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Marijuana Clinic Owes Overtime, Worker Says 
A former worker at The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF) says the clinic refused to pay him overtime wages after he worked more than 80 hours a week during "crunch time in the garden."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 7:09pm PDT
Drug addiction on the rise in besieged Gaza Wednesday, July 1, 2009 :
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - They are little white, yellow or green pills and are available almost anywhere. At the pharmacies or in the market, they are accessible, addictive and cheap....
Posted: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 8:27am PDT
Los Angeles: 29 Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearings Scheduled Today 
The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee will be holding a special meeting today, Monday June 29, 2009 to hear 29 medical marijuana hardship exemption applications. The hearing will be at Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N Spring St in room 1060 and the special meeting begins at 8:30 AM and if you are unable to attend you listen live online via the internet at http://lacity.org/lacity/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/CouncilCommitteeMeetings/index.htm...
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 7:49am PDT
Los Angeles City Council Committee Hears 29 Medical Marijuana Hardship Applications Los Angeles City Hall
200 N Spring Street
Room 260
Los Angeles, Ca...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 8:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 5:32am PDT
Los Angeles Schedules 29 Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearings For Mon June 29th The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council will be holding a special meeting next Monday June 29, 2009 to hear 29 medical marijuana collective hardship exemption applications. The list of hearings this go round includes at least one pre-ICO collective that relocated due to a DEA landlord letter. Several of the collectives scheduled for hearings are in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles but the vast majority scheduled for hearings this time are on the...
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 7:23pm PDT
New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Prohibition Being Rushed Through Tuesday at City Council Santa Cruz City Hall
809 Center Street...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2009 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 9:19pm PDT
Los Angeles City Council To Discuss Medical Marijuana Moratorium (ICO) Today 
The Los Angeles City Council will hold a hardship exemption hearing this morning for Cahuenga Caregivers Inc dba Bulldog Cafe. This is an important hearing in the hardship exemption process as Cahuenga Caregivers Inc was one of the original 187 medical marijuana collectives registered in Los Angeles under the Interim Control Ordinance (ICO, aka- the moratorium) in September 2007. Also, in a special session council will discuss the revised city ICO (moratorium) regulating the medical marijuana...
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2009 6:16am PDT
The Measure K Oversight Committe Meeting of June 15, 2009 (video/x-ms-wmv 83.0MB) This is the entire, unedited video of the Measure K Oversight Committee Meeting held at Santa Cruz, CA City Council Chambers on June 15, 2009....
Posted: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 5:04pm PDT
"Lowest Marijuana Enforcement Priority" Committee Meets Today 809 Center St. in Santa Cruz at the City Council Chambers...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 7:52am PDT
Proposal for City of Oakland: Grow Hemp City of Oakland faces massive falling revenues and need to chop its budget down to size. Would growing hemp on empty city lots, such as that in the Uptown district, raise much-needed funds as well as raise a useful plant which provides more than medicine? Fiber for clothing, food, paper pulp, jobs, agricultural awareness are all benefits of this proposal....
Posted: Sun, Jun 14, 2009 12:35pm PDT
Los Angeles City Council Schedules Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearing for This Wednesday 
The Los Angeles City Council has scheduled one medical marijuana hardship exemption hearing for next Wednesday's session (June 17, 2009). Council will hear the application of Cahuenga Caregivers Inc, dba Bulldog Cafe (see item #9 in attached city council agenda) a medical marijuana collective on Melrose Avenue. What makes this hearing worth watching is that Cahuenga Caregivers was one of the original 187 medical marijuana collectives that registered under the Los Angeles ICO prior to November...
Posted: Sun, Jun 14, 2009 10:06am PDT
Time suppresses story on DEA agents bribed by Colombia traffickers This second project report is based on the first-hand documented experience of Mr. Sandalio Gonzalez, retired Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent in Charge. Time Magazine reporters Tim Burger and Tim Padgett had an opportunity to speak at length with Mr. Gonzalez and several other veteran DEA agents with direct knowledge of a major corruption case involving several DEA agents on drug traffickers' payrolls in Colombia. The involved corrupt US officers were also directly involved in hel...
Posted: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 8:09pm PDT
Los Angeles City Council Schedules Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearing for Wed Jun 17th 
The Los Angeles City Council has scheduled one hardship exemption hearing for next Wednesday's session.
What makes this hearing worth watching is that Cahuenga Caregivers was one of the original 187 collectives that registered under the Los Angeles ICO prior to November 13, 2007 but they were forced to relocate when their landlord received a letter from the DEA and evicted them.
Approximately 50 of the original 187 registered collectives here in Los Angeles have moved from their original loc...
Posted: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 5:43pm PDT
Support the Mono Park 2 in Court June 11th! Support the Mono Park 2!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 8:24pm PDT
LA City Council medical marijuana hardship hearings live online June 9, 2009 
On Tuesday June 9, 2009 (tomorrow) the city of Los Angeles will hold the first hearings on medical marijuana collective hardship exemptions from the September 2007 moratorium (ICO). 16 collectives will face hearings, the first ever held in Los Angeles....
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 7:05pm PDT
Start a drum beat for pot Do you smoke marijauna, how, do you hide it wouldent be better if you came out showing our majority demanding legalization...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2009 10:37am PDT
MEDICAL MARIJUANA COURT DATE: Nature's Medicinal Defendants Status Hearing 
U.S. District Court on 2500 Tulare Street in Fresno, CA 93721...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 8:42pm PDT
LA City Council to hear first hardships and close the Hardship loophole in the ICO The City of Los Angeles Council has scheduled its first Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearings starting next Tuesday June 9th. I have attached the City Council Agenda, look for items no 32-45. There has been a lot of controversy regarding the loophole that allowed dispensaries to open after the ICO. The City is going to take some action by holding these hearings. It seems that they are focusing on the Highland Park and Eagle Rock areas....
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 3:01am PDT
Congress Sends Drug War South, Taxpayer Money to Defense Firms Saturday, May 30, 2009 Just when the Obama administration showed signs of rethinking the disastrous "war on drugs" at home, Congress decided to export it big-time to Mexico. On foreign land, this monument to wrong-headed policy takes a particularly bloody and bellicose form....
Posted: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 7:29am PDT
Is it or isn't? What's up with these raids on what is suppose to be legal activity?...
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2009 7:03pm PDT
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