California

Authored by Melissa Cronin, originally posted at MotherBoard,

A ‘drafting error’ in California’s revision to its medicinal marijuana law could leave established growers like the “Sisters of the Valley” without a crop and out of business. Sister Kate and Sister Darcey from Merced in California have been producing salves and tonics made with cannabis. According to their website sistersofcbd.com, the sisters are not members of a religious order but they say they are on a spiritual quest to heal the sick with their medicinal cannabis cures. They have produced a variety of products made from the cannabinoids or CBD’s found in the marijuana.

Elections, elections, and more elections is the 'change' meme for 2016 but, as Bloomberg details, the key events of the year ahead vary from a California marijuana referendum to Brazil's Olympics, and from Davos to SCOTUS. No matter what, 2016 holds a lot of opportunity for volatility, and without The Fed's safety net, who knows what that means for markets...

Here's a selected calendar of key events for the year.

Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,

Beginning January 1, gun regulations in California will give authorities the right to seize a person’s weapons for 21 days if a judge determines the potential for violence exists.

As of January 1st, 2016 new gun control legislation in California will allow authorities to seize a persons weapons for 21 days if a judge decides there is a potential for violence.  The new bill allows for emergency “gun violence restraining orders” to be imposed against a family member who “poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself or another by having in his or her custody or control.” Washingtontimes.com reports: “The law gives us a vehicle to cause the person to surrender their weapons, to have a time out, if you will,” Los Angeles Police Depa