leaders were wrongfully arrested ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
Marijuana Advocates Want Michele Leonhart Out At DEA Following California Pot Shop Raids
Leonhart with Attorney General Eric Holder.Despite an Obama administration directive meant to put a halt to federal raids of pot shops in states where medical marijuana has been legalized, recent dispensary busts, including one in Southern California, have prompted a group of cannabis advocat ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Alleged Marijuana Dispensary Supplier Lawrence Holtz Pleads Guilty To 24 Felony Counts
A 39-year-old Los Angeles man accused of supplying local pot shops with pounds of cannabis pleaded guilty to 24 felony counts, "including cultivating marijuana, money laundering and other criminal charges," the District Attorney's office announced Monday. Authorities said they linked Lawrenc ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
West Hollywood Pushes For Any Kind of Outdoor Smoking Ban
Abbeland.comWest Hollywood City Councilwoman Abbe LandThe West Hollywood Outdoor Smoking Task Force met again last Friday, and it seems that West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman and Councilwoman Abbe Land, who first proposed an outdoor smoking ban at bars and nightclubs, are pushing behind the ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
L.A. County Considering A Pot Shop Ban Of Its Own
Fearing an influx of pot shops from municipalities, like the city of Los Angeles, that have cracked down on their very existence, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposal to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in its unincorporated areas, which include communities s ... More >>
News
June 17, 2010
L.A. Medical-Marijuana Outlets Defy City
Two weeks after the "ban," dispensaries are waiting to hear from their lawyers
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Former Senator Decries Veterans Health Administration Pot Policy
VA's West Los Angeles Healthcare Center.Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, along with Drug Policy Alliance board member Jason Flom, castigated the U.S. Veterans Health Administration this week for recently telling its doctors they could not recommend medical marijuana to patients who had served ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2010
Members Of Congress Ask Treasury Secretary To Let Pot Shops Open Bank Accounts
Fifteen members of congress, including a few from Southern California, recently wrote a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting that he tell banks to lay off the accounts of medical marijuana dispensaries that operate in states where the drug is legal, the group American ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
'State Law Does Not ... Require Cities To Allow Dispensaries'
Bad news for supporters of Los Angeles pot shops, most of which have recently been outlawed by a city law: A judge in Orange County Wednesday upheld the city of Lake Forest's right to prohibit marijuana dispensaries. The attorney representing Lake Forest, Jeffrey Dunn, praised the ruling: "S ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2010
Does West Hollywood Want Wide-Sweeping Smoking Ban?
While West Hollywood City Council members have been considering such highly-publicized measures as boycotting Arizona due to its controversial immigration law and taking a stand against commercial whaling, some of those same politicians seem to be quietly pushing a wide-sweeping, anti-smoking agenda ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2010
Many L.A. Pot Shops Warned To Close Or Face Jail, Fines
In City Attorney's office letters that will go out today, Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries that opened after November 13, 2007 or that don't comply with new rules regarding how close they can be to schools, churches, parks and other public places were told to shut down immediately o ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Cities May Close Down Pot Shops, SoCal Federal Judge Rules
A bid by four medical marijuana patients to prevent a pair of Orange County cities from closing down medical pot shops was denied by a federal judge in Santa Ana Monday, according to the Orange County Register. The foursome had argued that the Americans with Disabilities Act protected their ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Pot Dispensary Robberies Plague Downtown
Google Maps606 E. Fourth St. downtown.The robbery of a Skid Row medical marijuana dispensary this week was one of five such crimes downtown in the last 18 months, police told blogdowntown. "I know of 14 clinics just in downtown Los Angeles, and five were robbed in the last 18 months," Lt. P ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Most Pot Shops In L.A. To Face Closure In June
L.A.'s famous K.F.C. collective in Palms.The Los Angeles City Council on Friday approved the final piece of is medical marijuana ordinance, a move that will put most of L.A.'s pot shops out of business beginning in June.
