420 Times

LA-based medical marijuana and natural healing magazine distributed throughout Southern California. Covers activism, advocacy, legal issues, cultivation, and medical research. Nominated for Los Angeles Press Club journalism awards.

California safe from Japan's nuclear radiation

Any Californians worrying about radioactive fallout from the partial meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant need not worry, experts say. California air quality officials advised the public

By 420 Times

/ March 19, 2011

California safe from Japan's nuclear radiation

Reforming child support policies could improve California's prison system

One major obstacle standing in the way of many California inmates looking to build new lives after finishing a lengthy prison sentence is an overwhelming backlog of unpaid child support

By 420 Times

/ March 15, 2011

Reforming child support policies could improve California's prison system

Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami should serve as a wake-up call for California

Japan lies devastated this weekend in the aftermath of a Friday earthquake estimated to be the most powerful to ever hit the island nation in over a thousand years. The

By 420 Times

/ March 12, 2011

Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami should serve as a wake-up call for California

In California, the wrongly convicted are rarely compensated

How much is a day of your life worth? Fifty dollars? A hundred dollars? A thousand? How much is your liberty worth, your freedom to work, travel, and spend time

By 420 Times

/ March 8, 2011

In California, the wrongly convicted are rarely compensated

Obama says Tea Party is racially motivated

During the 2008 presidential election and throughout the first two years of his administration, President Obama managed to project a carefully cultivated image as a truly post-racial president. While his

By 420 Times

/ March 5, 2011

Obama says Tea Party is racially motivated

Fiscal Conservatism and Prison Reform in California

For eight years following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the singular narrative and driving issue behind public policy in America was national defense and the Global War on Terrorism. In the

By 420 Times

/ March 1, 2011

Fiscal Conservatism and Prison Reform in California

Ron Paul's Liberty PAC raises over $700K in one day

"The revolution is alive and well." That's what The Politico reporter Andy Barr wrote this Tuesday in his article summarizing the extraordinary fundraising feat Congressman Ron

By 420 Times

/ February 26, 2011

Ron Paul's Liberty PAC raises over $700K in one day

What about the Tea Party?

Earlier this year with the revolution in Tunisia underway, I noticed a curious phenomenon, one that stuck out for me particularly as a self-described libertarian* -the Associated Press and other

By 420 Times

/ February 22, 2011

Paul Whitehead, an unlikely Democrat, enters CD-36 special election

When Democratic Rep. Jane Harman announced earlier this month that she would be resigning her 36th Congressional District seat, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn wasted no time in announcing

By 420 Times

/ February 19, 2011

Paul Whitehead, an unlikely Democrat, enters CD-36 special election

California medical marijuana industry seeks to operate "for profit"

In California, medical marijuana dispensaries are required by state law to operate as non-profit "collectives" of legal medical marijuana patients who simply cover the costs of distributing the

By 420 Times

/ February 15, 2011

California medical marijuana industry seeks to operate "for profit"

Conservatism struggles to define itself at CPAC 2011

As I walked through the halls of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC Thursday, the feeling of excitement was palpable. It was the thrill of being at the

By 420 Times

/ February 12, 2011

Conservatism struggles to define itself at CPAC 2011

All signs indicate Ron Paul to run for President in 2012

"Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years and woke to find the world had passed him by. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, woke up one morning recently to find that

By 420 Times

/ February 8, 2011

All signs indicate Ron Paul to run for President in 2012