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County to issue marijuana ID cards
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 8, 2009, 9:52 am |
 By Rebecca Unger Source: Hi-Desert Star
California — The application process for medical marijuana identification cards is slated to begin Aug. 14, says San Bernardino County Public Health Director Jim Lindley. The county’s Department of Public Health is the local agency administering California’s program in which eligible patients may obtain an ID card if recommended by a licensed doctor.
“We anticipate many people applying in the first few months, so on our target date of Aug. 14 we will start scheduling appointments for the applicants,” Lindley said. |
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Fontana man gets pot back after unjust bust
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 8, 2009, 9:45 am |
 By Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer Source: Daily Bulletin
California - Jason Monroe on Monday night walked out of the San Bernardino County sheriff's station in Rancho Cucamonga with seven ounces of medical marijuana secured safely in a brown evidence bag.
Monroe is the first person in San Bernardino County to get marijuana returned to him after it was confiscated by police. "Here, let it be told, in San Bernardino County, things have changed and it's legal now," said Monroe, who has been a medical marijuana recipient for the past three years. |
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L.A. Targets Cannabis Clubs
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 7, 2009, 10:52 pm |
 By Sabrina Shankman Source: Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles -- Daniel Halbert moved here from Phoenix this year to invest his life savings in what he hoped was a golden opportunity: the medical-marijuana business.
But on Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council told him to shut down his dispensary, part of a broad crackdown against a growing and unregulated marijuana industry. More than 600 dispensaries have taken advantage of a loophole in city regulations to open shop here in the past two years. |
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Our Time: Debate Over Marijuana Rages On
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 7, 2009, 1:51 pm |
 By Jane Glenn Haas, The Orange County Register Source: News & Observer
California -- Reefer Madness! Is marijuana a medical benefit or just a high time for stoners? And should California - where cannabis is legal for medical use and where dispensaries pay $100 million in taxes annually - legalize marijuana for everyone's use?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's looking for tax money under every rock and tree trunk, says "I think it's time for debate. I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues - I'm always for an open debate." |
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Corte Madera: Cannabis collective capital of Marin
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 5, 2009, 10:45 pm |
 By Jennifer Upshaw Source: Marin Independent Journal
California -- Corte Madera officials are pondering what to do, if anything, about two pot clubs that have quietly sprung up in an office complex, suddenly making the sleepy central Marin town the cannabis collective capital of Marin.
Marin Holistic Solutions, a medical-marijuana collective that opened at 200 Tamal Plaza on June 1, is owned and operated by patients who volunteer time or donate money to support the group and its out-of-county growers, said Scot Candell, a Larkspur resident and patient with rheumatoid arthritis who volunteers his time as the collective's attorney. |
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City plans crackdown on pot providers
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 5, 2009, 3:28 pm |
 By Adam Jensen Source: Tahoe Daily Tribune
California -- South Lake Tahoe city attorneys Jacqueline Mittelstadt and Patrick Enright have signaled police will begin enforcement against three medical marijuana providers who have opened in South Lake Tahoe over the past year.
“Possession of amounts of marijuana in excess of the allowable state law amounts is a violation of both state and federal law,” the attorneys wrote in a memorandum to the City Council dated July 7. “(South Lake Tahoe police) will soon commence pursuit of such illegal conduct.” |
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Medical Marijuana Should Be Made Legal
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 5, 2009, 11:35 am |
 [b]Editorial/b] Source: Portsmouth Herald
New Hampshire -- Governor Lynch should sign the legislation allowing the use of small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes. It's the humane thing to do.
As he weighs the arguments for and against the bill, people are suffering, are in pain because the use and possession of any amount of marijuana in New Hampshire is against the law. |
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S.C.'s Tight Medical Pot Rules Protect Users
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 4, 2009, 8:00 am |
 By Genevieve Bookwalter, Sentinel Staff Writer Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz, CA -- A state appeals court in Sacramento this week ruled that medical marijuana patients can sue over raids by local law enforcement, but county authorities aren't too worried as local rules spell out when and where such raids are allowed.
