Legalization of Marijuana: What Could Happen?

Tom Ammiano’s bill has been modified and I haven’t found the State Board of Equalization’s analysis of it.  However, much of the analysis of his older bill still holds true. Here are some excerpts I found interesting. According to the report titled Marijuana Production in the United States (2006), an estimated 22.3 million pounds of marijuana was grown in the

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"End the Marijuana Raids" the California Senate Urges the Feds

Marijuana Seedling Frequent Photo With a 23 -15 vote, the California Senate urged the federal government to end marijuana raids and “create a comprehensive federal medical marijuana policy that ensures safe and legal access to any patient that would benefit from it.” The Senate has also called upon the Federal government to “end federal raids, intimidation, and interference with state

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Attorney General Jerry Brown Provides Medical Marijuana Guidelines

215 Plant In the midst of the latest Federal crackdown on marijuana with Scott Burns, deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, declaring that one of the tools he plans to use to eradicate marijuana use is to “send notice to these so-called dispensaries to tell them that they are in violation of federal law,”

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Fly By: Overview of the Lightning Fires–Links and Info

Fire helicopter Links and Information: CalFire Report for entire state of California Total Fires: 1,032 Acres involved: 132,235 Structures Destroyed: 17 residences, 1 commercial, 19 outbuildings to date. The following contains local fire information phone #’s in red alphabetically by county–also blogs, other links of interest and other important information added to CalFire information Amador-El Dorado Unit:(530) 647-5218 All fires

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Allman's Plans: Part ll of an Interview with the Mendocino County Sheriff

Click graphic to enlarge Link to Part 1 of the Interview “We’re targeting known growers now.” Sheriff Allman has been working with other county Sheriffs as well as other high law enforcement officials on ways to deal with Marijuana issues. Just recently, he called a meeting with the 6 Northern counties most affected by pot—Del Norte, Humboldt, Sonoma, Lake, Trinity,

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