More than 80 officers equipped with search warrants were deployed to a total of nine locations, five of them private homes of suspects involved in the retail outlets.

When it was all over, they had rounded up 35 suspects and seized 59 kilograms of pot, a small quantity of hashish and about $10,000 in cash.

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At the direction of the council, which imposed a temporary moratorium on med-pot businesses in March, city staff spent two months writing a zoning ordinance that would spell out where and under what circumstances medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations could be housed.

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Medical marijuana patients and dozens of dispensaries lost an eleventh-hour bid Friday to stop a city ordinance from going into effect next week, but a judge indicated that both groups may have a legitimate basis for an injunction at a later date.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant cleared the way for the ordinance to take effect Monday by denying more than a dozen requests for a temporary restraining order to bar the city from enforcing the law, which would force more than 400 shops to shutter their doors.

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These thought provoking ads are hitting the billboards this week to get the nation thinking. Designed by Aesthetic Apparatus for The Economist.

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California is a very confusing place. Medical cannabis is somewhat legal, but that three-foot skull bong sticking out of your convertible can earn you a trip to the slammer. Existing law makes it a crime to possess, deliver, furnish, or transfer drug paraphernalia, whether it be pipes, bongs, chillums, roach clips, papers — or everything else you can buy on Haight Street, Telegraph Avenue, and elsewhere. Local Assemblyman Tom Ammiano wanted to end the charade and make pipes legal with Assembly Bill 1811, but California reform group NORML reports this week that the Governor's Office has effectively killed the bill.

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In a landmark decision, Oregon regulators have given first-ever official US approval to a brand of medical marijuana hydroponics nutrients.

Oregon and most other states have regulatory agencies that examine fertilizers and hydroponics plant supplements to determine the legitimacy, ingredients and effectiveness of plant growth products.

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Pot is in the air here on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Not in the smoke that drifts between the cafes, second-hand shops and indie music stores of legendary Haight-Ashbury. But in the headlines of local newspapers, the posters plastered on phone booths and the ads now airing on the radio.

It has been two months since a proposal to legalize marijuana was added to California’s fall referendum ballot, and the debate on the subject is in full swing. A similar vote crashed and burned in the 1970s, but proponents feel that this time they could win. Last week, councillors across the water made Oakland the state’s first city to formally endorse the move, and the latest polls show public opinion is almost evenly divided.

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A Mattapan man was held on $1 million cash bail following his arraignment Thursday for trafficking in one ton of marijuana, one of the largest quantities of pot ever seized in Boston.

Boston Police estimate the street value at about $5 million dollars.

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley says 40-year old Edgar Gonzalez, also known as Felix Soto, has also been ordered held on an immigration detainer lodged by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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