The Record, 14 Oct 2012 – Lincoln Unified student athletes and cheerleaders now face mandatory, random drug testing under last week’s 4-to-1 decision of district trustees. The first-in-the-area policy has the admirable goal of stopping drugs and alcohol use by Lincoln High’s athletes and cheerleaders. Somehow these students are thought more vulnerable and indeed 21 percent of the 219 drug and alcohol-related suspensions in the last three years have involved athletes and cheerleaders, according to district officials.

West Side Index and Gustine Press-Standard, 13 Oct 2012 – GUSTINE – City leaders voted to make permanent a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, and may take further steps to curb the activities of those who hold cards authorizing their use of marijuana for medical purposes. The city has banned dispensaries the past two years through a temporary moratorium, in the hope that questions regarding the legality of the dispensaries and the city’s authority to regulate them would be answered by the courts during that time.

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Merced Sun-Star, 10 Oct 2012 – In recent weeks, law enforcement has stepped up efforts to eradicate large marijuana-growing operations not just in Merced County, but up and down the San Joaquin Valley. Agencies are targeting those who are hiding behind the state’s medical marijuana law to produce and process far more than an individual or group would need to meet their health care needs.

Record Searchlight, 06 Oct 2012 – Authorities around California have been raiding medical marijuana gardens on private lands, saying the "excessive" size of the grows show they’re not medicinal. Investigators say the use of smaller, private illegal gardens are growing here in the north state, too.

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