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Medical pot shops have already been snuffed out like candles across California, making it harder – sometimes impossible – for thousands to get the medicine they need. Now local officials in towns and counties throughout the state are looking to attack medical marijuana from a different angle, and if they have their way, they could cut off all access to ...

A group of medical marijuana advocates is appealing a decision by a California appellate court that could allow communities across the state to ban home pot grows. The Live Oak Patients, Caregivers and Supporters Association filed a petition with the state Supreme Court on Jan. 3 seeking to overturn the decision by the Third District Court of Appeal. That court, ...

Most observers agree: California will legalize, sooner or later. Probably sooner. The question is, how soon? Several groups are working to put legalization on the ballot in the next two elections, and polls show most Californians would vote yes. They rejected an initiative to make weed legal in 2010, but public opinion has made a dramatic turnaround since then. But ...

A lot happened to marijuana in 2013. The first two American states to make the drug legal carried out their plans to see it through. Three more states adopted medical cannabis. An entire nation legalized. But as for the future of marijuana reform, what lies ahead may be even bigger than what came before. Expect 2014 to be a major ...

Supporters of one of the many proposals vying to legalize marijuana in 2014 won approval from California Attorney General Kamala Harris to start gathering signatures. The decision was announced Dec. 24. Backers of the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act now must collect at least 504,760 signatures before their proposal can appear on the November 2014 ballot. The initiative would ...

California’s “Guru of Ganja” has filed a petition seeking to legalize marijuana, making his the fourth attempt to put legal weed before voters in 2014. Most Californians support the idea, but before they can approve it, one of the four proposals must make it onto the ballot. Whether than will happen remains uncertain. Ed Rosenthal, one of the state’s leading ...

Yet another poll brings good news for pot smokers, drug policy reformers, civil libertarians and people of common sense throughout California. For the second time this fall, a majority of the state’s residents said they back legal weed. The support is strong enough legalization could happen sooner than expected – as early as November 2014. “Debating about whether to legalize ...

Will California be the next to go? Many drug-policy experts say yes: The Golden State is primed to become the next to legalize pot. And it could happen as early as next year. Two states, Colorado and Washington, have already voted to make weed legal. More are likely to follow suit in coming years, including Alaska, Nevada and Oregon. But ...

California’s medical marijuana dispensaries are facing increasing pressure by state attorney Melinda Haag to shut down. Even though medical marijuana is legal by California state law, it is not legal under federal law and Haag has made it her mission to attack the larger dispensaries.

A Nebraska judge has ordered a convicted felon not to use medical marijuana when he returns to California, even though the man is a registered patient under that state’s laws. District Judge Jeffrey Funke of Sarpy County warned Joshua Nordstrum, 26, of California not to use medicinal cannabis. If he tokes, his probation could be revoked and he could go ...