Political greenBrief Friday, October 27, 2017   ​Calfarms, a medical marijuana provider helps attendees at the High Times Cannabis Cup in California “Republican leaders in Congress are way behind where their constituents are on this issue, but it’s worth noting that a number of Democratic politicians — such as Sen. Dianne ...

  Political greenBrief Thursday, October 26, 2017 Cannabis Consultant Dani Burkhart “In a brief filed late Monday in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, DOJ lawyers acknowledged that the department “was not authorized to spend money on the prosecution of the defendants after December of 2014 because the defendants strictly complied ...

  Political greenBrief Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Mormon Republican senator Orrin Hatch (Utah) is one of Congress’s leading champions for medical marijuana   “To be in the cannabis business you have to break a couple of laws, we’re all breaking federal law now.” The Agathist Collective Co-Founder Timothy Byars   “The evidence shows that ...

  Political greenBrief Monday, October 23, 2017 Donnie Anderson, co-founder of the California Minority Alliance, is one of the owners of Medex, a marijuana dispensary on Century Boulevard in South L.A. “For so long, people that were black, people that were Latino, we have paid the price for this business, and as we move this […]

  Political greenBrief Friday, October 20, 2017 ​Gary Jakobs, a consultant with Ascent Environmental hires by Calaveras County, confers with Peter Maurer, county planning director, on Wednesday during a special board meeting on cannabis in San Andreas “Do people really believe Jeff Sessions is going to come out to Calaveras County to ...

  Political greenBrief Thursday, October 19, 2017 Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah Republican, has emerged as an unlikely champion of medical marijuana “To lessen the negative impacts of cannabis, you make it legal and you regulate it. If you try to ban it, because this is high value, you drive it into the black […]

  Political greenBrief Wednesday, October 18, 2017 State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, right, flanked by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, answers questions at a news conference in Sacramento in early September “In 2017 we expect growth of 18 percent to $7.7 billion as new medical-use markets come online.” ...

  Political greenBrief Tuesday, October 17, 2017   Deedee Kirkwood’s main focus these days is writing letters to “potlifers” — lifelong prison inmates who’ve been thrown behind bars on marijuana charges alone  “We understand that not every community needs or wants dispensaries, or other cannabis activities, but ...

  Political greenBrief Monday, October 16, 2017 ​A display at the Green Nugget pot shop in east Bakersfield features smokeable weed, edibles, wax and other ways to ingest cannabis   “If you don’t like marijuana and you’re against it, I’m sorry, we may be a conservative county but we are part of the state of […]