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Colorado Springs officials have suggested extending the city's ban on medical marijuana businesses for another year. The Gazette reports that the City Council passed a six-month ban last November with the promise that it wouldn't be extended. A task force that has studied the issue made some...

A 45-day ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of San Diego County was approved Wednesday by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors. The 45-day window will give staff time to return to the board with recommendations for stricter regulations or consideration of a...

A new ban regarding medical marijuana goes into effect in Pismo Beach Thursday. Last month, the City Council voted 4-1 to adopt an ordinance that would prohibit the cultivation and processing of medical marijuana. Mobile marijuana dispensaries are still allowed. The mayor says this vote was a...

Growing medicinal marijuana for at-home use will be illegal in Atascadero starting Feb. 25 – but likely only for about three months. The Atascadero City Council approved a ban on all medical marijuana cultivation in January, in light of state legislation that required cities to adopt a...

A ban on medical marijuana cultivation, along with dispensaries and commercial delivery of the drug, won City Council approval Tuesday after speakers opposed the measure they said they would make them criminals. "Your panic is not my emergency," Michael Kimmel told council members. Medical...

Departments in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County were directed by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich to enact a temporary ban on the processing of medical marijuana while impacts of the ban can be studied, officials said. The cultivation, manufacturing and laboratory testing of...

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich on Tuesday directed Los Angeles County departments to enact a 45-day moratorium on the manufacturing, testing or cultivation of medical marijuana in the county's unincorporated areas while the effects of a ban are studied. The county already forbids dispensing...

City Council members who had supported creating legal medical marijuana dispensaries waved the white flag Tuesday, opting for a continued ban rather than a much smaller delivery-only model. The council has grappled with creating a local law to regulate dispensaries since 2010, when a first...

Elko is extending its ban on medical marijuana shops despite comments from residents who want it lifted. Elko Daily Free Press reporter Marianne McKown says most people who attended the meeting last week spoke in favor of the dispensaries. "Pretty much everybody who got up said that they...

At a D.C. Council session on Wednesday–one that many advocates didn't see coming until shortly before it occurred due to a lack of public notice–the Committee on the Judiciary approved draft language of a permanent ban on "cannabis clubs" that would bar people from consuming marijuana in private...

Eastvale is set to become the latest Inland city to adopt a total ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and deliveries and cultivation of the substance within the city limits. Council members on Jan. 27 will hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance. Similar prohibitions have been...

Communities throughout the valley are rushing to ban medical marijuana. In part one of this two part series, Valley Public Radio introduced you to the people pushing or resisting the ban and how they have affected your community. In part two, we some of the people to find out how they are...

ndio has become the second city in the Coachella Valley — behind Indian Wells — to completely ban medical marijuana-related businesses and cultivation within its borders. Indio previously rejected a proposal that would have allowed medical marijuana dispensaries to operate within the city, as...

Arroyo Grande will ban all medical marijuana cultivation in the city, following similar decisions made by two other San Luis Obispo County cities last week, while Morro Bay followed Grover Beach's lead by exempting some at-home cultivation. The Arroyo Grande City Council voted 3-1 Tuesday...

Wasilla's bid to prohibit marijuana businesses inside city limits took a step forward Monday night. The city council voted to set an amendment to Wasilla's marijuana regulations for public hearing on Jan. 25. The amendment would ban retail storefronts and commercial cultivation of marijuana...

Continuing the ban on medical marijuana dispensaries — and a possible prohibition on all medical marijuana cultivation in Fairfield — will go before city planning commissioners when they meet Wednesday. A new state law requires cities to have ordinances in effect by March 1 to prohibit or...

Don't expect the aroma of reefer to overtake this city any time soon. The City Council on Monday unanimously passed an 18-month ban on commercial marijuana cultivation, though in doing so it made clear it was open to a deeper inquiry into the issue down the line. The ban was precipitated...

The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted to lift a 10-month-old ban on private marijuana clubs in the nation's capital, but quickly reversed course after Mayor Muriel Bowser insisted that the city does not currently have the capacity to license or regulate the clubs. The ban was unanimously approved...

Deschutes County's decision to delay marijuana regulations came as a surprise to many itching to get started in the fledgling recreational industry. Many who are already involved in growing and selling medical marijuana in Central Oregon were planning to gain licensing for recreational...

The rise in alcohol addiction in India is the result of the ban on cannabis. That is, according to Lok Sabha MP from Odisha Tathagata Satpathy. Speaking in the parliament on Thursday, the Biju Janata Dal MP pitched for the legalisation of weed. This is not the first time that Satpathy has...