The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to close roughly 800 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city by passing the first reading of an ordinance which would also require 75% of remaining dispensaries to relocate. The vote, to be confirmed in a second reading of the ordinance next Tuesday, will radically change the landscape of medical marijuana distribution in Los Angeles, which has been largely unregulated since dispensaries were first authorized by state law in 1996.

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The California Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law limiting medical marijuana patients to having eight ounces of pot at one time. The court stated that the law was drawn up by the legislature, and only the people have the right to amend voter-approved propositions such as the one in question, Prop. 215.

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Hardly a day goes by without Mason Tvert, head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), going after some individual or institution standing in the way of legalizing marijuana use for adults in Colorado and beyond. Still, his latest target is a surprise: Starbucks, the ubiquitous peddler of a highly addictive substance -- coffee.

Why? According to a manifesto on SAFER's website, "The Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA), the group spearheading anti-marijuana lobbying efforts, is sponsored by several local and national businesses including Starbucks Coffee, Glock handguns, and -- you guessed it -- members of the alcohol industry!"

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Update

Starbucks No Longer on Medical Marijuana Advocates' "Naughty" List

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Starbucks Denies Funding Anti-Marijuana Group
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Drug police in Russia's Far East have joined hands with the Federal Space Agency in spotting cannabis fields in the Primorye Territory, a senior drugs control official said on Thursday.

Roscosmos has sent coordinates of cannabis fields to anti-narcotics officers, who destroy the plants and returning confirmed information to the space agency, which enters it in a database, Lieu. Gen. Alexander Rolik told a news conference in Vladivostok.

"We have been in contact with Roscosmos since late last year," Rolik said.

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POLICE have stopped a major cannabis cultivation network flooding the streets of South Yorkshire with drugs – busting two factories and arresting eight Chinese immigrants.
The raid comes as South Yorkshire Police chiefs revealed that last year they seized cannabis plants worth £9.8 million from 818 separate seizures – the vast majority of which were cannabis factories.

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Here is the complete transcript of the monologue

THERE WERE SO MANY RAIN CLOUDS TODAY I COULDN’T SEE THE USUAL DARK CLOUD HANGING OVER NBC.

IT WAS SO WET GILBERT ARENAS PULLED A WATER PISTOL ON HIS TEAMMATES. THAT’S HOW WET.

IT WAS SO WET, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS PUT ON RUBBERS. THAT’S THE FIRST TIME THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.

IT LOOKS LIKE CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA. YOU THOUGHT GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE! “THE PURPLE HAZE AND THINGS SUCH AS THAT.” (ARNOLD VOICE)

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BALBRIGGAN gardai have succeeded in seizing a massive haul of cannabis resin worth an estimated € 1.2 million in joint operation with the divisional task force.

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The hearing will begin at 10am and finish around 5pm.

Dakta Green, founder of New Zealand's most prominent cannabis club will today argue that cannabis laws are a fundamental breach of his rights.

Mr Green is arguing for a stay of proceedings on charges of possession and possession for supply and will argue before Judge Keirnan that cannabis laws

discriminate against cannabis users and that the severity of the penalties breach the Bill of Rights Act.

The hearing will see the Misuse of Drugs Act challenged using the Bill of Rights Act

"Alcohol and tobacco are dangerous drugs but are legally available. Cannabis causes less harm to our community", says Green

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