Marijuana Policy Project Article

...topless women, Uncle Sam on stilts, and Grateful Dead fans have been marching past surf shops, book stores and cafes chanting: “We’re here, we’re poor, we’re not going shopping.”

City leaders plan to join medical marijuana users at a pot giveaway at City Hall next week. Their goal is to send a message to federal authorities that, in this town, medical marijuana is welcome.

Paul Brindel is a community advocate and service provider who argues that new downtown rules could harm the poor.

While two dozen DEA agents descended, chainsaws in hand, upon a respected medical marijuana cooperative south of San Francisco, patients barricaded the road to block the agents' departure.

Information about a free party in San Leandro -- come up from Santa Cruz!

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Julia Butterfly Hill offers no apologies for her eco-celebrity as she brings her green publicity
machine to Santa Cruz

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