Articles Posted in California Marijuana

An article from United Patient’s Group, provides some useful tips and information about traveling with Marijuana. Our Marijuana lawyers in Los Angeles, realize that for patients, traveling with marijuana can be difficult. Particularly when traveling to out-of-state destinations. An individual who is a properly registered medical marijuana patient in their state should not have any…

As advocates in California are working tirelessly to get recreational marijuana ballot measure before voters by next year, our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers know that several other states are fighting to lift up initiatives that will make the drug legal as medicine. So far, 20 states plus the District of Columbia have approved the drug…

As Colorado stands poised to become the first state to allow legal sales of marijuana for recreation, the industry has attracted an explosion of entrepreneurs with corporate cash. These individuals are trying to move away from the days when the business was plastic baggies on street corners and move it into a more sophisticated direction,…

In analyzing what access to medical marijuana in California has meant for those in this state, our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers first explored how our state disproved many of the negative predictions about what would happen. The New York Times recently delved into the issue, as Colorado and Washington state stand poised to be the…

When California became the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, way back in 1996, there was a firestorm of controversy. Predictions swirled that it would mean a flood of teen addicts, reduced graduation rates and rampant lawlessness. In the 17 years since then, that hasn’t happened. In fact, our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers…

It seems that for now, marijuana will remain a Schedule I narcotic, with no recognized medicinal purpose – at least in the eyes of the federal government. Our California marijuana lawyers understand the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from the San Francisco-based advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, which was lobbying to change…

When lawmakers failed to pass recent legislation that would have beefed up California’s medical marijuana regulation, there was a sense of disappointment not only because it would mean continued confusion for many current dispensary operators. Our Los Angeles cannabis lawyers recognize that it also would mean a continued proliferation of federal and local enforcement action,…

The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have all recently made announcements regarding pivotal policy shifts with regard to the approach toward marijuana cultivation, sale and consumption. Our California marijuana lawyers know that first, there was the announcement by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that his prosecutors…

In most places throughout the U.S., producing, selling and even consuming marijuana is still a serious crime, despite some exceptions made for regulated medicinal purposes and the landmark laws recently passed in Washington state and Colorado. However, attitudes toward the drug have shifted dramatically in recent years, with the Pew Research Center reporting that 52…

Once again, California state legislators have failed their constituents with the death of Assembly Bill 604, which would have reformed Proposition 215 – the landmark measure that made California the first state to allow legalized medicinal marijuana. But being first comes with its perils. There were many gaps in the regulatory process that we couldn’t…