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Attorney General Warns Feds on MMJ Aggression
San Francisco -- Federal prosecutors should be careful not to overreach in their crackdown on California’s pot dispensaries, even though there are ambiguities in the state’s medical marijuana laws, the state attorney general said Thursday.
Lake Forest MMJ Patients Bring the Fight!
LAKE FOREST – Michael Hawkins, an Army veteran stricken with a double-fist-sized brain tumor, pleaded with the City Council to reconsider its stance toward the medical marijuana dispensaries that operated in Lake Forest
Protest Planned for Lake Forest
LAKE FOREST – Orange County NORML and OC Americans for Safe Access plan to protest at Tuesday night's City Council meeting against the city's recent partnership with the U.S. Attorney General's Office and a crackdown on eight medical-marijuana dispensaries in a strip mall on Raymond Way.
Where does MMJ stand in CA?
California -- What is the status of medical marijuana in California? May people possess it, use it, distribute it, sell it? Those ought to be easy enough questions to answer, but because of state and local fumbling on the issue, they're not.
Raymond Dispensaries given 3 Days Notice
LAKE FOREST – Eight owners of medical marijuana dispensaries have been given three days to shut down, according to a legal document from their landlord.
San Diego Leads Crackdown on Dispensaries
The four U.S. attorneys in California are expected to hold a news conference Friday announcing a crackdown on landlords and property owners of medical marijuana dispensaries.
Feds Crack Down on CA Dispensaries
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state’s 15-year-old medical marijuana law.
No Dispensaries for RI
Providence, R.I. -- After five months of delays and indecision, Governor Chafee announced on Thursday that he will not issue licenses to three medical-marijuana dispensaries, a decision that has infuriated medical-marijuana advocates and disappointed thousands of patients who have had problems securing the drug to cope with their medical ailments.
Medical Cannabis via Uncle Sam
Eugene, Oregon -- Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye. She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.
No MMJ Claims for Car Accident Claims?
Michigan-- Health insurance was never meant to cover the cost of medical marijuana and soon, car insurance won’t be able to be used either to ease the pain of car wreck-related injuries.
