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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40563\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 178px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"medicalmarijuanaSM\" width=\"178\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40563\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CA Tim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary, shows marijuana plant buds on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okay, medical marijuana fans, is this the study you’ve been waiting for? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RAND Corporation yesterday released a report called “Regulating Medical Marijuana Dispensaries — An Overview with Preliminary evidence of Their Impact on Crime.” (\u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR987.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Read the study here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (pdf). You can also \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201109211730/a/\">listen to the lead author\u003c/a> speak with KQED reporter Mina Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RAND’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/09/21.htm\">\u003cstrong>press release\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is a bit more attention-getting: “Crime Rises When Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Close,” reads the headline. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When medical marijuana dispensaries close, crime rises in the surrounding neighborhood when compared to areas where dispensaries are allowed to remain open, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The findings challenge the common wisdom that marijuana dispensaries promote criminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studying crime both before and after a large number of dispensaries were shut down in Los Angeles, researchers found that incidents such as break-ins rose in the neighborhoods of closed dispensaries relative to dispensaries allowed to remain open, at least in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blocks with the closed dispensaries, the study observed crime up to 60 percent greater than comparable blocks with open dispensaries, but the effects were not apparent across a wider area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If medical marijuana dispensaries are causing crime, then there should be a drop in crime when they close,” said Mireille Jacobson, the study’s lead author and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “Individual dispensaries may attract crime or create a neighborhood nuisance, but we found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this disclaimer comes at the very end: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Researchers say their findings should be interpreted cautiously, given that they studied a relatively short period of time and that the margin of error was high. But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. That’s because crime on any given block is actually pretty rare, Jacobson said, so tiny changes like one or two incidents can make the numbers look bigger than they are. “The estimated increase should be interpreted with some caution,” the paper states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, even with that potentially wide variation, the fact that crime was found to increase, not decrease, when dispensaries closed is at odds with the view of medical marijuana opponents like the California Police Chiefs Association. The organization’s Task Force on Marijuana Dispensaries wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiapolicechiefs.org/files/marijuana_files/files/MarijuanaDispensariesWhitePaper_042209.pdf\">2009 white paper\u003c/a> (pdf) that argued the following, in a section called “Ancillary Crimes”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, many violent crimes have been committed that can be traced to the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries. These include armed robberies and murders. For example, as far back as 2002, two home occupants were shot in Willits, California in the course of a home invasion robbery targeting medical marijuana.32 And, a series of four armed robberies of a marijuana dispensary in Santa Barbara, California occurred through August 10, 2006, in which thirty dollars and fifteen baggies filled with marijuana on display were taken by force and removed from the premises in the latest holdup. The owner said he failed to report the first three robberies because “medical marijuana is such a controversial issue.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to describe other violent crimes related to medical marijuana, and discusses a money laundering and organized crime connection to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that evidence is anecdotal. The RAND study’s lead author, Mireille Jacobsen, says, the report is “the first systematic, independent analysis” of the claim that dispensaries actually attract crime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increase in crime resulting from the sudden \u003cem>lack\u003c/em> of a dispensary does seem counter-intuitive. Why might it occur? From the Times again: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers did not try to draw conclusions on why crime increased, but offered the hypothesis that dispensaries may heighten security in the areas around them because they employ cameras and guards, increase late-night foot traffic, replace illicit street sales and draw heavier police patrols.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I asked KQED’s Michael Montgomery, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\">covered the medical marijuana issue\u003c/a> for a long time, what he thought of the study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some opponents of the legalization of medical marijuana have argued that outlets like dispensaries that distribute the product become a magnet for crime,” he said. “However, there’s never been a lot of data to back up that assertion. So the significance of the RAND study is that we now have serious data arguing just the opposite, that outlets that legally distribute marijuana have not created an increase in crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery also says the report’s findings corroborate what he’s been told over the years by police officers in San Francisco and Oakland. “They say the establishment of dispensaries has actually led to a decrease in crime. It’s true there have been robberies, killings related to dispensary operators, but if you compare that to crime associated with liquor stores, the argument is, it’s much lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim asked the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for a response to the