Cannabis Law Group’s Medical Marijuana Legal Blog

Bad news breaking out of Riverside: The California Supreme Court has issued a 7-0 unanimous ruling, affirming the right of local governments to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within their districts. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers are deeply troubled by this position, primarily as it appears to run directly counter to Proposition 215, also known as…

A marijuana DUI bill that is likely to pass in Colorado will almost certainly result in the conviction of sober drivers. Our Los Angeles marijuana attorneys are highly disappointed with the state legislature there. Even though the law will not directly affect California marijuana users, unless they travel to that state, it sets a troubling…

Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers aren’t confident that President Barack Obama is going to do a full about-face on the issue of legalization anytime soon. Even when he has conceded that medical marijuana users and suppliers in states where the drug is legally available were not a top criminal priority for his administration, federal prosecutors…

A bill that would reduce criminal penalties in criminal drug possession cases in California – thereby helping to reduce overcrowding in both the state jails and prisons – has passed its first hurdle in the Senate Public Safety Committee. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers understand that Senate Bill 649 is now poised for a full…

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has been vocal in recent months about the fact that the federal drug laws in this country no longer make good sense. Recently, while in Sacramento at the California Democratic Party convention, Newsom took it a step further. Not only did he refer to the War on Drugs as an “abject…

When the National Drug Control Policy office of the White House (more commonly known as the nation’s Drug Czar) released its 2013 National Drug Control Strategy report, we were pleased to see that the federal government appeared to be shifting – ever so slightly – from its previous drug strategies. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers…

A bill that would create a new agency to oversee medical cannabis regulation under the umbrella of the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has cleared its first hurdle. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers understand that Assembly Bill 473 was passed by the Public Safety Committee with a vote of 5-to-2. Now, the bill has…

It’s hard to argue that your marijuana joint is for personal or medicinal use when it’s 4 feet long and weighs more than 2 pounds. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers have learned that a 25-year-old student was arrested at UC Santa Cruz in just such circumstances. He was reportedly one of the many revelers at…

The rivalry among medical marijuana advocates backing one of three proposals to regulate the drug within the city of Los Angeles has been sharpening in recent weeks. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers understand that each measure has collected its own group of supporters, though one of those, Initiative Ordinance E, has largely been abandoned by…

One of the primary reasons federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials have continued to press forward with this failed “War on Drugs,” particularly with regard to marijuana, is the notion that it perpetuates crime. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers know this is part of what spurred the aggressive federal crackdown on dispensaries statewide. In fact,…