PROTECT CONSUMER ACCESS TO SMOKELESS VAPORIZERS: STOP E-CIG BANS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
UPDATE March 20 – San Francisco supes voted in the e-cig regulations. Read more.
March 7 – SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 6th – We were heavily outgunned at the SF Supes’ hearings on the e-cig ban, but won some concessions for medical marijuana.
The bill’s sponsor, Eric Mar, invited a slew of witnesses to give lengthy presentations, including two members of the Dept of Public Health, Stanton Glantz and fellow UCSF researchers, the head of the SF Board of Eucation, and the Tobacco-Free Coalition.…
February 4, 2014 – By a vote of 5-0, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors voted to table an ordinance that would have banned medical marijuana dispensaries and outdoor cultivation today. The board acted on the recommendation of the planning commission, which voted 6-1 to scrap their own plan after nearly 100 citizens showed up for the meeting and 20 spoke against it (with none speaking in favor). 
January 26, 2014 – As the popularity of cannabis e-cigs and vaporizers has taken off, California NORML has been busy fighting bills to ban e-cigs in non-smoking areas. These bans are especially harmful to the many seriously ill patients who cannot legally smoke medical cannabis indoors due to the state’s stringent anti-smoking laws, some of which even ban smoking in private rental units and apartments. California law generally defines e-cigs broadly to include any device capable of vaporizing nicotine, which includes most every vaporizer on the market.…
January 2, 2014 – Los Angeles Judge Hammock 
January 3, 2014 – In a lawsuit supported by California NORML, attorney Joe Elford is filing 
Then it was off to Sacramento, where 
October 4, 2013 – A jury in federal court has found KPFA citizen journalist Jose Gutierrez guilty of assaulting a US marshall during a protest of the raid on Oaksterdam University on April 2, 2012. 
SACRAMENTO, Sept 11th – The State Senate unanimously passed Sen. Mark Leno’s industrial hemp bill,