The Cannabis Conundrum
09/03/2010 08:59 PM

Butte County Stalls in the March Toward Regulation, Choosing Prohibition Instead
The day started off like any other.  Rick Tognoli was tending to his indoor garden.  Robert Galia was at home with his fiancee.  And Hilary Tellesen was doing laundry.  Then unexpected visits turned their lives upside down.
Tognoli saw the Butte County Sheriff’s Office vehicle heading [...]

LA Sheriff Says Almost All Pot Clinics Criminal
09/03/2010 06:59 PM

California — The Los Angeles County sheriff has escalated his war of words against California medical marijuana dispensaries, saying as many as 97 percent operate as criminal enterprises.
Some of the pot shops get marijuana from Mexican drug cartels, and most dole out pot to people with no medical need for [...]

Pot Smokers Differ On Prop 19 Merits
09/03/2010 03:51 PM

There is something very weird about asking directions to the marijuana expo at the Anaheim Convention Center.
You feel like a young rebel.  You wonder if the security guards think you’re high.  And you fear someone’s going to get busted.
Paranoid? Hardly.  Marijuana’s illegal and the smell of pot is in the air.  I’m [...]

Marijuana May Not Be The Gateway Drug Some Think
09/03/2010 01:47 PM

Marijuana is thought by some to be a gateway drug among young people who eventually go on to try stronger substances. But that may be the exception rather than the rule, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at data from a random group of 1,286 children, [...]

Cannabis Catch-22
09/02/2010 02:16 PM

Colorado — New legislation regulating Colorado’s budding medical marijuana industry is leaving local dispensary owners and county officials in a grey area, as dispensaries try to meet a new requirement that they cultivate at least 70 percent of their cannabis on site or at an optional premises cultivation operation.
A number [...]

Follow The Doctor?s Orders
09/02/2010 01:12 PM

With the passing of Initiative 59 this spring, medical marijuana became legal in the District. Finally, the D.C. Council realized the lunacy of keeping the substance illegal for medical purposes. But GW administrators clearly still fear the reefer, because they have banned the use or possession of medical marijuana on campus.
While [...]

Pot Busts ? Reading Between The Lines
09/01/2010 04:28 PM

I’ll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today.
Guys like Al Capone would see to that.  Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, during a period when our government brain trust [...]

Colo. Pot Sellers Face New Growing Requirement
09/01/2010 01:14 PM

Central City, Colo. — Don Boring owns a grocery store, a liquor store and now, a medical marijuana dispensary. The main difference among them is that he has to produce his own pot inventory.
Colorado set a Sept. 1 deadline for dispensaries to show they grow at least 70 percent [...]

Proposed Pot Farm Angers Colo. Residents
08/31/2010 06:25 PM

The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry.
But Scott Mullner, a city councilman from Laramie, Wyo., infuriated his Colorado neighbors with his plan to place [...]

New Mexico Proposes Fees To Fund Cannabis Program
08/31/2010 01:32 PM

Albuquerque, N.M. — New Mexico is proposing an increase in fees on medical marijuana producers to help fund administration of the state’s program. The New Mexico Department of Health, which operates the program, wants to increase the application fee on would-be producers from the current $100 to $1,000 [...]

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