Boycott: Harbor Side Medical Cannabis Club 1840 Embarcadero St.
Oakland, CA 94606
As of current date Harbor Side does not want more than Oakland's current 4 Medical Cannabis Clubs... Help Oaksterdam News cut the tape by voting YES!!!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the nation’s largest marijuana policy reform organization called upon shoppers across the country to boycott Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in order to protest the unjust...
State Law Survives High Court Ruling Feds, state still conflict after Raich Decision
A divided US Supreme Court handed down its June 6 ruling on medical marijuana, and its effect is ... nothing.
The Supreme Court’s six-to-three Gonzalez v. Raich
opinion pre ... Read More >>
One month after the Gonzalez v. Raich decision, more than 150 medical
marijuana outlets continue to operate without federal interference.
The day after the ruling the Alameda County Pu ... Read More >>
Access
Medical marijuana access compared to alcohol Opponents of medical marijuana often claim there are
too many dispensaries in their area. This specious argument has been
used to impose unacceptably low limits in Oakland and elsewhere. The
cap in Oakland is completely arbitrary, ye ... Read More >>
Quick Bite
Oaksterdam emerging as a tasty new tourist hot spot for the weekends, too The cracks that run through the 1985 mural, Mitzvah, the Jewish Cultural Experience, are a silent reminder of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Situated at 14th and Franklin Streets, on the edge of Oaksterdam, the enamel painting by Dan Fontes, Keith Sklar ... Read More >>
The smell of freedom hung heavy in the air at the National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Law’s well-attended annual conference when
it came to San Francisco in March.
Marijuana smoking -"even heavy long term use"- does not cause cancer of the lung, upper airways, or esophagus, Donald Tashkin, MD, reported at this year's meeting of the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
R.I. Senate moves MMJ Rhode Island lawmakers took a Senate vote 28 to 6 to override the governor’s veto of medical marijuana legislation.
The House agreed to an override vote, but had not voted by press time. Read More >>
The City Council’s Public Safety Committee met June 14 with a packed
hall and unanimous public testimony supporting regulated cannabis sales
in Oakland.
“We truly are showing th ... Read More >>
In the Netherlands, sales and cultivation of cannabis among adults,
still technically illegal, is accepted as an ordinary part of life and
regulated accordingly.
Peter Cohen of the Dutc ... Read More >>
Oakland Mayor
Mayoral race heats up Will Ron Dellums run for mayor of Oakland? If he does he will be one
more candidate that supports taxing and regulating cannabis for adults,
similarly to alcohol.
Dellums (US Rep. 1970-1998) has been an advisory
board member of the ... Read More >>
Do Not Arrest
CA Law enforcement ordered to follow state law California Attorney General John Lockyer’s office issued a June 9, 2005
“bulletin to all california law enforcement agencies.” It read in part:
“Legal staff in our office have reviewed carefully
the Raich de ... Read More >>