Support for marijuana legalization is above 50% among Californians, and even higher among likely voters, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll released...
Oregon begins moving toward a regulated dispensary system, Massachusetts advances down the dispensary path, New Jersey’s governor signs a medical marijuana bill, and much, much more. Let’s...
A California dispensary regulation bill dies, the dark ages return to San Diego, Massachusetts towns enact moratoria, New Jersey gives a loan to a dispensary, and more....
The city council of Long Beach, California unanimously voted to draft an ordinance to regulate and allow medical marijuana dispensaries. The ordinance will be drafted by the...
California’s AB 604, a bill to tighten medical marijuana regulation in the state, was not approved by the deadline Thursday night. The bill faced serious opposition from...
Comments in the Senate Judiciary Committee provided hope that medical marijuana’s banking problems may be ending, California communities continue to tussle over the issue, and a New...
Here are just a few questions that our chapter continues to receive from patients throughout the county on a weekly basis: How many plants can I legally...
The move, which is conditionally supported by patient advocates, comes a week after DOJ issues new federal guidelines A week after the Justice Department issued a memorandum, providing...
The Marijuana Policy Project announced Monday it will support efforts to end marijuana prohibition in 10 more states by 2017. The announcement comes one day before the...
DEA seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops declined dramatically from 2011 to 2012 and are now at their lowest reported levels in nearly a decade, according to statistics released...
Over the weekend, we brought you the meta-story that a fire chief was quoted speculating that the cause of the massive Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park...
A bill that would allow some drug possession cases to be charged as misdemeanors instead of felonies passed the state Assembly Wednesday. The bill has already passed...
In a great article on Ladybud, Angela Bacca recalls the events of the recent raids in Oakland, when DEA agents moved to shut down Oaksterdam. Jose Gutierrez, a...
Federal prosecutors speak out on how the Justice Department’s new stance on legalization will affect their medical marijuana prosecutions (not much), an initiative’s language gets rejected for...
A recent story in the San Jose Mercury News really rustled my jimmies, because it was entitled “Rim Fire: Did illegal marijuana growers start the blaze?” Basically, the...
Dispensaries are on the march in various states, even as in some places, localities fight rear-guard efforts. And there’s more medical marijuana news, too. Let’s get to...
by Phillip Smith, August 28, 2103 Two Texas cops lose their jobs, a California jail guard gets busted at the playground, a Tennessee sheriff’s lieutenant cops to...
Oscar Pascual of Smell The Truth reports that in the aftermath of California counties obtaining the ability to ban dispensaries some MMJ speakeasies have taken root. “The...
As reported earlier this week on Harborside Medical’s website and reposted here on Weedist, the federal government is now going after medical marijuana in one of the...
A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage...
