Subject: Marijuana

• Post-Prop. 215 Stress Disorder

  March 1, 2001

• Prince Valeant and Mary Jane

  Valeant Pharmaceuticals, based out of Costa Mesa, wants to give cancer patients the munchies. The FDA has just approved Valeant's Cesamet, already on sale in Canada as Nabilone, to moderate nausea and vomiting in those undergoing chemotherapy. A Belgian company has made a similar project, Marinol, for years and years, but considering the U.S. government's conflicting views on the values of medicinal marijuana (FDA versus National Institute of Health), it's significant that the FDA are acknowl

  May 17, 2006

• Bad Medicine

  Fullerton is certainly full of something these days. Last month the Fullerton Planning Commission approved a resolution to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their city. In fact, all the resolution woul accomplish is a violation of California law; that and a major buzz-kill to Jay's Paradise, the dispensary whose business license application inspired the last-minute "urgency ordinance". In 1996 California passed Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, which orders cities to set up a "plan

  September 12, 2006

• Fight the War Against the War on Drugs

  Protest the failing war on drugs at noon on Friday, Sept. 29, at the Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana. Yesterday in Modesto the DEA raided the California Healthcare Collective, a medicinal marijuana dispensary. From the Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a pro-medipot NPO: The Modesto medical cannabis dispensary California Healthcare Collective (CHC) was raided Wednesday by a task force made up of local and federal agents. Law enforcement conducting the raid included the Modesto Police Department

  September 28, 2006

• Dude, Here's Your Pot!

  The all-Republican Orange County Supervisors voted 4-1 today in favor of allowing county residents who suffer from a variety of ailments to smoke and possess medical marijuana without being harassed by cops. And yes, OC cops do harass medical cannabis smokers, folks: You read it here first in "Dude, Where's My Pot?" Or was it here? Or here? Or here? Now, Orange County residents who have doctors' notes under Proposition 215, the 1996 state law legalizing pot smoking for medical reasons, can o

  July 17, 2007

• Candy Kush Machines

  The future is now; the future is Marijuana Vending Machines. Technically termed PVMs, or Prescription Vending Machines, and now available at Herbal Nutrition Center in LA, the similarity between these and candy or soda machines ends at the name. They're installed behind secure dispensary doors, only dispense medication (including anti-depressants or Viagra) according to an individual's specific prescription as recorded on RFID-tagged cards, and exist to reduce pharmacy overhead rather than make

  January 28, 2008

• NORML Weekly Cartoon 2.25

  Courtesy of the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws:

  February 25, 2008

• Pot Comic Of The Week

  Courtesy of OC NORML:

  March 5, 2008

• Police Chief Operates Surf City's Only Medical Marijuana Dispensary

  Cops around here have developed a nasty habit: bogarting joints. That is, they illegally confiscate medical marijuana, get dragged into court for violating state law, lollygag in chambers for years, and have the local verdict kicked up to appellate court, where they ultimately lose and have to give the Devil's weed back, seeing as how state law protects legitimate medical marijuana patients like the ones cops around here keep busting. (Knit beanies off to Newport Beach artist michaelm for having

  September 17, 2008

• Redemption Song

  December 23, 1999

• Ready to Inhale

  May 3, 2001

• Marvins Garden

  October 4, 2001

• FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

  December 25, 2003

• Blunt Truth

  June 5, 2008

• Wheel of Misfortune

  Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month

  November 15, 2007

• Letters

  'Dude, what were you thinking?'

  June 7, 2007

• Dude, Where's My Pot?

  Ten years after California legalized medical marijuana, OCs war on cannabis continues

  May 17, 2007

• The Bong Arm of the Law

  OC Pot Crusader May Face Trial as Drug Dealer
  

  December 21, 2006

• Letters

  'Im so sorry you were bored in the Tridentine mass. Im bored in Bishop Browns chintzy rock band masses with aging hippies doing modern dance in the aisles.'

