Proposition 19 (California, 2010)

Some conservative commentators have gotten all worked up over a Hungarian-American immigrant and successful currency speculator named George Soros. He started life in a Jewish family in Budapest as Georgy Schwartz, but his family changed its name to avoid...

Medical marijuana advocates are dropping their efforts to place a measure on the November ballot that would regulate California's booming dispensary industry....

Medical marijuana activists were puzzling Monday over a federal raid on one of the nation’s most prominent pot legalization advocates, suggesting it may be intended to send a signal that no one was safe as the Obama administration tries to......

Richard Lee, whose bid to legalize marijuana in California brought him international attention, plans to give up ownership of his Oakland-based marijuana businesses after a federal raid this week seized many of their assets, including plants, bank...

Potheads are annoying. They talk too much, are way too chill and keep asking the same questions over and over. But as a general rule they’ve never been in that criminal class like junkies, crackheads and tweakers, addicts who could conceivably...

On Sept. 1 you will have a chance to help us make history. On this date there will be an event to support the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative that will be on the November 2012 ballot. Please join us. The event will be hosted by Richard Moriarty...

Court rejects bid to make e-signatures valid for initiative petitions....

Whether you enjoy “Wild and Free” depends on what you think about the title track, a paean to legalized marijuana, co-written with Woody Harrelson in support of Proposition 19, last year's failed bid to turn California into the new Amsterdam.....

This week, I was privileged to attend the second meeting of the Saving Lives Glendale Coalition, of which I am a member. The coalition is working at a time when drug and alcohol abuse is at the forefront of community attention, not just in Glendale, but...

Clearly this is best described as the hottest ticket item in the foothills since the toe-to-toe with the mega corporate giant Home Depot. The community came out on a rainy night, numbering more than 100, and despite many previous heated meetings on the...

As California considers legalizing marijuana, staff writer Shari Roan recently explored the drug's health effects. Her story asks if Californians -- and people in general -- have ignored the addictive qualities. Roan's story has garnered hundreds of...

Whatever they're smoking at Facebook HQ, it's not marijuana. The social networking website reportedly told the Just Say Now campaign, a group getting out the vote for Prop. 19, the November ballot measure that could legalize non-medical pot use, sales and...