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March 18, 2009
Groovy: Marijuana Advocates Ecstatic About Attorney General's New Pot Policy -- See Boost for Ammiano Legalization Bill
Supporters of legal marijuana -- medical and otherwise -- will be racking their brains to find some way to celebrate a potentially groundbreaking drug policy change announced by Attorney General Eric Holder today.In short, the AG said Justice will only target those "who violate both federal and stat ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
Marijuana Advocate 'Flabbergasted' at DEA Raid of S.F. Dispensary
BummerLast week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a policy shift away from the Drug Enforcement Agency raiding marijuana dispensaries in states that have approved medical marijuana. So, it came as something of a shock that DEA agents today raided Emmalyn's California Cannabis Clinic at 1597 Ho ... More >>
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March 29, 2009
Vote on Ammiano's Marijuana Bill Postponed Amid Difficult Time For S.F. Pot Fans
In what is perhaps the best news of late for aficionados of marijuana legalization, a scheduled March 31 committee hearing of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's legalization bill was postponed likely until 2010 (drag) -- which gives marijuana advocates some time to reverse what would have almost definitely b ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
US Attorney Spars with Hastings Law Students Over Pot Laws
The most compelling question from the Hastings panel on pot: How could two guys with such different opinions on marijuana think so similarly about fashion? Was this planned?Hastings law students with the munchies and a keen interest in how changes in federal priorities on marijuana enforce ... More >>
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May 6, 2009
Supes Condemn Raid on San Francisco Pot Club, Call For DEA to Mellow Out
Fair enough, it was somewhat lost in the glare of our governor -- once caught on film wearing a shirt emblazoned with the sentence "Arnold Is Numero Uno" while smoking a joint and eating a massive piece of cake -- said he's open to debate on marijuana legalization. But, yesterday, a resolution passe ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Chronic City: An End To The War On Drugs -- Impossible Dream? Political Ploy? Or Inevitable?
Gil KerlikowskeNew White House Drug Czar and former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske didn't wait long before making big waves as the top drug enforcement officer in the country. In his first public appearance since being confirmed on May 7, Kerlikowske, in a new interview with the Wall Str ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
Chronic City: Dispensary Ban -- Hey, Goleta, Nice Job Helping Patients!
The Goleta City Council has unanimously passed a "temporary" ban on medical marijuana dispensaries -- while still claiming the city is "voicing support" for medical marijuana patients.The Santa Barbara Independent reports that the council voted 5-0 in support of an ordinance banning dispensaries wit ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Chronic City: Dispensary Operator Charlie Lynch Gets 366 Days In Federal Prison
Reason.tvCharles Lynch In a courtroom crowded with spectators and supporters, Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary owner Charles Lynch was sentenced today in federal court to one year and one day in prison.Lynch, 47, appeared this morning in the Los Angeles federal courtroom of U.S. District Judge ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Chronic City: The 'Oaksterdam Model' For Legal Pot In California
Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
Chronic City: Marijuana Moratorium -- How To Ignore The Voters And The Law
Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed by politic ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules
By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a compreh ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Chronic City: Feds Lighten Up On Medical Marijuana Just As L.A. Tightens The Screws
Photo by Rotbuche, Wikimedia CommonsLet my people grow.In a stunning bit of role reversal, law enforcement officials in dispensary-heavy Los Angeles County are gearing up for a massive mobilization against hundreds of pot shops even while the Obama administration backs away from the federal gover ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Chronic City: 'Truth In Trials' Bill Would Lift Ban On Medical Marijuana Evidence In Federal Court
U.S. Representative Sam Farr (D-Carmel) and more than 20 bipartisan co-sponsors introduced legislation today that would allow defendants in medical marijuana cases the ability to use medical evidence at trial, a right they currently do not have. Due to the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in G ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
No Justice
Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.
