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Oakland City Council First In CA To Endorse Pot Legalization
T ?he Oakland City Council endorsed California’s marijuana legalization measure on the November ballot Tuesday, becoming the first city in the state to back it.Last year, 80 percent of Oakland voters approved becoming the first city in the United States to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, gaining 0,000 for city coffers, reports Joe Garofoli at SF [...]
Full StoryPoll: Californians Evenly Divided On Legalizing Marijuana
This one’s going down to the wire. ?California voters are evenly divided for and against legalizing marijuana, according to poll results released Wednesday. The survey shows 49 percent oppose legalization while 48 percent support it.Politics, geography and demographics seem to predict which side of the cannabis divide people are on: 56 percent of Democrats and 55 [...]
Full StoryBig Bucks Needed To Open Long Beach Pot Dispensary
?Don’t even think about opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Long Beach, California, unless you have a healthy bank account — and you’re willing to bet five figures on it, still with no guarantee of actually getting a shop.The Long Beach City Council approved fees and charges at Tuesday’s meeting that start at ,742 and [...]
Full StoryNew Zealand Man Faces Prison For Selling Gardening Equipment
?There’s still no word on when they plan to arrest the entire Earth for providing soil upon which marijuana “could be grown.” A hapless New Zealand garden store manager is facing a likely jail term for selling undercover police “equipment that could be used to cultivate cannabis.”Peter James Stewart, 50, admitted five charges of supplying [...]
Full StoryWashington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions
Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions ??Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068.Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last [...]
Full StoryHere’s What Your Grow Room Looks Like After The Cops Raid It
?Saginaw County, Michigan sheriff’s department officials claim their “destruction policy” will change after a legal medical marijuana grower released photos of his basement grow room following a police “visit.”Deputies will discontinue their policy of destroying all grow room equipment when they serve search warrants at the homes of medical marijuana patients or caretakers, Saginaw County [...]
Full StoryPrince Of Pot Extradited To U.S. For 5-Year Term
?After a years-long battle to avoid extradition, marijuana activist and entrepreneur Marc Emery of Vancouver, B.C., the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pot,” is going to the United States. It’s not a trip that Emery wanted to take.Emery, 52, was driven from a Vancouver jail to the Washington State border and was handed over to U.S. authorities, [...]
Full StoryCO: Pot Dispensaries May Sue Cities That Extend Moratoriums
?Medical marijuana is legal under the Colorado Constitution, but newly passed regulations allow cities to ban the dispensaries that sell it. Now cannabis advocates are planning lawsuits if cities choose to ban the shops, reports Mireya Garcia of KRDO.”They are missing the most important part of this — the patients,” said Michael Stetler, a dispensary [...]
Full StoryOregon Petitioners Submit Signatures For Marijuana Dispensaries
?Medical marijuana advocates on Thursday submitted 110,000 signatures, more than the amount required, for a ballot initiative allowing state-licensed cannabis dispensaries in Oregon.The proposed measure, Initiative 28, would not change the qualifying medical conditions under which medicinal marijuana may be legally used, report Stacey Barchenger and Peter Wong of the Statesman Journal.Backers of the initiative [...]
Full StoryHundreds Of ‘Pot Plants’ Seized By Texas Cops Aren’t Marijuana
?Maybe there should be an IQ test for police officers. What was first thought to be one of the largest marijuana seizures in the Corpus Christi Police Department’s history turned into an embarrassing incident for the cops, as the clueless officers spent a busy and exciting evening harvesting hundreds of harmless weeds from a city park.The [...]
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