Record Searchlight, 07 Feb 2013 – A medical marijuana cultivation ordinance adopted by Tehama County supervisors three years ago was upheld by the 3rd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The published decision sets precedent statewide, Tehama County Counsel Arthur Wylene said.

Los Angeles Times, 06 Feb 2013 – State Justices Seem Inclined to Support Legality of Riverside’s Policy on Medical Marijuana Stores. SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries.

Sacramento News & Review, 07 Feb 2013 – I heard the Sacramento City Council is making all the pot clubs move. Is that true? – -420 U-Haul Not true. At least not yet. The city council met last week to discuss changing Sacto’s medical-marijuana ordinance so that clubs would have to be 1,000 feet from "sensitive use" areas like parks and schools and churches. City staff claims that doing so would make the clubs more compliant with federal guidelines for medical marijuana, even though California state law says that clubs only have to be at least 600 feet away from sensitive-use areas. The problem is, there are virtually no spots in Sac that fit the 1,000-foot rule, so changing that law would amount to a de facto ban.

Sacramento News & Review, 07 Feb 2013 – Re "Legalize it, ban it" by Nick Miller (SN&R Midtown&Down, January 31): As your column pointed out, the leadership of the city of Sacramento is unwise to close most of the dispensaries. It would have been far better to try to separate the weed from the chaff by appointing someone to head a commission to regulate the dispensaries, thereby helping medical users.

San Francisco Chronicle, 04 Feb 2013 – The Feb. 1 article "Oakland, feds fight over pot dispensary" is missing one important constitutional issue. In order to implement Prohibition, we had to amend the Constitution to give the federal government the authority to regulate alcohol. No such amendment has ever passed in regards to cannabis. As such, per the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, cannabis regulation belongs to the states. Maxime Villeneuve, San Francisco – — MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

Austin American-Statesman, 03 Feb 2013 – Growing Marijuana for California’s Medical Cannabis Boom Hurting Wildlife in Parts of State. EUREKA, CALIF. – California scientists, grappling with an explosion of marijuana growing, recently studied aerial imagery of a small tributary of the Eel River, spawning grounds for endangered coho salmon and other threatened fish.

Los Angeles Times, 03 Feb 2013 – Struggling Local Governments Welcome Large Music Events Staged by L.A.-Based Promoters, but Reports Reveal a Pattern of Overdoses On the edge of the Mojave, music promoter Pasquale Rotella staged a rave about 11 years ago that ended with a coroner’s wagon rolling down desert roads.

Los Angeles Times, 02 Feb 2013 – Re "Reefer madness at the DEA," Editorial, Jan. 25 You state that whether to reclassify marijuana under federal law to permit its prescription as a medicine should be based on science and an evaluation of the facts rather than myths. I agree. Yet your editorial is based on myth, asserting that the Drug Enforcement Administration has made it nearly impossible for researchers to obtain marijuana for such studies.

Sacramento News & Review, 31 Jan 2013 – On the River City’s ‘Just Say No,’ Nancy Reagan, Marijuana-Dispensary Dance; Plus Police Funding, Plastic Bags and Stereos on Cruisers Hey, Sacramento City Council, news flash: Marijuana is kinda legal now.

Sacramento News & Review, 31 Jan 2013 – Last year, there were so many shops selling medical marijuana. Now it seems they all have been shut down. If I want to open a shop, what should I do, where should I get a permit, what are the laws? Where and how can I get info about this? – -Alex