Subject: Medicine

• 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

• Got HIV/AIDS? Kick Hillary Clinton

  Perhaps preoccupied by the GOP man-boy love case in the lower house, the U.S. Senate over the weekend failed to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act and with it about $6 million annually that helps Orange County deal with a growing HIV population and increasing number of AIDS cases, alerts the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County. The foundation notes that federal funding patterns typically show Orange County getting less dollars as more is diverted to regions with higher HIV/AIDS rates. Ext

  October 3, 2006

• Pre-Existing Condition

  March 19, 2009

• 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

• Poorman Sues KDOC

  As predicted, on January 18th Jim "The Poorman" Trenton and his attorney Brian D. Boydston filed suit against KDOC and its parent company Ellis Communications. The suit alleges breach of contract, and demands damages "in a sum according to proof at trial, but not less that $27,646" for revenues lost due to ads being pulled from the TV show Poorman's Bikini Beach, ads involving the adult DVD companies Landmark Video, Maximum Mojo, and genital wart removal specialist Dr. Jeffrey Lauber. Curiously

  January 23, 2008

• Gay Marriage Portends Increase in Urine Sex, OC Reverend Reveals!

  Usually I like to pretend Wiley Drake is really on to something when I blog about his crazy shit, but this email, which sat in my junk folder and remains there (I cut and pasted from it) is outrageously ridiculous enough to print verbatim: What Legal Same Sex Marriages Bring into society........... Oral Sex with the ingesting of semen and anal contamination bringing about hepatitis A, gonorrhea, HIV, and hepatitis B Rectal Sex brings a mixing bowl for saliva and its germs and/or an artific

  June 18, 2008

• Hewitt's Hughpocrisy

  Hugh Hewitt came out west from the Reagan White House to oversee construction of the Richard Nixon Library and, later, represent The Irvine Co. and other coastal developers in court as they sought to build whatever they desired on their land, “environmental extremism” like the Endangered Species Act (that Nixon demanded from Congress and signed in 1973) be damned. Hugh’s hobby in those days was writing local commentary that criticized the SoCal media for being too biased and left leaning.

  September 3, 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

• Marvins Garden

  October 4, 2001

• FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

  December 25, 2003

• Obama's Expected Lift on Stem-Cell Ban Cheered at UCI

  President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, fulfilling a campaign promise and repealing one of the most bone-headed stances taken by his predecessor, George W. Bush.News of Obama's expected order, which is tentatively scheduled to be signed at 11 a.m. Monday at the White House, is quite welcomed at UC Irvine, which is one of the foremost medical and scientific research institutions in

  March 6, 2009

• Welcome to the Poorhouse: Saggy Man Boobs Edition

  Whenever they's a wrinkle eating away at vain people, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop not doing a double take as a pair of hooters goes by, I'll be there. . . .. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're in a gentleman's club an' I'll be in the way trophy wives laugh when they're gossiping about their nannies' flat butts an' they know their celery, parsley and air lunch's ready. An' when folks smile like the Joker an' can't shut their eyes when they sneeze--why, I'll be there.To think I tho

  March 26, 2009

• Ask the Doctor

  November 13, 2008

• Fewer OC Hospitals Are Allowing Midwife-Assisted Births, And Moms-to-Be Aren't Taking It Lying Down

  July 24, 2008

• Hearts 
of Gold

  January 10, 2008

• Wheel of Misfortune

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

  November 15, 2007

• Takin' Care

  Cruisin’ For A Cure

  September 20, 2007

• Summer Smart Growth

  Make sure those D cups runneth over

  June 7, 2007

• Dude, Where's My Pot?

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

  May 17, 2007

• Yes, Vagina, There is a Santa Claus

  Even for battle-worn sluts, genitals are a difficult thing to contend with

  December 14, 2006

• Dr. Z, Sun God

  June 22, 2006

• Cognizance

  June 1, 2006

• Preemptive Strikes We Like

  March 9, 2006

• Rent Scam

  December 1, 2005

• Code Red at Western Med

  October 13, 2005

• We Must Have Syph

  May 26, 2005

• Not So Little Plays

  September 11, 2003

• Time for a Plan B

  September 11, 2003

• Abstain From This

  May 15, 2003

• Not Not Guilty

  March 27, 2003

• Chronic Mess

  August 8, 2002

• Human Speed Bump

  October 18, 2001

• No Gay Blood, Please

  September 27, 2001

• NYC AIDS Walk Gets Hillary Duff. We Get Vickie Vargas

  New York's AIDS Walk opening ceremony hostessNew York City's biggest AIDS fundraiser of the year, Sunday's AIDS Walk in Central Park, will be led by actress-singer Hillary Duff, who will serve as co-host of the opening ceremony and walk with her "Hillary Duff-Walk with Love" team.Orange County gets a jump on that a day early, with the OC AIDS Walk at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. So who is our big celebrity catch?Vickie Vargas!That's right, the KNBC/Channel 4 News Orange County bureau chief--as

