Medical Marijuana Therapy

Letters: Pot's place in medicine

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Re "The marijuana measures," Editorial, May 10 Your editorial supporting Measure D mentions medical marijuana as a treatment for glaucoma patients. In my 25 years as a glaucoma sufferer, I have never been prescribed marijuana. In fact, research...

Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana

2013-05-17 18:38:00

Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...

Medical marijuana: Measure D still the best choice

2013-05-15 11:54:00

Way at the bottom of Tuesday’s ballot are three confusing propositions -- Measures D, E and F -- that have to do with medical marijuana. Voters can’t be blamed if they feel frustrated and unsure of what to do when confronted by three...

Feds sue landlord of longtime Berkeley pot dispensary

2013-05-08 13:17:00

Federal prosecutors have filed a lawsuit attempting to seize property leased to one of California's oldest medical marijuana dispensaries, a rare step in the ongoing battle over who has authority over such facilities. The forfeiture complaint filed...

L.A. Votes: Candidates hone in on jobs, Garcetti attacks on TV

2013-05-07 09:00:00

After promising voters that their prime focus as mayor would be job creation, Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti hammered on the issue during a debate Monday. Greuel, meeting with voters at a Century City mall, highlighted her economic-revitalization plan...

California Supreme Court upholds medical pot bans

2013-05-06 10:34:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the right of cities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. “While some counties and cities might consider themselves well suited to accommodating medical marijuana...

California justices let cities just say no to medical pot shops

2013-05-06 17:19:00

The California Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Monday that cities could ban medical marijuana dispensaries highlights how far some cities (such as, oh, Los Angeles) have drifted from Proposition 215, the 1996 ballot initiative that decriminalized the...

'Protect Your Garden': New advice from ganja guru Ed Rosenthal

2013-05-06 08:10:00

For more than 40 years, medical marijuana advocate and longtime High Times advice columnist Ed Rosenthal has written about growing cannabis, selling more than 2 million books. He has worked to change state laws on medical marijuana and is a faculty member...

California's high court upholds city bans of pot stores

2013-05-06 05:05:00

[Updated 1t 10:15 a.m.: SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court decided Monday that cities may ban medical marijuana dispensaries through zoning. The state high court’s unanimous ruling, �which approved a ban by the city of Riverside, is...

Court: California cities can ban pot shops

2013-05-06 10:11:00

Local governments in California's have legal authority to ban storefront pot shops within their borders, California's highest court ruled on Monday in an opinion likely to further diminish the state's once-robust medical marijuana industry. Nearly 17...

Councilman Bill Rosendahl says cancer is in remission

2013-05-02 17:06:00

Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl said Thursday that his cancer is in remission, announcing on his YouTube channel that medical marijuana played a critical role in his survival. Rosendahl, who steps down June 30 after eight years in office,...

California conservative defends state's pot law in Congress

2013-04-28 20:07:00

WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, conservative Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has formed an unusual alliance with liberals on an unexpected topic — the defense of marijuana. Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and his allies have so far...

Juvenile medical marijuana plants are illuminated by artificial lights in a vegetative room Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at River Rock Medical Marijuana Center in Denver.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Geographer Peirce Lewis once called the vernacular landscape our "unwitting autobiography." That got me thinking about one aspect of Southern California's vernacular landscape: the medical marijuana dispensaries that have proliferated in recent years.

2013-05-13 23:14:00

Marijuana buds

2013-05-03 15:50:52