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Is It Legal To Tax Large Pot Farms?
Berkeley City Attorney Zach Cowan And Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, Co-author Of Oakland’s New Law, Say It Is.  But Other Legal Experts Disagree. The City of Oakland hopes to make millions of dollars each year by taxing the four giant medical cannabis growing operations it plans to permit in early 2011.  Likewise, Berkeley hopes to cash [...]

Marijuana On Public Lands
Herger Urges Feds to Devise a Strategy Saying federal agencies aren’t doing enough to stop Mexican drug cartels from growing marijuana illegally on public lands, U.S.  Rep.  Wally Herger has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a long-term solution to permanently dismantle the traffickers’ operations. “It’s important that Congress becomes aware how serious [...]

Christie: Rutgers Leadership on Pot ?Disjointed?
Trenton — Gov. Chris Christie said today he was surprised that Rutgers University turned down an opportunity to be the lone grower of the state’s medical marijuana crop because it was the school’s idea. “They absolutely came to us. I wouldn’t have even thought about it,” Christie said, adding that [...]

Colo. Pot Shops Face Closure Under Tough New Rules
Colorado — Nearly a fifth of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say. The Drug Enforcement Administration reviewed requirements under a new state law to see how [...]

Will California Legalize Pot?
California — Today, at least a third of Americans say they’ve tried smoking weed. Is it possible that after half a century of increasingly mainstreamed pot use the public is ready for marijuana to be legal? We may soon find out. California has long been on the [...]

City Sets Hearing On Med Marijuana
Public Session Set For Next Tuesday Fort Morgan residents will have a chance to express their views on the issue of medicinal marijuana operations in the city at a public hearing before the Fort Morgan City Council next week. After a relatively brief discussion at a special meeting Tuesday, the council voted to hold the public hearing [...]

Pontiac Cops Leery of Silverdome Pot Convention
Event promoters are high on the recently reopened Pontiac Silverdome again — maybe a little too much so, the city’s top cop says. A three-day “pot party” planned at the Silverdome over Halloween has caught the police chief and others by surprise. A postcard-sized announcement for “The First International Cannabis Convention” — featuring a [...]

Black Church Group Criticizes California NAACP On Marijuana Support
Some Black church leaders are calling for the head of the California NAACP to step down over her group’s support for the legalization of marijuana in her state as well as over alleged ties to the marijuana lobby. Rev. Anthony Evans, president of National Black Church Initiative, and Bishop Ron Allen, president and chief executive [...]

Federal-State Law Inconsistency Shouldn?t Stop CA
California — The law is the law. If we unquestioningly accepted that maxim, imagine where we would be today. Jim Crow would be alive and well, rivers and skies would be polluted, and women wouldn’t be allowed to vote. Yet such is the mindset of many of those who criticize Proposition 19, [...]

S.C. City Council Asked To Lift Ban for WAMMFest
Santa Cruz — After the last several WAMMFests encountered challenges, organizers of Santa Cruz’s annual medical marijuana awareness event appear to be in for an easier time getting the city’s nod of approval. Today, the City Council will consider lifting a smoking ban at San Lorenzo Park for five hours Sept. [...]

End the Prohibition of Marijuana
After a deadly shootout by sheriff’s deputies in a marijuana raid last week, Howard Miller, co-owner of the Junction Bar and Grill, talked about the many pot farms in the rugged hills of northeast Santa Clara County. “The marijuana doesn’t bother me,” said the 69-year-old Miller, whose bar advertises itself as being [...]

I have spider mites in my indoor garden, what can I do?
Spider mites are little red arachnids which exist throughout the United States. They are very small – smaller than a poppy seed – andare many times confused with clover mites or chiggers. Plants that have spider mite damage will have the mites themselves, web like material on the bottom sides of plant leaves, bronzing [...]

Medical Marijuana Now Legal
Washington, D.C. — Medical marijuana is now legal in the District after the Democrat-controlled Congress declined to overrule a D.C Council bill that allows the city to set up as many as eight dispensaries where chronically ill patients can purchase the drug. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said in a statement the [...]

Examine idea of marijuana legalization
Forget the collapse of the housing market in the United States — and recent statistics show it remains in the tank — which means B.C.’s moribund forest industry will remain on life support, voters in California this fall could spell the death knell for a thriving B.C. industry. It looks as though some Californians have taken [...]

Dopey Logic on Medical Marijuana
Maine — It’s easy to grasp the economics of the situation. It’s the logic behind it that sets the mind spinning. The stories about the cost of medicinal marijuana, which soon can be sold to people with prescriptions at eight dispensaries across the state, contain more turns than a lighthouse staircase. It’s [...]