Los Angeles Daily News, 23 Aug 2012 – Even as the city’s ban on medical marijuana is facing legal and political challenges, the City Council on Wednesday asked local and federal law enforcement agencies to develop new strategies to enforce the shutdown. "We need to get out of the way of law enforcement," Councilman Bernard Parks said of his request asking the Los Angeles Police Department to coordinate with the district attorney and Drug Enforcement Administration on an enforcement policy.

Record Searchlight, 24 Aug 2012 – A Trinity County sheriff’s deputy may resume writing letters to the editor after a federal judge ruled in his favor in a freedom-of-speech case. U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction in the case brought by Mark Potts against Sheriff Bruce Haney and the county.

Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug 2012 – Re "Police find pot plants," Aug. 22 On the front page of Wednesday’s LATExtra section, there was a photo of many heavily armed, helmeted police officers. Are they after a murderer? An armed robber? A child molester? Goodness no; they arrested about 100 marijuana plants. I feel so much safer now.

Merced Sun-Star, 23 Aug 2012 – The city of Chowchilla recently adopted an ordinance outlawing smoking medical marijuana in public. The law limits smoking or any type of consumption of medical marijuana to inside a private residence and requires all cultivation to take place in an enclosed, locked area.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 22 Aug 2012 – Having read Mary Goloff’s letter to the editor regarding her inconsiderate neighbors who played loud, pounding music until 3 a.m., I have to congratulate her on her new stance toward a better noise ordinance. Sometimes it takes a dose of reality or becoming a victim to see what others have to deal with every day. Now, if Goloff happens to welcome a new next-door neighbor who just happens to have a prescription to grow six medical marijuana plants on the other side of her fences, she can now experience what many others have had to deal with. Let’s start with having to endure 2-3 months of putrid odor from growing marijuana invading your home. That may only be offensive to your senses but how about having to worry about armed druggies hopping your fence to get to the neighbor’s grow and a gunfight breaks out as the grower tries to protect his "medicine"? Will flying bullets stop at the property line? Not in this galaxy.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 24 Aug 2012 – Supervisors Larry Wahl, Bill Connelly and Kim Yamaguchi have done Butte County a huge disservice by trying to jam their new marijuana ordinance down the voters’ throats. Obviously this new restrictive ordinance will not be allowed to be enacted and will be referended against. The growers will now not only referenda against it, but they will draft their own ordinance to be passed at the June election that certainly will be more liberal to the backyard grower than what would be able to be negotiated with them right now, and that ordinance will not be able to be challenged or altered by anyone but the voters themselves. This is exactly the opposite of what is intended by these supervisors.

North County Times, 22 Aug 2012 – In his Aug. 15 letter, Buddie Gran has some ugly things to say about the present administration regarding problems with guns, drugs and death at the border. He seems to feel the present administration is at fault for it all. Actually, our country’s war on drugs is the cause, which goes back to the 1920s and was accelerated into a war after Vietnam, when returning veterans were found to be using heroin and other hard-line drugs, and seemingly the whole country was high on marijuana. President Nixon was the first to declare it a war. George H.W. Bush went further. And don’t forget our present war on the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

Napa Valley Register, 21 Aug 2012 – The city of Napa’s moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries will continue through 2013, the maximum time allowed by state law. The City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday afternoon to extend the existing moratorium through Oct. 17, 2013 in hopes that the California Supreme Court will decide to what degree cities can regulate dispensaries, if at all, by then. Councilman Jim Krider was not present.

North County Times, 21 Aug 2012 – Although no San Diego County sites were targeted in a recent multistate crackdown on marijuana farms on public lands, authorities have found more than 500 illicit marijuana farms in the county since 2007, including one within walking distance of Cal State San Marcos, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego. The local federal prosecutors office highlighted the busts in the county over the past five years on the same day federal officials in western states announced the culmination of a multiagency operation known as Mountain Sweep, which targeted marijuana farms on public lands in California, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug 2012 – The 4th Amendment Must Be Read With an Eye Toward Gps and Other Technologies. Even many who cherish the "original meaning" of the Constitution recognize that provisions drafted in the 18th century must be interpreted in light of changing technology. That is especially true of the 4th Amendment’s guarantee of the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."