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November 3, 2009
Chronic City: N. California's Top Federal Prosecutor -- 'Really Not A Change At All' In Medical Pot Enforcement
Ah, "guidelines." They're a little more lax than "rules," which are a little looser than "laws." When it comes to guidelines, that's their strength -- and that's their weakness. Whereas laws and rules are "broken," guidelines can simply be "ignored."That truism is abundantly illustrated by this w ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Weed Takes Root
Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide
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April 7, 2010
Immigration: Defending juvie probation chief proves expensive
Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide
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October 15, 2010
Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory
Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assetsBackers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesnít Work
Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assetsBackers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Prop. 19 Smoked -- Marijuana Supporters Promise New Legalization Effort
Wait 'til next year...As the national media will gladly tell you, people are smoking weed in San Francisco. People -- with and without medical marijuana recommendations -- smoked weed yesterday and they'll do so today, and they were going to do so no matter what happened with Proposition 19, the ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot
How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Government lets fraudulent drug companies deal with Medicare
How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana
How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
U.S. Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill To Help Same-Sex Couples Sponsor Foreign Partners
A new push to change the law for same-sex binational couples. U.S. lawmakers reintroduced a bill Thursday that would allow gay Americans to sponsor their same-sex partner for a visa, just as straight married couples can. At the same time, Congress members wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric H ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Obama Fundraiser To Draw Protesters Advocating Green Cards For Gay Couples
Rallying at Obama's door. Protesters from all walks of life -- potheads, gays, and antiwar folks -- will be greeting President Obama upon his arrival to San Francisco tomorrow afternoon. While antiwar demonstrators recruit people for their cause, multiple organizations for gay rights are gatherin ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Medical Marijuana Providers Go to Prison. Will President Obama Intervene?
This pretty much sums it upDr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, are ill. Fry is a breast-cancer survivor with severe mental-health issues, and Schafer's hemophilia means he is frequently bedridden. So he will have to be in a prison hospital beginning May 2, when the couple will begin fiv ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Federal Backruptcy Court Declares DOMA Unconstitutional
Gay couples go broke, too. The latest assault on the federal law that only recognizes straight spouses comes from an institution that's not exactly known for making rousing statements about civil rights: the federal bankruptcy court.According to news reports., the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Ce ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You
They gonna getchaPresident Barack Obama's stance on medical cannabis has been a wee nebulous: as candidate, Obama said the drug war was a failure and that doctors prescribing pot as a treatment was "appropriate"; as president, Obama's Justice Department said chasing after pot growers and users wa ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Feds Now Fight War on Medical Marijuana with Passive Aggressive Strategies
US Attorney Melinda Haag, weed-killerHard to believe it's been only two years since Attorney General Eric Holder shocked -- and relieved -- California's medical marijuana users when he said the federal government had no interest in prosecuting state-legal cannabis activities. The Bush Era was ove ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Sonic.net: The Li'l ISP that Stood up to the Feds
I way overpay for my monthly Internet service. There are a bunch of reasons: Sonic.net, my ISP, has great customer service. It almost never goes down. The website is simple and user-friendly. It updates it quickly with service info. When you call them, they talk to you like you're a fellow human, ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana
I way overpay for my monthly Internet service. There are a bunch of reasons: Sonic.net, my ISP, has great customer service. It almost never goes down. The website is simple and user-friendly. It updates it quickly with service info. When you call them, they talk to you like you're a fellow human, ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
S.F. Pot Clubs Threatened by Government Crackdown Won't Sue
On defenseIt was only a matter of time before the state's medical marijuana collectives went to the courts -- and the time was nigh Monday for Lynette Shaw of the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana to announce at a downtown San Francisco law firm that she's suing the feds. Her deadline to close ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Is Medical Marijuana a Low Priority for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Jerry Brown?
Blindsided as he was during a "bloodbath" of a House Judicial Committee hearing, in which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hung out to dry over the teeny-tiny issue of injecting American-made weaponry into the Mexican cartel wars, you could forgive the Justice Department head for mincing his wo ... More >>

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