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California — 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 to expect them to run Soviet-style collective farms and to rule out cash payments for pot. [...]

Tax Cannabis 2010 Faces Hurdles As It Prepares for Its Test on the California Ballot Next November. It’s Dec.  14 and news that the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 has qualified for the California ballot next year has just exploded in time for the evening news cycle.  I am sitting on a [...]

San Francisco — With Californians likely to vote in November on whether to legalize marijuana, some key swing voters – Democratic and independent women – are expressing a surprising reason why they would support the initiative. The suburban “soccer moms” who are likely voters have told pollsters that the measure, which would give local governments [...]

Denver now appears to have more marijuana dispensaries than liquor stores, Starbucks coffee shops or public schools, according to city and corporate records. A push by City Council members to regulate the medical marijuana industry and restrict where dispensaries can locate appears to have prompted a surge in [...]

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Among the not-so-wild forecasts inspired by end-of-decade musings is this one: Within a few years, millions of Americans may be legally smoking marijuana. That would have seemed an outlandish notion just a few years ago, but no longer.  Consider: .  Fourteen states have laws that make use of marijuana legal [...]

Michigan — It has been more than a year since Michigan voters determined that people, whose doctors conclude that marijuana would be beneficial in the treatment of some malady, can use pot medicinally without fear of arrest and prosecution. It wasn’t a close vote, either. Sixty-three percent of the electorate voted to approve Proposal 1 [...]

State legislators Sen.  Chris Romer and Rep.  Tom Massey are drafting a new medical marijuana bill to present to the Colorado General Assembly during their session beginning Jan.13. Massey said the bill will be bi-partisan with Romer introducing the proposed bill to the Senate mid-January, and Massey presenting the bill to the House mid-February, if [...]

Colorado — The debate facing Colorado legislators on medical marijuana regulation is taking shape with the release of two draft bills, one from state Sen. Chris Romer, a Denver Democrat who has taken a lead role on the issue, and the other, much tougher bill from the County Sheriffs of Colorado. Romer’s legislation would create [...]

“It’s my medicine, Doc,” said 18-year-old Jonathan, when I asked him why he was smoking marijuana every day.  Surprised that any physician would prescribe marijuana for the anxious, depressed and disorganized adolescent sitting in my psychiatric office, I asked him where he had obtained the prescription.  “A doc just like you.  [...]

For more than 70 years, now otherwise law-abiding and productive members of society have been punished and turned into criminals for possessing a plant that is as natural as the air we breathe.  With the government’s multi-billion dollar anti-pot propaganda machine, they have convinced a majority of Americans that cannabis is [...]