  December 7, 2006

• Chronic Tension

  August 26, 2004

• This Buds for You

  July 1, 2004

• After This, Tomatoes

  March 4, 2004

• Hey, Wheres the Stoners, Druids and Ferret-Lovers?

  February 26, 2004

• 'Our Little Secret'

  December 4, 2003

• Sorry seems to be the hardest word

  November 27, 2003

• Letters

  October 9, 2003

• George Bushs Joint

  October 2, 2003

• Have Sex, Smoke Pot, Get Paid

  September 26, 2002

• Bust the Kids, Pass the Bong

  August 22, 2002

• Chronic Mess

  August 8, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 25, 2002

• Letters

  April 25, 2002

• Kottonmouth Komrades

  November 23, 2000

• Drug Stink

  July 20, 2000

• A Second Chance

  May 11, 2000

• 'I Am a Harvard Man'

  March 9, 2000

• Hemp, Hemp Hooray!

  June 24, 1999

• Hey, Neighbor!

  June 24, 1999

• Jailbird or Lab Rat?

  February 25, 1999

• Criminal Prosecution

  February 11, 1999

• Mommy Nearest

  August 27, 1998

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  I thought people went to Taco Bell after toking the doob, not in search of it. The following story shows how much I know. From southwest Florida:The manager of a Cape Coral Taco Bell has been arrested after allegedly selling marijuana to undercover deputies on four separate occasions, three in the very parking lot of the restaurant he managed.Paul Price, 27, of 812 SW 6th Avenue, Cape Coral (Gustavo note: is southwest Florida still so backwards that the newspapers feel comfortable in printing so

  April 26, 2009

• With 'Reefer Madness,' Maverick Theater Has a (Bong) Hit On Its Hands

  June 18, 2009

• Taking the High Road With One of OC's Burgeoning Medical-Marijuana Delivery Services

  June 11, 2009

• Reefer Madness

  July 2, 2009

• Tax-Pot-to-Save-Teachers Ad is Too Hot for TV

  Every two-bit party hack, corporate lobbying group and, yes, of course, The Chosen One can get TV airtime to sway the masses this way and that, to and fro, the hot issue du jour. But make that issue the legalization of marijuana so that it may be taxed to save our state from going into the shitter and, by golly, it's as if you were suggesting NAMBLA take over day cares.Take this ad . . . please! 

  July 8, 2009

• A Medical-Pot Activist Spends a Night in Jail for Talking Back to Deputies at the OC Fair

  July 23, 2009

• Crime Time: Boozy Mom, Asshole Cop, Thieving Aliens, Fast-Acting Pharmacist and Lotsa Stabbers

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more boozy moms, asshole cops, fast-acting pharmacists, apartments full of thieving aliens and loads of stabbings!Courtesy of Costa Mesa Police DepartmentCraig Anthony McVay, 48, of Garden Grove, was in the midst of three years probation on a 2007 drug conviction when Costa Mesa Police was notified that he was selling one of the department's old SWAT uniforms on Craigslist.com. McVay then sweetened the offer to undercover officers

  September 9, 2009

• Medical Cannabis Supporters Light Up City Council Meeting

  Photo by Christopher Victorio Ready for face time with the Lake Forest City Council Tuesday night. ​Medical marijuana advocates offered 1,000 free hamburgers to draw supporters to Tuesday night's Lake Forest City Council meeting, but only 300 showed up to plead with city officials to reconsider their attempts to shut down 14 cannabis dispensaries around town. (See photographer Christopher Victorio's slideshow.) With stomachs swelled and munchies satisfied by the burgers, that was

  October 7, 2009

• Feds Finally Lighten Up on Those Who Light Up

  Flickr user theskywatcher​In a move that will likely increase President Obama's favorable rating even here in conservative Orange County, Attorney General Eric Holder ordered federal drug agents to stop prosecuting cases involving medical marijuana users and providers who obey state laws legalizing the drug for medical purposes. In other words, if you've got a doctor's license and a state medical marijuana ID card, you're not going to get fucked with by the feds. It's about time: California vo

  October 19, 2009