CANNABIS CULTURE - In what's been a daily battleground in Caiifornia, the DEA spread more of its nastygrams to medical marijuana collectives and landlords across the state, even as the news hits that the agency mistakenly left a UCSD student in a holding cell for five days without food and water following a bust at a 4/20 party.
The garden state is about to get a whole lot greener. New Jersey has issued its first permit to grow medical marijuana legally. The permit was issued to nonprofit Montclair-based Greenleaf Compassion Center on Monday.
Members of the medical marijuana industry have come out against ballot initiatives in two states that would allow consumers over the age of 21 to legally purchase and consume small quantities of marijuana for recreational use.
Politicians across Vancouver Island supported a motion to decriminalize marijuana at the annual conference for the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities in Ucluelet.
The sun has now warmed the rich soil of California's Central Valley. It's time to plant. But for one of the valley's most profitable crops, this year's forecast is decidedly chilly.