ACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Democratic Party said Wednesday that a staffer did not violate campaign reporting laws by accepting edible marijuana and an e-cigarette filled with hash oil from a lobbyist for the marijuana industry.

The aide, Josh Drayton, works for the party's Senate Democrats on political campaigns.

Lawmakers and employees of the Senate are subject to gift reporting and limits. However, Drayton is exempt because he is not employed by the Senate but by the party, said Gary Winuk, former enforcement chief at the Fair Political Practices Commission.

BuzzFeed News first reported on the exchange, saying Drayton accepted the gifts at the end of May from a lobbyist with the California Cannabis Industry Association in the presence of a reporter.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the first of a series of pending Assembly bills related to medical marijuana earlier this week. Assembly Bill 258 will prevent California hospitals from denying organ transplants to patients who use medical marijuana. The new law will take effect on January 1. 

Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical marijuana advocacy group, has claimed that hundreds of patients have been denied life-saving organ transplants because they have legally treated their symptoms with medical cannabis. 
 

Potbox, a new startup, is offering monthly deliveries of high-grade medical marijuana to subscribers in San Francisco.

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A political aide to California Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León accepted at least $85 in marijuana products from a pot lobbyist at the end of May before discussing how his boss needed to be “educated” into taking a more liberal stance on medical marijuana.

Two bills aimed at regulating California’s marijuana industry cleared key hurdles in the state Legislature on Wednesday after one North Coast lawmaker hauled a live pot plant into the Capitol to illustrate the value of the lucrative crop.

State Sen. Mike McGuire’s Medical Marijuana Public Safety and Environmental Protection Act, SB 643, advanced from the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on Tuesday and heads to the Health Committee next week.

The bill would establish a broad regulatory structure for California’s medical marijuana industry, which has been plagued by ineffective and confusing rules despite being legal at the state level since 1996.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On July 8, 2015, special agents with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), assisted by other federal and state agencies and the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a search of two large-scale marijuana cultivation facilities located on federally recognized tribal lands at the Alturas Indian Rancheria and the XL Ranch in Modoc County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

At both sites, law enforcement seized a total of at least 12,000 marijuana plants and over 100 pounds of processed marijuana. Other than contraband marijuana and items of evidentiary value, no tribal property was seized, and no federal charges are pending.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CannabisRadio.com, the premier online radio and podcasting network for cannabis content, announces the launch of “Cannabis Confidential” with Dr. Dina, medical marijuana icon and inspiration for the Nancy Botwin character in Showtime’s “Weeds.” Dr.

EUREKA- It's all about marijuana at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.

The California Cannabis Voice Humboldt proposed Land Use Ordinance will go before the supervisors during the afternoon session.

On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law authored by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) that prevents state hospitals from denying organ donations to medical marijuana users strictly because of their marijuana use.