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Common Sense - July 8, 2009

Carl Kasell gives the news on NPR about a new TV advertisement being launched by a marijuana advocacy group in support of Assembly... more

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TIME.com Features Medical Marijuana Home Delivery

TIME.com recently featured a California based caregiver making medical marijuana home deliveries to patients. The piece allows... more

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Facebook Promises To Crack Down On Medical Marijuana Providers

Marijuana sellers in California are using Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to promote their products, reports Fox News. It is legal... more

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L.A. Targets Cannabis Clubs

LOS ANGELES -- Daniel Halbert moved here from Phoenix this year to invest his life savings in what he hoped was a golden... more

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Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face

This morning I gave $25 to the Marijuana Policy Project: Their quest is to legalize marijuana for medical and adult use. I have... more

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Dale Clare - Medical Cannabis Advocate and Consultant

Dale Clare - Medical Cannabis Advocate and Consultant Produced by Ajnag / The ICU Lab http://ajnag.com http://theiculab.com

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The Patriots Guide to Marijuana Legalization

WHEN WE THINK of the drug war, it's the heavy-duty narcotics like heroin and cocaine that get most of the attention. And why... more

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Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74

This kinda stuff upsets me. "The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers... more

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Study Debunks Claim That Pot Smoking Causes Mental Illness

Much has made — by the mainstream media and others — of the claim that cannabis use causes certain types of mental... more

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San Diego's War on Medical Marijuana Continues

In California it has been over a decade since the Compassionate Use Act. Several years since SB420, and almost a year since the California Attorney General's guidelines. We have even had The California Third District Court of Appeal last week issue a ruling reaffirming patients rights to collectively cultivate medical marijuana.

However here in San Diego we still have our leadership debating whether marijuana is medicine. The San Diego DA’s Office and Bonnie Dumanis have stated numerous times that there is no such thing as a legal collective or cooperative, and that anyone who engages in an attempt to cultivate and distribute collectively is obviously in it for profit, "why else would they get in to this activity".
In California it has been over a decade since the Compassionate Use Act. Several years since SB420, and almost a year since the California Attorney General's guidelines. We have even had The California Third District Court of Appeal last week issue a ruling reaffirming patients rights to collectively cultivate medical marijuana.

However here in San Diego we still have our leadership debating whether marijuana is medicine. The San Diego DA’s Office has stated numerous times that there is no such thing as a legal collective or cooperative, and that anyone who engages in an attempt to cultivate and distribute collectively is obviously in it for profit, "why else would they get in to this activity".

We have judges who refuse to accept a written physician’s recommendation for medical marijuana as a valid patient status in court, and refuse to allow court qualified expert witnesses to testify in medical marijuana cases that are brought in by the defense.

In these same cases, San Diego narcotics detectives are allowed to testify as ‘experts’ on medical cannabis, even though they have received no more then 1 hour of medical marijuana training in their entire career, are not familiar with the laws already in place, and have testified in court that they have never seen a legal collective.

All while the San Diego county board of supervisors makes “illegal dispensaries illegal” adding more confusion to the already confusing serpentine roadmap of laws that patients have to go through.In California it has been over a decade since the Compassionate Use Act. Several years since SB420, and almost a year since the... more