Video 1 KTLA Channel 5 News Story June 18, 2010: Lake Forest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Appealing Injunction Order Video 2 KTTV Channel 11 News Story June 4, 2010: Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Dispensary Challenges LA's Ordinance Video 3 Cannabis Law Group's Attorney Damian Nassiri Sues the City of Los Angeles To Block It's Ban on Medical Marijuana as Featured on PBS's So Cal Insider - Part 1

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According to a recent news article from the Sacramento Bee, California Governor Jerry Brown has been working to finally get statewide regulation passed for the medical marijuana cannabis industry, which for the past 19 years has operated as if it were still the Wild West. The almost 20 years of medical marijuana without statewide regulation has led to seemingly countless court cases between parties who have different interpretations of what is legal and what is not.
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The reason there is such a push to get things finished now is because the legislature is scheduled to recess this month, and it seems almost certain there will be a push for legalization of recreational marijuana use on the 2016 ballot.
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With medical marijuana now legal in California and nearly half of the United States, one of the challenges that is becoming more difficult is how to handle workers who are under the influence or “high” while on-the-clock.

brainstudy.jpgThere are a variety of ways to look at this issue. On the one hand, we can compare medical marijuana to alcohol, which is also legal. It is perfectly legal for adults who are over the age of 21 to consume alcohol. In most cases, it is not illegal to go to work while still under the influence of alcohol, but it would likely result in a worker being fired if his or her supervisor noticed. Obviously, if the job involved driving a vehicle, it would be illegal to be drunk on the job, and that could result in arrest.
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California lawmakers are looking at a variety of different options for how to regulate medical marijuana on a state level. Since 1996, when medical marijuana was first allowed in the state, counties and cities have regulated it as they deemed appropriate for their respective municipal areas.

flask-1569124.jpgAccording to a recent article from the Sacramento Bee, state lawmakers are contemplating whether medical marijuana can be regulated in the same manner as alcoholic beverages. Alcohol sale and distribution methods dating back to the period following prohibition were designed to take power away from bootleggers and others in the illegal alcohol distribution market, who ran things from 1920 to 1933 during the Volstead Act’s national prohibition laws.
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Medical marijuana is now generally accepted as a legitimate and essential form of medicine in California and across the nation. However, it differs from many other forms of widely-used medications in that it is a plant and can be grown (where legal) much like any other plant.

This is one of the main reasons pharmaceutical companies are against medical marijuana. They want to control their collective oligopoly on the drug industry and do not want to lose business to people who are growing marijuana plants.

koi-carp-1623287.jpgHowever, marijuana is a plant, and one that, with proper techniques, whether with large scale farming, indoor grow operations, or hydroponics, can be made even more potent and more medicinally beneficial than marijuana plants not properly cared for.

To this end, having proper fertilizer is essential, and fish-based products can be very effective fertilizer for medical marijuana plants. According to recent article from WQAD, one group of entrepreneurs has realized this and has turned what was once a worthless byproduct in a valuable business.
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Last year, when Congress was mulling a provision to an appropriations bill for medical marijuana, the U.S. Department of Justice interceded. Don’t do it, the DOJ warned, unless you are willing to strip this agency of all ability to enforce federal law in recreational marijuana cases too. healthymarijuana.jpg

The goal of this message, relayed through “informal talking notes,” was to dissuade legislators from passing the provision. It didn’t work, and the measure was passed.

But what did emerge from that exchange was perhaps even more interesting. The Washington Post recently reported on the existence of an internal DOJ memorandum, written by the chief of the department’s appellate section, written just after the vote. It clearly indicates the provision that justice officials fought so staunchly against was, in fact, harmless to its operations.
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Ever since the beginning of medical marijuana legalization, a central issue has vexed the industry: Banking. piggybankonmoney.jpg

Because the drug remains illegal under federal law, federally-insured banks (pretty much all of them) could not open accounts for marijuana dispensaries or businesses without the risk of violating federal money laundering statutes.

This is true even though many states now recognize the legal distribution of marijuana for recreational as well as medicinal purposes.

But money has to change hands. Rather than keeping it all-cash, which heightens the risk of robberies, financial crimes, gang involvement and tax errors, marijuana industry advocates have been pushing to have this regulation on banks eased.
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In March 2014, an exchange student from the Republic of Congo was visiting Colorado from his host state of Wyoming when he consumed a single marijuana cookie that contained six times the recommended per-serving dose of the drug.
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Soon after, the 19-year-old jumped off a four-story balcony to his death. He had no reported history of drug abuse or of mental illness at the time of his death.

Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a report that contains a review of that case, as well as several others that have been linked to excessive consumption of marijuana.
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The conventional wisdom is that marijuana is much stronger today that it has ever been in years past. Medical marijuana is often grown using specialized strains of cannabis seeds and modern hydroponics to create the most potent marijuana possible with each crop. While this may be true on a broad scale, according to a recent news article from NPR, medical marijuana actually being sold at dispensaries across the country is often less potent that the dispensary owners claim it is.

tray-of-marijuana-1437843-m.jpgThe article is based on a new study, which reveals some of the problems involving how cannabis is measured and how medical cannabis products are labeled. The study first looked at edible cannabis products. Researchers believe that most edible marijuana products sold for medical purposes have labels that are not accurately representing the amount of THC. THC is the chemical abbreviation for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and is the chemical responsible for people getting high when they take marijuana. However, there is some confusion with this, because there is a synthetic cannabis product with a chemical structure of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol that is known as dronabinol and is prescribed to cancer patients to treat nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.
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In the past, most marijuana users smoked the drug. People used various devices, including bongs or water pipes, but these were all simply different delivery methods for marijuana smoke. While people would sometimes make baked goods with THC oil extracted from marijuana, such as the ever popular “pot brownies,” edible marijuana was not exactly a culinary art.

ice-cream-827211-m.jpgToday, edible marijuana products have become extremely popular, and professional bakers and pastry chefs are making them. Today, you can walk into a dispensary and purchase all kinds of edible cannabis products, ranging from gourmet candy to coconut-flavored THC oil for use in beverages, and a whole host of other marijuana edibles.

According to a recent article from the Franchise Herald, marijuana ice cream is becoming “a big hit” in California. A collective known as the Cannabis Creamery in Sausalito, California is making high quality ice cream infused with THC and selling it to patients at their storefront operation and shipping it to dispensaries in California, so other patients who do not live near the creamery can have access to the medicine.
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According to a recent news article from the San Francisco Gate, farmers who grow medical marijuana are now subject to huge fines for excessive water use. Unlike in years past, when marijuana growers were in constant fear of armed law enforcement agents coming onto their property with canine units and guns drawn, today, for the legal medical marijuana grower, the worst fear is seeing an inspector with a clipboard marking down water violations.

waterfalls-1431191-m.jpgThe Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board recently announced large fines against one landowner in a rural part of California. The allegation is the landowner and a general contractor assisting with the project diverted water through grading that could cause actual and potential harm to the flow of ground water in Shasta County. This actual and potential damage resulted in a fine of just under $300,000. The reason for the allegedly unauthorized grading of land was to provide water for a medical marijuana grow operation.

Authorities say landowner purchased and developed this land specifically for the purpose of growing marijuana. As part of the operation, the landowner graded and terraced nearly four acres of land. This is a violation of the Clean Water Act, because it can allow the release of highly erodible sediment, which can cause significant damage to the environment and can also contribute to the never ending water shortages in California by diverting water from its intended course.
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