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Dale Gieringer

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Marijuana Sobriety Checkpoints: New Legislation to Outlaw Driving While Stoned

    ​Some will swear that marijuana has merit for motorists. Others fear impairment of any kind, at any level. We're pretty terrified of teen drivers, especially those with cell phones and hangovers, but we'll leave it to the government to intervene on this great debate. Driving while stoned would bec ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

    ​Some will swear that marijuana has merit for motorists. Others fear impairment of any kind, at any level. We're pretty terrified of teen drivers, especially those with cell phones and hangovers, but we'll leave it to the government to intervene on this great debate. Driving while stoned would bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Bills Killed by Odd Bedfellows -- Labor and Business Groups

    You can't really win against business AND labor​Public safety and jobs. To a California politician, they are the bread and butter -- if bread and butter means getting elected, that is. There are fewer worse labels for a politician than "job-killer" or the pejorative "soft on crime."You'd think, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    California Has 1.1 Million Medical Marijuana Users, NORML Says

    We pot more than we need politicians​California is the most populous state in the Union. It's where the nation's medical marijuana movement was birthed, and the Golden State is also where the rest of the country gets most of its illegal pot, judging by law enforcement statistics (lo siento, Britis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?

    Celebrate the birth of prohibition -- get high!​Alcohol prohibition did little to stop Americans from guzzling booze, though it helped make gangsters rich, cops and courts busy, and encouraged foreign imports of "medicinal whiskey" (sound familiar?)That experiment was short-lived -- ratified in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Ammiano Bill: Growing Pot Would No Longer Be Automatic Felony

    Turns out, you might not be considered a felon​Californians caught growing cannabis without a medical recommendation -- and indeed, some marijuana cultivators with medical recommendations -- are on their way to becoming felons. Law enforcement has no choice -- cultivation is a felony.Although that ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 15, 2010

    Dude, Stop That Coughing

    It's time to vaporize.

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Will Tea Partiers Kill Pro-Marijuana Measure?

    Fibonacci BlueSo paranoid. So uptight. So stiff. What could cure this? Hmmm...​On today of all days, marijuana is on everyone's mind. But that goes doubly for politicians: Just last week, state Democratic Party chairman John Burton told media that he and fellow Dems (like that Jerry Brown guy) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    A Big Fat Bowl of Nothing: What the Pot Limit Strike Down Really Means

    What exactly did the California Supreme Court do Thursday, when it struck down a 2003 law limiting the amount of pot a medical marijuana patient can possess to eight ounces? A big fat bowl of nothing, says Dale Gieringer, who as director of the state office of National Organization for the Reform of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Chronic City: L.A.'s Marijuana Dispensary Ban Could Cost City Millions

    Los Angeles' proposed medical marijuana ordinance -- which would ban the sale of pot at dispensaries -- could cost the city $36 million to $74 million in lost sales tax, according to a marijuana advocacy group.Photo by lavocado, Wikimedia CommonsOpen for business on L.A.'s Ventura Boulevard... but f ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2007

    That Is High

    Medical marijuana smokers face a 1,000-percent increase in cost of state ID card, which could force its demise

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