All posts tagged "Jerry Brown"

Politics

California Passes Cannabis Equity Law to Help Those Hurt by War on Drugs

California's Gov. Jerry Brown just signed a bill into law that will create an "equity" program...

Politics

The Tragedy of SB 829: California’s Lowest-Income Pot Patients Hit Hardest 

An effort to save California's medical cannabis compassion programs was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown over...

Legal

California’s Illicit Market Crackdown Budget Goes Up In Smoke

California's state legislature has denied Gov. Jerry Brown the $14 million he requested in budget funding...

Politics

Gov. Brown Proposes Task Force to Investigate Black Market Marijuana

California's Gov. Jerry Brown has unveiled a special investigative force to go after unregistered cannabis growers...

Politics

The 6 Best Governors for Cannabis Policy… And the 6 Worst

With cannabis still illegal on the federal level, the marijuana policy developments happening on the state...

Politics

Native Tribes Assert Sovereignty Over CA Pot Laws

Can California Native American tribes grow and sell their own marijuana? Given that Native American tribes...

Legal

Typo in California Pot Law Leads Cities To Quick Bans

A mistake in the text in California’s new medical marijuana law, the Medical Marijuana Regulation and...

Medical

California Governor Signs Law Regulating Medical Marijuana Market

California's Governor, Jerry Brown, is designating a new regulatory system intended to improve the overall quality...

Politics

California Ramps Up Fines For Illegal Marijuana Grows Damaging Ecosystems

A potentially record-breaking El Niño brews out over the Pacific, California dredges mud from dry aquifers,...

Medical

California Will Allow MMJ Patients To Receive Organ Transplants

California finally ends decades of removing people who tested positive for cannabis use from organ transplant...

Medical

California Medical Cannabis Bill Passes State Assembly Vote

The California State Assembly has passed a bill that could set the path towards regulation of...

Joint Opinions

Why California Legalization Is More Unified than It Seems

California’s movement to legalize the adult use of cannabis in 2016 is both tremendously important and...

Politics

Democratic Governors Split on Marijuana Legalization

Democratic governors across the country are stuck at a crossroads when the issue of legalizing marijuana...

Politics

Why Dianne Feinstein Opposes Marijuana Legalization

California’s senior senator Dianne Feinstein has joined Governor Jerry Brown in voicing her disapproval of marijuana...

Joint Opinions

Thank You, Governor Moonbeam

In this November 1978 photo, Jerry Brown, left, accompanied by his parents, former California Gov. Edmund...

Current Events

California Legalizes Hemp

After languishing for 14 years in legislative purgatory, including being met with multiple gubernatorial vetoes, the...