‘Cultivated By Hand – Perfected By The Sun’

Harborside Health Centers break ground on new advertising campaign for outdoor cannabis

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Outdoor cannabis is getting a boost with Harborside’s innovative marketing campaign promoting “SunGrown” products. Harborside Health Centers—based in Oakland and San Jose, Calif., and Portland, Ore.—are known for their outstanding patient care, lab-tested medicine, wellness culture and beautiful interiors. Now their design team is elevating the cannabis industry by curating thoughtful advertising campaigns for the harvest season to encourage environmentally sound cultivation. The SunGrown campaign runs from the end of October through November.

Harvest season in Northern California is a remarkable time of year. The leaves are a rainbow of autumn colors, the air is cool and crisp, summer comes to San Francisco and the psychedelic excess of festival season gives way to a mellow reconnecting with the bounty of the land. It also marks the beginning of trim season and the annual emergence of a unique cannabis subculture, a sort of underground aspect, of the pot world.

Tech billionaire Sean Parker is expected to fund a possible California ballot proposal to legalize marijuana.

Many groups are trying to get initiatives legalizing marijuana on California’s November 2016 ballot, but one scheduled to be announced Monday will have something none of the others do: the money to run an effective campaign.

The Chronicle has learned that billionaire tech investor Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, is willing to spend millions to help pass the proposed Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, according to a source close to the ballot effort.

We’ve written extensively of late about both California’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA) and about the nationwide uptick in cannabis-related litigation (see here, here andhere), so it comes as no surprise that there is already a lawsuit challenging the state constitutionality of California’s

California is the biggest marijuana legalization domino that is in play for 2016. I have had many conversations with members of the mainstream media about California, and I have said many times that many people will measure the success of the 2016 campaign by whether or not California succeeds. Several states could legalize in 2016, and while I think that even one state would be a huge victory, many others will consider it bittersweet if California fails to legalize again.

What could be a resolution to the long-running debate over medical marijuana in Los Angeles and across California took a step forward today when backers of a proposal to legalize the drug won the state’s OK to gather petition signatures needed to put the idea before voters.

If enacted, the state would see a huge financial windfall through law enforcement cost savings and the new taxation of the drug and drug businesses.

More than $100 million in law enforcement costs could be saved if the measure becomes law, according to state officials. In addition, millions would be raised by taxing the drug industry.

United Patients Group brings medical cannabis education to the largest gathering of epilepsy support groups ever assembled to help raise awareness and erase the stigma surrounding epilepsy

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2015

What could be a resolution to the long-running debate over medical marijuana in Los Angeles and across California took a step forward Friday when backers of a proposal to legalize the drug won the state’s OK to gather petition signatures needed to put the idea before voters.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.If enacted, the state would see a huge financial windfall through law enforcement cost savings and the new taxation of the drug and drug businesses.

More than $100 million in law enforcement costs could be saved if the measure becomes law, according to state officials. In addition, millions would be raised by taxing the drug industry.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --

A San Francisco dentist is accused of an interstate pot operation.

Jerome Weitz, D.D.S., runs a dental practice in the city's Mission District. Prosecutors say he was trafficking marijuana from San Francisco all the way to New York.

No one, including the dentists who work at the office, told ABC7 News they had any idea the man who cuts their checks is behind bars. They also didn't know their boss' son got arrested for illegally selling medical marijuana earlier this year. Prosecutors are saying this is a case of like father, like son.

On his YouTube page Jerome Weitz is the friendly dentist his patients have known for 30 years at his Mission Street business.

At the risk of dating myself, one of my preferred Broadway plays is “South Pacific” and “Bali Hai” is a song in the show. Bali Hai is an island out in the range upon which many fantastic things can and actually do happen in the show. However naturally it is found to be a fantasy and the truth of World War II eventually intrudes upon the story.

Investing in marijuana public companies is like traveling to Bali Hai. We can all see it in the distance and no doubt there are potentially some wonderful things there, however with the exception of the late-2013 to early-2014 bubble, from which fortunes were made, there has actually been little continual progress in producing a genuinely public business sector Version 2.0.