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  • News

    October 22, 2009

    Medical Pot Is Bringing L.A. Together

    In the increasingly acrimonious pot wars, all sides agree City Hall is incompetent

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Smith Waives Public Hearing, Trutanich's Pot Ordinance Moves to City Council

    Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith, who chairs the council's Public Safety Committee, has waived a public hearing for L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's draft ordinance on medical marijuana dispensary regulations. Smith hopes the matter will be heard before the full city council in early Nov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Obama Has High Tolerance for Pot, While L.A. Officials Keep Choking

    This guy would dig Obama's stance on weed.​The Obama administration's decision to leave medical marijuana sellers and smokers alone, as long as they follow state laws, makes Washington look like the cool dad who lets the kids have their fun as long as they don't bring the cops to the house. Meanwh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Details Emerge On Obama's Pot Stance

    Just as a crackdown on the city's medical marijuana dispensaries is being set in motion, the Obama administration is calling off the federal fight against sellers and buyers who abide by laws in California and 13 other states that allow the distribution of doctor-approved pot, the Associated Press i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Judge Strikes Down L.A. Pot Shop Moratorium

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ruled today that the Los Angeles City Council's two-year-plus long moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries is illegal, and granted a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of the ban, reports the L.A. Times.L.A. City Council President ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    District Attorney Plans Crackdown on Pot Dispensaries

    Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley told a small crowd of print and television reporters on Thursday that he would prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries for over-the-counter sales. "The over-the-counter sales of marijuana for money is illegal," said Cooley who, along with City Atto ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    Potshots Over Los Angeles Pot Shops

    A year late, the City Council tries to uninvite its unvetted marijuana collectives

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Lila Downs Cancels Santa Monica Pier Show

    Elena Pardo​Oaxaca singer Lila Downs has canceled her Thursday night performance at Santa Monica Pier. In her place will be the Lowrider Band. Last week we profiled Downs, and were greatly looking forward to her show. Here's the announcement: August 23rd, 2009 It is with much regret that we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Queer Town: Hollywood Protest Slams Schwarzenegger's Cuts to HIV/AIDS Services

    With L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein in attendance, a crowd of more than1,000 people gathered in front of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Friday afternoon, shut down Santa Monica Boulevard and pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Swine Flu Notes: Where's the Pork?

    We're one week into L.A.'s chapter of the swine flu pandemic/panic and already people are asking, "Where's the pork?" Raised on bio-disaster movies and braced for the worst upon hearing of Mexico's initial death toll, Angelenos were expecting (not, I should stress, hoping) to see bodies in the stree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Feds Bust Venice, MDR Pot Pharms

    The Drug Enforcement Agency raided two Venice medical marijuana dispensaries today, and a third dispensary in Marina Del Rey. Local DEA spokeswoman Special Agent Sarah Pullen declined to give specifics about the raids or information about possible arrests, citing the agency's ongoing investigation i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    Aids Conference Take 3: Lost in Translation

    The Drug Enforcement Agency raided two Venice medical marijuana dispensaries today, and a third dispensary in Marina Del Rey. Local DEA spokeswoman Special Agent Sarah Pullen declined to give specifics about the raids or information about possible arrests, citing the agency's ongoing investigation i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    AIDS Conference Take 1: Rejecting Bill Clinton

    The AIDS Conference opened with a bang on Monday: An activist take-over of a symposium hosted by a pharmaceutical company (which decided to stop distributing HIV drugs to kids) and a speech by Bill Clinton where I suppose he said some quotable things. On Sunday night the gala opening happened at ... More >>

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    DEA's Scarlet Letter

    Nervous L.A. landlords and dispensaries get caught in the medical-pot wars

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Letters: PSA on STDs

    Our readers write us

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Michael Kearns

    The Actorvist

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    the Semantics of Suicide Aid in Dying

    God, PR and the right to die in California

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Surrounded

    God, PR and the right to die in California

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Skid Row Staph

    God, PR and the right to die in California

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Lighting Up

    Cutting through the haze of WeHo’s marijuana vote

  • Film+TV

    May 25, 2006

    70 Million and Counting

    The clash of politics and morality in The Age of AIDS

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    The Stem-Cell Debate Gets Silly

    Challenge to $3 billion in research funds has its (bad) day in court

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    My Favorite Upstarts

    2005’s bumper crop of socially concerned organizations

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    Doping Voters

    Drug companies cough up millions to take on Proposition 79

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    A Toke for the High Court

    Stress for the medical-weed movement

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Shedding Light on the AIDS Blackout

    The first-ever national African-American summit on AIDS grapples with the record numbers of blacks contracting the disease

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    No Second Act?

    After county’s vote to close the trauma unit, King/Drew supporters ponder their next move

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Minister of Marijuana

    Scott Imler’s war with Ashcroft over the cannabis center

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Right To Life

    King/Drew supporters make their last stand

  • Columns

    November 11, 2004

    The Terrorists Within

    Be afraid, be very afraid

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    B as in Betrayal

    Loss of King-Drew trauma unit upsets residents who voted for Measure B

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Tough Love for King/Drew

    Supervisor Burke loses Round 1 in bid to save trauma center

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    Make War, Not Breasts

    Supervisor Burke loses Round 1 in bid to save trauma center

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Time of Misery

    AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

  • News

    July 24, 2003

    Taking the Hypocrite’s Oath

    AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Sad Song

    And the Band Played On has its 10-year anniversary

  • Columns

    October 10, 2002

    Pharm Phresh

    Frankenfoods II

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    The Other War

    Frankenfoods II

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    One Toke Over the Line

    Cannabis vs. the courts

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Black AIDS: 'Our People, Our Problem, Our Solution'

    Cannabis vs. the courts

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    Pro and Condoms

    West Hollywood voters to decide on bar plan

  • Art+Books

    March 1, 2001

    Waiting for the End of the World

    Jon Cohen documents the fits and starts of AIDS-vaccine research

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Acting Up

    Dissident gays anger veteran activists by calling for end to AIDS funding

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2000

    Whacked

    Masturbation as disease, and other historical madnesses

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Health Services

    Masturbation as disease, and other historical madnesses

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    A Lasting Wit

    Margo Kaufman, 1953–2000

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Bareback Riding

    The porn industry deals with another HIV-positive performer

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Pot Reform Stalls in Sacramento

    Governor Davis playing it straight

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Baca Goes Green

    Sheriff pushes medical marijuana

  • Columns

    August 19, 1999

    Insomnomania!

    Sheriff pushes medical marijuana

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