By Steve Elliott
California — Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said on Friday that the voters don’t matter. His deputies’ enforcement of marijuana laws would not change even if voters approved Proposition 19, which would legalize cannabis in California, on November 2, according to the Sheriff.
“Proposition 19 is not going to pass, even if it [...]

By Tom Greenwood, The Detroit News
Source: Detroit News
cannabis Detroit — Days after Michigan’s no-smoking law went into effect, a Detroit resident filed a petition to make it legal for Detroiters to spark up a joint. On Wednesday, registered medical marijuana user Tim Beck filed a petition with Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey seeking to legalize [...]

Posted by CN Staff on May 03, 2010 at 18:20:49 PT
By Mona Shadia
California — A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by four Orange County medical marijuana users who claimed that citywide bans on pot dispensaries in Costa Mesa and Lake Forest violate their rights under the Americans [...]

By Richard M. Evans
Source: Providence Journal
Northampton, Mass. — Now that an initiative to legalize marijuana is officially on the California ballot this November, President Obama should brace for a strong jolt from the west.
If the measure passes (the latest poll puts support at 56 percent), no longer will it [...]

Denver — Pot smoker Chris Bartkowicz thought he had hit pay dirt, bragging to a local television station he would make $400,000 off a basement medical marijuana operation in a well-heeled Denver suburb where neighbors had no idea what he was growing.
A day after KUSA-TV aired his story in February, the [...]

World News — One of the most prominent figures in the legalization community died today, 70 year-old Oregon resident Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes and lifelong cannabis activist.
California NORML reports and Salem-News.com confirms Herer passed away this morning, after months of serious health complications from a [...]

The founder of Oaksterdam University has faith California voters will legalize marijuana this November and expects to raise $20 million from supporters across the United States to help pass the initiative.
Oaksterdam is the brainchild of Richard Lee, the man who helped qualify “The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010″ by [...]

State Senate Bill 618, introduced by Sen. Wayne Kuipers of Holland, to tighten regulations for the production and distribution of medical marijuana makes my head spin very high. This bill ascends into the clouds.
It would require, among other things, that doctors write prescriptions for medical marijuana and that the pharmacies dispense it. In fact, both [...]

Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The 4-3 vote by the Assembly Public Safety Committee was the first in the nation by a legislative body supporting recreational use of the drug. But several of the lawmakers who voted for the plan said they did so only to extend debate.

“I do not support marijuana. [...]

Advocates Say Time Is Right For Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act
An unusual world record was set last month by 56-year-old Florida stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld when he smoked his 115,000th joint of marijuana grown and supplied by the federal government.
He set the record on Nov. 20, which was the 27th anniversary of his first shipment [...]