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May 14, 2012
Ron Paul Ends Campaign: Who Wins The Pot Vote?
It's being widely reported today--including right here on Navel Gazing, like one minute ago--that Ron Paul is bowing out of the 2012 presidential race, or more accurately, ceasing any campaigning in states that have yet to hold their Republican Party primary elections.This is not good news for peopl ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Better Call Glew: Can I Fly the Friendly Skies With a Bag of Weed?
Jay BrockmanWhat are some of the safest places to hide evidence?First of all it is against the law for anyone to advise or assist you in any way to hide evidence of any crime. My best piece of advice to you is to hire a full time attorney and bail bondsmen because you my friend are going to ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative Gathers 20,000 Signatures
The last few months of 2011 weren't exactly fun for advocates of medical marijuana in California. The federal government threatened to seize properties being used for illegally cultivating or dispensing marijuana, media organizations including this one were put on alert that they could be prosecu ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Obama's War On Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
Blogs
October 7, 2011
[UPDATED WITH CITY'S NEAR CLUELESS REACTION] Long Beach Pot Ordinance Ruled Illegal: Cannabis Activists Winning?
UPDATE, OCT. 7, 12 P.M.: Long Beach city officials are scratching their heads about how to respond to an appeal court decision that appears to overturn the city's medical marijuana ordinance. According to an article by Greggory Moore posted yesterday evening on Long Beach Post, the city attorney ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Reefer Madness: Marijuana Now Accounts For More Than Half Of All Drug Arrests in U.S.
According to statistics released yesterday by the FBI, 2010 saw more people arrested in the United States for marijuana than any other year, with pot cases now accounting for more than half of all drug arrests in the country. Specifically 853,838 people were placed into custody for marijuana rela ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Pot Party! OCNORML Celebrates Eight Year Anniversary Tonight
OCNORML, the Orange County chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, is celebrating its eighth year anniversary tonight at Giovanni's Pizza in Fullerton. The event, which starts at 7 pm, is open to members and non-members alike who can afford the $10 donation at the door. The ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Jim Gray: Voters Wanted To Regulate Pot Like Wine?
Photo by John GilhooleyRetired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray, Orange County's favorite anti-drug war crusader, is pushing a ballot initiative for next year that would legalize marijuana for adults in California. Like Proposition 19, which failed at the ballot box last November, his ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Obama Says Marijuana Is Not Medicine, Will Remain As Illegal As Heroin
Any hope that President Obama, a legendary pot smoker back at Occidental College in the late 1970s, might reclassify marijuana as a drug that has medicinal value just went up in smoke. Nine years ago, for the third time since marijuana was prohibited more than a half-century ago, medical marijuan ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Marijuana Activists to Protest Orange County Raids at Supervisors Meeting Tomorrow
In December 2010, the Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county. Then, for a few months, nothing happened. Cannabis collectives that had been operating on county turf continued to to so without being raided or even fine ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Chris Norby Gaining Prominence in Marijuana Decriminalization Debate
Chris Norby, the Republican state assembly member from Fullerton, is giving James P. Gray, the former Orange County Superior Court Judge, a run for his money when it comes to providing the conservative voice of marijuana reform. As an LA Times story points out today, there's a wave of legislation ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Legalize Pot, Say Geniuses at Global Commission on Drug Policy
The Los Angeles Times, and just about every other newspaper that covers world news, is reporting today that the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an influential think-tank made up of world leaders, has just issued a report calling the war on drugs "a costly failure" and calling on the United Stat ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
420 Quiz! Name This Day in Pot History
If you're a bonafide stoner, you already know what 4:20 pm, especially on a Friday afternoon, is all about. The less said about that the better.But do you know what happened on this day exactly 100 years ago? Here's a hint: it happened in Massachusetts and it involved pot, although that's not wha ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
High Times Miss 2011 Hails From Newport Beach
Yesterday, on April 20, stoners across America were toking up at exactly 4:20 pm--4/20 and 420 is stoner code for smoking out, in case you didn't already know what your kids are talking, or texting about, as the case may be, with their friends. In honor of this important occasion, High Times maga ... More >>
News
April 14, 2011
Steele Smith: Prophet of Pot?
C3 Patient Association's head fancies himself a truth-teller in OC's medicinal-marijuana communtiy. And because of that, he just might be its most hated member
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Alan Bock, OC Register Columnist, Retires after 30 Years
The pages of the Orange County Register just got a little more predictable.On March 16, after 30 years with the newspaper, columnist Alan Bock, wrote in the Register's "Orange Punch" politics blog, that he's retiring from journalism. Bock, who has previously written about his recent struggle with ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Marijuana Legalization Debated at CSUF, Local Christian College and Newport Beach Hotel
Recent polls show marijuana legalization will go down in flames in California on Nov. 2, while some interpreting those surveys claim many voters saying no to pollsters will punch yes to Prop 19 once inside the voting booth, paving the way to victory.The votes of undecideds will be critical. Fortu ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Prop. 19: More Than a Nickel Bag of Opinions
Six leading OC medical-marijuana and pot-legalization advocates leave no turn unstoned in examining the ballot initiative
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Dueling Sides on Prop 19 Trot Out Research
As California voters weigh whether to support legalization of marijuana on the November ballot, forces for and against Prop 19 are stepping up the studies, statistics and rhetoric aimed at propping up their respective sides.
