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April 6, 2012
[UPDATE: Oaksterdam's Lee Retires] Feds Raid Oaksterdam University As Local Lawmakers Demand End to Pot War
UPDATE, April 6, 12:00 p.m.: According to the LA Times news blog, Oaksterdam University's founder Richard Lee is retiring from the medical marijuana industry he helped create. "I've been doing this a long time," he told the newspaper. "Over 20 years...I kind of feel like I've done my time. It's time ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Joe Byron And Joe Grumbine Legal Defense Fundraiser This Friday
Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine, the former operators of a pair of Long Beach medical marijuana dispensaries, as well as Garden Grove's Unit D collective, were convicted on Dec. 21 of selling marijuana sales, tax evasion and electricity theft. Given the bizarre irregularities in their case--see this a ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
[UPDATED W/CITY COUNCIL PROTEST] Yousef Ibrahim, Lake Forest Marijuana Clubs Landlord, Faces Federal Foreclosure
UPDATE, OCT. 19, 1 P.M.: More than 100 medical marijuana patients and activists protested Lake Forest's cannabis crackdown at city hall last night, according to a story in today's Orange County Register. The protest was organized by the OC chapters of both NORML, the National Organization to Refo ... More >>
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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 3, 2011
Advocates of Treating Autism with Cannabis Disavow "Partnership" with UC Irvine
A Denver biotech company and Los Angeles nonprofit foundation dedicated to the treatment of autism are disavowing their previously announced partnership with UC Irvine.The clarification comes more into focus when you know the players. The firm, Cannabis Science, develops pharmaceutical products ... 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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May 26, 2011
Newport Beach to Sue Medical Pot Clubs?
Newport Beach's city council is apparently considering lawsuits against a trio of medical marijuana clubs, according to an item posted on the Newport Beach AOL/Patch website yesterday. The May 25 story noted that the three clubs were discussed in a closed session of Tuesday's city council meeting ... 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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Columns
April 21, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
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
November 4, 2010
Prop 19 Backers Set Sights on 2012
Backers of Prop 19 say they will return . . . in two years."We plan to continue this discussion," spokeswoman Dale Jones said at a news conference in the Yes on 19 campaign's downtown Oakland headquarters. "There's a seat at the table for 2012," she confided. "This is not a matter of if, but when ... More >>
News
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
August 27, 2010
Disneyland Resort District Goes to Pot
The Happiest Place on Earth, meet The Highest Place on Earth.What is supposedly Orange County's first large-scale marijuana expo opens Saturday morning at the Anaheim Convention Center, which is, of course, directly across Katella Avenue from Disney's California Adventure theme park and the main ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2010
U.S. Open of Surfing: Protesters, Activists, Snakes Square Off on PCH
Visitors to the U.S. Open of Surfing hoping for a relatively friendly, laid-back atmosphere were instead greeted Saturday by several dozen protesters, Christian activists and a fucking boa constrictor over the course of the day on Saturday.Many of the most vocal groups set up at the inter ... 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 >>
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
April 8, 2010
Dueling Protests: Two Groups Picket OC Superior Court
Christopher VictorioTwo groups with quite different agendas but upset at the same thing--Orange County's justice system-- joined forces today at OC Superior Court in Santa Ana, carrying signs and chanting slogans in an effort to alert the public to problems inside OC's main courthouse. In front o ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
What You Missed: Long Beach Comic Expo, MusInk, HempCon
Chris VictorioAll in the name of comics.What'd you miss this weekend? For us it was a busy couple of days, despite the rain that tried to ruin it for us. First up, the Second Annual Long Beach Comic Expo took place Saturday at the Long Beach Convention Center. There were kids in costumes, grown m ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Up in Smoke: Photos From HempCon 2010
Chris VictorioNurses were a running theme at HempCon. For the first time in the United States, a three day event for the celebration and education of medicinal marijuana took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on 2/19-2/21. Hundreds of vendors from all over the country hawked everything f ... More >>
News
January 7, 2010
Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!
Chris VictorioNurses were a running theme at HempCon. For the first time in the United States, a three day event for the celebration and education of medicinal marijuana took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on 2/19-2/21. Hundreds of vendors from all over the country hawked everything f ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 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 recon ... More >>
Calendar
July 2, 2009
Reefer Madness
Maverick Theater
Culture
June 18, 2009
With 'Reefer Madness,' Maverick Theater Has a (Bong) Hit On Its Hands
Maverick Theater
News
June 11, 2009
Taking the High Road With One of OC's Burgeoning Medical-Marijuana Delivery Services
Maverick Theater
Blogs
March 5, 2008
Pot Comic Of The Week
Courtesy of OC NORML:
Blogs
February 25, 2008
NORML Weekly Cartoon 2.25
Courtesy of the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws:
Blogs
February 19, 2008
OC NORML Cartoon of the Week
Courtesy of the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws:
News
May 17, 2007
Dude, Where's My Pot?
Ten years after California legalized medical marijuana, OCs war on cannabis continues
Columns
April 15, 2004
EIGHT DAYS
Ten years after California legalized medical marijuana, OCs war on cannabis continues
News
April 1, 2004
The Ecstasy Factor
Bad science slandered a generations favorite drug. A new study aims to undo the damage.
Columns
November 27, 2003
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Bad science slandered a generations favorite drug. A new study aims to undo the damage.
Features
October 2, 2003
George Bushs Joint
Rebecca Schoenkopf takes on the presidents drug war
Columns
July 25, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Rebecca Schoenkopf takes on the presidents drug war
News
March 28, 2002
The Druidic Candidate
Can California deal with a Druid for governor?
Columns
December 13, 2001
OC Hillbillies
Can California deal with a Druid for governor?

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