Merced Sun-Star, 04 Oct 2012 – After law enforcement busted a suspected illegal marijuana grow this week on Coffee Street, just 1,000 feet from a middle school, some residents were left to wonder: What took so long? And why was the process so difficult? That question lingers on the mind of Jamie, 40, a mother of a high school-age daughter.
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US CA: LTE: L.A.’s Pot Shops
Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 2012 – Re: "L.A. Repeals Its Ban on Pot Stores," Oct 3 I am disappointed in the City Council’s flip-flop. I sympathize with patients receiving legitimate treatment for serious illnesses – including Rosendahl, who is battling cancer – but their plight should not have prevented the council from taking on rogue shops.
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US CA: PUB LTE: L.A.’s Pot Shops
Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 2012 – Re: "L.A. Repeals Its Ban on Pot Stores," Oct 3 L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, my former colleague at Cal State Dominguez Hills, persuaded the City Council to repeal its ill-advised ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, leaving the city without any rules for regulating these enterprises.
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US CA: Los Angeles Reverses Pot-Shop Ban
Wall Street Journal, 03 Oct 2012 – LOS ANGELES-The City Council voted to repeal its own recent ban on storefront medical-marijuana dispensaries, an about-face that left as many as 1,000 pot shops all but unregulated as officials try to get a handle on a massive legal gray area. Faced with a rapidly growing number of storefront "collectives" distributing the drug for ostensibly medicinal uses-and ensuing complaints from neighbors-the council this past July unanimously modified the municipal code to effectively outlaw such dispensaries. But medical-marijuana activists quickly forced a referendum seeking to overturn the ordinance by collecting signatures from 50,000 residents opposed to the ban.
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US CA: Column: Should Cannabis Names Include Green Crack and
Sacramento News & Review, 04 Oct 2012 – Who comes up with all these weed names? I’ve seen strains called Charlie Sheen, Green Crack and even Girl Scout Cookies. – -Blazed and Confused It’s kinda like apples: A Pink Lady apple tastes way different than a Fuji or a Granny Smith, but they are still apples. It’s the same for pot: Trainwreck and Romulan are both marijuana, but they taste different, and they have different effects.
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US CA: L.A. Repeals Its Ban on Pot Stores
Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct 2012 – The 11-2 Vote Leaves the City With No Law Regulating About 1,000 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries. After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles City Council retreated Tuesday, voting to repeal the carefully crafted ban on medical marijuana dispensaries it approved a few months ago.
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US CA: PUB LTE: Curious Priorities
San Francisco Chronicle, 02 Oct 2012 – So the U.S. Justice Department is accusing medical marijuana dispensaries of being more concerned with profits than serving medical patients. Huh? Why don’t the same concerns apply to the pharmaceutical industry? At least the customers of the dispensaries are customers by choice and not coercion. Robin Sandberg, Oakland – — MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
