Prop 19 Wins Around the World
By now, everyone knows the marijuana propositions that would have allowed medical marijuana in South Dakota, dispensaries in Oregon and legalized recreational marijuana in California did not pass, but it won. Proposition 19 took the discussion from “Can it be legal?” “Should it be legal?” “Will it be legal?” to “When will it be legal?” [...]
Reason #328 to VOTE YES ON PROP 19
Richard Lee created Proposition 19 and started collecting signatures despite from many people that he should wait until 2012. Whether or not this initiative wins, his decision has changed the paradigm of marijuana legalization internationally so much that the question is no longer if, but when. The genie is out of the bottle and is [...]
Green Aid Activist: Oakland Marijuana Workers Go Union
Story by Eric K. Send activist links and information to Eric. In a move that has tremendous implications for the cannabis movement in California, about 100 medical cannabis workers in Oakland have voted to join United Food Commercial Workers Local 5, one of the largest labor unions in the state. This marks the [...]
Man Behind CA Pot Initiative is Force in ‘Oaksterdam’
By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Published: Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A For much of his life, Richard Lee needed neither liberation nor a cause. The Oakland medical pot entrepreneur, who spent $1.3 million to qualify this November’s initiative to make recreational pot use legal in California, once lived for thundering [...]
