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XCalifornia's marijuana legalization debate
On Nov. 2, California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have legalized possession and cultivation of marijuana. The ballot measure, defeated with about 54% of the vote, would have made it legal for anyone 21 or older to possess, share or transport up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use and to grow up to 25 square feet per residence or parcel. Marijuana legalization advocates say they already working on their comeback plan for 2012 and are almost giddy about their prospects.
Voters approved a measure that would keep only 135 dispensaries — those operating before a failed moratorium in 2007 — open. But challenges await the law. |
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Video: Marijuana Poll Results
California Supreme Court upholds pot dispensary bans
In a unanimous decision, the court rules that local governments have the power to rezone dispensaries out of existence. The decision upholds bans in about 200 cities.
More twists in Audrie Pott case
At an emotional news conference, Audrie Pott's family and their lawyer acknowledge there probably was just one photo of her alleged assault, and that it had not been widely distributed.
Lack of quorum spotlights Garcetti's council-meeting absences
Since coming in first in the March 5 primary, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has missed 10 of the council's last 12 meetings.
Ed Edelman returns to the spotlight in a PBS documentary
The former L.A. city councilman and county supervisor is probably best known now for the children's court named for him, but he was a liberal champion whose work has improved the lives of thousands.
Mendocino County spars with feds over conflicting marijuana laws
Mendocino County is resisting demands by federal prosecutors for records on medical marijuana growers who registered for permits to cultivate up to 99 plants.
Roots of pot cultivation in national forests are hard to trace
Mexican cartels' role seems smaller than once believed, but the crops and the dangers they pose have proliferated in the last decade.
Legal drugs, deadly outcomes
Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine. An L.A. Times review of coroners' records finds that drugs prescribed by a small number of doctors caused or contributed to a disproportionate number of deaths.
Veteran Emerald Triangle pot growers see their way of life ending
Pioneering marijuana cultivators in the hills of Mendocino and Humboldt counties are being pushed to the margins by the legalization they long espoused.
On the frontier of medical pot to treat boy's epilepsy
A U.S. crackdown on pot shops threatens a father's search for cannabidiol in hopes of halting his son's seizures from Dravet syndrome.
Medical pot returning to underground
Under increased legal pressure, 'Ricky' closed his dispensaries and resumed selling marijuana — but only to those with a doctor's recommendation.
Some Southern California 'nonprofit' pot shops make big money
Documents show a cash-infused retail world bearing little resemblance to the one pitched to voters for the 1996 Compassionate Use Act for 'seriously ill Californians.'
