edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Shorter George Will:We shouldn't legalize marijuana because it will result in more identity theft.Or something like that.Israel’s ministry of health has been ordered to complete, within four months, a detailed set of regulations for medical marijuana, with an emphasis on making it genuinely available to patients. They’re still fixated on making sure it isn’t available to “recreational” users, but this is certainly progress — [...]
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"Councilman Ed Reyes needs boots to wade through Medical Marijuana issue"One of the most tired political cliches has to be, "its for the children". For CD 1 City Councilman Ed Reyes, his cliche of choice in the Medical Marijuana saga is , "its all about the" [...] LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley isn't very impressed with the LA Council's efforts to pass an ordinance regulating the over the counter sale of medical marijuana. "Quite frankly we're ignoring them," Cooley was quoted in the LA Times this week, saying he's going to prosecute the distributors regardless on [...]
You’ve got to love this one! A San Diego Deputy DA in the county where trying to bust medical marijuana facilities is almost a religion to law enforcement, had to admit in court that he patronized a medical marijuana facility on the advice of his doctor. Video in the [...]
" District Attorney Steve Cooley and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, are not going to Pot"Its 8:15 AM and Medical Marijuana is all over the radio air waves.Just finish listening to KFI's Newsman Eric Leonard, debrief Talk Show Host Bill Handel on the latest, regarding the Los' [...] ? A What to Do and What Not to Do for medical marijuana dispensary policy. [West Hollywood has built a sustainable and uncontroversial program, while Los Angeles is still struggling to come [...]
While LA -- and myriad other cities across the state -- struggle with how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, one city seems to have the whole thing pretty well figured out.
The LA Times ran a story on West Hollywood this week, who one councilmember boasts has been on top [...]
While LA -- and myriad other cities across the state -- struggle with how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, one city seems to have the whole thing pretty well figured out.
The LA Times ran a story on West Hollywood this week, who one councilmember boasts has been on top [...]
An Israeli study (on rats rather than humans, but that’s how these studies typically start) strongly suggests that marijuana may be useful in treating the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Does that mean that Maj. Hasan (not to mention the rest of us) would have been better off [...]
As proposed ballot measures and a legislative bill to allow recreational marijuana use advance here in California, medical marijuana advocates scored a big win today as the American Medical Association shifts to a friendlier stance.
The AMA’s House of Delegates voted to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be classified on [...]
The unhappy Barney Frank has a strange habit of associating himself with people who violate silly laws. Back in 1989, his occasional lover operated a brothel out of the Massachusetts Democrat’s Capitol Hill home. Eighteen years later Barney “was present during a marijuana arrest at James Ready’s home in [...]
Here’s a touching story from a mother whose experience — after trying any number of prescription drugs — is pretty sure that marijuana has alleviated — not cured, but alleviated and improved — her son’s autism. But the fedgov says it has no known medical uses, so we should [...]
“It’s not a subculture here,” said Barnett, who heads the Mountain Valley Unified School District. “Marijuana is drying in their houses. It’s falling out of their pockets.”
It’s capitalism in action, but on the other hand…
On Tuesday Maine voters passed an initiative (Question 5) which according to the Associated Press will rewrite the 1999 medical marijuana law to “expand conditions under which people can be prescribed marijuana” and will allow “dispensaries from which the drug can be prescribed to patients.” The initiative passed with [...]
As Californians keep gathering petition signatures for marijuana legalization ballot measures and a state lawmaker rewrites his legalization bill, marijuana reform advocates today are touting a new report that finds no relationship between marijuana arrest and use rates – a sign that the “war on drugs” has failed as [...]
By Peter Schrag
Columnist
California Progress Report
A half generation after California began the national swing to legalizing the medical use of marijuana, the Golden State is becoming the central front in the drive to legalize, regulate and tax recreational and all other adult uses of the drug. [...]
