| Prescription Cannabis |
| San Diego Reader - March 11th, 2009 |
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San Diego is battleground zero for this cultural war. In 1996,California at 56% vote "yes" on Prop 215 to add 11362.5 Compassionate Use Act to the Health and Safety Code, legalizing medical marijuana for seriously ill patients. Arizona passed Prop 200 by an even higher 65% majority.
67% of San Diegans support medicinal cannabis. Read More |
| S.D. Cracks Down On Medical Marijuana As Feds Loosen Up |
| Indy Bay - February 12th, 2009 |
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Don Duncan, California statewide director of the national medical-marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA), came to San Diego February 10 to tell local members that the outlook for medical marijuana is good. He pointed to a policy statement from a spokesperson for President Obama that said the federal government will stop using its ... Read More |
| Audience Packs Library For Medical Marijuana Film |
| Indy Bay - February 9th, 2009 |
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For many of the 300 people who packed the San Diego Public Library screening of "Waiting to Inhale," Jed Riffe's film on the medical marijuana issue, it's not just a movie but something they're living. The film begins with a raid on a medical marijuana growers' collective, and at least two members of the audience talked about having gone through ... Read More |
| Doctors Offer Legal Pot |
| 10 News - February 1st, 2009 |
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Proposition 215 -- the medical marijuana initiative approved by voters ten years ago, has been subverted, abused and misused say law enforcement agencies our I-Team has spoken with.
Prop. 215 is supposed to provide seriously ill people access to marijuana to help relieve their pain but a 10News investigation discovered just about anyone ... Read More |
| Fallbrook - DEA Speaks At Public Safety Meeting |
| North County Times - January 28th, 2009 |
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Sharing everything from their progress dismantling Mexican drug cartels to tips for spotting meth labs and marijuana groves, Drug Enforcement Administration officials spoke this week at a Fallbrook public safety meeting.
More than 160 people attended Tuesday's presentation, organized by the Fallbrook Citizens' Crime Prevention ... Read More |
| Authorities Smoke Out Water Bongs |
| San Diego City Beat - January 27th, 2009 |
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Have you ever looked at California’s bong law? Have you ever really looked at it?
Selling glass pipes and water bongs is perfectly legal in the state, so long as their intended use is for smoking tobacco and not pot. That difference in intent may seem like a fine line, but it can mean the difference between making a buck and being ... Read More |
| County Pot Fight Waste Of Tax Dollars |
| North County Times - January 22nd, 2009 |
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Among the list of most-wasteful government expenses at a time of fiscal crisis must be San Diego County taking its fight against the state's medical marijuana law to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Few things get us as riled as a blatant waste of taxpayer money; especially when it is used to fight the will of the people. And it seems all the ... Read More |
| County Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Erase State's Medical Marijuana Law |
| North County Times - January 16th, 2009 |
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San Diego County filed papers this week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to erase California's medical marijuana law, arguing that federal prohibitions outlawing the substance supersede California's law allowing sick people to use it.
The county is asking the nation's highest court to overturn a state appellate court's July decision ... Read More |
| County Lawyers Challenge Medical Marijuana Law |
| Sign On San Diego - January 16th, 2009 |
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San Diego County lawyers filed a 47-page petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the California law requiring counties to issue legal identification cards to medical marijuana patients.
County supervisors voted for the filing after the California Supreme Court rejected the county's long-running legal fight to avoid ... Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Law Challenged |
| Sign On San Diego - January 16th, 2009 |
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY — San Diego County lawyers filed a 47-page petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the California law requiring counties to issue legal identification cards to medical marijuana patients.
County supervisors voted for the filing after the California Supreme Court rejected the county's long-running legal fight ... Read More |
| Smoke Shops Raided In Vista, San Marcos, Escondido |
| North County Times - December 19th, 2008 |
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As part of a crackdown on so-called "head shops" and smoke shops, law enforcement officials this week served search warrants at 11 businesses in Vista, San Macros and Escondido.
They seized thousands of pipes and other smoking materials that authorities said are blatant drug paraphernalia.
Shopkeepers and owners at some of the ... Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Advocates Concerned About Obama Appointments |
| Capitol Weekly - November 20th, 2008 |
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In this year’s presidential election, medical marijuana advocates in California were pretty clear on which candidate they were rooting for. On multiple occasions, Democrat Barack Obama has pledged to end the federal raids that have bedeviled the state’s dispensaries for years under the Bush administration. Read More |
| Shopping At Weedmart |
| San Diego Reader - November 19th, 2008 |
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Colleen Daley lives on a sunburnt patch of overzoned Chula Vista real estate. She is besieged by the odiferous crosscurrents of wafting grease and the crackling bark of drive-in order speakers — her one-bedroom ranch is surrounded by fast-food joints. And that’s where she thinks her problems as a marijuana farmer started. Read More |
| County Pursues Medicinal Marijuana Case |
| Union- Tribune San Diego - October 27th, 2008 |
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Despite batting .000 against a lineup of lawyers and judges across California, San Diego County is pressing its long-shot lawsuit against state medical marijuana laws toward the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More |
| What Is San Diego Smoking |
| OC Register - October 22nd, 2008 |
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The California Supreme Court has declined to review a landmark law that requires counties to implement a medical marijuana patient identification program. Read More |
