The Daily Californian, 20 Aug 2012 – Schizophrenia, psychosis are among associated ailments It is not surprising that Dan Rush would write an article favorable to pot ("Bill’s passage would protect patient welfare," Aug. 13), but hopefully, the majority of students will see through the smoke and realize that the "medical marijuana" is a hoax to begin with and doomed to fail. To call it medicine, or the customers patients, is an affront to our collective intellect. To suggest that shuttering pot shops is depriving a 5-year-old child of medicine is blasphemous.

Willits News, 18 Aug 2012 – LAKEPORT — A Lake County judge Friday granted a preliminary injunction until Jan. 1 for all qualified people and collectives growing marijuana in conformity with state law at the time the county adopted its interim medical marijuana cultivation ordinance. "Needless to say this doesn’t apply to any illegal grows," Judge David W. Herrick said during the afternoon hearing at the Lake County Courthouse.

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North County Times, 17 Aug 2012 – Proponents of a medical marijuana dispensary initiative will have to wait a little longer to find out how the city will handle their proposed ballot measure. Near the end of a five-hour meeting Wednesday —- in which city leaders also discussed development guidelines that were frustrating residents of Crest Drive in Encinitas —- the City Council unanimously agreed to seek a report on the proposed medical marijuana initiative.

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The Press Democrat, 16 Aug 2012 – A Lake County Superior Court judge on Friday will decide whether to halt a month-long crackdown on medical marijuana cultivation in the county. Thousands of pot plants being grown under the auspices of medical marijuana laws have been eradicated since the county adopted new restrictions on outdoor pot farms last month.

Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug 2012 – Foes Hoping to Repeal L.A.’S Prohibition Are Gathering Signatures to Put a Referendum on the March Ballot. Outside a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, a man in sunglasses and flip-flops called out questions to bag-toting shoppers.

Grunion Gazette, 16 Aug 2012 – To The Editor, Regarding your editorial on Aug. 9: Not only should medical marijuana be made available to patients in need, but adult recreational use should be regulated. Drug policies modeled after alcohol prohibition have given rise to a youth-oriented black market. Illegal drug dealers don’t ID for age, but they do recruit minors immune to adult sentences. So much for protecting the children.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 18 Aug 2012 – OROVILLE – Although the first hearing on Butte County’s proposed new medical marijuana cultivation is more than a week away, a draft of the measure has been released to allow plenty of time for review. The measure would ban outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana, and limits the amount that could be grown indoors by parcel size.

The Chico News & Review, 16 Aug 2012 – Drugs With Growing Notoriety Are Right Here in Chico In May, a naked Florida man, Rudy Eugene, was found eating a homeless man’s face along a public roadway. Police ordered him to stop, but shot him to death when the crazed attacker only growled and continued to cannibalize his living victim, even after being shot once.