Local Lawmakers Urge Feds to Lay Off Pot Clubs

Sen. Leno says it's a waste of time and money, and Assemblyman Ammiano calls it an ill-timed, ill-conceived attack on medical marijuana collectives.

Two Bay Area legislators are calling for an immediate halt to the federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in California, saying the effort is harming patients, misusing taxpayer dollars and contrary to what California voters want. According to a release from Sen. Mark Leno's office, Leno and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, both Democrats from San Francisco, joined medical marijuana patients, dispensary operators and advocates Wednesday in their criticism of federal plans for sweeping criminal prosecutions against pot dispensaries, threatening landlords with eviction, property seizures and imprisonment. “I urge the federal government to stand down in its massive attack on medical marijuana dispensaries, which will have devastating …

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Should Pot Clubs Be Legal In The Twin Cities?

Corte Madera Town Council will discuss its moratorium on medical marijuana during Tuesday's meeting.

Marin Holistic Solutions for the past year has been quietly breaking the law, according to the federal government. Depending on the results of an upcoming vote by the Corte Madera Town Council, the medial marijuana dispensary could be forced to close its doors. The Town Council is scheduled to take up the issue of whether or not to renew its moratorium on medial marijuana Tuesday night. Marin Holistic Solutions operates out of the Tamal Plaza office park, near the Department of Motor Vehicles. The dispensary caused an uproar when it first opened as the Town claimed the owners hadn't been completely above board when filling out a business license.

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Is Pot Really A Wonderdrug?

Can marijuana cure cancer, or are college medical students just looking for a good time?

What If Cannabis Cured Cancer? After watching the video that posed that very question, my wife and I had one immediate reaction: Dang! We've got the munchies. Somewhere between Your Highness and The Godfathers of Ganga on the walls of the video store sat What If Cannabis Cured Cancer? I've heard some of the scientific theories behind the question, but the movie sounded more like a group of college students looking for an excuse to get high. I was wrong. It's more like a group of college teachers looking for an excuse to get high and charge the cost of the pot to the school. Now, granted, a lot of great films have started at the UCLA Film School, but the foul-mouthed puppet short Kurt Cannabis Meets Connie Cancer isn't one of them, even …

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Jane Gray

11:24 pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Thanks Joe, I remember only the wild kids listened to Cheech and Chongs dirty song lyrics,,,,, I am not at all supprised they were POT heads, we who knew better, can reflect back with honesty, like my friend who was so stoned all the time on Pot, they kicked him out of high school back in the 60s, the schools had no time to molly coddle the pot users,,,,, they were expelled immediately.   more ›

Here's to Your Health

How Does Medical Marijuana Work?

Is it safe? Effective? And how does the legal process work?

Moratoriums have been placed on new medical marijuana dispensaries in Corte Madera, Fairfax and Novato; and Fairfax’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana is in murky water with the IRS, according to the Marin Independent Journal. Yet the state’s medical marijuana law is alive and well. Sausalito physician Gene Schoenfeld wants fellow practitioners to know that they can prescribe marijuana for their patients and have no reason to be afraid of federal or state sanctions. “Many doctors are still wary of the law,” said Schoenfeld, a psychiatrist who also works in addiction medicine. Referring to California’s Compassionate Use Act of 1996, Schoenfeld emphasizes that “doctors are safe, as long as they treat the situation as they would any other …

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