Colfax Record, 26 Aug 2012 – Letter From US Department of Justice Warns That 8-Year-Old Business in Violation of Law COLFAX — Golden State Patient Care Collective — known as the GSPCC – — has closed its doors in Colfax. The collective had dispensed cannabis to patients with medical prescriptions and state-issued authorization for eight years. It was the lone legal medical marijuana shop in Placer County.

The Chico News & Review, 30 Aug 2012 – DA Calls Medical-Marijuana Ordinance Unconstitutional Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey dropped a buz kill at the Aug. 28 Board of Supervisors meeting on those looking to restrict medical-marijuana cultivation when he said an ordinance under consideration was unconstitutional.

The Chico News & Review, 30 Aug 2012 – After Two Failures They’re Letting Citizens Draft a Medi-Pot Ordinance It took a long time-more than a year-but the Butte County Board of Supervisors finally has seen the light. After passing a medical-marijuana ordinance that voters soundly rejected in June, and then coming up with an even worse proposal that ran into a firestorm of criticism during a public hearing Tuesday (Aug. 28), the supervisors finally got the message.

The Chico News & Review, 30 Aug 2012 – Re "Another bad pot plan" (Editorial, Aug. 23): The recent actions of three Butte County supervisors show their complete lack of respect for our democratic process. By voting to move ahead with an ordinance that bans all outdoor medical marijuana only months after voters rejected Measure A, they are spitting in the eyes of the very same voters who elected them to office.

Los Angeles Daily News, 30 Aug 2012 – The city’s long struggle to control medical marijuana dispensaries took a new turn on Wednesday with the collection of 50,000 signatures on petitions to overturn the city’s proposed ban on dispensaries. If the signatures are validated once they are formally submitted on Thursday, it will put the city’s ban – scheduled to take effect on Sept.6 – on hold until the March 5 municipal election.

Sacramento News & Review, 30 Aug 2012 – A Refresher on How Cannabis Can Remedy Symptoms SN&R’s covered this story before, but it’s worth repeating: Different tokes for different folks. Here’s a look at what cannabis can accomplish. Pain: Patients commonly report that pot doesn’t actually eliminate pain, rather, weed dethrones it. As Americans for Safe Access San Francisco patient advocate David Goldman pointed out, the pain is still there, but it’s not as insistent or overwhelming. "The person is no longer obsessed with it," Goldman explained. "Part of the misery of pain and suffering is the obsessing about it. You can’t think about anything else besides how much misery and pain you’re in. Cannabis can distract you."

Appeal-Democrat, 29 Aug 2012 – While Yuba County’s controversial medical marijuana ordinance is being discussed in closed-door legal proceedings, county growers said they’re getting a negative message from law enforcement. Several times in the last few weeks, the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department has raided growing sites across the county, even though those overseeing the sites were in compliance with state law, said Sam McConnell, president of the Yuba County Growers Association.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 30 Aug 2012 – We believe there should be restrictions on growing pot, but supervisors also need to be realistic about what voters will accept. There’s nothing like the words "unconstitutional," "expensive" and "unenforceable" to slap some sense into elected officials.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 29 Aug 2012 – OROVILLE — A hearing on a proposal to regulate the growing of medical marijuana took a surprising turn Tuesday when Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said the ordinance was unconstitutional as written. Three hours later, when the hearing was over, the entire proposal was scrapped and the county was headed back to the drawing board.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 29 Aug 2012 – The recent actions of three Butte County supervisors show their complete lack of respect for our democratic process. By voting to move ahead with an ordinance that bans all outdoor medical marijuana only months after voters rejected Measure A, they are spitting in the eyes of the very same voters who elected them to office. The previous ordinance failed in every city and supervisor district in Butte County. It even failed to pass in the unincorporated areas. After claiming to be "fiscally conservative" and in support of "smaller government," the supervisors are now taking us down the rat hole of government bureaucracy, excessive regulation and unnecessary spending.