http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/ Dispatches from the California Marijuana Front en Copyright 2013 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:38:45 -0700 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification As the city council in California's largest city seeks to shutter scores of medical marijuana dispensaries, Los Angeles voters just issued a resounding declaration: If you can't close 'em, tax http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/03/as-la-looks-to-shutter-dispensaries-voters-choose-to-cash-in.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/03/as-la-looks-to-shutter-dispensaries-voters-choose-to-cash-in.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:38:45 -0700 In Sacramento, the first national franchise for weGrow, a cavernous hydroponics store marketing itself as a retail outlet for people growing marijuana for personal medicinal use, opened to fragrant fanfare http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/03/partners-of-wal-mart-of-weed-file-claims-for-unpaid-services.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/03/partners-of-wal-mart-of-weed-file-claims-for-unpaid-services.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:38:25 -0700 Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced legislation to keep Californians convicted of illegal marijuana cultivation out of state prison. Ammiano's Assembly Bill 1017 seeks to set a maximum sentence of one http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/02/ammiano-bill-seeks-to-keep-marijuana-cultivators-out-of-prison.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/02/ammiano-bill-seeks-to-keep-marijuana-cultivators-out-of-prison.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:03:39 -0700 In 2008, then-state Assemblyman Mark Leno got a bill passed in both houses of the California Legislature to prohibit employees from firing workers simply because they were medical marijuana patients. http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/02/leno-bill-aims-to-protect-working-medical-marijuana-patients.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/02/leno-bill-aims-to-protect-working-medical-marijuana-patients.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:46:28 -0700 In early 2010, former building contractor David Spradlin and about a dozen fellow medical marijuana patients opened the Magnolia Wellness Center in Orangevale. They sought to be unobtrusive as possible, http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/01/orangevale-pot-club-goes-from-obscurity-to-civic-involvement.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2011/01/orangevale-pot-club-goes-from-obscurity-to-civic-involvement.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:02:33 -0700 In early March, the tension among the crowd at Cesar Chavez Park ran thicker than the wafting marijuana smoke. Medical pot patients protested across the street from the old Sacramento http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/in-early-march-the-tension.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/in-early-march-the-tension.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Capital area cannabis Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:01:54 -0700 For three inspired weeks, judges at the 7th annual Emerald Cup in Mendocino sampled the finest marijuana cultivars, examining the textures of the buds, discerning the tastes, the aromas and http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/post-4.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/post-4.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:01:41 -0700 So it's not exactly the Nobel Peace Prize. But then again, when it comes to weed activism, maybe it is. Veteran California marijuana author and advocate Dale Gieringer was honored http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/california-pot-activist-gets-freedom-fighter-prize-in-amsterdam.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/12/california-pot-activist-gets-freedom-fighter-prize-in-amsterdam.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:01:21 -0700 Lelehnia Du Bois spent her early childhood amid the marijuana fields of California's northern coast. And yet growing pot is the last thing she expected to wind up doing. "It's http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/accidental-pot-grower-ponders-the-future-in-humboldt-county.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/accidental-pot-grower-ponders-the-future-in-humboldt-county.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:41:41 -0700 At Sacramento's A Therapeutic Alternative dispensary, Buddy, an aging Jack Russell Terrier with a bum leg, is a soothing prop for pet therapy sessions for medical marijuana users suffering http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/xxxx.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/xxxx.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Capital area cannabis Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:00:24 -0700 Meanwhile, back to the real weed wars. A day after California voters rejected the Proposition 19 measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use, authorities announced the discovery of a massive http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/authorities-find-massive-border-tunnel-funneling-pot-to-state.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/authorities-find-massive-border-tunnel-funneling-pot-to-state.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:37:17 -0700 Recap Election 2010 with The Bee's team of political experts LIVE CHAT Join The Bee's team of political experts today beginning at 10 a.m. to recap the local, state http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/live-chat-the-bees-political-experts-on-the-election.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/live-chat-the-bees-political-experts-on-the-election.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:45:00 -0700 Rancho Cordova's Measure O might as well be Measure Oh No! for local residents who grow their own pot at home. City voters Tuesday night passed the measure to impose http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/suddenly-its-very-expensive-to-grow-weed-in-rancho-cordova.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/suddenly-its-very-expensive-to-grow-weed-in-rancho-cordova.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:45:27 -0700 Across California Tuesday night, residents of the Golden State voted overwhelmingly to tax and regulate marijuana. Even as they rejected Proposition 19, voters in at least nine cities passed more http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/california-communities-reject-prop-19-but-approve-pot-taxes.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/california-communities-reject-prop-19-but-approve-pot-taxes.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:05:53 -0700 Oakland marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee said today that his bankroll is depleted and the next California pot legalization measure may have to depend on other donors. But in an interview, http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/oakland-pot-entrepreneur-vows-new-california-marijuana-vote.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2010/11/oakland-pot-entrepreneur-vows-new-california-marijuana-vote.html#mi_rss=Weed%20Wars Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:03:41 -0700