| Welcome To The Capital Cannabis Guide |
| News Review Sacramento - August 26th, 2010 |
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2010 likely will go down as the year that changed cannabis in California. Proposition 19 will either pass or fail, but either way its impact will change the medicinal-marijuana landscape throughout the state. Read More |
| Opposition To Legalizing Pot In Calif. Comes From Unlikely Corners |
| Scripps News - August 26th, 2010 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Canna Care medical-marijuana dispensary has a truck driving around Sacramento with a sign telling people to vote "no" on the state ballot initiative that would legalize pot for recreational use Read More |
| Spliff Personality - Los Angeles Needs A Clear Policy For The Marijuana Growing ... |
| Daily News Los Angeles - August 25th, 2010 |
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IF there was ever an industry that cried out for more regulation, more oversight, more legitimacy, it's California's medical marijuana industry.
Yes, we're calling it an industry. While those who proffer and use medicinal pot may call themselves caregivers and patients, and they may present their dispensaries as co-ops and collectives, ... Read More |
| Appeals Court Fails To Decide On Whether Calif. Cities Can Ban Pot Stores |
| Kentucky - August 18th, 2010 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California appeals court issued a split ruling Wednesday in a closely watched medical marijuana case but failed to decide whether cities in the state can ban pot dispensaries or be forced to accept them. Read More |
| African-American Officers Endorse Prop 19, Community Is Split |
| The Sacramento Bee - August 24th, 2010 |
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The last time Neill Franklin was in Sacramento, he joined California NAACP president Alice Huffman as the civil rights group offered its controversial, attention-drawing endorsement of the November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Read More |
| Judge Orders Man To Write A Paper For Selling Quarter Pound |
| Short News - August 24th, 2010 |
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Matthew Palazzolo, who works for a Sacramento law firm and has a California medical marijuana card, was arrested in Tahoe for selling a quarter pound to an undercover. Palazzola grew the herb himself and netted $1,060 for the transaction.
The subject of the paper is to be the "nonsensical character" of the California medical marijuana ... Read More |
| Medical Marijuana Advocate Takes To Web |
| The Olympain - August 23rd, 2010 |
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Tacoma - Cat Jeter wants Tacoma city officials to know how people living and working in the city feel about medical marijuana, but her message needs more than mere words.
That’s why she created a Facebook page called “Tacoma PD leave medical marijuana dispensaries alone.” In the two weeks since she made the online page public, more ... Read More |
| Sacramento Federal Grand Jury Indicts Man Over Marijuana Growing |
| The Sacramento Bee - August 20th, 2010 |
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A federal grand jury in Sacramento has returned an indictment charging Gustavo Rivera Martinez, 20, with manufacturing more than 1,000 marijuana plants.
The one-count indictment alleges that Martinez was responsible for an illegal marijuana grow discovered earlier this month on land in Tehama County, according to a U.S. Department of ... Read More |
| Judge Orders Offender To Write Paper About Medical Marijuana |
| The Record Courier - August 19th, 2010 |
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District Judge Dave Gamble ordered a 25-year-old drug offender to write a report on what the judge called “the nonsensical character” of California's medical marijuana program. Read More |
| National Black Police Association Endorses Marijuana Legalization |
| Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - August 19th, 2010 |
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SACRAMENTO, CA -- A national organization of African American law enforcement officers has announced its endorsement of Proposition 19, California's initiative to legalize marijuana. Read More |
| Police Group Backs Marijuana Measure |
| The New York Times - August 19th, 2010 |
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A national group of African-American law enforcement officers has endorsed Proposition 19, a ballot measure that would tax and regulate marijuana in California. The National Black Police Association, which has more than two dozen chapters across the country, announced the endorsement in Sacramento, where the organization is holding a national ... Read More |
| Congress Should Consider Legalizing Marijuana |
| SDGLN - August 17th, 2010 |
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The phrase “war on drugs” was first coined in 1971 by Richard Nixon after Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act that created five categories of regulated substances. Read More |
| California Could Legalize Pot This Fall -- So Why Are Medical Marijuana ... |
| San Francisco Bay Guardian - August 17th, 2010 |
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With polls showing that California voters are probably poised to approve Proposition 19 in November and finally fully legalize marijuana, this should be a historic moment for jubilant celebration among those who have long argued for an end to the government's costly war on the state's biggest cash crop. But instead, many longtime cannabis ... Read More |
| Pot Clinics Turn To Sacramento Lobbyist To Smooth Relations With Costa Mesa ... |
| Navel Gazing - August 17th, 2010 |
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Medical marijuana clinic operators, who have not exactly received a welcome reception in Costa Mesa, have retained a Sacramento lobbyist in hopes of smoothing over their tense relationship. Read More |
| Stoner Blogs Warn Of False Promises Of Legalization, Prop 19 |
| The Sacramento Bee - August 17th, 2010 |
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It's not just those "prohibitionists" who are fighting Proposition 19, the California initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use and allow cities and counties to tax retail pot sales.
Stoner bloggers are also out to kill the measure. Read More |
