Marijuana California

Carly Schwartz

Medical Marijuana Loses Its Day In Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.05.2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- Medical marijuana advocates faced another setback Tuesday, when a federal judge in Sacramento dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the O...

San Francisco Lawmaker Fights To Save The Medical Marijuana Industry

| Posted 04.29.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Chris Roberts Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. ...

Pot Headed To California High Court

AP | By PAUL ELIAS | Posted 03.21.2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- The state's high court will attempt to clarify marijuana's hazy legal status in California. The California Supreme Court on Wednesda...

Another One Bites The Dust

Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.14.2012

The closing of Market Street Cooperative, one of San Francisco's oldest medical marijuana dispensaries, marks the latest casualty in the federal gover...

CODE GREEN: Is Marijuana At Risk In Mendocino?

| Posted 03.09.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Chris Roberts The one-of-a-kind cooperation between medical marijuana growers an...

Feds Target Newspapers And Radio For Marijuana Ads

| Michael Montgomery | Posted 12.12.2011

Michael Montgomery, California Watch Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise ...

Carly Schwartz

Obama's War On Weed: White House Cracks Down On Medical Marijuana

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 12.11.2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three years on, not a single Wall Street banker has been prosecuted after a financial crisis rooted in rampant fraud brought the glob...

Do You Use Marijuana?

Posted 11.14.2011

On Tuesday night's show, Jimmy Kimmel sent a camera crew out to the streets of LA to ask an important question, "Do you use marijuana?" He then played...

PHOTOS: America's First Marijuana Street Fair Lights Up Oakland

Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.05.2011

Marijuana aficionados from across the country descended upon five blocks of downtown Oakland Labor Day weekend to celebrate America's first cannabis-t...

Ballot Measure Would Tax Pot Like Wine

| Posted 10.05.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Joshua Emerson Smith Supporters are gathering signatures for an initiative that would ...

STUDY: Who's Really Smoking Medical Marijuana?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 09.21.2011

A recent study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs by a group of U.C. Santa Cruz sociologists found the average California medical marijuan...

Why Northern California's Pot Growers Said No to Prop 19

Steve Bloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Steve Bloom

When it came time to consider a law that would tax and regulate their skunk-scented crops, the marijuana growers of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties decided it just wasn't right for them.

Lucia Graves

Prop. 19: Former Police Chief Strikes Back At U.S. Attorney General

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Former San Jose Chief of Police Joseph McNamara said Friday that "Californians are not going to let politicians in Washington, DC tell them how to vot...

Will California Lead to a Rocky Mountain High?

Barry Bortnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Barry Bortnick

With California ready to vote on legalizing marijuana this November, pot lobbyists in Washington, D.C. say Colorado will be a legal weed battleground come 2012.

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AP | Lisa Leff, Associated Press Writer | Posted 11.17.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The first U.S. clinical trials in more than two decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in re...