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Medical marijuana to blame for 45 percent increase in school drug violations?
Over the last four years, drug violations at Colorado K-12 schools have increased by roughly 45 percent. And according to a report shared by Education News Colorado about the issue, the rise can be squarely attributed to medical marijuana dispensaries….
AZ Governor Directs State To License Marijuana Dispensaries
Giving up her idea of suing the federal government over Arizona’s medical marijuana law, Governor Jan Brewer said Friday she is directing the state health department to start accepting applications for cannabis dispensaries.www.tokeofthetown.com
Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative Gathers 20,000 Signatures
The last few months of 2011 weren’t exactly fun for advocates of medical marijuana in California. The federal government threatened to seize properties being used for illegally cultivating or dispensing marijuana, media organizations including this one…
Rand Study On Medical Pot Among Year’s Worst, Scientific American Says
Remember that Rand Corporation study from earlier this year that claimed crime actually increased in L.A. neighborhoods where cops closed medical marijuana dispensaries? The one that forgot to include crime statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Police…
Surprise, Surprise: Black Market Cashes In On Pot Crackdown
In a development that should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone with even a passing familiarity with drug policy and its effects, black-market marijuana growers and dealers are profiting greatly from the federal crackdown on legal medicinal canna…
Feds Subpoena Medical Marijuana Records
In this second era of Prohibition, in which non-prescription drugs
(other than caffeine, nicotine, salvia, kava, etc.) have been under
federal ban since 1970, it’s been bureaucrats rather than cops
warriors responsible for shuttering three San Francisc…
Property Seized During Dispensary Raids Boosts Law Enforcement Budgets
Courts call it asset forfeiture. Critics call it robbery. Either way, local and federal law-enforcement agencies will likely get to keep any cash, computers, cars, or real estate seized during the raids on medical marijuana dispensaries….blogs.seattl…
Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Magnets For Robbers, Violence, Organized Crime — Report
Only weeks after RAND took a controversial study of marijuana dispensary crime off the shelf following questions about its validity, a Fox 11 News report gives at least anecdotal evidence that some pot shops are dangerous places (especially for people …
U.S. Takes Aim at California’s $1 Billion Marijuana Dispensaries
Federal prosecutors say they’re using property seizures and criminal charges to crack down on California’s commercial medical-marijuana dispensaries, threatening a billion-dollar industry.www.bloomberg.com
Medical Marijuana Lawyers Challenge Feds to Bust All Pot Dispensaries or Bust None
It’s rarer these days, but you can still find some medical marijuana purveyors fond of saying how much they welcome the federal government throwing them in prison for decades.blogs.sfweekly.com
Federal Threats Get Results: CA Marijuana Dispensaries Close
Dispensaries in California appear to be closing as a result of the federal crackdown on medical marijuana. In conservative Orange County, a threatening letter from federal prosecutors achieved what nearly $600,000 in legal fees couldn’t — shutting dow…
RAND Withdraws Questionable Marijuana Study That Claimed Crime Goes Down Around L.A. Pot Shops
When the respected Santa Monica think tank RAND released a study last month claiming that crime went up in neighborhoods where marijuana dispensaries had closed in L.A., it just didn’t smell right to us.blogs.laweekly.com
Feds Seize Bank Accounts Of Marijuana Dispensaries: $250K
In what appears to be an escalation of the U.S. government to stamp out medical marijuana, federal authorities have seized almost $250,000 from the accounts of two Sacramento area dispensaries in an investigation of alleged concealment of cannabis prof…
Study: LA pot clinics shut down, crime went up
Report says crime increased near closed marijuana dispensaries, challenging claims that the storefronts are magnets for crimewww.cbsnews.com
5 Tips For Choosing A Medical Marijuana Dispensary
Choosing medical cannabis is a big decision, and one you probably took a long time to make. Now that you’re here, and whether or not you were previously a cannabis user, there are a few things you should know about dispensaries to ensure you get what y…
California Here I Come: San Diego Repeals Restrictive Medical Marijuana Ordinance
San Diego City Council repealed an ordinance that would have forced almost all currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries in the city to close their doors. If the ordinance had taken effect, only a couple of collectives would have been allowed …
San Diego’s Marijuana Dispensary Ban Blocked!
Good news! San Diego’s land use ordinance that activists say amounted to a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries has been effectively blocked, according to the group Citizens for Patients’ Rights (CPR).www.tokeofthetown.com
Crackdown: Kent, Washington Raids Cannabis Dispensaries – Toke of the Town
Posted by admin in World News on July 8, 2011
The repercussions of Washington Governor Christine Gregoire’s failure of leadership — when she vetoed most of a bill that would have legalized medical marijuana dispensaries in the state — continue to reverberate. Police in Kent, Washington served se…
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