Well, here it goes again – another federal marijuana crackdown in California. This time – San Jose. Marijuana collective owners in San Jose face 40 years in prison thanks to a recent federal crackdown. Read the full story below from EastBayExpress.com A San Jose dispensary operator has informed us that the federal government has begun a new round of actions against lawful medical cannabis dispensaries in the South Bay. Landlords... Read more »
The acting Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, calls for decriminalizing marijuana in his speech at the California Democratic Convention in Sacramento on April 13. Newsom is a strong supporter of legalizing gay marriage and has this to say about legalizing marijuana: It’s time to decriminalize, tax, and regulate marijuana… In 2011 alone in this country, three quarters of a million people in the United States were arrested for marijuana law... Read more »
California’s Disputed Dispensaries Dispensary laws in California are as hazy as nearly everything cannabis related in the golden state. The only thing that’s truly clear applies to local official’s authority to regulate collectives, which includes to ability to outright ban dispensaries within entire cities and counties. The law empowers municipalities to enact civil as well as criminal statutes to control co-ops in their proverbial backyards. While blanket bans seemingly contradict... Read more »
California’s Mysterious Cannabis Laws Is marijuana legal in California? No one seems to know. California’s marijuana laws are a virtual labyrinth of contradictory statutes and conflicting jurisprudence. Take simple possession, for example. Getting caught with an ounce or less of marijuana qualifies as an infraction, similar to a traffic ticket. But the traffic ticket parallel raises an important point—traffic tickets often appear on background checks. Consequently, these types of convictions... Read more »