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If a plan to regulate medical marijuana in California becomes law, patients would still be able to use concentrates, wax, and other extracted forms of the drug. State Sen. Lou Correa, a Democrat from Santa Ana, is pushing a bill that would impose new rules on the state’s notoriously chaotic medical weed industry. His approach has the backing of law ...

Marijuana Policy Project is getting supporters together to push the Paul/Booker medical marijuana amendment. Essentially, it will block the DEA from interfering with medical marijuana. The amendment passed in the House, and will now go to the Senate. MPP is asking for your help by calling your state’s senators and urging them to support this new policy. Read MPP’s full ...

Marijuana coffee. Marijuana fruit drinks. Marijuana candy. Now add this to the list of weirdness that inevitably follows in the wake of legalization: a cannabis vaginal spray. Foria, a “sensual enhancement oil” made by a medical marijuana collective in Southern California, offers women an intimate, lubricated experience with their weed. The spray is a mix of cannabis oil and coconut ...

The California Assembly killed a bill May 29 that would have provided the first set of meaningful regulations for the state’s chaotic medical marijuana system. Lawmakers voted 27-30 to reject a bill that would have created a state-level agency to regulate MMJ. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, was favored by the weed industry. That ...

An amendment to a bill in Congress could soon make life much easier for patients and providers of medical marijuana in states where MMJ is allowed by law. It the legislation advances and becomes law, it would mark a major turning point for the medical weed industry in California and other states with troubled MMJ programs. President Obama has said ...

California medical marijuana patients should have an easier time getting their weed back if they’re cleared of the charges that led police to seize it. The state Senate passed a bill May 23 that would require police to return marijuana and paraphernalia to MMJ patients who are acquitted of charges tied to the seizure of the drug. The same would ...

An attempt to regulate California’s chaotic medical marijuana system moved a step closer to becoming law in May. A bill sponsored by state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat from San Francisco, cleared the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee May 23. It now moves to a full vote in the Assembly in the last week of May. California voters first adopted MMJ at ...

California’s public parks have always played stage to a bold clash between civilization and nature: tourists with smart phones and RVs lurking yards away from geysers and grizzly bears. But there’s another meeting of man and wild in the parks, and it’s one park rangers say is bad for both: marijuana. Drug cartels and illicit local farmers alike have turned ...

Prominent supporters of an effort to regulate medical marijuana in California threatened to withdraw their support after a state Senate committee gutted several portions of the legislation. The League of California Cities said it would review its support for SB 1262, which cleared the Senate Health Committee April 30. The bill had the backing of the league and key law ...

Legal weed is a dead issue for now in California. Voters won’t get a chance to decide it until at least 2016. In the meantime, a splintered community of marijuana proponents will have two years to come together, pool their resources, and present voters with a legalization proposal that has a chance of passing. The question remains: Can they do ...