RAND study. And surprise: They are not impressed. The email response: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Concerning the City of Los Angeles, the Rand Study is deeply flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Study is the polar opposite of a scientific and measured response to verified data. It relies exclusively upon faulty assumptions, conjecture, irrelevant data, untested measurements, and incomplete results. The conclusions are therefore highly suspect and unreliable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For confirmation, simply ask the residents in areas where dispensaries were or are located. In the end, random numbers do not tell the story, people do. Specifically, some of the shortcomings in the Study include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The City Attorney sent a cautionary letter to illegal dispensaries on May 4, 2010. The Study considered 10 days before and after June 7, 2010, which was the effective date of the City’s new ordinance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The 10 day time period before and after the June 7, 2010 date assumes without any substantiation that the dispensaries that received the May 4 letter remained open until June 7, closed on that date, and remained closed for 10 days. It is more likely that some closed in May, some re-opened during the interval of the Study, and some did not close at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. The faulty assumption that the dispensaries closed immediately on June 7 and stayed closed for 10 days further fails to take into account the fact that in any period of shutting down, dispensaries will often have fire sales, internal fights among their participants, and offer incentives in order to dispose of their product. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Because of the difficulties and fire sale promotions that arise when any business closes, it is quite possible that member in-fighting, increased traffic to the dispensaries for bargains, and disgruntled clientele who found the dispensaries in a state of transition, accounted for the increase in crime in the 10 days following June 7, 2010. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. It is not credible to suggest that security guards at illegal dispensaries foster a sense of neighborhood safety, as the common practice of security guards at dispensaries is to remain on the dispensary premises, in contrast to security personnel hired by a community who are deliberately dispersed throughout the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Wednesday p.m.\u003c/em> Lead author Mireille Jacobsen answers the city attorney’s critique with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nWe agree with the City Attorney’s Office’s comments 1-3 about the June 7th date not binding for all dispensaries. In fact we would be surprised if some did not close early and others did not defy the date. The early and late closures should add noise to the analysis and actually downward bias our estimates, i.e. make the increase look too small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example consider a place that closed early (in May). At that location, nothing happens on June 7th, so under this methodology we would measure the impact of closure as zero. The more “early” or “late” closures there are, the more our estimates are understated. Our assumption is simply that a large share of dispensaries closed on June 7th, and to the extent that they did not, our estimates represent a lower bound on the true effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some evidence for the noise introduced by the non-binding date, Appendix Table A.4. recodes known defiers (based on LA Times and LA Weekly reports) as open instead of closed. These estimates are slightly more precisely estimated and in some cases larger in magnitude. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Points 3 and 4 seem to suggest low compliance with the closure orders combined with fire sales or other activities in the 10 days after June 7th The combination (low compliance + firesales or in fighting) increased crime. By the City Attorney’s office’s own accounts, compliance with the June 7th closure date was quite high, albeit not perfect, so these arguments seem hard to square. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding point 5, we never state or “suggest that security guards at illegal dispensaries foster a sense of neighborhood safety.” Rather one hypothesis for our results is that security guards and cameras at dispensaries deter some crime, which may indirectly benefit their neighbors. As an example, someone may be more likely to break into a car in front of a vacant storefront than a dispensary with a security guard or camera. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">RAND Study: Crime Increases When Dispensaries Close\u003c/a> (East Bay Express)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Rand study finds \u003cem>less\u003c/em> crime near pot dispensaries\u003c/a> (LA Times)\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. 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He replaces Kamala Harris, who stepped down to become the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/08/MNAC1H5VHO.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón faulted for ending training of officers\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, mental health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to death in 2001 when he brandished a knife at them in a movie theater. More than 1,000 officers completed the training before the department eliminated the program in June. Mental health workers say police officials described their action as a budget-cutting move.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/10/3311863/browns-countdown-day-1-plan-takes.html\" target=\"blank\">Brown's budget plan would eliminate redevelopment agencies \u003c/a>(Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Old Sacramento was revived with the help of public redevelopment money, back in the 1960s. The city's new downtown nightlife venue, the \"mermaid bar\" complex on K Street, got millions of redevelopment dollars, too. Even the midtown loft building that Gov. Jerry Brown calls home was partially funded with redevelopment money. Now California's multibillion-dollar redevelopment industry is fighting for its life – with Brown as its would-be executioner. In the budget proposal he will release today, the governor is expected to call for the elimination of every local redevelopment agency in the state, according to a source familiar with the proposal.