One person's balm is another's felony; San Francisco's D.A., Calif. attorney general in standoff over marijuana crackdown
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A controversy regarding the closure of the downtown San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club rages between conservative California Attorney General Dan Lungren and liberal San Francisco District Attorney Terrence Hallinan. The Club was founded in 1994 to provide cannabis for medicinal purposes in a city in which, according to estimates, one in 25 people suffered from AIDS. Cannabis has proved useful in decreasing the wasting and nausea of end-stage AIDS. Lungren felt that the club was used by regular junkies. A hearing on the club's closure will take place on Aug 30. 1996.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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FTC antitrust probe of Intel is uphill fight: new Gibson Dunn partner to represent chipmaker
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Experts in the field estimate that the upcoming probe by the FTC of Intel will cost at least a million dollars. Rumors have been around for months that the FTC would take a closer look at how the chip-making giant does business. The principal players in the high tech industry are accustomed to the level of anti-trust scrutiny that some might say verges on harassment.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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