Blogs
April 12, 2010
Proposed State Law Would Impose L.A.-Like Limits On California Pot Dispensaries
The California Assembly Committee on Public Health is scheduled to consider a bill Tuesday that would impose Los Angeles-like limits on how close medical marijuana dispensaries can be from schools, churches, parks libraries and other dispensaries. Medical marijuana proponents are concerned that the ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Government Provides Pot For Low-Income Woman
You read that right. And we suspect that even some of you conservatives are whispering to yourselves, "Holy Obama-care, I should have supported the health-care bill." Unfortunately, the Big Brother chronic in question is not USDA-grade, but rather Canadian. The patient, Sally Campbell, 61, ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
Medical Pot Possession Cases Thrown Out, Dropped Up North
Last week we told you how some Southern California California juries were letting medical marijuana dispensary operators off the hook in recent pot possession and trafficking cases. Now it looks like some juries up north are also letting medical pot sellers and users walk away after they've b ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Juries Sympathetic To Pot Shop Owners Nabbed For Selling Weed
If San Diego serves as an example, the Los Angeles District and City attorneys' crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries in recent weeks could all be for nothing: Juries in our neighbor to the south are two for two in acquitting pot-shop owners prosecuted for selling weed. In both cities ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Council Committees Inch Toward Final Pot Shop Law; Dispensary Crackdown Expected In May
Two Los Angeles City Council committees approved nearly $1,600 in fees for medical marijuana dispensaries, marking the beginning of the end for hundreds of pop shops that will be wiped out by a city ordinance that severely limits where they can operate. The fees will fund criminal background ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Pot Shop Owner Sentenced To Six Years Behind Bars
A man who ran six medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles County was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison for selling the drug. Virgil Edward Grant III, 42, was nabbed on federal charges of conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana. He pleaded guilty last June and was a ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010
Medical Marijuana Group Vows Legal Action Following City Pot-Shop Crackdown
A pro-medical-marijuana group on Tuesday vowed to fight back against the City Attorney's legal actions against 21 pot dispensaries in Los Angeles. The office seeks to shut down the pot shops as nuisances and cites their over-the-counter sales of marijuana, which it argues are not allowed unde ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
Pot Shop Owner Charged With Money Laundering
The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in L.A.'s Del Rey neighborhood has been charged with 24 counts, including money laundering, following last week's actions against 21 pot shops in the city of Los Angeles. The complaint against Jeffrey Joseph was filed Monday in Los Angeles, accordin ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
Pot Shop Owner Pleads Not Guilty For Possession, Sale of Medical Marijuana
The owner of a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary pleaded not guilty Monday after he was charged with 24 drug-related felony counts by the District Attorney's office following an August raid of what authorities called an "illegal drug-dealing operation." Jeffrey Keith Joseph, 41, owner ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
21 Pot Shops Targeted By Authorities In L.A.
Authorities targeted 21 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles for various, alleged legal violations Thursday, including three that were accused by the City Attorney's office of being public nuisances. Search warrants were served at Organica Inc. on Washington Boulevard near Lincoln B ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
Dispensaries Targeted For Simply Selling Weed; Pot Shop Owner Arrested For Sales
As part of today's moves against 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, the owner of a pot shop near Culver City was arrested for selling weed, the City Attorney's office confirmed. Jeffrey Joseph, owner of Organica Inc. on Washington Boulevard in L.A.'s Del Rey community, was arrested this morni ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2010
Marijuana Law Backer Joins Legal Challenge Of Pot-Shop Bans
State Sen. Mark Leno, co-author of the state's medical marijuana clarification act (SB 420), has joined a court challenge that will help decide whether cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries in a state that approves them. The San Francisco Democrat filed a legal brief in Qualified Pat ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Unruly Jet Passenger Says He Was On Medical Marijuana
A man whose unruly behavior aboard a jet bound for Los Angeles over the weekend caused the flight to be diverted says he was flying high on medical marijuana. The plane from Philadelphia to L.A. landed in Pittsburgh after he had to be subdued by flight-crew members as a result of his alleged ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
Regulating Pot Shops? Councilman Asks, "Can't Someone Else Do It?"
FoxCity Councilman Jose Huizar has called on the state legislature to clarify California's medical marijuana rules, arguing that the city's own ordinance could only go so far with out clearer guidelines on such issues as what constitutes a sale, whether over-the-counter dispensaries were legi ... More >>
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