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Medical marijuana advocates plan to protest against what they claim were aggressive and uncalled for raids on local cannabis delivery services at a rally planned for Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 7:30 a.m., in front of the San Luis Obispo County Courthouse.
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California: Many Marijuana Dispensaries ReopenNew York TimesBy AP Months after Los Angeles ran a majority of medical marijuana dispensaries out of town by passing strict regulations, the shops are cropping up again. …With law hazy, defiant LA pot cli…

December 24, 2010
Dear NORML Members and Supporters,
Social change doesn’t happen overnight – but it does happen. This is the message we took away from the November 2010 election, an election that will influence NORML’s work in 2011 and beyond.

California Legalization Initiative: Prop. 19
I’m sure that by now you know the news. Forty-seven percent of Californians [...]

A pleasant surprise from last month’s elections was a big “no” vote in California on a ballot measure that would have created the first jurisdiction in the world to fully legalize marijuana.
The state most identified with “recreational” d…

Videos of teen star Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) tripping on salvia may have anti-drug campaigners and moral entrepreneurs all atwitter, but the drug itself poses little short term danger, according to the first c…

Obama administration officials strongly oppose plans by the city of Oakland to license and tax industrial sized medical cannabis producers, according to a just published report on CaliforniaWatch.org, the website of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Sources at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States attorney’s office in San Francisco said that federal [...]

Country music superstar Willie Nelson was arrested Friday morning for allegedly having about 6 ounces of marijuana after his tour bus was stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, about 85 miles east of El Paso. He posted bond and was r…

The recent vote defeating California’s Proposition 19, legalizing the use of marijuana regrettably prolongs a drug policy that does not work.  Low-level users will continue to be targeted rather than the drug cartels and drug lords who run fr…

Supervisors in Los Angeles and Orange counties moved in sync Tuesday to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated territories. The bans, affecting an area with 1.5 million people in L.A. County and 120,000 in Orange County, were approved …

What a year it's been!

If you've been reading Drug War Chronicle or our Speakeasy blog, you know how encouraged we are by California's Prop 19 marijuana legalization initiative — the positive media…