Medicine

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.​ ... More >>

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 legalizin ... More >>

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 recon ... More >>

"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 unauth ... More >>

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." ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ha ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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, coun ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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

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 ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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 abou ... More >>

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 expect ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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........... ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Wheel of Misfortune

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

Takin' Care

Cruisin’ For A Cure

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, ... More >>

Summer Smart Growth

Make sure those D cups runneth over

Dude, Where's My Pot?

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

Yes, Vagina, There is a Santa Claus

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

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 S ... More >>

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 cannabi ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Dr. Z, Sun God

UCI's Dr. Christopher Zachary gives the sun what-for

Cognizance

AIDS Walk Orange County

Preemptive Strikes We Like

Free Mammogram Screenings

Rent Scam

Musical’s success continues to film, but the question remains: Was the real author ripped off?

Code Red at Western Med

If you drive, you should care about the future of one of OCs last trauma wards

We Must Have Syph

Or the far right will have won

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

Not So Little Plays

The 9 Most interesting theatrical productions coming your way over the next few months

Time for a Plan B

Do you have your morning-after pill?

Not Not Guilty

Dr. K quietly settles suits involving faked AIDS drugs

Chronic Mess

Human Speed Bump

Marvins Garden

OC war against medical marijuana still rages

No Gay Blood, Please

Crisis or not, only straights can donate to the Red Cross

Anti-Nuclear War

Linda McLandrich says she lost her husband to San Onofre but swears she wont lose again

Dull Knives, Sea Cucumbers and Bleeding Scrotums

True tales from OCs ambulances

Ready to Inhale

Alan Bock says the medical-marijuana war is over, and the good guys won

Post-Prop. 215 Stress Disorder

The sad fate of Orange Countys medical-marijuana movement

Measure H: It Mightve Been Great

A Second Chance

Now free, OC cannabis crusader Marvin Chavez is ready to open a new front in the war on the War on Drugs

'I Am a Harvard Man'

'And I am running around in a state of euphoria'