Search results for "California"
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Economics
Plans For “Cannabis Starbucks” Come Under Fire From All Sides
June 24, 2013When former Microsoft CEO Jamen Shively, top executive of Diego Pellicer, declared last month that he planned to...
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Legal
Vermont Decriminalizes Marijuana
June 13, 2013Vermont became the latest state in the nation to decriminalize marijuana possession Thursday when Gov. Peter...
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Economics
The First National Brand of Marijuana Coming Soon from Seattle
June 1, 2013Washington state businessmen who say they’re trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received...
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Legal
Maryland Poised to Legalize Medical Marijuana
April 10, 2013Both houses of the Maryland state legislature have approved a bill to allow medical marijuana for...
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Joint Opinions
Concord, Calif. Bans Outdoor Cultivation
March 28, 2013Last night I testified against a proposed ordinance to ban all outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana...
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Legal
“Weed Country” Star Matt Shotwell Has Charges Dropped
March 26, 2013Matt Shotwell, the star of Discovery Channel’s reality show “Weed Country,” had charges -three violations of...
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Politics
Majority of Voters Want Cannabis Reform
March 1, 2013New California Poll: Majority Of Voters Want Cannabis Reform Now
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Politics
Marijuana: ‘Times Are A’Changing’
February 19, 2013Twenty years ago, few would have imagined any politician appealing to a large audience talking about...
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Dispensaries
Dispensary Bans Debated at Cal High Court
February 11, 2013On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of City of Riverside...
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Medical
Cancer and Cannabis
February 9, 2013Cannabis, which has long been shown to reduce pain and nausea in cancer patients as well...
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Medical
Medical Marijuana Provider Chris Williams Sentenced
February 4, 2013Nine medical marijuana advocates drove 3,300 miles from California to Missoula, Mont. in a green-painted “CannaBus”...
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Joint Opinions
CA NORML Conference Recap
January 28, 2013What a whirlwind weekend! The California NORML Conference commemorating 100 years of cannabis prohibition in California...
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Legal
A Loss for Legalization
January 27, 2013On Tuesday, January 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled...
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Current Events
Major Win For MMJ Parents
January 4, 2013California court holds that Prop. 215 patients aren’t “drug abusers” The California Court of Appeals has...
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Economics
Microsoft CEO Jumps On “Canabizness” Bandwagon
January 4, 2013“Yes, we are Big Marijuana,” said former Microsoft CEO Jamen Shively, 45, who announced last Thursday...
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Legal
Next Up: Oregon, Rhode Island, Maine?
December 29, 2012The Marijuana Policy Project, which funded 90% of Colo's Amendment 64, puts off Calif. to 2016
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Books
Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs by Issac Campos
August 1, 2012Everyone knows that the U.S. government’s campaign against cannabis has been racially motivated from the beginning:...
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Dispensaries
Thousands of Patients Threatened to Lose Safe Access
July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 – Oakland, California – The federal attack on safe access for medical cannabis...
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In The Magazine
The Collective Two-Step
March 1, 2012Okay so you have your medical card…No more shady back-alley transactions, no more bags of schwag...
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In The Magazine
Marijuana and the Constitution: Why Pot is Still Illegal & What to Do About it
March 1, 2012So here you are. You, along with millions of others in your home state, have passed...