"It's the sheriff's department's policy to protect medical marijuana patients," said Sgt. Mark Yanez with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. However, he said, when patients break rules or use their medical cards to cover up illegal drug sales, his department still cracks down. |
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Twitter High: California Group Sells Medical Marijuana Online
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 3, 2009, 9:40 am |
 By Dean Praetorius Source: ABC News
California -- Most people have a routine when they turn on their computers, whether it's checking their e-mail, reading the news or…ordering pot?
Artists Collective, a non-profit California medical marijuana delivery service, is now Twittering out its goods, and all it takes to get high is a doctor's note. They've got everything from brownies to blunts and the delivery is free. Rather than whispering "weed" to passersby, the solicitation is like this: |
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Medical marijuana milestone: Zip ties sold
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 2, 2009, 10:43 am |
 By Zack Cinek Source: The Daily Journal
California -- Zip-ties to identify medical marijuana plants grown in Mendocino County went on sale for the first time at noon Wednesday. About 1 p.m., a man arrived at the sheriff's headquarters and paid $150 to buy the first six zip-ties sold by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
The voluntary zip-tie program for medical marijuana has been in the works since 2007, when the Sheriff's Office provided free identification ties. "If law enforcement shows up and these are attached and everything else is in compliance," Sheriff Tom Allman said, "the plants will not be eradicated." |
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Lynch At Center of Medical Marijuana Fight
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on July 1, 2009, 10:09 am |
 By Tim Fahey, State House Bureau Chief Source: Union Leader
Concord, N.H. -- With the battle over a state budget now over, activists are fighting over whether Gov. John Lynch should sign a medical marijuana bill into law. Conservatives are urging Lynch to veto HB 648, while those who favor more liberal marijuana policies are urging him to pass it.
The bill calls for three-nonprofit "compassion centers" that would be licensed to grow and distribute marijuana to critically and terminally ill patients, who must be certified by the state and their own doctor. |
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Group Wants Lynch To Veto Medical Pot Bill
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 30, 2009, 3:47 pm |
 By Kevin Landrigan, Staff Writer Source: Nashua Telegraph
Concord, NH -- A conservative watchdog group called upon Gov. John Lynch on Monday to veto a bill legalizing medical use of marijuana on financial grounds. Cornerstone Policy Research said a 20-page compromise (HB 648) approved by lawmakers would require an "overly cumbersome and expensive bureaucratic response.''
The bill calls for an estimated $250,000 for the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee the dispensing of the drug exclusively to patients who have a debilitating illness. |
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House Subcommittee OKs Pot on D.C. Ballot
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 29, 2009, 6:10 pm |
 By Michael Neibauer, Examiner Staff Writer Source: Washington Examiner
Washington, D.C. -- House appropriations subcommittee has lifted a long-standing budget rider banning the District government from spending any money to decriminalize marijuana.
The Financial Services panel, which has oversight of D.C., has removed from the 2010 budget 11-year-old language outlawing the District’s use of federal or local funds to legalize marijuana or reduce penalties for its possession or distribution. |
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Medicinal marijuana dispensaries opening up
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 29, 2009, 6:00 pm |
 By John Stucke Source: Spokesman-Review
Washington -- Now that marijuana can be legally used to ease patients' pain, dispensaries are opening in Spokane to provide it.
And regardless of whether such stores are what Washington voters and legislators envisioned when they allowed medical marijuana, it may only be a matter of time before the businesses are commonplace: Medical marijuana has been approved in more than a dozen states. |
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Doctor not accompanied by cloud of smoke
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 29, 2009, 5:56 pm |
 By Logan Jenkins Source: Sign on San Diego
California -- Close your eyes. Now imagine a garden-variety marijuana doc. You projected someone goofy, right? Dr. Feel-Good?
