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Huge indoor marijuana grow found in abandoned fortune cookie factory
OAKLAND — A fire at a former fortune cookie factory Monday afternoon led to the discovery of at least 1,000 marijuana plants worth about $500,000, police said. Let’s see, half a million in retail sales would have generated over $40,000 in tax revenue if the product were legal… Police Sgt. Rich Vierra said there is [...]
Stash for Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines It’s Official: Obama Admin will not raid state-compliant medical marijuana facilities Another Stiletto Stoner Story: Elle Magazine on marijuana as anxiety relief Oakland International Airport allows medical users to fly with up to eight ounces of marijuana Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards . [...]
Oakland International Airport allows medical users to fly with up to eight ounces of marijuana
(Contra Costa Times) Oakland International Airport may be the nation’s only airport with a specific policy letting users of medical marijuana travel with the drug. The policy is spelled out in a three-page document quietly enacted last year by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. It states that if deputies determine someone is a qualified patient [...]
Challenge to Palm Springs dispensary limits overruled by judge
(The Desert Sun) A legal challenge to Palm Spring’s recent ordinance regulating medical marijuana collectives was overruled Tuesday by a Riverside County Superior Court judge, court records show. Judge Harold W. Hopp’s decision to uphold Palm Spring’s “authority to enact reasonable zoning restrictions” on collectives leaves the fate of several collectives in the city up [...]
Marijuana legalization moving forward in California and Oregon (update)
Oakland-based activists have filed a ballot initiative with the Attorney General that would legalize marijuana in California and allow counties to establish local systems to tax and regulate the plant and its products. Activists have 150 days from filing to gather 434,000 signatures to qualify for the statewide ballot in November 2010. The initiative is [...]
Stash for Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines Jacksonville NORML proposing Jacksonville Beach marijuana decriminalization amendment Teen marijuana dealers beat man to death over nickel bag Republican Moms for Marijuana More UK Reefer Madness: Cannabis ‘can cause psychosis in healthy people’ Your NORML Board of Directors California NORML Coordinator and NORML Board’s Dale [...]
Stash for Wed, Jul 22, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines Oakland voters pass first-in-nation marijuana tax LA Dispensary gives away free marijuana to first 100 patients Harry Potter actor avoids jail time for growing ten marijuana plants New Jersey Reefer Madness from David H. Kerr Cannabis Science with Dr. Mitch Earleywine New York Times story [...]
Oakland voters pass first-in-nation marijuana tax
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland residents overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to approve a first-of-its kind tax on medical marijuana sold at the city’s four cannabis dispensaries. Preliminary election results showed the measure passing with 80 percent of the vote, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. The dispensary tax was one of four measures in [...]
Stash for Mon, May 4, 2009
Download link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines Medical Marijuana in Oregon: Not the End of Reform, But the Beginning (Op-Ed in Eugene Weekly by Russ Belville) Judge Jay “Torture Memo” Bybee & 9th Circuit Panel uphold 10-year sentence for Bryan Epis Wall Street Journal on Taxing Marijuana in Oakland, California Illinois Medical [...]
Wall Street Journal on Taxing Marijuana in Oakland, California
OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland’s City Council last week approved a 1.8% tax on medicinal marijuana sold in the city. If voters pass the proposal in a July election, Oakland would become the nation’s first city to directly tax the drug. A city tax on medical marijuana could generate at least $400,000 and perhaps more than [...]