Cannabis Law Group’s Medical Marijuana Legal Blog

The Associated Press recently reported that many states, including California, have had to deal with conflicts because while voters have sought and lawmakers have approved medical marijuana, the laws have given individual communities the right to lock them out or shut them down. Such has been the case recently in Riverside County, where authorities continue…

Mendocino County officials have suspended a program to distribute medical marijuana cultivation permits based on a Los Angeles court ruling that challenges whether permits should be issued by local governments for activities that federal law says are illegal, the Associated Press reports. This is major news for the Los Angeles medical marijuana industry because if…

A Northern California man has been tapped to supervise a new program in Maine to begin opening dispensaries, but has faced political and logistical problems, Mainetoday.com is reporting. Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers have seen that experts in this field have gone on to help officials in other states get their programs started and that’s…

A recent mobile home fire in Michigan is catching heat after authorities say it was the site of a medical marijuana operation. The fire killed seven pets, the Detroit Free Press is reporting. Bad press like this is the type of thing that hurts the Los Angeles medical marijuana industry because it gives uninformed people…

California music icon Snoop Dogg was recently arrested by border patrol agents in Texas after marijuana was found by a drug-sniffing dog on his tour bus, the New York Daily News is reporting. The 40-year-old, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., told authorities that the marijuana belonged to him. While he has a…

To say the fight in support and against medical marijuana in Los Angeles is heating up would be inaccurate because that would imply it ever cooled down. But watching the news both in California and in other states shows that supporters of this legitimate business industry, including our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers, are making…

The Blair Witch Project was a ground-breaking type of movie in 1999 when the style of videography shocked moviegoers for its realism despite its low-budget cost — the movie grossed nearly $250 million on a $600,000 budget. Reuters recently caught up with the main actress from the movie, who recently published a book in which…

For the second straight year, medical marijuana supporters in Florida are attempting to get legislators to push through legislation that would allow for the legalization of medical marijuana in that state, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting says. As our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers well know, simply legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t end all of…

The new reality television series “Weed Wars” on the Discovery Channel, which aired its first season finale recently, gives viewers an inside look at the legal operation of marijuana dispensaries in California. The program has depicted the real life workings of a Bay-area marijuana dispensary and the problems that not only the company faces, but…

Our California medical marijuana attorneys have long supported patients who legally are able to purchase, carry and smoke marijuana for personal use. And while California’s voters 15 years ago approved marijuana for legal use, there have been no shortage of controversies and problems. As a recent article out of Canada shows, legal marijuana users there,…