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Officially, the California race between Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris for Attorney General remains ‘undecided.’ But the totals from the latest vote count appear to tell a different story.

Harris holds big lead over Cooley in undecided California attorney general race
via Southern California Public Radio
Kamala Harris picked up more than 9,000 votes yesterday in the still-undecided [...]

As numerous cities get set to levy voter-approved taxes on medical marijuana retailers, some municipalities in Northern California are already moving aggressively toward creating government-sanctioned marijuana farms to help supply them.
Cities ho…

California has long been a leader of American social and cultural trends. But when it comes to further liberalizing marijuana use, the state may have sent a signal to the nation not by what it did but by what it didn’t do. On Election Day, it …

Northern California pot growers bomb a car and a bus, then take over Shasta Dam in a bid to free an imprisoned comrade. It sounds like the plot to a very cheesy Grade-B thriller, but it was actually the premise fo…

On the first episode of my cannabis news show “Weed This Week LIVE” I talked about the ups and downs of latest efforts to reform marijuana laws across the United States, was joined by Princess of Pot Jodie Emery to discuss the latest on her husband Mar…

There is still hope for California’s medical marijuana dispensaries!  As of Saturday morning, the California Secretary of State shows that SF DA Kamala Harris has pulled ahead of LA DA Steve Cooley by 14,043 votes to be the next Attorney General:
Harris:  4,083,742
Cooley:  4,069,699
As Paul Armentano explained on Monday:
The race for California Attorney General has significant [...]

When it comes to analyzing voters’ rejection last week of California’s marijuana legalization measure, the question is one of perception: Is the joint half-smoked, or is there a half remaining yet to burn?
Given this paper’s marath…

By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
 
Now that the smoke has cleared from the marijuana legalization vote in California, it’s obvious the real issue in the drug war, as in Afghanistan, is an exit strategy.
 
For the first time since the cannabis pr…

Despite last week’s defeat of Proposition 19 at the polls, new taxes on marijuana are coming to California.
As I write today in High Times online, California voters on election day by wide margins endorsed citywide medical marijuana tax ordinances in Albany, Berkeley, La Puente, Oakland, Rancho Cordova, Richmond, Sacramento, San Jose, and Stockton. You can [...]

Though the race for California’s next Attorney General still officially remains undecided, Republican candidate Steve Cooley is now leading Democrat Kamala Harris by some 26,000 votes. The Los Angeles Times reports that at least 850,000 ballots — mostly mail-in ballots that arrived in election offices on election day — still need to be counted, and [...]