Beverly Hills woman carrying suitcases full of marijuana faces federal charges
Jun 21, 2010 Online Issue
Lisette Lee, 28, is charged by the Drug Enforcement Administration after agents find more than 506 pounds of pot in 13 suitcases being offloaded from a chartered plane at an Ohio airport.
June 17, 2010|By My-Thuan Tran, Los Angeles Times
For a woman who claimed to be a Beverly Hills socialite with connections to multimillion-dollar businesses, perhaps traveling with 13 suitcases would not have attracted much attention. She was accompanied with a small entourage, traveled on a charter plane and wore false eyelashes.
But this was her fourth trip from Van Nuys to Columbus, Ohio, and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration became suspicious that there was something more to 28-year-old Lisette Lee’s trips than an extensive wardrobe.
Source : Los Angeles Times
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The Pot Economy: No One Seems To Know If It Exists
Apr 27, 2010 Online Issue
By Tiffany Revelle, The Daily Journal
Source: Ukiah Daily Journal
California — How much of Mendocino County’s economy marijuana represents was one of the biggest questions at a Saturday forum on “Life After Legalization” at the Saturday Afternoon Club in Ukiah – and no one has any real answers.
The forum, brought south by Humboldt County’s KMUD radio host Anna Hamilton from where it started last month, aimed to answer the myriad questions about what should happen if the voters pass the Tax Cannabis 2010 California ballot initiative.
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Pot Growers Hire PR Firm to Develop Marijuana Marketing Plan
Mar 8, 2010 Online Issue
Los Angeles, CA – “The times, they are a changin’, again,” remarked Henry “Pops” Champion to a group of medical marijuana clinic owners and pot growers who all agree that it is time to finally pull out all the stops in getting marijuana prohibition lifted in California, and eventually, nationwide. Pops has been a lifelong smoker and proponent of legalized marijuana.
“Way back in 1996, Proposition 215 was passed allowing anyone with a doctor’s note to cultivate and use medical marijuana in California for a number of ailments, and in our efforts to assist those folks by offering quality grown and processed medical marijuana–not that street dope–we’ve been harassed like common criminals, and it’s time we spoke up for ourselves,” Pops continued.
“Some folks say we want to make California the Netherlands of the United States. That’s simply not true. We don’t want to be another Netherlands. Hell, man, we can’t even speak Dutch,” said Champion, to thunderous applause.
Yuri Lehigh then took the stage. “Man, all our lives we’ve tried to tell people that pot is a lot less harmful than booze and pharmaceuticals, but would the Feds listen? No. Now, after years of abusing alcohol and pills in place of marijuana, only because we could obtain them legally, we find our health dwindling and, ironically, one of the best natural substances for our ailments, from tired eyes to over-worked livers is pot. When are they going to wake up and smell the bud, man?”
“I mean, have you seen the ads on television for some of those ‘legal’ prescription drugs they’re trying to push on us, man? Clear up your allergies, but at the same time, be careful cause you’re gonna get dizzy and pass out and have bad stomach cramps and diarrhea and what not, man, but yeah, like you sure will breathe better. That is like total bullshit, man,” said Lehigh.
He continued, “and booze and beer commercials, what the fu*k is that, man? Have a few beers at a game, drink yourself silly on some Spiced Rum or Kaluha at a friend’s house, but hey, don’t drive. How the hell do you think they’re gonna get home, man? Sure, like anyone is gonna drink responsibly. The whole thing’s a ruse, man. We all know pot is way safer and we have to find a way to get that point across.”
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SoCal pot dispensary owner arrested
Dec 7, 2009 Online Issue
LOS ANGELES—A Southern California medical marijuana dispensary owner awaiting sentencing on a drug conspiracy charge was arrested Thursday 
after he tried to open two pot stores, authorities said.
Virgil Grant III, 42, of Carson was taken into custody at a pot clinic in Los Angeles, said Sarah Pullen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Grant wasn’t supposed to associate with medical marijuana dispensaries while he was free on bond, Pullen said.
A phone message left for Grant’s lawyer, Roger Rosen, wasn’t immediately returned.
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Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa jumps on medical marijuana crackdown bandwagon
Nov 29, 2009 Online Issue
You can add the name of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the list of Los Angeles area officials seeking to crack down on L.A.’s medical marijuana network. On Tuesday, Villaraigosa said that he wants to drastically reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, from the current estimated number of at least 800 down to 200 or less.
Having Mayor Villaraigosa jump on the crackdown bandwagon could make it more likely that the Los Angeles City Council takes a harder line against medical marijuana distribution in Los Angeles. Last Tuesday, the Council drafted language to be included in a comprehensive ordinance to regulate medical marijuana. The ordinance would not specifically permit the “sale” of medical marijuana, and thus could affect the practices of many Los Angeles medical pot dispensaries, which distribute medical marijuana to “qualified patients” in cash transactions that some officials consider clearly to be “sales.”
However, if Los Angeles shuts down existing dispensaries under a new, stricter enforcement regime as Mayor Villaraigosa wishes, such dispensaries cannot all be expected to go quietly. Indeed, in September, the Los Angeles Collective Association and the Westside Green Oasis Dispensary sued the City after Green Oasis was denied a permit under the current moratorium banning new pot dispensaries in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Superior Court agreed with Green Oasis that L.A.’s medical marijuana moratorium violated the California Compassionate Use Act, and slapped an injunction on the City against enforcing its moratorium on Green Oasis. More such lawsuits could prove very costly to cash-strapped Los Angeles.
All of which begs the question: if having so many medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles is such a bad idea, why did the Mayor and the City Council let them proliferate in the first place?
You can add the name of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the list of Los Angeles area officials seeking to crack down on L.A.’s medical 
marijuana network. On Tuesday, Villaraigosa said that he wants to drastically reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, from the current estimated number of at least 800 down to 200 or less.
Having Mayor Villaraigosa jump on the crackdown bandwagon could make it more likely that the Los Angeles City Council takes a harder line against medical marijuana distribution in Los Angeles. Last Tuesday, the Council drafted language to be included in a comprehensive ordinance to regulate medical marijuana. The ordinance would not specifically permit the “sale” of medical marijuana, and thus could affect the practices of many Los Angeles medical pot dispensaries, which distribute medical marijuana to “qualified patients” in cash transactions that some officials consider clearly to be “sales.”
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Los Angeles and medical marijuana
Nov 9, 2009 Online Issue
Do you have a back ache, really… you better be sure. Carmen Trutanich, the newly elected city attorney promises a crackdown, arguing that there is a 
whole lot of recreational use under the guise of medical need.
Trutanich, has proposed an ordinance that would provide for dispensaries to have renewable permits, submit to criminal record checks, register the names of members with the police and operate on a nonprofit basis.
It would result in the closing of hundreds of the existing marijuana dispensaries.
If you are in need of a good joke, such as, “how do you get a one-armed stoner out of a tree? …Wave.” There are a million others just like this gem, floating around the estimated 800 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, the marijuana capital of the country.
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