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South Lake Tahoe — Dozens of medical marijuana advocates showed up at the South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting on Tuesday, but the council did not discuss what action to take against the city’s three medical marijuana collectives.

In a memorandum to the City Council dated July 7, city attorneys Jacqueline Mittelstadt and Patrick Enright asked for direction on how the city should proceed regarding police action against the three medical marijuana pr...

LOS ANGELES — Daniel Halbert moved here from Phoenix this year toinvest his life savings in what he hoped was a golden opportunity: themedical-marijuana business.But on Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council told him to shut downhis dispensary, part of a broad crackdown against a growing andunregulated marijuana industry.  More than 600 dispensaries have takenadvantage of a loophole in city regulations to open shop here in thepast two years.

The unchecked growth h...

CONCORD - The controversial bill to legally let those with debilitating illness use marijuana to relieve pain is one person away from getting to the desk of Gov.  John Lynch.

The bill ( HB 648 ) needs the signature of Senate President Sylvia Larsen before it goes to Lynch, according to Assistant Secretary of State Paula Penney.

O...

Marijuana Activist Starts Farewell Tour In Calgary

Calling his U.  S.  pot charges a “great injustice,” Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery says he hopes his looming prison sentence below the border will stoke up support for the cannabis movement.

Emery, who gave up a four-year extradition bat...

USA — Super-swimmer Michael Phelps returned to big-time advertising Sunday with a TV spot for Subway titled “Be Yourself.” Oh, the irony.

Surely Phelps — 14-time Olympic gold medalist and endorsement juggernaut — was being only himself, only human, when he was photographed in November hitting a bong at a party at the University of South Carolina.

That photograph, first published by the British tabloid...

Nearly 2,000 State Residents Are Authorized to Use Pot

KALAMAZOO — Steve used to take prescription painkillers such as Vicodin after he tore the tendons in his right hand about six years ago.

Now he’s using fewer pills.  Instead, he smokes marijuana to ease...

USA — of When we think of the drug war, it’s the heavy-duty narcotics like heroin and cocaine that get most the attention. And why not? That’s where the action is. It’s not marijuana that is sustaining the Taliban in Afghanistan, after all. When Crips and Bloods descend into gun battles in the streets of Los Angeles, they’re not usually fighting over pot. The junkie who breaks into your house and steals your Blu-ray player isn’t doing it so he ...

Colorado — Just as blue eyes and stubborn spirits are genetically inherited from parents, botanical genes code for flower color, seed shape, and stem size as well as the production of molecules important for fragrance, flavor, and natural chemicals.

Cannabis sativa, a plant cultivated for thousands of years, contains a genomic region responsible for the production of the psychoactive chemical, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

It is this chemical that ear...

Prescription painkillers made her retch. Muscle relaxants ravaged her liver. So Jean Marlowe put down her pills and rolled a joint.

"I tried marijuana, and in five minutes, my...

A recent article in this space was titled “The price of legalizing pot is too high.” Ignoring our past national experience with alcohol prohibition, the author opined as to how an “open market” causes greater harm.  We obviously need our government ( not the one we formed in Sacramento as an independent California Republic ) to mandate what’s good for us.

Another article offered the oft-heard sophism that pot alon...