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Medical marijuana dispensaries bring in $8.6 million in taxes to Los Angeles coffers

Paul Marini | March 12, 2014

Rick Orlov, Los Angeles Daily News Even as the city of Los Angeles launched a new effort to close pot shops, it is benefiting by $8.6 million in business taxes collected from the medical marijuana dispensaries over the past three...

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AHP Releases Review on Cannabis in the Treatment of Seizures and Epilepsy

Paul Marini | March 12, 2014

Natural Products Insider The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) announced the release of a section of the soon-to-be-completed Cannabis Therapeutic: Compendium Cannabis in the Management and Treatment of Seizures and Epilepsy. The section of the review was written by Ben Whalley,...

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Breaking News... We win in California!

Paul Marini | March 11, 2014

In response to grassroots pressure from ASA members like you, a California Assembly committee quickly rejected a bill this morning that would have made it harder to open legal medical cannabis associations in the state. The Assembly Public Safety Committee...

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City Council approves rules for marijuana dispensaries

Paul Marini | March 11, 2014

Salvador Rivera, Fox 5 San Diego San Diego’s city council has cleared the way for medical marijuana dispensaries to operate legally in San Diego. It has given its final approval to an ordinance that will place a lot of restrictions...

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Law Would Ban Potent Marijuana 'Concentrates' in California

Paul Marini | March 11, 2014

Dennis Romero, LA Weekly A provision of a new law that would attempt to finally regulate California's medical marijuana industry could put popular marijuana concentrates, including wax, honey oil and other so-called "dabs," out of business.

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ASA California Roundup: March 10, 2014

Paul Marini | March 10, 2014

Contents:Message from the CA Director - Flex your grassroots muscle... today!California News Marijuana news: California governor, worried about 'potheads,' is skeptical of legalized pot (California) Medical marijuana bill limits who can prescribe pot (California) Jailed For Medical Marijuana: California Man...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - Mar 2014

Paul Marini | March 10, 2014

IN THIS ISSUE First Dispensaries Earn Patient Focused Certification New DOJ Policy on Cannabis Business Banking Members of Congress Urge Obama to Reclassify Cannabis Epilepsy Foundation Calls for Safe Access, More Research Federal Judge Rules Warrant Needed for Patient Records...

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Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed.

Paul Marini | March 09, 2014

Lisa Leff, Associated Press A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations...

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Legislators grapple with merging medical and recreational marijuana

Paul Marini | March 08, 2014

Christopher Lopaze, Bainbridge Island Review Washington’s first marijuana retail license was recently issued, but legislators are still trying to reconcile the medical and recreational-marijuana markets before stores open this summer.

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Medical marijuana has been legal in Washington state since 1998, but new recreational marijuana laws are threatening not only patients’ rights, but also their access to medicine.

Paul Marini | March 06, 2014

Katie Rucke, MintPress News Almost six months after the passage of Initiative 502, medical marijuana advocates in Washington state rallied outside of the state capitol in order to “save medical cannabis in Washington.”

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