ASA in the News

Deadline week: These are the big issues Brown left for the last minute

Paul Marini | October 05, 2015

By Patrick McGreevy The Los Angeles Times With one week left to act on nearly 500 bills, Gov. Jerry Brown is besieged by vigils, rallies, petition drives and phone calls from people wanting his signature or veto on legislation. Brown...

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New Marijuana Legalization Initiative Filed; Backers Needed

Paul Marini | October 05, 2015

By Chris Roberts SF Weekly Multiple efforts to legalize cannabis in California are currently afoot. If you're a registered voter, you may have already signed a petition to put adult recreational use of marijuana on the November 2016 ballot. But very...

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Kettle Falls Three receive prison time

Paul Marini | October 04, 2015

By Vivian McPeak Seattle PI After receiving much attention by reform advocates all over the nation, the remaining defendants of the Kettle Falls Five case have received their sentencing. Rhonda Firestack-Harvey and her daughter in law Michelle Gregg were both...

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Here Comes The Big One: ReformCA Files Its California Pot Legalization Initiative

Paul Marini | October 04, 2015

By Philip Smith Alternet The California Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, also known as ReformCA, has filed a draft marijuana legalization initiative initiative with state officials, the group announced Sunday. The long-anticipated move means the campaign best-placed to bring legalization to the Golden...

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TOP MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION SUPPORTERS SPLIT UP, THREATEN SEPARATE INITIATIVES

Paul Marini | October 02, 2015

By Dennis Romero LA Weekly The prospect of legal sales of non-medical marijuana in California has a lot of activists, businesses and pot users excited.

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Drug development: The treasure chest

Paul Marini | September 29, 2015

By Brian Owens for Nature The annual meeting of the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS) is a highly unusual scientific conference. It has been closed to all media since its inception 25 years ago, lending an air of mystery to...

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Striking Breakthrough in Regulating Pot in California

Paul Marini | September 21, 2015

By Philip Smith Alternet  After nearly 20 years of wrangling over what is and is not legal under California's 1996 Proposition 215 medical marijuana law, the state legislature has passed a set of bills designed to bring order to the...

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A WILLIAMSBURG COMPANY AIMS TO 'ELEVATE' TEA DRINKERS WITH AN INFUSION OF HEMP

Paul Marini | September 21, 2015

By Madison Margolin The Village Voice Williamsburg techie Michael Christopher wants to merge the cannabis industry with the herbal wellness movement and “tea renaissance.” With a name inspired by the Brooklyn loft culture, Loft Tea is a line of “natural remedy” teas...

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“Synthetic Marijuana” Has Nothing to Do with Actual Marijuana

Paul Marini | September 16, 2015

By Brendan Kiley The Stranger  Over the past couple of months, newspapers and TV stations across the United States have been running with horror stories about K2, spice, and others kinds of “synthetic marijuana.” A recent article in the New York...

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Majority Of Voters In Iowa, New Hampshire Want Feds To Respect State Marijuana Laws

Paul Marini | August 28, 2015

By Matt Ferner Huffington Post  Voters in the two earliest presidential voting states overwhelmingly agree: states should be able to set their own marijuana laws without federal interference

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