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A ruling by the California Supreme Court in March could undermine medical marijuana in vast swaths of the state, even as voters prepare to legalize weed in just a few years. The court declined to hear a petition from MMJ advocates fighting a total ban on cultivation in the City of Live Oak. The ban applies to all grows, indoors ...

An attempt by police groups to regulate medical marijuana in California is drawing the opposition of some cannabis advocates, though it may also be bringing the two sides closer together. Among other provisions, a clause in Senate Bill 1262 would ban marijuana concentrates such as hash oil and wax. It would also require that medical pot recommendations come only from ...

The California Democratic Party threw its weight behind legal marijuana this month. Without debate, delegates at the party’s annual convention in Los Angeles voted by voice to “support the legalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana, in a manner similar to that of tobacco or alcohol,” as the Democratic platform now states. The vote drew cheers from the hundreds of delegates ...

A California elementary school has drawn international media attention after three third graders were busted for smoking weed in the boy’s bathroom. The three boys – two 8-year-olds and a 9-year-old – were caught smoking marijuana from a pipe Feb. 27. The fellow student who spotted them alerted school administrators. They in turn called police in Sonora, where the incident ...

After 18 years of resistance, law enforcement groups in California are showing signs they may be willing to work with the medical marijuana community to make MMJ work. California voters approved medical marijuana in 1996 when they passed the Compassionate Use Act. The legislature implemented several aspects of the program in 2003, but MMJ has remained largely unregulated in California ...

Federal agents are cracking down on a marijuana product in California that they’re leaving alone just a few states over. The product is an increasingly popular extract known as wax, honey oil or hash oil, and it comes with a dangerous recipe, an incredibly intense high, and the inevitable scary warnings from law enforcement. “There is no weed out there ...

Backers of the last remaining effort to legalize weed in California this year are seeking new funding to get their initiative on the ballot. They say they need $2 million, and if they fall short, legalization will be completely off the table until 2016. “The only thing that stands in the way of legalization in 2014 is money, and it’s ...

It looks like Californians will have to take a pass on legalizing marijuana until at least 2016. The biggest player in the effort to make weed legal this year is bowing out, saying the funding for a major ballot campaign just isn’t there. That leaves two or three smaller initiatives with little chance of becoming law. The Drug Policy Alliance, ...

After a long absence, medical weed is returning to San Diego. But it will be coming back with tight new restrictions that may not make everyone in the MMJ community happy. That said, many pot advocates were pleased to see the city adopt the new rules, since it was either that or nothing at all. “This ordinance provides clear and ...

Californians are increasingly ready to legalize weed, yet observers say it’s looking increasingly unlikely that will happen this year. Four petitions are in the works to put legalization on the ballot in the 2014 elections. But the door may be closing on all four of them – and on legalization – for this election cycle. Why? There are a couple ...