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_17026280\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley takes heed of DA's warning on pot farms\u003c/a> (Berkeley Voice)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It may be a very long time -- or maybe not at all -- for Berkeley's voter-approved medical marijuana farms to start growing the green. That's according to city officials and people in the industry who saw a letter from the Alameda County District Attorney warning Oakland officials they face prosecution for a similar plan. And to further dampen the spirits of potential Berkeley pot growers, those in the industry say there is no suitable space to grow pot in the city in the area designated in the plan approved by voters. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_17038583?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nRichmond police try to curb celebratory gunfire \u003c/a>(Contra Costa Times)\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sure, Jerry Wooldridge heard the gunfire. Which time? \"Oh, it's a little disconcerting. But it is normal,\" the 40-year resident said in front of his home in central Richmond. \"I hear it every Fourth of July, and every New Year's Eve.\" Until Friday, he never saw anyone appear in his driveway to ask about it. But now, after every holiday known for celebratory gunfire, police intend to knock on doors in neighborhoods with gunshots in hopes of learning more about why, and stopping it in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576056384074453192.html\" target=\"_blank\">Busting Out of Musical Lockdown \u003c/a>(Wall Street Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the summer of 1983, John Adams agreed to write the music for a new opera called \"Nixon in China.\" But Mr. Adams, then in his mid-30s and with a young family to support, soon drifted into what he called \"a first-class funk\"—a seemingly intractable creative block. For 18 months, he was unable to break his dry spell, despite locking himself in his studio and undergoing psychoanalysis. A dream finally helped him to break out of this period of \"creative lockdown.\" One night, he envisioned a supertanker blasting out of the San Francisco Bay and soaring up into the sky. That image gave him the inspiration to write the powerful, pounding E-minor chords that launched a 40-minute symphony, \"Harmonielehre,\" which then opened the way for him to compose the much-acclaimed \"Nixon in China.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_17036398\" target=\"_blank\">At San Rafael-based chain, a passion for bikes—and philanthropy \u003c/a>(Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Ken Martin and Matt Adams were traveling in Namibia, Africa, a couple years ago, two of their hosts appeared with a digital camera and a photo printer. The men were photographing churchgoers in their Sunday best and selling the pictures on the spot. Martin said he admired their entrepreneurial spirit, but something else excited him about what he saw: \"They transported it all on the back of a bicycle.\" As co-owner of the San Rafael-based Mike's Bikes chain, Martin wants more people around the world to ride bicycles. During the past several years he and Adams have expanded that mission beyond their Northern California customer base to Africa, where they see the bicycle as an affordable form of transportation in a region where cars are often out of reach and many people rely on walking.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs-desert-20110108,0,2708832.story\" target=\"_blank\">Interfaith group seeks to protect California deserts\u003c/a> (Los Angeles Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Seven religious leaders climbed out of their vehicles on a recent weekday and scattered on foot across Whitewater Canyon northwest of Palm Springs. They were looking for clues to the character of the prophets said to have used the wilderness as a gateway to spiritual awakenings. ... Gazing across a broad, sandy gulch where the Whitewater River carried its cargo of silt and snowmelt past fortress-like sandstone walls, Petra Mallais-Sternberg, pastor of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in San Bernardino, said, \"The basic elements of my faith are all around us. I see flowing baptismal waters, and boulders that stand for the cornerstones of my faith,\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/dick-winters-dies-wwii-hero-co.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Winters dies; WWII hero commanded 'Band of Brothers' \u003c/a>(Washington Post)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A charismatic officer who led by example, Mr. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross, the country's second highest decoration for valor, while conducting combat operations on D-Day. Mr. Winters led a small group of men on a raid of German cannon emplacements near Utah beach on Normandy's coastline. ... Later in the war, one of Mr. Winters's soldiers, Floyd Talbert, wrote a letter to the officer from a hospital in Indiana expressing gratitude for his loyalty and leadership. \"You are loved and will never be forgotten by any soldier that ever served under you,\" Talbert wrote to Mr. Winters in 1945. \"I would follow you into hell.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And he announced major agreements with bankers and environmentalists while generally cleaning his desk before moving to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/gascon-steps-through-newsoms-revolving/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nGascon Steps Through Newsom's Revolving Door\u003c/a> (The Bay Citizen)\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The man most residents still know as the police chief of San Francisco was sworn in Sunday afternoon as the city’s first Latino district attorney, 24 hours after outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom first asked him to take the job. Calling the ceremony his “final mayoral act,” Newsom announced George Gascón’s surprise appointment during a hasty, crowded ceremony outside the mayor’s offices on the second floor of City Hall. Newsom will be sworn in Monday as lieutenant governor. Gascón, who had been police chief just 18 months, will be jumping from one scandal-ridden department to another. He replaces Kamala Harris, who stepped down to become the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/08/MNAC1H5VHO.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón faulted for ending training of officers\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, mental health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to death in 2001 when he brandished a knife at them in a movie theater. More than 1,000 officers completed the training before the department eliminated the program in June. Mental health workers say police officials described their action as a budget-cutting move.