Email Author NICK SCHOU

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Don't Start a Riot"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 20, 2010

  "Will This Pot Case Get Weeded Out?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Crash First..."

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 19, 2010

  "Murder? Are You Crazy?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 21, 2007

  "Just a Random Female"

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2012 Stories by NICK SCHOU

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  COVER STORY

  Navel Gazing's Project Un-uncensored

  published December 27, 2012

  Keeping up with this crazy county of ours through the dead-tree issue is fine in a sopping-up-chin-latte-at-the-coffeehouse kind of way, but... More >>

• Blowing Smoke: OC Weekly's Top Ten Marijuana Stories of 2012

  published Dec 20, 2012

  2012 was a busy year for marijuana. It began with what looked like the beginning of the end of the medical marijuana industry in California and ended with the legalization of recreational weed in both... More >>

• Orange County DA Clears OC Cops in Two More Shootings

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Just in time for the Christmas holidays, the Orange County District Attorney has released a pair of reports that clear Orange County cops in two more officer-involved shootings. Nothing unusual t... More >>

• [UPDATE: Tonight's Classes Canceled] Cal State Fullerton On Lockdown, Cops Chase Culprits in Moreno Valley Jewerly Heist

  published Dec 12, 2012

  Please see end of post for updated info...Original Post: 5:48 p.m.: The campus of California State Fullerton is on lockdown this evening as officers search for suspects who are believed to be involved... More >>

• Joe Grumbine, Medical Pot Activist, Still Languishing Behind Bars

  published Dec 11, 2012

  It's been almost a month to the day since Joe Grumbine was arrested at the Long Beach downtown courthouse when he showed up for a regularly scheduled trial conference hearing. Along with his part... More >>

• Getting High For the Heck of it Now Legal in Washington State, California Stuck in Medical Pot Fog

  published Dec 06, 2012

  Today, Washington State made history by becoming the first state in the union where you can smoke marijuana just to get high. A bunch of folks celebrated that fact by gathering at Seattle's Space Need... More >>

• Pot Poll: Most Americans Want Marijuana To Be Legal

  published Dec 05, 2012

  Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal under federal law, and 50 percent of Americans think it actually will be within the next ten years, according to a poll commissi... More >>

• Oakland Pot Dispensary Ruling Could Curtail Federal Crackdown

  published Dec 04, 2012

  Anybody notice that ever since Obama was re-elected, all's been quiet on the federal marijuana crackdown frontrMaybe all those conspiracy theorists who claimed that Obama would move to legalize mariju... More >>

• D.A.R.E. Dropping Marijuana From Kids' Ant-Drug Curriculum

  published Dec 03, 2012

  As of this month, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E., the nation's largest anti-drug non-profit group, will no longer indoctrinate public school elementary kids against the evils of marijuan... More >>

• This Joint's For You: An Open Letter To Sheriff Sandra Hutchens About Medical Marijuana

  published Nov 28, 2012

  Dear Sheriff Hutchens,We here at OC Weekly would like to extend our heartfelt condolences about your recent diagnosis of breast cancer. We're glad, however, that you plan to remain in office while you... More >>

• [UPDATED: GRUMBINE STILL BEHIND BARS] Joe Grumbine, Medical Marijuana Activist, Arrested in Long Beach

  published Nov 27, 2012

  *See the end of the post for an update on today's court hearing and photos of today's protest.Original Post, Nov. 13, 12:52 p.m.: Joe Grumbine, the medical marijuana activist (and OC Weekly cover... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Patient Med-Aid: For Those Sick Enough to Smoke

  published November 21, 2012

  To reach the warehouse, you have to drive down an unmarked alleyway in an industrial neighborhood of Anaheim—it's the third one past the... More >>

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  'We Will Live to Fight Again'

  published November 8, 2012

  COLORS5:30 P.M., Election Eve. The after-school day care at La Veta Elementary School in El Modena is a whirlwind of... More >>

• Forget Medical: Colorado Legalizes Recreational Weed

  published Nov 07, 2012

  If there's anything that Californians have learned in the 16 years since voters passed Proposition 215, it's this: medical marijuana is a mess. On the one hand, marijuana has gotten a lot easier to co... More >>

• OC Jails In-Custody Death Investigation Trifecta!

  published Nov 02, 2012

  If the adage that celebrity deaths always seem to come in threes is true, the same can apparently be said about inmates behind bars in Orange County. Actually, only two of the three inmates died ... More >>

• Better Call Glew: Computer Sexytime Edition!

  published Oct 26, 2012

  Hi Mr. Glew,I have begun receiving nude pictures in my personal email from an anonymous email address.  I do not know who is sending me these pictures because the face is never shown. Is this sex... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Feds Arrest 12 In Alleged Pot Ring Operating in OC & LBC

  published Oct 25, 2012

  Twelve people were arrested this morning for conspiracy to distribute marijuana in a case that federal authorities claim involves a ring of pot dispensaries that operated in both Orange County and Lon... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  OC's Scariest People 2012!

  published October 25, 2012

  Every year, we try to pick an artistic theme that'll make our Scariest People issue as ghastly as possible—say, Dia de los Muertos,... More >>

• Long Beach Still Has Pot Clubsr

  published Oct 23, 2012

  According to an article in today's Long Beach Press Telegram, the city is trying to revoke the commercial license of the owner of a strip mall on Anaheim Blvd. The reasonr The landlord keeps renting t... More >>

• Genetically Modified Food Debate At Chapman University Today!

  published Oct 19, 2012

  Whether to pass or strike down Proposition 37, an initiative requiring labels on some genetically modified foods, is the subject of a debate that will take place at Chapman University this afternoon.I... More >>

• Four Pot Legalization Proposals That Won't Help Orange County

  published Oct 15, 2012

  Unlike Colorado and Washington State, where voters have a chance this November to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for consenting adults, California has no such proposal on the statewide ele... More >>

• Better Call Glew: Bench Warrant Blues

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Hi Mr. Glew,I received a letter in the mail stating that there was a bench warrant for my arrest for failing to pay fines from a DUI I got a couple years back. I don't know how to clear this up witho... More >>

• [UPDATED W/NEW INFO] DEA Raids Seven Pot Clubs In LBC!

  published Oct 11, 2012

  *See bottom of post for update: ORIGINAL POST, Oct. 10, 2:44 p.m.: As we reported last month, an Ace Hardware store in Long Beach drew the ire of Long Beach pot activists when it began protesting... More >>

• OC Detective Calls For County Supervisors to Dismantle Alternate Defense Services

  published Oct 09, 2012

   Remember CJ FordrHe was the private investigator who I profiled in my March 2010 story, "Bad Detective." Ford isn't the bad detective in question, though. That honor went to Joseph Szeles, who d... More >>

• $6 Million Worth of Marijuana Seized in Diamond Bar, Hacienda Heightsr

  published Oct 05, 2012

  On Wed., Oct 3, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested two men in connection with three different houses where some 2,000 pot plants and 20 pounds of marijuana was discovered. The men arr... More >>