By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Published: November 4, 2009
AFTER Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in March that he would end the Bush administration practice of frequently raiding medical marijuana dispensaries, the dispensaries have been growing, appropriately enough, like weeds.
Among the 14 states with medical marijuana laws, Colorado has experienced particularly brisk growth in the stores. [...]
Tim King Salem-News.com
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Studies indicate that 8 million American women smoked marijuana in the last year.
(LOS ANGELES) – It was interesting to watch Matt Lauer have to be “cool” about marijuana in this week’s NBC Today Show segment titled “Stiletto Stoners”, which related a story of growing numbers of women who prefer pot as a wind [...]
San Diego Government – City of San Diego
BY Landon Bright  Â
Monday, 02 November 2009 18:17
Last Friday, the city of San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force held its second-to-last meeting for the calendar year. The meeting focused on what the permitting process should be for dispensaries and how far collectives and cooperatives should be kept [...]
By Alana Semuels
They flock to Hayfork to bask in the sunny, cool climate and the permissive rules on medical pot farming and possession.
Reporting from Hayfork, Calif. — Education has long been preached as a way to keep kids away from drugs. It’s the walk to school that has Supt. Tom Barnett worried.
This hardscrabble Northern California [...]
By R. Scott Moxley in Breaking News, Moxley, Yo Smoka Smoka
In a remarkable opinion issued today with potential Orange County implications, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blasted the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for committing “highly objectionable,” “tainted,” “reckless,” “misleading” and “illegal” conduct in a 2005 attempt to seize more [...]