California Medical Marijuana

A new Assembly bill was introduced this week to help protect medical marijuana users jobs. The bill is designed to prohibit discrimination against marijuana patients who use their medicine away from the workplace. Now, by no means can a patient use marijuana while on the job but this will stop people from getting fired who use medical marijuana responsibly away from the workplace to help their ailments.

The bill is Co-authored by two Bay area assembly men, Marc Leno D-San Francisco and Loni Hancock D-Berkley, as well as Patty Berg D-Eureka and Lori Saldana D-San Diego. The reason this team gathered to write this bill is stemmed from a court case from last month. (more…)

If you follow medical marijuana news at all you know that the DEA looooves to raid marijuana dispensaries and has been doing so up and down the coast for some time. This week The Berkeley City Council took action to prepare for raids against the city’s marijuana dispensaries. This could be happening just in time as their have been 5 dispensaries shut down in the last year in the bay area.

So what did they do you ask?

On Tuesday night The City Council UNANIMOUSLY passed a measure that makes a commitment by the city to (more…)

So how exactly is medical marijuana legal in California?

Well the answer is pretty simple, the citizens wanted it to be. In the 1996 elections California voted on and approved prop 215 otherwise known as the Compationate Use Act of 1996.

Proposition 215 has a few different parts so I’ll break the important ones down as much as I can although some parts leave the lines of legal/illegal very hazy. (more…)