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The Voice, 11 Aug 2011 – The Richmond City Council has decided to put off making any decisions regarding medical marijuana businesses within the city limits. City council voted unanimously at its Aug. 1 meeting to extend the current moratorium on medical marijuana related businesses for an additional six months. The moratorium was first passed […]

The Hanford Sentinel, 03 Aug 2011 – Kings County supervisors voted Tuesday to ban new medical pot shops for 45 days, setting up a possible showdown with Grey Sky Alternative Medicine Collective just outside Hanford city limits. The dispensary is the only one in Kings County. It was cited last year for operating without a […]

The State News, 11 Aug 2011 – Gaping holes in Michigan’s medical marijuana law have allowed dangerous people to hijack the system, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said Wednesday.

Tuscola County Advertiser, 03 Aug 2011 – CARO — Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark Reene, along with Huron County Prosecutor Timothy Rutkowski, invited the public to attend a seminar on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA) on Monday night to clear up some of the confusion surrounding the highly controversial law.

The Chico News & Review, 11 Aug 2011 – Medi-Pot-Cultivation Ordinance to Be Added to June Ballot It’s official: the Butte County supervisors have decided to leave the fate of the county’s medical-marijuana-cultivation ordinance to their constituents.

Colorado Springs Independent, 11 Aug 2011 – Legalization – or decriminalization, or regulation, or whatever the hell you want to call it – efforts are all the rage these days, and two efforts have emerged on the state level: the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, backed by SAFER, NORML, Sensible Colorado and others, […]

Chico Enterprise-Record, 03 Aug 2011 – CHICO – The Chico vice mayor switched sides on the medical marijuana debate at the push of a “bully,” voting with the majority of council Tuesday night to repeal the dispensary ordinance. “In a sense, we are being bullied,” Vice Mayor Jim Walker said. “But we’re being bullied by […]

Porterville Recorder, 11 Aug 2011 – Tulare County has taken a new step in its approach to control the proliferation of supposed medical marijuana growing operations in the county. On Tuesday, Tulare County Superior Court Judge Paul Vortmann ordered that operators of a large medical marijuana cooperative near Ivanhoe shut down by noon Friday or […]

The Macomb Daily, 03 Aug 2011 – Township Officials Say It Violates Zoning Ordinance Chesterfield Township is trying to boot a medical marijuana facility from its borders by alleging it violates the zoning ordinance.

Kitsap Sun, 11 Aug 2011 – Among the people deserving sympathy these days are the lawmakers tangled in the issue of marijuana law, medical or otherwise. On one hand we have the federal policy, which considers marijuana a controlled substance and doesn’t distinguish between it and other controlled substances like heroin and cocaine.