Posts Tagged ‘by Kate Woods’
UL 13 Makes Big Splash at Hempcon
Medicinal Cannabis Fest in San Jose provides our “collective of collective” welcomed exposure
By Kate Woods
Union Local 13 Staff Writer
Wonders of cannabis, musical performances, giggles and gags – and some top notch growing and legal advice awed fair-goers at the Hempcon festival/convention in downtown San Jose earlier this month.
The San Jose Convention Center was the venue ...Read more.
Mendocino Fed Raid Turns Home Invasion
County Sanctioned Cannabis Grower Robbed by Government, with No Recourse
By Kate Woods
Union Local 13 Staff Writer
Desperate to justify their needless jobs, DEA agents raided a woman’s legal marijuana patch in Mendocino in mid-July.
Mendocino county supervisors voted in June to allow growers up to 99 cannabis plants if they pay a $1,050 county fee and more ...Read more.
Gilroy Wastes $100,000 Fighting Dispensary
MediLeaf Vows to Appeal Judge’s Ruling�
By Kate Woods
Union Local 13 Staff Writer
The only medicinal cannabis dispensary serving Gilroy might get shut down by the end of July.
Gilroy city officials have spent $102,000 of citizens’ tax revenue to pay their attorney fees, so far, in a fight to close the well-run storefront, claiming MediLeaf ...Read more.
Proposition 19: We’ve Been Here Before
Remembering 1972—Lessons learned and a fed up public
By Kate Woods
Union Local 13 Staff Writer
What were you doing in 1972? We’re you even born yet? Perhaps you have vivid memories of 38 years ago?
I was 14. In the summer of my sophomore year at Los Gatos High School, we were fighting for the first ...Read more.
The Pros and Cons to Legalization
Lately, it seems the path toward decriminalizing cannabis has placed many of us who have fought for that goal at odds with each other.
Studies Reveal: Cannabis Inhibits Cancer
Studies Reveal: Cannabis Inhibits Cancer
Researcher/Writer Stan White Digs into the Facts of a Much Maligned Weed
By Kate Woods
Union Local 13 Staff Writer
This article has been swirling around in my brain for what seems half a century. I have to write it – with updates – at least twice a year. That’s because for 35 ...Read more.
First Northern Calif. International Cannabis & Hemp Expo a Jumbo Success
A good time, apparently, was had by all who attended the First Northern California Hemp Expo, held the weekend of April 17 at the Cow Palace near San Francisco.
INTERVIEW with our Founder of Local Union 13, Mr. Kevin DeLang
Question 1: MR. DELANG, WHY DID YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES DECIDE TO ESTABLISH “UNION LOCAL 13” – YOUR STATE “COLLECTIVE” — IN EARLY FEBRUARY THIS YEAR?
Well Kate,
Before we start I need to make a disclaimer, our union is young and we have not had a membership meeting to vote on the final structure of ...Read more.
NEWS ALERT: SUPPORT NEEDED in HOLLISTER APRIL 6 Hollister dispensary vs. San Benito County
NEWS ALERT: SUPPORT NEEDED in HOLLISTER APRIL 6
Hollister dispensary vs. San Benito County
By KATE WOODS, Union Local 13 Staff Writer
Purple Cross is the lovely name of the only known legal medicinal cannabis dispensary in San Benito County, operating from an upstairs storefront in the county seat of Hollister, its windows facing the downtown main ...Read more.
Flying in the Face of Compliancy:
Obie’s Story – IT COULD BE YOURS!
By Kate Woods, Staff Writer for Local Union 13
On April 6, 2009, police and other law enforcement agencies raided the Eureka residence of Obadiah Switzer. Officers stumbled upon 27 pounds of carefully grown cannabis in a shed on the back of the property, which they promptly confiscated.
The problem, as ...Read more.
