| Marijuana Expo Across From Disneyland Could Draw 20,000 |
| The Orange County - August 27th, 2010 |
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ANAHEIM – An activist group working to legalize pot in California will host the county's first large medical-marijuana expo Saturday, featuring hemp products, speeches from attorneys and a former judge and live reggae music.
Organizers of the Know Your Rights Expo expect up to 20,000 people from across Southern California to attend ... Read More |
| Bouchard Defends Medical Pot Arrests, Likens Businesses To 'Organized Crime' |
| The Detroit News - August 27th, 2010 |
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Fifteen people arrested on suspicion of violating Michigan's Medical Marijuana Act will be charged Friday for involvement in businesses the Oakland County sheriff likened to "organized crime" rather than compassionate care for the chronically ill. Read More |
| Question Of The Week-Legalize Pot, Yes Or No? |
| Walnut Creek Patch - August 25th, 2010 |
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As Walnut Creek, Concord, Martinez and other local communities wrestle with the question of allowing sales of medical marijuana in their towns, the more sweeping issue comes before California voters this November of whether to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes as well. Read More |
| 'No' On Prop. 19 Pot Legalization, Contra Costa Panel Recommends |
| contra Costa Times - August 25th, 2010 |
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MARTINEZ -- A county alcohol and drug advisory panel recommended this week that Contra Costa County oppose Proposition 19, the November ballot measure that would legalize recreational use of marijuana in California.
The Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board heard from speakers on all sides of the debate in recent meetings and voted ... Read More |
| City Of Concord Sends Warning Letter To Illegal Medical Marijuana Facility |
| SF Gate - August 25th, 2010 |
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Over the weekend, we told you about the illegal medical marijuana dispensary operating out of a small building on Clayton Road, near Ayers.
The company, called "Herbal Essence", opened in July, and allegedly never claimed they'd be selling marijuana, according to the City of Concord. Read More |
| Meet Kestrel, The Hemp Car |
| East Bay Express - August 24th, 2010 |
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1) Fast Company reports on a Canadian vehicle to be built from hemp. "The vehicle, dubbed the Kestrel, gets its hemp ... from an industrial hemp farm in Vegreville, Alberta. Beyond the novelty factor, hemp actually makes sense as a vehicle material — it's lightweight, renewable, and as strong as glass composite."
2) Tiny Dutch border ... Read More |
| State Of Pot- Who's Lining Up For And Against Legalized Marijuana |
| Mercury News - August 23rd, 2010 |
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Oakland city councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Jean Quan, Pat Kernighan, Larry Reid and Nancy Nadel and Oakland mayoral candidate Don Perata -- Five of the council's eight members (including mayoral candidates Kaplan and Quan) plus Perata believe legalization could be a tax revenue windfall for the cash-strapped city; the council voted July 20 to ... Read More |
| Who's Lining Up For And Against Legalized Marijuana |
| Mercury News - August 23rd, 2010 |
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Oakland city councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Jean Quan, Pat Kernighan, Larry Reid and Nancy Nadel and Oakland mayoral candidate Don Perata -- Five of the council's eight members (including mayoral candidates Kaplan and Quan) plus Perata believe legalization could be a tax revenue windfall for the cash-strapped city; the council voted July 20 to ... Read More |
| Biggest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Aims For Wider Public Acceptance August 23 |
| Test Country - August 23rd, 2010 |
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In Oakland, the biggest medical marijuana dispensary center has opened, and its owner wants it to become a model for other cannabis distribution outlets in Maine that will soon follow. Read More |
| Legal Pot Backers Confident in Calif. |
| Politico - August 21st, 2010 |
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OAKLAND, Calif. — The nerve center for this year’s highly publicized movement to legalize marijuana is in a neighborhood known as Oaksterdam, where medical marijuana dispensaries — and doctors who sign permission slips to patronize them — have replaced the rundown, riot-ravaged buildings of this city’s downtown. Read More |
| Crime As Different As Northern And Southern California |
| Kennebec Journal - August 20th, 2010 |
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BERKELEY, Calif. — No place has had more experience with medical marijuana dispensaries than California.
But even here, there is no agreement on whether the operations promote illegal drug use and violence, or discourage it. Read More |
| Anaheim Ruling Could Be Useful In Upland Medical Marijuana Case |
| Contra Costa Times - August 20th, 2010 |
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UPLAND - Three Upland medical marijuana cooperatives will remain closed, despite a published opinion filed Wednesday in a state appellate court.
The co-ops appeared in court Friday to request a lifting of a preliminary injunction granted by a judge at the West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga. Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens In Concord |
| Contra Costa Times - August 19th, 2010 |
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CONCORD -- The sign on Clayton Road advertises a window replacement company. However, on the back side of the one-story house is the only brick-and-mortar medical marijuana dispensary in central or East Contra Costa County.
Herbal Essence, at 5065 Clayton Road in a commercial area near the Lucky supermarket, opened last month, according ... Read More |
| Medical Pot Ruling Called 'Significant Victory' |
| The Orange County Register - August 19th, 2010 |
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ANAHEIM – A state appellate court released a much-anticipated but mixed ruling Wednesday on a case involving Anaheim's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, failing to provide the clear precedent that both sides were anticipating on whether California cities have the right to ban all such dispensaries. Read More |
| CA Appellate Court Issues Ruling On Dispensary Ban |
| Mercury News - August 19th, 2010 |
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ANAHEIM, Calif.—A California appellate court on Wednesday remanded a case back to an Orange County judge to consider whether cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries.
The long-awaited ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal did little to clear the haze over the ongoing dispute regarding pot shops that have flourished across ... Read More |
