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The Chico News & Review, 12 Jan 2012 – County Repeals Dispensary Ban; Activists Turn Attention to Statewide Legalization Effort Local medical-marijuana activists declared victory Tuesday (Dec. 10) when the Butte County Board of Supervisors decided to scrap an ordinance banning dispensaries.

Summit Daily News, 12 Jan 2012 – DENVER – Federal officials on Thursday began a California-style crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado that targets those located near schools, setting up a possible showdown with businesses that worked closely with state lawmakers to develop regulations they hoped would prevent such an action. U.S.

The Press Democrat, 12 Jan 2012 – The U.S. Attorney’s Office has threatened to sue Mendocino County over its money-making medical marijuana cultivation permits, county officials confirmed Wednesday. The warning was delivered during a Jan. 3 meeting between County Counsel Jeanine Nadel and representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Nadel said.

New Times, 12 Jan 2012 – The wheels of justice continue to spin for the defendants known as the Doobie Dozen, but those wheels may be gaining traction.

East Bay Express, 12 Jan 2012 – According to California Watch, last week federal prosecutors threatened to sue Mendocino county, put county officials in jail, and confiscate county property if Mendocino continued to permit legal medical marijuana grows under its sheriff’s office program. “‘They told the county to shut the program down,” said one official […]

Kennebec Journal, 12 Jan 2012 – It’s been nearly two years since voters approved the sale and use of medical marijuana for qualifying patients in Maine. Since that time, licenses to operate dispensaries have been awarded to eight health districts across the state, including Hallowell.

Tucson Weekly, 12 Jan 2012 – Rich Wandschneider is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. He writes from Joseph, Ore. A cop friend told me not long ago that he had changed his mind on the idea of legalizing drugs. His current take: “Legalize everything but meth, and […]

Reno News & Review, 12 Jan 2012 – Pro-marijuana forces are giving up on one of their favorite states, for the time being, anyway. No effort will be made by the Marijuana Policy Project to go to the Nevada ballot with a legalize-and-regulate measure in 2012.

Tucson Weekly, 12 Jan 2012 – Is It Time To Discontinue Use Of The Word ‘marijuana’? From the 1954 Funk and Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary. I happen to own an unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, which might be a cumbersome thing but for the fact that it’s a compact version printed with four reduced original […]

Charlevoix Courier, 13 Jan 2012 – For months Charlevoix city officials have been working on amending its zoning ordinances to regulate where medical marijuana caregivers operate. After many public meetings and discussions, the city of Charlevoix could take action to enact the proposed ordinance amendment following a public hearing set to take place during the […]