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Retail marijuana dispensaries and other businesses related to recreational use of marijuana will be barred from setting up shop in Fresno after the City Council voted 4-3 Thursday to prohibit such establishments. Proposition 64, approved by California voters in November 2016, legalized the...

Hampden and Wyman Park residents took their concerns about a proposed medical cannabis dispensary to City Hall on Wednesday, as Baltimore City Council members weigh whether to put zoning restrictions on the businesses. In Baltimore – as well as other jurisdictions – some residents have been...

After a tempestuous two-hour hearing in June, the Fresno City Council narrowly voted to take the first step to ban recreational marijuana businesses in the city. More fireworks could be in store Thursday morning, when the city's planning department presents its draft of the proposed law to the...

After emotional testimony on both sides, the Billings City Council – at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, more than seven hours after opening its meeting Monday evening – voted 7-4 to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. The decision clarified that land use that's contrary to local, state...

Atascadero officials are looking for residents' input on marijuana regulations as the city continues drafting restrictions. City Council members and planning commissioners will hold a joint meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss codes that will govern commercial marijuana activities and...

City Council members grudgingly told staff Tuesday night to come back with an ordinance regulating how medical and recreational marijuana will be sold in town. If they didn't, the state would be calling the shots on where marijuana would be cultivated and sold in Vacaville as of Jan. 1, 2018...

After a five-year hiatus, marijuana might once again be part of a Fort Collins election. The City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to consider placing a measure on the Nov. 7 ballot asking voters if the council may make changes to city regulations on marijuana without votes of the people...

Medical marijuana users in Morro Bay soon may have two locations to buy pot in town, but the city was not so accommodating for those who want to get high just for fun. Under the gun to have local rules on the books before the state begins issuing marijuana business licenses in January, the City...

The Fillmore City Council voted Tuesday night to reaffirm its ban on marijuana businesses, disrupting the plans of a medical marijuana collective that had hoped to build an indoor farm in the city. Coast To Coast Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary in Canoga Park, is in escrow on a...

Morro Bay could be home to up to two brick-and-mortar medical marijuana dispensaries soon, but residents hoping for recreational store fronts in the coastal community likely shouldn't hold their breath. Those were among the findings of a city council subcommittee tasked with making...

The City Council is poised to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in commercial areas throughout New Port Richey, with the exception of downtown. During a meeting this week, the council voted 4-0 to approve on first reading a medical marijuana ordinance that would lift a moratorium on...

The opening of a fifth marijuana store in Yakima will likely be put off again after Tuesday's Yakima City Council meeting. The council is expected to review a planning commission recommendation to deny a request allowing the sale of marijuana in light industrial zones – areas of the city...

Marijuana will be back on the agenda for the Lompoc City Council on Tuesday, as the governing board is expected to hash out the parameters it would like to see implemented in a new city policy. The cannabis discussion is slated to be followed by another high-interest topic: continued...

The City Council next week will be asked to impose a moratorium on recreational marijuana retailers until July 31, 2018 or until the city establishes an ordinance to regulate the industry. "That was just to give the Council the time it needs to review the state law, get advisory" opinions...

For the first time in six years, City Hall will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed medical marijuana ordinance. With a 5-3 vote, City Council passed a motion Monday night to hold an Aug. 14 public hearing during its 7 p.m. general meeting on the 10th floor of City Hall, At-Large...

Berkeley City Council will convene at its regular meeting this Tuesday to consider a number of proposals including short-term police reform, commercial cannabis regulation and discrimination in rental housing based on source of income. Recently, the Berkeley Police Department released a...

What to do about legalization of medical marijuana in Ohio continues to be a topic of study, discussion and consideration by local governments around the area and state of Ohio. On Thursday, the Springboro City Council moved forward with a prohibition on cultivation, processing and...

Fresno City Council President Clint Olivier cleared up confusion Thursday after he tweeted earlier in the morning: "Fresno city council kills marijuana ban. Dies on 3-3 vote." Olivier failed to specify in his tweet that the only marijuana-related vote on Thursday was one asking that the city...

Deliveries of medical cannabis will soon be allowed in Oxnard after action from the City Council to relax one area of its marijuana ordinance. By a unanimous vote, the council on Tuesday approved medical marijuana deliveries and requested more information on other commercial aspects of...

Cannabis dispensaries won't receive their local approvals until the end of the year, after the Davis City Council agreed to extend the timeline for cannabis businesses at their meeting Tuesday night. Originally working under a rapid schedule to set a local framework for retail cannabis sales...