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    April 9, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open Despite Federal Deadline

    On the day the federal government wished HopeNet to close, the operators of San Francisco's oldest licensed and taxpaying medical marijuana dispensary prepared accordingly: They grilled hot dogs."We made about 220," said Catherine Smith, whose Ninth Street medical cannabis dispensary is one of the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Feds Dismiss Medical Marijuana Lawsuits Without Hearings "Because They Know They're Wrong"

    ​Medical Marijuana Fight May End Up At Supreme Court ... By The Time We Are All Really Old.San Francisco attorney Matthew Kumin was defeated this week, when his lawsuit that challenged the feds' recent crackdown on state-legal medical marijuana dispensaries was dismissed by a federal judge in Sacr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Feds Quietly Shut Down Marin Pot Club

    Another one bites the dust ​The state's oldest pot club closed over the weekend under pressure from President Barack Obama's Administration, media outlets are reporting. U.S. Attorney for Northern California Melinda Haag had sent letters to the Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana, ordering the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Pot Club Crackdown Continues, Judge Rejects Demands to Stop Feds

    ​A judge has ruled that she would not interfere with the feds' efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries across California. Oakland U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled on Monday that pot clubs failed to show that  the federal government was violating their rights by cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Medical Marijuana: Feds Move to Forfeit Marin Pot Club's Property

    ​The choice offered by the Justice Department was clear: Select California medical cannabis dispensaries needed to close up shop or have their properties seized and operators thrown in prison.This was the ultimatum issued in September by United States Attorney for Northern California Melinda Haag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana Dodges Federal Threat -- for Now

    Praise Legalists​Second SF Dispensary Closes Under Federal PressureAn eviction notice was never so welcome.Last Wednesday, California's oldest storefront medical marijuana collective, Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, received an eviction notice from its landlord -- which means t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    S.F. Pot Clubs Threatened by Government Crackdown Won't Sue

    On defense​It 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 >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Feds Try to Handcuff Bay Area Dispensaries

    On defense​It 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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown: Two S.F. Pot Clubs to Close

    And Divinity Tree, and Green Door Sacramento, and maybe Medithrive​Lombard Street is in the city's oft-posh Marina District, but that stretch of US-101 that leads from the Golden Gate Bridge down through Van Ness Avenue includes seedy motels as well as high-end boutiques. It might have also contai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Feds Now Fight War on Medical Marijuana with Passive Aggressive Strategies

    ​Hard 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 over -- no more doors kicked in by Kevla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Congressman Pete Stark Aims to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Big Bucks

    You've got a friend in high places​As if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the Internal Revenue Service has declared that California's legal m ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    You've got a friend in high places​As if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the Internal Revenue Service has declared that California's legal m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Bay Area Pot Clubs Audited as State Goes on Fiscal 'Witch Hunt'

    Balancing the state budget with marijuana​It was big news for taxpayers and medical cannabis advocates alike when the Board of Equalization informed mega-dispensary Berkeley Patients Group that it owed some $6.4 million in back taxes. And now it appears that BPG's run-in with the taxman is not an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Marin Pot Club: Kids Welcome!

    ​Lynnette Shaw, the Fairfax pot saleswoman famed for leading a fight 10 years ago to recall Marin County's district attorney for enforcing laws relating to marijuana, is now crusading to overturn a town restriction keeping kids out of her store, the Contra Costa Times reports.Speaking before the F ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    Stop Snitching

    Medical pot activists haze the traitors who ratted out Ed Rosenthal

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Smoke and Smearers

    Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

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