Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 2012 – A Referendum on the Ordinance That Bans Cannabis but Allows Limited Usage Qualifies for the City Ballot. Activists seeking to strike down a ban on medical marijuana outlets in Los Angeles saw their challenge qualify for the ballot Monday, dealing a setback to the city’s latest attempt at a crackdown.

Sacramento News & Review, 13 Sep 2012 – Is the War on Drugs Really a War on Minorities? I have never spent a day in jail, even though I have committed felonies. During my college days at the University of California, Santa Barbara, along with the majority of Americans and nearly everyone I knew, I regularly smoked marijuana and took drugs. Yet very few of my fellow students were ever arrested. I thought this was because we were lucky.

Sacramento News & Review, 13 Sep 2012 – I’m seeing this woman, and just like in Annie Hall, she only likes to have sex when she’s high. I haven’t used marijuana since college and have a lot of anxiety about trying it again. But she’s great, the sex is great, and I don’t want to come across as some old fogy. Help? – -Horny Weed

Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 2012 – Re "A remedy in limbo," Column One, Sept. 14 If there’s one drug we should seriously consider criminalizing, it’s the one that’s being taken by the geniuses who would prevent a child like Jayden David from having access to a non-psychoactive component of marijuana. It seems further testing would be prudent, but it also seems that, for now, cannabidiol has wrought a miracle in the lives of this child and his parents in controlling terrible seizures that used to define his life.

Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 2012 – A Referendum on the Ordinance That Bans Cannabis but Allows Limited Usage Qualifies for the City Ballot. Activists seeking to strike down a ban on medical marijuana outlets in Los Angeles saw their challenge qualify for the ballot Monday, dealing a setback to the city’s latest attempt at a crackdown.

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Palo Alto Weekly, 14 Sep 2012 – Other cities’ experiences with medical-marijuana shops show it’s a bad idea With Peninsula cities having almost uniformly passed ordinances prohibiting so-called medical-marijuana dispensaries, Palo Alto has been targeted by medical-marijuana advocates and libertarians as a place where a liberal electorate might be persuaded to overturn that ban.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 16 Sep 2012 – The supervisors of Butte County just don’t get it. First of all the voters of California went out and garnered over 700,000 signatures and placed a referendum on the state ballot to basically legalize marijuana plants for personal use, and the voters of California passed it. Then those we elected to do our wishes adopted an ordinance that would basically ban the growing of marijuana plants even though it was now legal law in California. Again, the voters of Butte County defeated this by 56 percent.

The Chico News & Review, 13 Sep 2012 – DRUGS FOR DRUG ADDICTS Report Calls for Removal of Ban on Medical Treatment at Addiction Clinics A report issued by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes calls for California lawmakers to lift a ban on health-care services at residential drug-treatment facilities.

The Coast News, 13 Sep 2012 – ENCINITAS — The City Council voted unanimously to place a controversial initiative on the city’s 2014 general election ballot. Mayor Jerome Stocks was absent. Voters will get to weigh in on a medical marijuana initiative two years after neighboring North County cities get to cast their votes.