Or venal? Dr. Slime-Ball? Anecdotal evidence abounds that unscrupulous marijuana doctors will recommend weed for anyone who claims a malady, genuine or not. |
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L.A. is Trying To Weed Out Pot Sellers
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 28, 2009, 9:52 am |
 By John Hoeffel Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA -- A city inspector dropped by the Bulldog Cafe Collective on Melrose Avenue last week to see if it was still in business. It was. Inside the spare, modern interior, dusky green marijuana buds were still displayed in plastic jars. An owner who is often at the store tweezed whimsically named strains into small vials for customers.
The store near Hancock Park is among the first 14 medical marijuana dispensaries targeted for extinction by a City Council chagrined that it allowed hundreds to open in Los Angeles despite a 21-month-old moratorium. |
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Cops return stolen marijuana
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 26, 2009, 12:57 am |
By Charlie Brennan Source: KDVR
BOULDER, Colo. - Several cartons and dozens of mason jars filled with high-grade marijuana were turned over by Boulder Police on Thursday to owners of a medical marijuana dispensary, returned to those who lost it in a brazen theft just one week ago.
The marijuana, more than 28 different strains of weed, were recovered by police from a quartet of men who allegedly stole it in a mid-afternoon heist -- along with surveillance equipment owned by the New Options Wellness Clinic -- and were then tracked down and arrested as they tried to flee on U.S. 36. |
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Marijuana Bill Sent To Lynch
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 25, 2009, 3:47 pm |
 By Karen Langley, Monitor Staff Source: Concord Monitor
New Hampshire -- Legislators voted yesterday to legalize marijuana for some seriously ill patients, sending Gov. John Lynch a bill he said he has yet to study.
If passed into law, New Hampshire would become the 14th state to allow medicinal marijuana use for severely sick patients. In a move geared to winning the governor's approval, senators and representatives passed a bill that - unlike versions passed in March and April - would not allow patients to grow marijuana at home. |
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Marijuana Backers Out in Force At Statehouse
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 25, 2009, 3:44 pm |
 By Dana Smith, Staff Writer Source: Nashua Telegraph
Concord, NH -- For the last five years, Matt Simon has held rallies, tried to inform people about the medicinal uses of marijuana, and argued with lawmakers over one goal – making marijuana legal for patients with debilitating medical diseases.
On Wednesday morning, long before the outcome of the medical marijuana bill was known, he was back in front of the Statehouse with some 50 medical marijuana supporters with "Patients, not Criminals," signs and stickers. |
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Pot dispensary moratorium approved in Santa Cruz
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 24, 2009, 10:41 am |
 By Genevieve Bookwalter Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
California -- City leaders approved a 45-day moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries on Tuesday, giving city staff time to deal with an influx of inquiries from entrepreneurs.
"Apparently people all over the West Coast think Santa Cruz would be the perfect place to open this business," said Councilman Mike Rotkin, commenting on the surge in inquiries to the city planning department since President Barack Obama's administration said earlier this year that raids on medical marijuana dispensaries would cease. |
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County to draft medical marijuana dispensary ordinance
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 24, 2009, 2:50 am |
 By Edward Sifuentes Source: North County Times
California -- After approving a medical marijuana ID program for the county, the Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that they will tackle an even thornier issue: deciding under what circumstances it is legal to sell pot for medicinal purposes.
At their meeting, supervisors Dianne Jacob and Bill Horn proposed asking the county's attorney, John Sansone, to draft an ordinance making for-profit, medical marijuana dispensaries illegal in the unincorporated areas of the county. |
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San Bernardino County supervisors OK medical marijuana plan
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 24, 2009, 1:58 am |
 Joe Nelson, Staff Writer Source: Daily Bulletin
Final score: Medical marijuana 5, San Bernardino County supervisors 0.
