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OAKLAND, Calif. (Jan. — It seemed like a typical grand opening. The president of Oaksterdam University and an Oakland City Council member helped cut a red ribbon strung across the doorway. A crowd of 100 people clapped and cheered. The city council member, Rebecca Kaplan, praised the school for helping revive the neighborhood, stimulating the [...]

Think the medical-marijuana movement in California and beyond is the vanguard of a broader effort to completely legalize the devil weed? You’re right! These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente [...]

The state lawmakers drafting a major medical-marijuana regulation bill plan to meet with representatives from the state attorney general’s office today to work on a compromise to include more law-and-order language in the bill. At the same time, medical-marijuana advocates are blasting the current version of the bill, arguing it is already [...]

Does It’s Complicated promote pot use? Is the ( very ) grown-up rom com It’s Complicated dangerous to children? The Motion Picture Association of America thinks so.  It slapped the Nancy Meyers comedy with an R-rating, meaning that, if you’re under 17 you can’t get entry unless you’re accompanied by an adult. The offending sequence [...]

These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente Boulevard south of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.  A serious vibe fills the loftlike space, where rows [...]

Marijuana’s Steady Creep Toward Legalization Nationwide. These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles.  A serious vibe fills the loftlike space, where rows of desks are arranged [...]

The State’s Wording Is Interpreted Differently by Marijuana Backers, Foes.  Lawmakers Seem Disinclined to Clarify. Prosecutors in Los Angeles insist that collectives cannot sell medical marijuana at their stores and can provide it only to members who actively cultivate it together.  Dispensary operators, on the other hand, argue that it is absurd [...]

Massachusetts — New Year’s Day marked the first anniversary of marijuana decriminalization in the Commonwealth. The statistics aren’t in yet, and when they emerge different spins will be put on the impact of the new law. However, a glance out the window assures us that the sky hasn’t fallen, despite the warnings of the 2008 [...]

You know how it would go if you were into your dealer for five grand.  Here’s what happens when your dealer is the Government of Canada: You remember Jim Meeks.  He was one of those who went out with a camera a while back, taking photos of the places where the homeless sleep. He did [...]

Illinois — Activists in Illinois have been fighting for years, even decades, to add marijuana to the arsenal of drugs available to help sick people. Considering that optimism for medical marijuana has been high every year since Richard Nixon was president, supporters need short-term memory loss just to give them the strength to continue banging [...]