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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...

Liberty Twp. trustees are poised to extend a temporary ban on medical marijuana businesses an additional six months. A one-year ban on medical marijuana businesses was put in place last September by the trustees, just before Ohio's law allowing medical marijuana took effect. The law...

The City Council will consider putting a referendum on the ballot to ban the sale of recreational marijuana. Local attorney William Barry put forth a petition to ban marijuana retail shops. However, he wrote it before the state had passed a reworked version of the law that requires such a...

David Tunno's recent mailer smacks of abuse. It abuses my patience! He calls himself and his coterie of cronies "Save Our County," which is suggestive — it implies the county will sink into ruin without a marijuana ban. He talks about the suppression of the people's voice — YES or NO, yeah or...

San Francisco planners, with very little public discussion, are moving to ban all new medical marijuana outlets in the city until new policies are in place for recreational use. The Planning Commission July 20 passed a recommendation for a moratorium of up to two years on new dispensaries...

When California voters last year passed Proposition 64 legalizing marijuana, they also allowed cities to make up their own minds about how much of the change they would accept. In Whittier, that could soon mean bans on all marijuana sales and most forms of growing. On Monday, the Whittier...

Medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be banned from Collier County until at least the end of the year. Commissioners voted 4-1 on Tuesday to keep the dispensaries from opening in Collier until Dec. 31 to give the county a chance to lobby state lawmakers for more control over the number of...

lawsuit filed Thursday would give patients the right to smoke medical marijuana in their own homes, a practice the Legislature recently banned. The legal ways to administer medical marijuana are vaping, oils, edibles and other delivery systems. John Morgan, the Orlando attorney who largely...

Palo Alto's ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation likely will be extended through 2018, or at least until city leaders sort out some policies. If Palo Alto does not prohibit commercial cultivation by Jan. 1, marijuana businesses can get a state-issued license and open here, according to deputy...

City Council and the Planning Board began the process of considering whether or not to put a temporary ban on recreational marijuana sales in the city. Beverly is not alone in this effort — locally, Danvers already voted for a temporary pot ban. The ban would last through the end of next...

Reflecting society's greater acceptance of marijuana use, city leaders may repeal a ban on medical pot dispensaries and home delivery that has stood for more than a decade. When Concord prohibited dispensaries and delivery in 2005, and outdoor cultivation eight years later, the city was in...

When it comes to banning cultivation of marijuana for personal use, it turns out Santa Rosa was just blowing smoke. The City Council on Tuesday soundly rejected an immediate temporary ban on growing pot outdoors for personal use as council members questioned whether enough safety or nuisance...

Alarmed by several explosions in residential areas caused by drug processing labs, the state Assembly on Thursday voted to ban home manufacturing of marijuana concentrates using volatile solvents. The action comes ahead of plans by the state to begin issuing licenses in January to firms for...

The cannabis industry will have to put its roots down in communities other than Pembroke after residents voted to ban businesses that test, grow or sell recreational marijuana from opening in their town. By a vote of 842 to 313, residents at the town election Saturday backed a ballot measure...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors banned medical and non-medical marijuana facilities within the unincorporated areas of the county in a 3-2 vote on March 15. Supervisor Kristin Gaspar proposed the ban in January in the interest of public safety in an "uncertain environment." "We have...

San Andreas, CA -— The clamoring continues to rise as Calaveras activists on both sides of the county's proposed Measure B commercial cannabis ban argue for and against a local industry of reputed economic promise fraught with enforcement and neighbor issues. With only seven weeks before the...

Springfield, Ohio — Another Miami Valley city will discuss extending a moratorium on medical marijuana. A medical marijuana moratorium is on the Springfield City Commission agenda Tuesday night. Commissioners will hear an emergency resolution on extending the city's current moratorium. The...

Little Rock, Ark. - A new bill seeks to limit the way medical marijuana patients could consume the drug in Arkansas. If passed, Senate Bill 333 would outlaw what are known as marijuana "edibles." Edibles provide a way to ingest the drug and feel the effects without having to smoke it...

Crestview – The City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance to temporarily ban all medicinal marijuana practices within city limits. City leaders voted Monday, with little discussion, in front of 17 residents who offered no public comment. HOW THE BAN WORKS The moratorium takes place...

Culver City – The City Council will discuss the city's options under the 2015 Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act and the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act at its Feb. 13 meeting and will direct the city manager to take appropriate action. The council is asking local residents to attend...