But despite their victory Tuesday, the medical marijuana proponents are still angry because it will be almost two months or perhaps longer before the county begins issuing identification cards to people with doctors' prescriptions. "Our concern is seeing that the medicine gets out to our patients," said Ron Downey, a proponent who spoke at Tuesday's board meeting. A half-dozen others also spoke. |
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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 23, 2009, 9:08 am |
 By Chris Weigant Source: Huffington Post
Washington, D.C. -- Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts has introduced two pieces of legislation on marijuana -- one medical, and one recreational -- that deserve a lot more attention (and support by fellow House members) than they have been getting. The first would change federal law to allow states to experiment with medical marijuana without interference from Washington. And the second would drastically reduce federal penalties for "personal possession" of marijuana. |
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Michigan's Vague Marijuana Law Creates Confusion
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 22, 2009, 3:44 pm |
 By Laura Berman Source: Detroit News
Michigan -- The way some describe it, state's medical marijuana law -- passed by voter referendum last fall -- might as well have been written by Harold & Kumar at a hookah bar.
Ostensibly written to enable people suffering from serious medical conditions to gain relief by using marijuana, the law was also enthusiastically supported by the kind of voters who might envy Michael Phelps' designer bong. |
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Rhode Island Will License Medical Marijuana Shops
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 22, 2009, 3:41 pm |
 By Ryan Grim, Huffington Post Source: AlterNet
USA -- The Rhode Island legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto of a medical marijuana law Tuesday afternoon by an overwhelming margin, paving the way for state-licensed medical marijuana shops to begin operating. The House voted 68-0 for the pot measure and the senate moved it minutes later by a 35-3 count.
Once the law takes effect, the state will be the first in the nation to have one officially licensed nonprofit center selling marijuana. Over time, the state will license further nonprofit dispensaries. |
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Medical Pot Bill is a Sign of Times
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 22, 2009, 3:38 pm |
 By James Merriweather, The News Journal Source: Delaware Online
Delaware -- In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush claimed 59 percent of the vote in beating John Kerry in Montana -- no surprise in one of the most conservative states in the nation.
During the same election, 62 percent of Montana voters gave thumbs up to a proposal that would legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The lesson? Delaware legislators don't necessarily have to stick out their necks politically to legalize medical marijuana use here. |
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How to open a pot club on the Peninsula
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 20, 2009, 12:02 am |
 By Shaun Bishop Source: Daily News Staff Writer
Want to open your own medical marijuana collective in unincorporated San Mateo County?
In a few weeks, you'll have to fill out an application, pay a $100 fee and submit to inspections to make sure your club is in line with all the terms of the county's new ordinance governing the collectives. |
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A Law Everyone in The State Can Feel Good About
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 19, 2009, 1:40 am |
 By Bob Kerr Source: Providence Journal
Providence, R.I. -- Now that it has overcome Governor Carcieri’s ongoing attempt to impose a statewide ban on compassion, the Rhode Island General Assembly has some questions to answer about these pot shops.
Will they be mom-and-pop operations, where a customer can carry a half-gallon of milk and a bag of chips to the counter, then order an ounce of primo weed along with scratch tickets? |
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Medical Community Split on Marijuana Bill
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 17, 2009, 1:20 pm |
 By Heather Clark, GateHouse News Service Source: Sussex Countian
Delaware -- If a bill before the state Senate is passed, Delaware soon could join 13 other states that have legalized the possession of marijuana for medical use, but while there appears to be significant popular support for the measure, some legislators and physicians aren’t quite ready to jump on the bandwagon.
When Senate Bill 94, sponsored by Sen. Margaret Rose Henry, D-Wilmington, was heard in the Senate Health and Social Services Committee earlier this month, not one person testified in opposition to the legislation. |
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Doctor's Note Enough To Grow Pot, Judge Rules
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| Posted by DrReefer.com on June 17, 2009, 1:16 pm |
 By Megha Satyanarayana, Free Press Staff Writer Source: Detroit Free Press
Michigan -- After testimony from a Southfield clinic doctor who recommends medical marijuana, a judge in the 43rd District Court in Madison Heights has dismissed felony manufacturing charges against a Madison Heights couple, who were growing plants they thought were legal under the state’s medical marijuana law.
At issue was whether Robert Redden, 59, and Torey Clark, 47, could use a letter from their doctor as authorization to grow a legal number of plants in the absence of the state-sponsored ID program. |
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