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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5589</guid> <description><![CDATA[San Jose&#8217;s new ordinance to regulate medical marijuana clubs has run into a buzz saw of challenges, not the least of which is a referendum qualified for the June ballot to repeal the regulations. Rather than take on that fight, the City Council should suspend the ordinance, as Mayor Chuck Reed has proposed, and hope <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5499</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Jan. 18, the Supreme Court of California issued an order granting review of the now infamous line of medical marijuana cases of Pack v. City of Long Beach, City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patient&#8217;s Health and Wellness Ctr., Inc., Traudt v. City of Dana Point, and People v. G3 Holistic. Unless the Supreme <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5470</guid> <description><![CDATA[When California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, their intent was to provide compassionate care to patients by legalizing the use of marijuana to ease pain from illnesses such as cancer. Prop. 215 was never meant to give the green light to the hundreds of profit-making dispensaries that have cropped up in the years since <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5403</guid> <description><![CDATA[City Councilman Jose Huizar is asking his colleagues to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. It&#8217;s a great idea. Or rather, it would have been a great idea three or four years ago — before the city purported to regulate the storefront cannabis-selling shops. The idea would not be to ban dispensaries forever but <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5341</guid> <description><![CDATA[Proposition 215, passed by voters in 1996, leaves too many things open to interpretation and needs to be clarified by the Legislature. As the California Legislature gets back to work next week, there&#8217;s no more important duty than addressing the state&#8217;s budget crisis. A close second in terms of priorities should be medical marijuana, the <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5073</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even if the city of Redding orders its many medical-marijuana &#8220;co-ops&#8221; to close their doors by the end of the month, and they comply, does anyone think fewer users will be buying marijuana under the protections of Proposition 215? That&#8217;s the question asked in this insightful Redding Record Searchlight editorial. Whether you sympathize with patients <a
href='http://calpotnews.com/record-searchlight-dont-shut-down-redding-dispensaries/'>[...]</a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calpotnews.com/record-searchlight-dont-shut-down-redding-dispensaries/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Walters: Legislature ducking medical marijuana mess</title><link>http://calpotnews.com/walters-legislature-ducking-medical-marijuana-mess/</link> <comments>http://calpotnews.com/walters-legislature-ducking-medical-marijuana-mess/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:37:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bud</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dispensaries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prop. 215]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=4964</guid> <description><![CDATA[Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That ancient philosophical – or would it be biological? – question has a political counterpart in California, Dan Walters observes in his McClatchy Newspapers column. To wit: Did California&#8217;s Legislature become dysfunctional because voters adopted too many contradictory ballot measures, or were those ballot measures merely responding <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=4904</guid> <description><![CDATA[The federal government’s recent attacks on medical cannabis providers are a disgraceful waste of precious resources, writes Oakland cannabis attorney Robert Raich. Barack Obama himself said as a presidential candidate that “I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws on this issue.” His Administration, however, has repeatedly targeted <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=4892</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing that some legislators are willing to take on California&#8217;s medical marijuana morass. Attorney General Kamala Harris just tossed it in their laps. It&#8217;s perhaps a safer course to stay out of the fray and issue a carefully crafted, completely inoffensive statement, as she did Thursday, that supports the &#8220;compassionate use&#8221; of <a
href='http://calpotnews.com/sacbee-attorney-general-harris-should-offer-prop-215-guidance/'>[...]</a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calpotnews.com/sacbee-attorney-general-harris-should-offer-prop-215-guidance/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>S.F. Chronicle: Where is Harris on medical marijuana?</title><link>http://calpotnews.com/s-f-chronicle-where-is-harris-on-medical-marijuana/</link> <comments>http://calpotnews.com/s-f-chronicle-where-is-harris-on-medical-marijuana/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:41:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bud</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=4888</guid> <description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration escalates its threats to crack down on California&#8217;s medical marijuana dispensaries, two voices have been conspicuously silent: state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Gov. Jerry Brown, her predecessor. Is she going to vigorously defend the dispensaries if the feds attempt to shut them down?, this San Francisco Chronicle editorial asks. Does <a
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