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Chico Enterprise-Record, 22 Jul 2011 – CHICO — Chico City Council members, the police chief and other city staff could face federal prosecution by facilitating dispensaries with the city’s medical marijuana ordinance. The U.S. Attorney’s Office wants to deter the city from allowing dispensaries that violate federal drug laws, said Dave Burkland, Chico city manager.

The Chico News & Review, 14 Jul 2011 – A new law would allow once-banned hemp grows just miles outside downtown Sacramento. So why are cannabis cultivators opposed to hemp’s big breakthrough? California’s cannabis growers are on a collision course with legalized hemp.

Peoria Journal Star, 22 Jul 2011 – If you were driving in Peoria at about 8 p.m. Monday night and happened by a pub in the 2500 block of NE Adams Street, you would have seen a slew of police cars and a taped-off side road and parking lot. That’s where 43-year-old Pekin resident James […]

Post-Tribune, 14 Jul 2011 – When it was announced recently that an interim legislative study committee was going to look at Indiana’s laws governing marijuana, state Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, took a beating in some quarters. Some jumped to the conclusion that Tallian’s purpose for the study was to have marijuana legalized.

Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 14 Jul 2011 – Medical Marihuana is a hot topic, although covered from a media view we are not provided with any education on the subject. We know Michigan voters approved this law by 63%, we know a patient is able to possess 2.5 ounces and has the ability […]

Columbus Dispatch, 14 Jul 2011 – Two different groups are moving ahead with plans to put medical-marijuana issues to a statewide vote in Ohio next year. While Cleveland billionaire Peter Lewis already had sent up smoke signals about organizing and funding a medical-marijuana ballot issue, another group quietly has been laying the groundwork for a […]

The Cortez Journal, 14 Jul 2011 – City Continues Work to Form Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee The Cortez City Council interviewed four more candidates for an ad-hoc medical marijuana advisory committee at a workshop meeting Tuesday.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 14 Jul 2011 – The state Department of Education and its teachers union have sparred for years over drug testing of faculty but may have finally resolved the issue as part of a contract proposal – even as that imposed contract is under dispute due to wider disagreement.

Ravalli Republic, 22 Jul 2011 – STEVENSVILLE – A raid of a Stevensville medical marijuana grow operation Wednesday could set up the first test case for the state’s new medical marijuana law in Ravalli County.

Portland Daily Sun, 14 Jul 2011 – Northeast Patients Group, which holds permits to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Portland, Bangor and elsewhere in Maine, is being sued by its former financial backer in California.