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If Your Only Tool Is A Hammer
There’s an old saying: It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. The quote is attributed to Abraham Maslow and I have neither a reason to doubt...
View ArticleToke It Easy, Man: More on Proposition 19
My last post, “Blowing Smoke: Proposition 19 & Medical Marijuana,” has perhaps drawn more readers than just about any other post I’ve written (including “A Drowning Man”). Some comments indicate an...
View ArticleMarijuana & The Rule of Law
During the last few weeks, there were a few shootings — though this Fresno Bee story mentions four — when people allegedly tried to steal marijuana that did not belong to them, growing on property...
View ArticleStems or Bud? Proposition 19 AGAIN
I’m told by my friends who actually smoke the stuff that there’s little utility to smoking marijuana stems. When you’re looking to buy, you’re looking for a baggie that’s heavy on bud. (Yeah, I said...
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Pot Smoke & Mirrors
Today’s Fresno Bee will carry a story — I’ve only seen the online version so far, which promises “more” for today in the paper edition — concerning a resurgent commitment from the federal government to...
View ArticleUp In Smoke
In 1996, Californians passed the Compassionate Use Act in order to ensure that seriously-ill Californians who found a benefit to a natural medicine could, in fact, obtain the medicine. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleWhen Law ENFORCEMENT Doesn’t Like the Law
By now it should be no secret that many local government officials — at least in Central California — do not believe that there is any way in which medical marijuana can be legally possessed, used,...
View ArticleEvergreen Update
In a previous post, “Dispensing (With) Law: Strict Constructionism & Medical Marijuana,” I predicted that the California Supreme Court would take the case of City of Lake Forest v. Evergreen...
View ArticleTokin’ Appreciation: Medical Marijuana &“Profit”
A cop walks into a bar…. Wait, that’s a joke, and what I want to write about today is no joke. This article is about a profound misunderstanding of the laws of the State of California, specifically...
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Imagine If There Were A Law…
Imagine if there were a law that made it illegal to possess Vicodin. Well, actually, as it turns out, there is a law that makes it illegal to possess Vicodin… …without a prescription.1 Now imagine that...
View ArticleDammit, Jim! I’m a Lawyer, Not a Doctor!
Earlier Friday it was brought to my attention that a doctor who recommends medical marijuana allegedly told his patient — my client — that “Rick Horowitz does not know medical marijuana law.” Why a...
View ArticleEh…They’re Just People
Scott Greenfield – how many of my posts these days start that way? — writes today about another asshole. Just another. If I had a dime for every asshole we criminal defense attorneys encountered in the...
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