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The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee will be holding a special meeting next Monday June 29, 2009 to hear 29 medical marijuana hardship exemption applications. On June 22, L.A.'s mayor signed off on the revised Interim Control Ordinance (ICO) regulating medical marijuana collectives in Los Angeles.
June 22 - The CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) marijuana eradication helicopter program is starting operation today.
Cal NORML thanks Rep. Barney Frank and California's co-sponsors for HR 2835, a bill to let states legally regulate medical marijuana.
On June 8, State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced a SJR 14, which calls for a comprehensive federal policy to ensure safe and legal access to medical marijuana for patients who benefit from its therapeutic use.
May 18, 2009 - US District Judge Marilyn Patel sentenced Eddy Lepp to ten years mandatory minimum for having grown over 1,000 marijuana plants for a medical marijuana garden in Lake County.
May 18, 2009 - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear case #08-887 San Diego County, CA, et al. V. San Diego NORML, et al., leaving in place an appeals court ruling holding that California law trumps federal law over medical marijuana.
May 5 - Asked today about a recent Field Poll showing that 56 percent of registered voters support legalizing and taxing marijuana in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Well, I think it's not time for that, but I think it's time for a debate."
March 23, 2009 - Hearings for AB 390 have been set for the next session of the California Assembly (Dec - Jan) so as to provide time for building support.