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/10/3311863/browns-countdown-day-1-plan-takes.html\" target=\"blank\">Brown's budget plan would eliminate redevelopment agencies \u003c/a>(Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Old Sacramento was revived with the help of public redevelopment money, back in the 1960s. The city's new downtown nightlife venue, the \"mermaid bar\" complex on K Street, got millions of redevelopment dollars, too. Even the midtown loft building that Gov. Jerry Brown calls home was partially funded with redevelopment money. Now California's multibillion-dollar redevelopment industry is fighting for its life – with Brown as its would-be executioner. In the budget proposal he will release today, the governor is expected to call for the elimination of every local redevelopment agency in the state, according to a source familiar with the proposal.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_17026280\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley takes heed of DA's warning on pot farms\u003c/a> (Berkeley Voice)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It may be a very long time -- or maybe not at all -- for Berkeley's voter-approved medical marijuana farms to start growing the green. That's according to city officials and people in the industry who saw a letter from the Alameda County District Attorney warning Oakland officials they face prosecution for a similar plan. And to further dampen the spirits of potential Berkeley pot growers, those in the industry say there is no suitable space to grow pot in the city in the area designated in the plan approved by voters. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_17038583?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nRichmond police try to curb celebratory gunfire \u003c/a>(Contra Costa Times)\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sure, Jerry Wooldridge heard the gunfire. Which time? \"Oh, it's a little disconcerting. But it is normal,\" the 40-year resident said in front of his home in central Richmond. \"I hear it every Fourth of July, and every New Year's Eve.\" Until Friday, he never saw anyone appear in his driveway to ask about it. But now, after every holiday known for celebratory gunfire, police intend to knock on doors in neighborhoods with gunshots in hopes of learning more about why, and stopping it in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576056384074453192.html\" target=\"_blank\">Busting Out of Musical Lockdown \u003c/a>(Wall Street Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the summer of 1983, John Adams agreed to write the music for a new opera called \"Nixon in China.\" But Mr. Adams, then in his mid-30s and with a young family to support, soon drifted into what he called \"a first-class funk\"—a seemingly intractable creative block. For 18 months, he was unable to break his dry spell, despite locking himself in his studio and undergoing psychoanalysis. A dream finally helped him to break out of this period of \"creative lockdown.\" One night, he envisioned a supertanker blasting out of the San Francisco Bay and soaring up into the sky. That image gave him the inspiration to write the powerful, pounding E-minor chords that launched a 40-minute symphony, \"Harmonielehre,\" which then opened the way for him to compose the much-acclaimed \"Nixon in China.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_17036398\" target=\"_blank\">At San Rafael-based chain, a passion for bikes—and philanthropy \u003c/a>(Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Ken Martin and Matt Adams were traveling in Namibia, Africa, a couple years ago, two of their hosts appeared with a digital camera and a photo printer. The men were photographing churchgoers in their Sunday best and selling the pictures on the spot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/12/omalleyquanletter.png\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/12/O_Malley-Quan-Letter_20151208.pdf\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/12/omalleyquanletter.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"O'Malley-Quan Letter \" width=\"273\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9433\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported last night by \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/user/michael-montgomery\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Montgomery\u003c/a>, who doubles as a reporter for KQED News and for the Center for Investigative Reporting's California Watch, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley has written to Jean Quan, Oakland's mayor-elect, to caution her about the city's ambitious new medical marijuana law. (Here's a PDF of the three-page letter, dated Dec. 8, 2010: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/12/O_Malley-Quan-Letter_20151208.pdf\">O'Malley-Quan letter\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley noted in the letter that her office has \"a long-standing policy of declining to issue advisory opinions as to the legality of any particular conduct.\" She went on to say that as a cancer survivor, she \"certainly understands the benefits for those in need of the medicinal use of marijuana in various forms.\" Nevertheless, she said, her office has ongoing concerns about whether the Oakland's new medical marijuana cultivation ordinance—which would license and tax four massive pot farms in the city—comply with state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter includes two clear warnings to Oakland officials. First, that the new ordinance will not provide a defense against criminal charges if it's found to go beyond the provisions of the state's medical marijuana laws. And second, it's possible that city officials and employees could face state or federal charges for implementing the new ordinance.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/alameda-district-attorney-questions-oakland-pot-farms-7544\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nMichael Montgomery's California Watch blog post \u003c/a>on the letter outlines a couple of points of tension between Oakland's ordinance and state law:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>City officials say the ordinance is an effort to bring order to Oakland’s thriving pot-growing scene and earn millions in tax revenue. They also say the ordinance hews closely to state medical marijuana laws, which allow for marijuana cultivation within a closed loop of patients and providers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But District Attorney O’Malley’s letter cites specific areas where the ordinance could violate provisions in state law governing medical marijuana collectives. The central point is that under the plan Oakland's pot farms would be taxed as entities separate from businesses that dispense medical cannabis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council is scheduled to discuss the medical pot ordinance next Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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