Items tagged with california
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| Feds attack California's medical marijuana trade-again [07.06.2012] | Federal authorities opened the latest front in their war on California's massive medical marijuana industry this week, filing property forfeiture law ... |
| Most California voters don't support legalizing pot, poll finds [30.05.2012] | In California, cradle of the marijuana movement, a new poll has found a majority of voters do not support legalization, even as they overwhelmingly b ... |
| Pot shop ban advances in L.A. City Council [29.05.2012] | A City Council committee moved forward with a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, approving a recommendation to outlaw storefront pot shop ... |
| Rally protests federal raid on Oakland pot trade school [04.04.2012] | Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at City Hall to demand federal respect for state and local marijuana laws, a day after federal agents raided the s ... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement [02.04.2012] | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dispensary, ... |
| How many pot patients Calif. has is anyone's guess [23.03.2012] | The reality is that no one knows how many people are legally using marijuana in California because the state — with hundreds of pot stores and clinic ... |
| Effort to put marijuana legalization measure on ballot is in disarray [09.03.2012] | After Proposition 19 received 46% of the vote in 2010, proponents took heart. They vowed to put a measure to fully legalize marijuana on the 2012 bal ... |
| California pot industry's next move: Ballot initiative for state regulation [06.02.2012] | A proposed ballot initiative aimed for the November elections begs a key question looming over California's medical marijuana industry: Can stricter ... |
| California court rules cities, counties can ban pot stores [11.11.2011] | In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities ... |
| Viewpoints: Patient safety is priority in medical pot policy [01.11.2011] | Recently, the California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians, the largest statewide physician organization in America, bold ... |
| California Medical Assn. support of marijuana legalization has doctors talking [31.10.2011] | The California Medical Assn.'s recent decision to support marijuana legalization has drawn mixed opinions from physicians and others. At the same tim ... |
| Rep. Sam Farr, House members question California pot club crackdown [31.10.2011] | Several members of California's congressional delegation are taking their concerns about a federal crackdown on the state's medical marijuana dispens ... |
| Medical marijuana - lost in the haze of state law [23.10.2011] | Californians need to be honest with themselves: The marijuana industry that is flourishing in plain sight is not really about medicine. No question, ... |
| Backlash to Crackdown Grows [19.10.2011] | Marijuana activists in California are gearing up this week for a flurry of statewide protests during President Obama's October 25 visit to the Bay Ar ... |
| California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It? [19.10.2011] | Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that ... |
| California Medical Assn. calls for legalization of marijuana [15.10.2011] | The California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians statewide, questions the medical value of pot and acknowledges some heal ... |
| Federal crackdown on medical pot sales reflects a shift in policy [07.10.2011] | The Obama administration's crackdown on California's highly profitable medical marijuana industry represents a dramatic departure from the low-key app ... |
| Feds escalate efforts to close California pot shops [07.10.2011] | Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California, sending letters that warn landlords to stop sal ... |
| The Pot Republic [26.07.2011] | The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it i ... |
| New California marijuana ballot measure starts circulating [25.07.2011] | A new marijuana legalization ballot measure was cleared Monday to start seeking petition signatures. But its proponents aren't affiliated with the Oa ... |
| California medical marijuana growers face pressure [02.07.2011] | A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if ... |
| Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18.06.2011] | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which comprised a former UN secretary-general, ... |
| Raft of marijuana legislation highlights a murky regulatory climate [17.06.2011] | California lawmakers are looking at a range of bills to expand, contract or change state marijuana laws. Legalization proponents say it reflects a po ... |
| Pot Penalties May Be Modernized [18.05.2011] | Sponsored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, AB 1017 aims to give prosecutors more discretion in how they charge weed growers and processors, ... |
| The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [09.02.2011] | The West Coast is a different world when it comes to progress on drug policy reform. Three of the four states most likely to see strong pushes for ma ... |
| One toke over the line [16.12.2010] | After an annual survey of teen drug use nationwide found that marijuana smoking is on the rise among eighth- through 12th-graders, Kerlikowske attrib ... |
| Calif. Pot Proponents Gird for 2012 [28.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls this month, marijuana-legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for ... |
| Legal marijuana: Not if, but when [16.11.2010] | One might have expected the principals of the Proposition 19 campaign to partially decriminalize marijuana possession and use to be a little chagrine ... |
| Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate [16.11.2010] | Drug use and abuse are social and pubic health issues. But these drug laws started as purity laws in a progressive effort to stop pharmaceutical comp ... |
| Prop 19 was only the beginning… [15.11.2010] | An interesting blog on Calitics, a leading progressive community blog for California politics: California voters came out in droves to support Propos ... |
| Backers of Legal Marijuana Find Silver Lining in Defeat of California Measure [13.11.2010] | Proposition 19, which would have legalized in California, received more votes than the Republican nominee for governor. It also received untold news ... |
| Pot legalization advocates are undeterred by the defeat of Prop. 19 [07.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls last week, marijuana legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for 2 ... |
| Prop. 19 backers plan new marijuana legalization effort [04.11.2010] | Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and r ... |
| Despite rejecting Prop. 19, Californians lean toward legalizing marijuana, poll finds [04.11.2010] | California voters rejected Prop. 19, but a post-election poll found that they still lean toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use and, if you ... |
| California's Proposition 19 Falls Short, but Moves the Marijuana Policy Debate Forward [03.11.2010] | The California ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana under state law was defeated at the polls Tuesday, garnering about 46 percent of ... |
| Measure to legalize pot is defeated in Calif after feds issue warnings, young voters stay home [03.11.2010] | California voters weren't high on a ballot measure aimed at legalizing marijuana and appeared to heed warnings of legal chaos and a federal showdown ... |
| Prop. 19 supporters say win or lose they've sparked a debate [02.11.2010] | The campaign's message was, win or lose, the initiative has stimulated widespread debate and shown that the nation's ban on marijuana is destined to ... |
| Proposition 19 Is a Vote Heard 'Round the World' [01.11.2010] | The world will be watching as Californians go to the polls on Tuesday and vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize and regulate marijuana in that ... |
| How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America [31.10.2010] | What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Sa ... |
| All Eyes on California [29.10.2010] | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in q ... |
| FT Editorial: High time to legalise marijuana [27.10.2010] | Just say no, the slogan says. But on November 2, California has the chance to say yes, at least to marijuana. Proposition 19 would legalise the produ ... |
| Soros: Why I Support Legal Marijuana [26.10.2010] | Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely us ... |
| Latin American leaders question move to legalize marijuana [26.10.2010] | The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legaliz ... |
| Just say yes to common sense on pot policy [26.10.2010] | With all the hand-wringing over a Democratic "enthusiasm gap," one effort to turn out young people at the polls this November is showing real energy ... |
| The case for California's Prop 19 [26.10.2010] | Over a dozen US states have already decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, and Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California are already h ... |
| Marijuana law would propel California into unknown territory [25.10.2010] | Vote yes on Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, and the unofficial state weed and largest cash crop will be controlled like alcohol, p ... |
| What the Feds Can Do About Prop 19 [25.10.2010] | Assume for a moment that California voters approve Proposition 19 on Nov. 2. The state will have just enacted a process for legalizing, regulating, a ... |
| 19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal [24.10.2010] | Prop 19, the CA initiative legalizing marijuana, benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the n ... |
| Marijuana and Democracy – All Eyes on California [22.10.2010] | “Democracy is the worst form of government,” as Churchill once put it, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Whatever else it should i ... |
| A federal-state showdown over pot [21.10.2010] | Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge ... |
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