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Steve DeAngelo and Harborside Health Center Featured in CNN Original Series `Inside Man`

National TV show hosted by Morgan Spurlock premieres Sunday, June 23 at 7pm PT/10pm ET, offers intimate look into America’s largest model medical cannabis dispensary

(OAKLAND) - The nation’s largest, model medical cannabis dispensary and co-founder Steve DeAngelo, are featured in the premiere episode of the CNN original series Inside Man, which will air Sunday.

Oscar®-nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who will offer an intimate look into diverse sectors of American life...

California Growers Win!!

These new rights would not be possible if individuals and collectives alike had not joined together and fought for their legal right to grow medicinal cannabis.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - This month of June is the best part of the year for Prop. 215 patients here in California.
Many have put in their garden and some are working hard to get their garden put in.

The growing season is a exciting time for people, it's the chance to grow their own medicine and control the production of the healing cannabis plant.

`Who are my People` Film Premieres

EMMY® Award winning filmmaker Robert Lundahl takes a hard look at U.S. energy policy and its effects on desert ecosystems and communities across the West.

(SAN DIEGO) - The Bureau of Land Management scoping meeting for the Rio Mesa Solar Plant outside Blythe, California likely caused heartburn for the BLM, applicant Brightsource, and related subcontractors and agencies last Fall.

Time and time again Native elders stood up to declare concerns and articulate potentially unresolvable conflicts of values, goals and process.

Central Banks Scale Back Protective Measures

I'm sure there are stock and banking gurus out there who know exactly what measures and how much scaling and support is going on, but the average investor, who is driving the market, has no idea what the five-word-phrase means.

(SANTA ROSA, CA) - Google, "Central banks scale back supportive measures," and you will get a whole host of stories about the stock indexes taking a down turn due to this "scale back."

What you are not likely to find, however, is any stories directly relating to what a "scale back," is exactly, or what measures they are talking about. Which banks? What measures?

Little Hoover Commission Spotlights Jail Overcrowding

Current jail overcrowding has forced sheriffs of the executive branch into the untenable position of making decisions traditionally made by members of the judicial branch of government.

(YUBA CITY CA YubaNet) - A Little Hoover Commission review of county jail populations finds that county sheriffs, not judges, increasingly are making bail and sentencing decisions.

Done as a means to manage to jail overcrowding, this trend threatens to weaken local judicial authority, undermine public confidence in the judicial system, and raises serious questions regarding due process and the separation of powers.

Santa Clara County Judge Socrates Manoukian Influences Authorities to Harass those who Report Evidence of Abuse

Judge Manoukian found to be involved in sabotaging cases involving senior citizens and the disabled.

(SANTA CLARA, CA) - FACT: Some Judges can and will commit crimes, the problem is exposing them and getting them prosecuted. When someone exposes a judge the first thing they do is attack the person who reports them.

Police often side with the judge because they can’t be objective due to working under that judge. This allows unethical judges to commit crimes, abuse victims and stay immune to prosecution.

Heal The Bay 2013 Beach Report Card: Flunked Again

Santa Monica Non-Profit Fails Overall Water Quality Truth Test.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - If you’re a parent and your kid brings home a straight A+ report card, you should first be worried about the “A+.”

Okay, C+ or B+ is one thing, but like the physical attributes of a woman or a man, there’s no such thing as a perfect “10” or in this case an “A+”.

Steinbeck Country in 2013: The Good Old Boy Network is Alive and Well

Apparently, that smallness of mind since Steinbeck’s time hasn’t gone away. It lingers, and not just among the drunks but among ranchers, land and property owners too, and conservatives who balk at any liberal idea.

(CAYUCOS, CA) - I met a longtime resident at the local bar the other night who challenged me on just about everything from the moment I walked in.

“You live around here?” Sure, I said. He introduced me to his wife of 40-plus years, a beauty, stately and queenly. He told me she’s from a long line of settlers who moved here in the 19th century. She smiled at me, like a queen.

Medical Cannabis Law May be Changing in California

Californians especially are encouraged to closely examine all details pertaining to any cannabis initiative introduced for your consideration

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act, was the first of it's kind passed into an American state law in 1996 by the majority of Californian voters.

What 215 did was exempted medical cannabis patients and their doctors from punishment, for those who prefer medicinal cannabis use over pharmaceutical drugs for the state's ill patients suffering from diseases like cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, wasting syndrome, PTSD, pain & etc.

A Case of Irresponsible Journalism

Redding CA's KNVN News Team Bites the Hand That Feeds Them.

(SANTA ROSA, CA) - They called the piece, "Rancho Tehama's Growing Pot Problem."

Right from the start, in their weak effort to get a quirky title in, they irresponsibly create a negative image of the legal cannabis farmers that are actually the majority of this now growing community.