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Six applicants have filed for four coveted medical cannabis dispensary permits, according to City Manager Gabriel Elliott. At 2 p.m. Friday, Elliott, Mayor Rich Kerr, Mayor Pro Tem Jermaine Wright and two residents appointed at-large to a subcommittee were scheduled to meet inside Kerr's...

City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. wants to limit the number of commercial marijuana establishments in Worcester to 15 and adopt a 3 percent tax on the sale of recreational pot. The recommendations were included in a report sent to City Council last week. The city manager's report will be...

Provincial rules limiting recreational pot use to private property aren't going to work in the City of Toronto where people are more likely to rent or live close to each other, a cannabis lounge owner says. Abi Roach, a director of the Cannabis Friendly Business Association (CFBA) and owner...

Kudos to the Lansing City Council, which after two years of debate, finally passed an ordinance addressing medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. This is a meaningful step toward providing this burgeoning industry with reasonable parameters — including a cap of 25 dispensaries within the...

Cannabis is of concern in Fortuna and council will soon hold a workshop considering changes to the city's current marijuana prohibition. On Monday the Friendly City invites the public to review a draft of city ordinance changes, along with of county marijuana ordinance amendments. Staff...

Having already issued nine business permits for commercial cannabis businesses, Salinas now moves ahead with the establishment of fees and a regulatory framework for the pot industry. At Tuesday's Salinas City Council meeting city, council members are expected to vote on a resolution that...

The Willits City Council introduced the final draft of the medical cannabis ordinance at its regular meeting Wednesday night. "We feel in a much better position to regulate these activities," City Manager Adrienne Moore said, about taking another step to legalize medical cannabis. The...

Current city leaders have often seemed comfortable in a self-anointed role: the overwatch of an underdog municipality where being described as unorthodox is a source of pride. But as their cornerstone, open-throttle commercial cannabis industry ramps up, officials here have, too, noticed the...

Cloverdale is cautiously opening the door to cannabis businesses with a measured approach to the newly legitimized industry. As the northernmost city in Sonoma County and the closest to the prized marijuana grown in the Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties, Cloverdale...

Recreational marijuana is so popular in Hermosa Beach that voters there delivered the third-highest percentage of support in the county for Proposition 64, behind only Santa Monica and West Hollywood. But unlike those cities to its north, which are readying permit processes for some...

As nearby townships go all in on medical marijuana, officials in Bay City want to make sure they can also get a piece of the pie. The Bay City Commission on Monday, Sept. 18, votes on a resolution to opt into the state's Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act. Approving the resolution...

San Diego will have a fully legal and regulated marijuana industry, including pot farms, factories making edibles and retail storefronts selling the drug to both medical and recreational customers. In a 6-3 vote Monday, the City Council agreed to legalize local cultivation, manufacturing and...

Growing Community, one of three applicants for Nevada City's sole medical cannabis dispensary license, is a not-for-profit organization which proposes donating 100 percent of its net proceeds to local nonprofits. Another applicant, Elevation 2477, hopes to operate the city's first "cannabis...

After nearly a year since voters approved legalizing recreational cannabis, the city of Sebastopol is taking steps to update its cannabis ordinance. The update is the city’s first effort to be more aligned with new state legislation regulating both medical and recreational cannabis. The Adult...

The City of Goleta will work fast to try to adopt rules for regulating recreational marijuana sales, but if it cannot agree on an ordinance by Jan. 1, the city intends to enact a temporary ban. Such a ban would give Goleta more time to craft a reasonable, well-considered ordinance, and...

Monday, the city of San Diego is set to debate the last remaining question before the City Council about marijuana: Where should businesses that manufacture, cultivate, distribute and test it be allowed? Or should they be allowed at all? Delivery services are also hoping the City Council...

I was extremely disappointed by the very misleading op-ed written by Lemon Grove City Councilman Jerry Jones. In order to support his extreme bias against medical marijuana access, he has painted a false picture, both of the current state of medical marijuana regulation in Lemon Grove and what...

Commercial marijuana is months away from legality in California, but the future of marijuana delivery services remains in flux in San Diego. An analysis by NBC 7 Investigates found hundreds of unlicensed medical marijuana delivery services have flooded into city and county limits...

Henderson residents will soon not have to travel far for their recreational marijuana purchases. The Henderson City Council voted Tuesday to establish retail marijuana regulations and licenses. However, there are still a few more steps that need to be taken before retail customers can...

A proposed medical marijuana cultivation facility in Riverside could be too close to a Metro Parks bike path, complicating the bid to land the business in the city, the Dayton Daily News has learned. The city is negotiating a deal to sell three acres of land at the Center of Flight, near the...