Category Archives: BLOG
SAC County SAYS NO to Dispensaries Reports Shaw at Sac Biz Journal
Sacramento County will abandon efforts to adopt an ordinance to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, the county said Thursday.
The county also reported that of a total of 99 dispensaries that had opened, 63 have closed due to the county’s enforcement actions, while 36 remain open. Continue reading
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KPBS Reports: FEDs Crack-Down on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries | Copy of Duffy’s Letter
Download PDF of Duffy Letter HERE | U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in San Diego has sent a letter to a dozen local pot dispensaries ordering them to shut down. Meanwhile, San Diego's city attorney has ordered nine of those medical-pot shops to close their doors because they're within 600 feet of schools, a violation of California guidelines. Continue reading
Posted in BLOG, CA Legislation, Collectives, Community Submitted News, Federal Crackdown, Medical Marijuana Program, RMLW-2012, San Diego, Support
Tagged Blog, Cannabis, Collective, DOJ, KPBS Radio, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, News Updates, Peggy Pico, Post, radio, Unlawful Activities
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Harm Reduction Journal | No Harm From Marijuana Use | Not a Gateway Drug | Positive Effects/Affects for For Users!
Harm Reduction Journal Reports | [This] data suggest that rather than acting as a gateway to other drugs, (which many had also tried), cannabis has been exerting a beneficial influence on most. Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Blog, Cannabis, Gateway Drug, GOP, Harm Reduction Journal, Health, interview, Law Enforcement Supporters, Post, Study, Use, Uses
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US Attorney Duffy Says Marijuana Ads Illegal – Not Intent of Prop215
“The good intentions behind that law,” she said, “have almost completely been taken over by people who are trying to use that permission law to get rich, to distribute marijuana and traffic drugs to people who aren’t sick, to our youth and to people who are using drugs on a recreational basis.” US Attorney Laura E Duffy. Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative News, Bakersfield, Duffy, Jeff vonKaenel, Lauren Horwood, Magazines, Ngaio Bealum, Online Media, Regulate Marijuana, West Coast Cannabis, William G Panzer
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US Prosecutors CRACKDOWN on Drug Dealers Posing as Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
The crackdown also involves new indictments and arrests of marijuana growers throughout the state over the past two weeks, said U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wager.
Not all of the thousands of storefront marijuana dispensaries thought to be operating in the state are being targeted. Instead, officials are initially going after shops located close to schools, parks and other places where there are a lot of children, as well as what Wagner called “significant commercial operations.” Continue reading
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FEDS Focus on Unlawful Manufacturing and Distribution of Pot
While the (Justice) Department does not focus its limited resources on seriously ill individuals who use marijuana as part of a medically recommended treatment regimen in compliance with state law as stated in the October 2009 Ogden Memorandum, we will enforce the CSA (Controlled Substances Act) vigorously against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law. Continue reading
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OCT 2011 | DOJ Marijuana Enforcement Actions In The Eastern District Of California
In recent months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, together with its federal, state and local law enforcement partners, has taken a wide range of actions to enforce federal law prohibiting the cultivation and distribution of marijuana. These actions, many of which are detailed here, include bringing criminal charges against those responsible for growing marijuana and distributing in our district, searching grow and distribution locations, bringing forfeiture complaints against the properties involved, seizing proceeds of marijuana businesses, and sending notice letters to owners of properties where marijuana is being grown or sold.
As to each of the cases described in the publicly posted release, the charges brought are only allegations, and the individuals involved are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Continue reading
SCALIA: Federal Drugs Law a MISTAKE
“It was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
This isn’t a new problem. Chief Justice William Rehnquist complained as far back as 1989 that the war on drugs was overwhelming the federal judiciary. In 1995, Kathleen F. Brickley, an academic, found that “the Federal system is strained to capacity due, in large part, to the government’s war on drugs.” Continue reading
GOP Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson BLASTS Feds on ASSAULT on Pot
Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson issued the following statement: “DOJ and the Administration have better things to do than mount an assault on medical marijuana dispensaries in California that are legal under state law. ” It’s time for the Feds to just admit that their law is just wrong, and let the states decide for themselves how they want to handle the issue of medical marijuana.” Continue reading
Regulate Marijuana And Hassles Disappear Says Tommy Chong
We’re getting closer and closer each election cycle, and if we don’t make it this time we will try and try again until we succeed. We have the time and the talent to make it happen now, but we need every pot-loving person on this planet to pitch in and help. Vote like you’ve never voted before. Continue reading
Kenny Loggins | Endorses Regulate Marijuana Like Wine
Pop singer Kenny Loggins calls marijuana prohibition an “absurd law” and says, “The repression of marijuana is taking a long time to be overthrown.” That’s why he’s backing California’s Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative that hopes to be on the ballot in 2012. Continue reading
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