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The Saratoga City Council will consider adopting an ordinance June 7 to ban outdoor cannabis cultivation within city limits, regulate indoor cultivation for personal use and prohibit commercial marijuana activity. The ordinance would extend an interim one that prohibits the outdoor...

After City of Grand Forks heard a presentation on the potential legal ramifications of having a dispensary bylaw last week, questions arose from the gallery on the city's involvement in the recent RCMP action towards dispensaries in the city. Dave Smith from Smithplan Consulting presented the...

The Saratoga City Council will consider adopting an ordinance June 7 to ban outdoor cannabis cultivation within city limits, regulate indoor cultivation for personal use and prohibit commercial marijuana activity. The ordinance would extend an interim one that prohibits the outdoor...

The Weekly Alibi’s first annual New Mexico Hempfest is set to happen in August at the City of Albuquerque owned Balloon Fiesta Park. Although the event is scheduled for August, the city still hasn’t signed the official agreement to make it happen. The city released a statement to KRQE News 13...

Medical marijuana dispensaries hoping to do business in Bradenton will have to wait another six months after the city extended its moratorium on Wednesday. The one exception is the Trulieve dispensary in the 1100 block of 14th Street West, which filed for permits prior to the initial moratorium...

The City of Oakland this week debuted a new process for issuing permits for people interested in becoming medical cannabis entrepreneurs. It's a bid to close the racial disparity gap it found in the industry during an analysis by the city's Department of Race and Equity earlier this year...

For some California cities, officials say trying to shut down illegal pot dispensaries can seem like an endless game of Whack-a-Mole – close one down, and another pops up. But in Riverside, officials appear to have whacked every last mole. Deputy City Attorney Neil Okazaki told council...

The Weed City Council during its May 11 regular meeting unanimously approved an ordinance allowing medical cannabis dispensaries in the city beginning July 1. All council members attended, however Bob Hall was excused early due to illness. About 30 people were in the audience. Medical...

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...

City Council could roll back a moratorium on cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes, a step viewed as necessary to avoid shutting Cleveland out of potentially lucrative tax gains. City Council introduced a bill Monday evening that would eliminate cultivation from the existing...

Medical marijuana could be grown and sold in Coloma if the city passes an ordinance allowing it. Craig Aronoff, an attorney with the Cannabis Legal Group out of Royal Oak, Mich., asked the City Commission Monday night to consider opting in to a state law to allow medical marijuana facilities in...

At least five people are interested in cultivating marijuana in the city, according to its law director. To accommodate them, City Council on Monday adjusted its business code to include medical marijuana licensing and regulation. The ordinance was passed earlier than usual because state...

City Council voted 4-3 tonight to ban the cultivation, processing and dispensing of medical marijuana within city limits. The ban codifies a previous six-month moratorium on medical marijuana enterprises, which the city enacted in response to the state's new law allowing limited legal use of the...

Adelanto, California, is what's known as a "drive-through town." It's a dusty plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and dilapidated factories. Few outsiders stay long. Now, the sleepy city in San Bernardino County wants to establish itself as a hotbed for large-scale cultivation and...

In a plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and aging factories, developer James Previti – in a suit coat and Louis Vuitton shades – watches as construction workers build the roof of a concrete building that from afar looks like a future Costco. