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AB 2312 gets lift from medical marijuana activists

Bud — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:36:51 +0000

Medical marijuana advocates Saturday opened a three-day event to rally support to regulate a legal dispensary industry in California, spurred on by videotaped messages from two members of Congress who recently pushed an amendment to deny funds for federal raids on cannabis businesses. About 200 people, including dispensary operators and people who use marijuana for [...]

Federal justices block ADA medical marijuana suit

Bud — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:56:44 +0000

Medical marijuana patients cannot use a federal disability law to prevent cities from shutting down pot dispensaries, a federal appeals court decided Monday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by severely disabled medical marijuana users against Costa Mesa and Lake Forest. The suit [...]

Tulare County sues medical cannabis growers

Bud — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:24:52 +0000

Tulare County announced Tuesday that it is suing five people in a medical marijuana collective for growing pot in the wrong location. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Tulare County Superior Court, states they are violating the county’s land use ordinance by growing marijuana in a rural area near Cutler in northern Tulare County zoned exclusively [...]

Mann-handled: Oakland takes fresh look at dispensary

Bud — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:25:11 +0000

Dhar Mann, the Oakland “ganja-preneur” facing 13 felony counts for allegedly defrauding the city, may soon see the medical marijuana dispensary he backed lose its conditional permit. City officials said that in light of the criminal charges they are going to take another look at whether the G8 Medical Alliance, for which Mann is officially [...]

3 men burned in Shasta County hash-oil explosion

Bud — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:15:50 +0000

Three men who police said were illegally extracting oil from marijuana were burned Thursday in an explosion at their trailer off Rock Creek Road in the Keswick area. Crews with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection were dispatched to the 15000 block of Rock Creek Road just before 5 p.m. after a report [...]

Indoor grow site found at 3-alarm Oakland fire

Bud — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:11:18 +0000

OAKLAND — Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire Saturday morning on Oakland’s Auto Row and then discovered a marijuana grow operation in the building, authorities said. About 4:05 a.m., nearly 60 firefighters responded to reports of the fire at 3050 Broadway near 30th Street, Oakland fire Battalion Chief Emon Usher said. They encountered flames shooting as [...]

Legalization gains favor among Sonoma Democrats

Bud — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:06:16 +0000

Andy Caffrey, the congressional candidate from Humboldt County who wears a black cowboy hat over the gray hair cascading down his back, has twice lit a marijuana cigarette in public to punctuate his support for legalizing pot. Caffrey, who says he is a medical marijuana patient suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, said he would, [...]

Inland Empire Prop. 215 patients head to Capitol

Bud — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:59:03 +0000

Local medical marijuana activists took a bus from Upland to Sacramento via Riverside on Friday to attend a unity conference and meet state legislators. “I need it,” said Chuck Neault Sr., 67, of Chino, before the bus picked him and others up in the parking lot of G3 Holistic Inc. in Upland. Neault, who uses [...]

Fontana police, DEA join forces on dispensary raid

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:46:14 +0000

FONTANA – Local and federal law enforcement agencies raided and shut down a medical marijuana clinic Tuesday morning in what police say was the first of eight dispensaries they plan to bust in the city. With guns drawn, Fontana police, sheriff’s deputies and agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration approached Holistic Meds RX in the [...]

Fresno planners green-light outdoor growing ban

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:43 +0000

The Fresno Planning Commission voted 4-2 on Wednesday to recommend passage of a permanent ban on growing medical marijuana outdoors anywhere in the city of Fresno. I was one of three people to speak against the ban and also submitted written comments regarding the proposed ban and some of the underlying legal issues. The hyperlinked [...]