US CA: Nightmare In The Hills
09/02/2010 12:00 AM

The Chico News & Review, 02 Sep 2010 – Sprawling Commercial Marijuana Production Is Destroying Peaceful Foothills Life and the Environment Deer Peak Lake Estates. The name of this development in Yankee Hill conjures images of oak- and pine-studded rolling hills, wildlife and, of course, a body of water.

US CA: Column: Overhead Projector
09/02/2010 12:00 AM

The Chico News & Review, 02 Sep 2010 – DA Ramsey Trots Out Some Bizarre Logic to Justify the Dispensary Raids We’ve got a couple of strong stories about medical marijuana in this issue. Both show how difficult it has become for local law enforcement to stop the spread of cannabis cultivation and dispensaries.

US CA: Herger Takes Part In Marijuana Raid
09/02/2010 12:00 AM

Red Bluff Daily News, 02 Sep 2010 – Rep. Wally Herger participated in a marijuana eradication effort Monday, led by Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko in coordination with state and federal agencies. Herger wanted an up close and personal assessment of the enormous challenges facing local law enforcement as they deal with the explosion of illegal marijuana gardens planted by Mexican drug cartels, according to a press release issued Tuesday.

US CA: The Cannabis Conundrum
09/02/2010 12:00 AM

The Chico News & Review, 02 Sep 2010 – 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.

Web: Letter Of The Week – End Prohibition, California
09/03/2010 12:00 AM

DrugSense Blog, 03 Sep 2010 – END PROHIBITION, CALIFORNIA Re “Legalizing is a dangerous choice” (Insight, Aug. 22): San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer claims that after marijuana is legalized, drug cartels will continue to profit from selling it. That’s ridiculous.

US CA: Editorial: Pot Warehouse A Blurry Idea
09/01/2010 12:00 AM

Chico Enterprise-Record, 01 Sep 2010 – Our view: An empty warehouse filled with marijuana? Sounds like a nightmare Chico shouldn’t encourage. At first it sounded like a joke. Somebody wants to take a huge vacant building near the Chico Municipal Airport and fill it with 600,000 square-feet of marijuana plants, an indoor grow the size of five Chico Wal-Marts.

US CA: Column: Pot Busts — Reading Between The Lines
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

The Union, 31 Aug 2010 – 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 decided the best way to get people to sober up was to pass an 18th Amendment banning the sale, transportation and manufacturing of alcohol in America.

US CA: Tehama Extends Dispensary Ban
09/01/2010 12:00 AM

Record Searchlight, 01 Sep 2010 – RED BLUFF – Tehama County’s controversial ban on medical marijuana dispensaries will continue another year, after county supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-1 for an extension. “I think this stands in the door of patients getting their rights,” said Supervisor Charlie Willard in his dissent. He noted it had been nearly a year since the moratorium – which he opposed – was first passed and questioned whether another 12 months would yield a viable replacement.

US CA: Column: We’re Part Of Mexico’s Drug War
09/01/2010 12:00 AM

Sacramento Bee, 01 Sep 2010 – It sometimes seems that California is sharing a border with Iraq or Afghanistan instead of Mexico. A war is in our midst, though the carnage and militarization in Mexico and our connection to it is often background noise.

From MAP – Cannabis – California