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Most California voters don't support legalizing pot, poll finds
In California, cradle of the marijuana movement, a new poll has found a majority of voters do not support legalization, even as they overwhelmingly back medicinal use for "patients with terminal and debilitating conditions." Eighty percent of voters...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Laws, Health, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Pot shop ban advances in L.A. City Council
A City Council committee moved forward with a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, approving a recommendation to outlaw storefront pot shops in Los Angeles while allowing small groups of patients and their primary caregivers to grow the drug...
Tags: Lotteries, Credit and Debt, Bill Rosendahl, Jose Huizar, Health
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Medical pot not protected by disabilities act, 9th Circuit rules
viv 77511/mcgonigle slotted/ Medical marijuana patients cannot use a federal disability law to prevent cities from shutting down pot dispensaries, a federal appeals court decided Monday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...
Tags: Politics, Judges, Justice System, Laws, Health
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Former Upland mayor pleads guilty in bribery scheme
Former Upland Mayor John Pomierski faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Thursday to bribery and admitting to accepting $5,000 to help a business obtain a permit. Pomierski, 58, became the third person to be convicted in the...
Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Politics, Lawyers, Judges, Bribery
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Santa Barbara is latest county to face federal pot crackdown
L.A. NOWThe widening federal crackdown on California’s medical marijuana industry reached Santa Barbara this week, with prosecutors filing forfeiture suits, executing search warrants, and sending warning letters related to more than a dozen growers and... -
California lawmakers OK plan to shift pot shop regulation to state
PolitiCalA proposal that could make it easier to open medical marijuana shops in California was approved by the Assembly's Public Safety Committee.... -
What's the 420, dude? America celebrates Pot Day
Dude! Today is a day of special significance and the appointed hour is 4:20 p.m. What it all means is on the tip of the tongue. Literally. Welcome to April 20, a day that has come to mean a celebration of marijuana and a protest against the fact that its...
Tags: Pi Day, Willie Nelson, University of Colorado at Boulder
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Festival of Books fires up tales from the cannabis community
Jacket CopyTaking place, as it did, just one day after the unofficial pothead holiday of April 20, and scheduled to start just 10 minutes past the herb heads' magic moment of 4:20 p.m., the L.A. Times Festival of Books nonfiction panel...... -
The past still grips Rodney King
Rodney King holds in his scarred hands a fishhook and a bag full of big white worms. He crouches on a dock at the edge of a lake on the outskirts of Ontario. It is early, and the sun is bright, the air quiet.
"I got these old fatties from my backyard,...Tags: Human Interest, Drew Pinsky, Boxing, Prisons, Disasters and Accidents
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'Master growers' cultivating a higher grade of marijuana
Behind the bolted steel doors of an old brick warehouse, Big Wes meets a nutrient company scientist to see if he can increase his crop yield. Rows of hydroponic marijuana plants soak up solution flowing through plastic troughs and light blazing from high-...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Genes and Chromosomes, Companies and Corporations, Science and Technology, Gardening
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Pot initiative effort dropped as Pat Robertson backs legalization
PolitiCalMedical marijuana advocates are dropping their efforts to place a measure on the November ballot that would regulate California's booming dispensary industry.... -
With healthcare law at stake, Supreme Court rolls up sleeves
A Republican-led challenge to the Democrats' most ambitious social legislation in a generation goes before the Supreme Court on Monday, with President Obama's healthcare law hanging in the balance. The court's ruling, expected by the end of June, may...
Tags: Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Laws, Health Insurance, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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