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September 15, 2010
Jim Gray, Former OC Judge, Comes Out Swinging in Favor of Prop 19
A law enforcement group claims passage of Prop 19, the marijuana legalization initiative on California's November ballot, would decriminalize an estimated 60,000 drug arrests made in the Golden State each year.So, who is the face of the nonprofit Law Enforcement Against Prohibition? None other ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
South County Cities Go to Pot
Pot filled two South County city council chambers Tuesday night.That is, separate issues from modern life in the cannabis age were taken up by the city leaders in Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo.
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August 5, 2010
Pot Tax Weighed in City That Spawned the World's Cannambassador Snoop Dogg
On the same November ballot that will have Californians decide whether to legalize marijuana, Long Beach voters will decide whether the city that spawned Snoop Dogg should tax recreational marijuana.That's right, not medical cannabis but recreational pot, the kind consumed by the pride of LBC and ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Isaac Robert Longo, the Face of Marijuana Manslaughter?
Don't be surprised if Isaac Robert Longo becomes a poster child for the evils of driving while high by forces girding to defeat marijuana legalization in California this November.After all, the 33-year-old Placentia man smoked pot before causing a five-car pileup on the 55 freeway in November 200 ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Feinstein Leads Opposition to Prop. 19, But Sting is For It and Rohrabacher's Not Sure
Illustration by Jay BrockmanDianne Feinstein, our U.S. senator who is not up for reelection this November, joins Reps. Darrell Issa (R-San Diego) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Marin) and gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman in coming out against Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization initiati ... More >>
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July 7, 2010
[UPDATED:] Long Beach Weighs Marijuana Tax
UPDATE: The council voted 8-1 to hold a hearing next month on whether to put a medical-marijuana tax on the November city ballot.The Long Beach City Council considered a proposal Tuesday night to put a ballot measure before local voters that would tax marijuana.However, Americans for Safe Access ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2010
Legalization Could Cut Costs, Increase Consumption of Marijuana: RAND Study
A new study shows legalization and distribution of marijuana in California could cut the price of cannabis by up to 80 percent and increase consumption.Findings by the RAND Corp. also show revenues from taxing legal pot could be significantly higher or lower than the $1 billion estimated by the s ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Buzz-Killers Claim Pot-Tax Windfall Blows
One argument in favor of legalizing marijuana in California centers on the massive funds that can be generated for the Not-So-Golden State through taxing and regulating weed.Some go so far as to hail cannabis as the solution to the state budget crisis, which has now been here so long it has its o ... More >>
News
May 20, 2010
Growing Pains at Otherside Farms
Chadd McKeen helps medical-pot patients grow their own, while openly bashing some weed dispensaries
News
April 29, 2010
Mark Moen, Marijuana Martyr
The arrest of 215 Agenda's owner has OC's medical-pot community wondering if it has a prayer of avoiding trouble with the cops
Blogs
March 31, 2010
Buzzkillers Aim to Kill Cannabis Initiative
"Parents, grandparents and concerned citizens of California have filed paperwork to form a political action committee to defeat the November initiative that will help legalize marijuana," announced a group of busybodies known as Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana (BUZZKILL).Sorry, that should ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Manhattan Madame Kristin Davis Praises California Marijuana Initiative
ManhattanMadame.com"California is setting a precedent that hard times call for innovative solutions," says "Manhattan Madame" Kristin Davis."Manhattan Madame" Kristin Davis supplied high-priced escorts for ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, but now that she is running for the same office, she is ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Governor Candidates, Humboldt County Pot Growers Agree: No on Legalization!
Jerry Brown: "I've already indicated that that's not a provision I am likely to support."The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 was certified for November's ballot this week after backers turned in signatures from hundreds of thousands of California voters, but the three top candid ... More >>
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January 11, 2010
State Assembly Panel Weighs Legalizing Weed
SFWeekly.comAmmianoThe Weekly just published Dave Ferrell's cover story about the creep toward marijuana legalization. The California Cannabis Initiative appears destined for the November ballot. Meanwhile, pressure to legalize it is still being applied in the state Assembly.The Assembly's Public ... More >>
News
January 7, 2010
Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!
SFWeekly.comAmmianoThe Weekly just published Dave Ferrell's cover story about the creep toward marijuana legalization. The California Cannabis Initiative appears destined for the November ballot. Meanwhile, pressure to legalize it is still being applied in the state Assembly.The Assembly's Public ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Cops, Judges, Prosecutors, Police Chiefs, Prison Wardens, FBI/DEA Agents: Legalize All Drugs
Tom Angell caught Clockwork's recent post "As Cannabis Initiative Heads for Ballot, Former Police Chief Advocates Legalizing All Drugs." It was based on a recent column by Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and 34-year veteran cop, of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). An ... More >>
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