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Alice Huffman’s explanation of the California NAACP’s endorsement of Proposition 19, the state initiative calling for the regulated legalization and taxation of marijuana, was well reasoned and smartly put.  But she was promptly pounced upon, smeared by a collection of out-of-touch, fear-mongering detractors, including “more than 20 African American religious and community leaders” headed [...]

Los Angeles — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior U.S. senator, has lent her support to the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure on the state’s November ballot. The prominent Democrat, first elected to the Senate in 1992, signed the ballot argument against the initiative. On Monday, she issued [...]

California — High-powered marijuana that now costs $300 an ounce could drop in price by as much as 80 percent if Californians legalize recreational use by passing Prop. 19 in November, meaning Golden Staters could purchase the recreational drug for as little as $1.50 per joint. That finding by the RAND [...]

The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. A full policy reorientation is needed.   In response to the health and social harms of illegal drugs, a large international drug prohibition regime has been developed under the umbrella of the United Nations.1 [...]

In Contrast to Earlier Results, Survey Finds That 48% of Likely Voters Are Against Prop.  19 Californians who intend to vote in November narrowly oppose Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize marijuana possession and sales, according to a recent survey. The Field Poll found that 48% of likely voters [...]

Medical marijuana experts from around the United States and the local vicinity will be in Kalamazoo this weekend to discuss a wide variety of topics related to what organizers call “Cannabusiness.” The two-day “Science and Compassionate Care Seminar,” put on at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo by 420 University, will feature [...]

The pot is growing, not burning, but still the odor from a medical marijuana business on Montana Avenue is bothering the neighboring business owners. Mike and Alexandra Gregory, who own Oxford Antiques at 2411 Montana Ave., started complaining in late May that a medical marijuana operation on the ground floor of neighboring The Yellowstone Hotel [...]

Legalizing pot may drop the price of a marijuana cigarette to as little as $1.50 in California, but taxing weed may create a whole new black market, according to a new RAND Corp.  study. The six-month study, released Wednesday by the renowned Santa Monica-based think tank, provides fuel for both sides of the debate over [...]

The City of Pitt Meadows is making sure people who grow medical marijuana for others can’t set up within its borders. Council gave two readings to an amendment to its land use bylaw Tuesday.  The change prohibits growing the plant for medicinal use in residential and agricultural zones. The city is one of the first [...]

Prairie Plant Systems Sees Opportunities Beyond Medical Cannabis Contract A reputation of any kind, even for a business, is hard to shake. And when your company is the only federally licensed medical marijuana producer in Canada, says Brent Zettl, president and CEO of Prairie Plant Systems Inc.  ( PPS ), that’s the first thing people [...]