  May 13, 2009

• Planned Parenthood Seeks County Funds Despite Activist Supervisors

  Orange-based Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, which had its $300,000 health-services contract voided in March due to activist county supervisors, only to have the grant reinstated Tuesday along with regulations that will make it more difficult to attain future county funds, defiantly vowed to apply this week for the new money anyway. "We will not be deterred by their persistent bias against us," said Jon Dunn, the nonprofit's president and CEO, in a statement sent to the

  May 1, 2009

• Henry Winkler

  May 28, 2009

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

  June 11, 2009

• How Pro-Life Activists and OC Supervisors Cut Off Funds to Planned Parenthood

  July 2, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 9, 2009

• Map Tracks How OC, Other Counties Fare With HIV/AIDS Rates

  The National Minority Quality Forum created an online map to coincide with last month's National HIV Testing Day that shows what areas of the country have the most cases of HIV/AIDS. It's available here. You first have to register, free of charge, to use the map. You can then punch in a state, county and congressional district and find out how it fares. The methodology is based on the number of people reported with HIV/AIDS by county health officials versus the county's population in 2000. Punc

  July 15, 2009

• Evening for Hope and Possibility

  July 16, 2009

• Barbara Coe Adds Another Jewel to Her Crown of Conspiracies

  ​It would take me a while to list all the vile things and views California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe believes, but a short list includes: Reconquista, Sikhs and Muslims deserve deportation, Obama wasn't born in the United States, Sonny Bono was murdered because he knew too much, and on and on the beat don't stop until the break of dawn. Here's the latest: Babs is urging her followers not to take any vaccines because the government is using them to kill you!In a August 1

  August 5, 2009

• Orange County Clergy Goes Hollywood for Obamacare

  Yes, the people popping up everywhere to disrupt explanations of Obamacare by congress people and administration folk seldom get covered these days. A favorite was two days ago on CNN, when the anchorwoman cut to such a town hall where a U.S. senator was detailing the plan. Without hanging in long enough so viewers could figure out what the senator was explaining about the plan, CNN cut back to the doe-eyed newscaster, who said she'd check back in should "something happe

  August 11, 2009

• Feds and State to Californians: Ride Out Swine Flu Alone

  CNN carried a report this morning on physicians at the University of Kansas telling students to avoid coming in to the campus health clinic if they contract the H1N1 swine flu virus and that they instead ride it out in their dorm rooms. That's keeping with federal guidelines California public schools plan to follow this flu season, when more swine flu cases are anticipated, to keep campuses open as long as possible, closing schools only as a last resort. It's like U

  September 1, 2009

• The Other Side of the Health-Care Debate Strikes Back

  The other side of the health-care debate (think opposite of Fox News' town hall criers) has come out swinging of late.California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee just issued a statement with the provocative title, "California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims." The CNA/NNOC has compiled data that shows one in five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private in

  September 2, 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

• "Natural Doctor" featured in OC Register Charged With Being a Fake

  Daryn Peterson Daryn Peterson must have been flying pretty high on June 10, when he opened the Orange County Register and read Courtney Perkes' feature story on him, "A Rejection of Western Medicine." Today, the 37-year-old Las Vegas resident was arrested and charged with unauthorized practice of medicine, operating a health care service plan without a license, treating cancer without a license, offering an unapproved drug for cancer treatment, and misrepresenting

  September 24, 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

• Gettin' Made: For a Good Cause

  On October 29, The Vintage Emporium in Long Beach will be hosting a Crafty Thursday class to benefit breast cancer research. Class size is limited, so you breast sign up quick! Denise Hahn of In My Blue Room teaches a Mini-book workshop on October 29 to benefit breast cancer research.​ After the jump, more info on this fundraiser and the folks behind it.

  October 21, 2009