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In a highly scrutinized lawsuit involving Anaheim’s ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, a three-judge panel for California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal tossed the case back to a lesser court for further review. The ruling had been much anticipated because it was believed it could have [...]
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5. August 2010
Long Beach voters could vote in November on a ballot measure establishing a five percent tax on medical marijuana dispensaries. The City Council will hold public hearing this month to determine whether to take the proposal before [...]
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1. July 2010
In what marijuana advocates and city officials are calling a milestone moment, some 100 medical-cannabis employees in Oakland have officially unionized. The employees voted in May to join the 26,000-member-strong United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5. Union president Ron Lind hailed the move, telling The New York Times that [...]
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3. June 2010
One month after a federal court rejected a lawsuit seeking to prevent the cities of Lake Forest and Costa Mesa from banning medical-marijuana dispensaries, a group of four cannabis patients have taken their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The group claims the bans violate both their rights under the Americans with Disabilities [...]
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6. May 2010
THE STATE Cooley attacks state cannabis ballot language Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley opened another front in his long-running battle against cannabis by calling on state Attorney General Jerry Brown to reject the title and summary of a marijuana legalization initiative going before voters in November. In a written statement, Cooley claimed Brown’s office erred in titling [...]
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1. April 2010
Following months of often heated debate, the Long Beach City Council approved a medical-marijuana ordinance that requires all cannabis provided by collectives to be grown within city limits and sets buffers of up to 1,500 feet around public schools. Medical-cannabis activists immediately called
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4. March 2010
Jeff Joseph, the operator of the popular Culver City cannabis club Organica, has been charged with 24 felonies after local and federal agents raided the collective and several others as part of an ongoing crackdown on
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4. February 2010
After years of wrangling, the Los Angeles City Council passed a medical-marijuana ordinance Jan. 26 effectively outlawing hundreds of cannabis dispensaries. The new regulations, passed by a 9-3 vote, allow only the dispensaries in place before a 2007 moratorium to
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3. December 2009
The family of imprisoned cannabis advocate and grower Eddy Lepp has been hit with another major blow—lenders are foreclosing on the family’s Northern California farm. The Lepp family received notice Nov. 7 that the farm
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5. November 2009
Within hours of each other, the Obama administration issued guidelines curtailing prosecution of medical-cannabis users and dispensaries, and an L.A. Superior Court judge declared invalid L.A.’s moratorium on dispensaries
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2. September 2010
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