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Record Searchlight, 16 Mar 2012 – Redding leaders were scratching their heads Thursday, a day after Shasta County Superior Court struck down the city’s ban on medical marijuana storefront collectives. “The whole issue of medical marijuana is in a state of flux in California,” said council member Francie Sullivan, unsure what the city’s next step […]

Record Searchlight, 17 Mar 2012 – The bottom-line result of Judge Stephen Baker’s ruling Thursday against Redding’s attempt to close its medical-marijuana dispensaries reflects straightforward common sense: The city cannot declare wholesale nuisances of what the state has specifically authorized, especially without evidence of actual problems.

The Durango Herald, 17 Mar 2012 – Around State, Many Municipalities Have Reaped Benefits For the first time in at least five years in January, the category of “grocery and drug” became the biggest source of sales-tax revenue for the city of Durango, generating $373,436, a growth of 5 percent over the previous year.

The Tribune, 18 Mar 2012 – Here’s something I’d like to see, but never will: I’d like to see our county supervisors stand up at a public meeting and say, in unison like a Greek chorus, “We have an announcement to make about medical marijuana dispensaries.” “If you would like to put one in this […]

The Milan News-Leader, 18 Mar 2012 – While Lansing hashes out what to do with the medical marijuana law, the city of Milan is putting the brakes on dispensaries. The City Council voted 6-1 March 12 to impose a 180-day moratorium on any business that seeks to dispense or distribute medical marijuana.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 18 Mar 2012 – Two more co-defendants of outspoken Hilo marijuana advocate Roger Christie pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday and have agreed to cooperate with the government. Susanne Lenore Friend, 48, and her husband, Timothy M. Mann, 59, each pleaded guilty in U.S.

Summit Daily News, 18 Mar 2012 – DENVER – Angeline Chilton says she can’t drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she’d never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound.

Appeal-Democrat, 20 Mar 2012 – Live Oak city officials tried and failed on Monday to scuttle a lawsuit that would stop the city’s ban on growing medical marijuana. City attorney Brant Bordsen told Sutter County Superior Court Judge Perry Parker that a lawsuit from James Maral, a Live Oak resident, lacked proper documentation.

Metro Times, 21 Mar 2012 – Did Cop’s Use of Informant Lead to Her Death? This is an ugly story. It’s tragic and damning of the War on Drugs. The story seems like the plot of a television detective series such as The Closer or Law and Order but it is sadly a true tale […]

Record Searchlight, 21 Mar 2012 – Marijuana Dispensaries Can Continue to Operate Redding City Council will not appeal a judge’s ruling that rejected the city’s request for a preliminary injunction on medical marijuana storefront collectives.