Showing posts with label Pot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pot. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2018

How Americans can kill Obamacare, legalize pot

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Meanwhile, two intrepid pot growers refuse to leave their crop.

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Friday, June 8, 2018

Donald Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Trump has committed to back congressional efforts to protect states that legalize marijuana







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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Boehner Joins Pot Board.

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Monday, March 19, 2018

Humboldt County marijuana growers aren't so thrilled with "legalization" that means costly regulation



...Humboldt County, traditionally shorthand for outlaw culture and the great dope it produces, is facing a harsh reckoning. Every trait that made this strip along California’s wild northwest coast the best place in the world to grow pot is now working against its future as a producer in the state’s $7 billion-a-year marijuana market.

A massive industry never before regulated is being tamed by laws and taxation, characteristically extensive in this state. Nowhere is this process upending a culture and economy more than here in Humboldt, where tens of thousands of people who have been breaking the law for years are being asked to hire accountants, tax lawyers and declare themselves to a government they have famously distrusted....



...Wilson estimates that “Fewer than 1 in 10 of the county’s estimated 12,500 marijuana farmers are likely to make it in the legal trade….Less than 1 percent of the estimated 69,000 growers statewide have received a permit to farm marijuana since the beginning of the year.”

As many experts on drug prohibition predicted, prices are dropping in the legalized market. But for Humboldt and neighboring counties, the price drop is happening...

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

San Francisco's district attorney announced Wednesday that city prosecutors will toss out or reduce thousands of criminal convictions for marijuana dating back decades.



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Friday, January 19, 2018

Northern spotted owl being poisoned by California’s illegal marijuana grows - Watch environmentalists go to war with weed growers...


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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Dem lawmaker: "Congress: Seize the moment and legalize marijuana"





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Friday, January 5, 2018

DACA versus marijuana: Campuses selectively enforce federal law

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Is It Time To Decriminalize Marijuana?











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Thursday, January 4, 2018

Jeff Sessions RESCINDS OBAMA Decision on Legal Marijuana

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Monday, January 1, 2018

New state laws for '18, from marijuana to voter ID...





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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Legal pot set to bring new gold rush to California...




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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Sacramento City Council approves funding for illegal grow house enforcement


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Sunday, November 12, 2017

"The sad anniversary of Big Commercial Pot in Colorado"

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Court Rules That Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can’t Buy Firearms

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Monday, May 1, 2017

Humboldt In The News: "At least eight girls that I have served have been abused and raped..."



...female trimmers can face problems - especially working on illegal grows - when the mundane work can turn sexual. These Humboldt County residents talked with the I-Team, but didn't want to show their faces.

"It's like, you know, 'I'll give you an extra 20 bucks a pound or, whatever, if you trim topless,'" said one trimmer.

Trimmers, rape crisis counselors, and law enforcement say they have seen an increase in recent years of trimmers sexually assaulted by growers and pot farm workers.

"There are stories every single year," another trimmer added. "Like really, really terrible kidnapping stories of people being held against her will, girls coming out of the hills totally dazed and confused and really, they're lost."...





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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Shedding some light on dark money





In 2016, dark money continues to be the coin of the realm in initiative politics. Only this time, some of the nonprofit money is helping to fund an initiative promoted by good liberals led by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

The Drug Policy Action, a nonprofit with an Oakland address, has given $4.7 million to pass Proposition 64. Nearly $4 million of that came from an entity called Fund for Policy Reform based in Washington, D.C. Billionaire George Soros, it turns out, is the source of that money, though you wouldn’t know it from campaign finance reports.

Andrew Acosta, a Democratic consultant who is helping to run an underfunded campaign to defeat Proposition 64, was first to pull at the thread by signing a complaint to the FPPC last week urging that it investigate the nonprofits and discover the donors “now, before the election.”

Jason Kinney, the spokesman for the Yes-on-64 campaign and one of Newsom’s consultants, called the complaint “silly, sloppy, totally groundless,” intended to distract from a complaint his campaign filed over a far smaller sum being spent against the legalization initiative.

To which Acosta replied, deadpan: “They’re not answering the question. Who are the donors?”

...Drug Policy Action also is funding the Yes-on-64 campaign. It, in turn, gets money from the Fund for Policy Reform, an arm of Open Society, founded by Soros, long an advocate of liberal causes including drug legalization.

As billionaires go, Soros is reasonably open about his political giving. And late Friday, Ellen Flenniken of Drug Policy Action told me Soros was the source of the $4 million that ended up in the Yes-on-64 campaign fund, though nothing in public campaign finance filings identifies him as the donor.

“Weird. Why go through all this trouble to do this?” asked Sacramento attorney Thomas Hiltachk, who specializes in campaign finance law and helped Acosta write the complaint.

If, as Flenniken says, Soros is the source of the $4 million, certain California laws would be triggered. He would have to be identified in ads as one of the measure’s major funders. He’s not....
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

First they came for the potheads... Medical Marijuana users in NH lose 2nd Amendment Rights



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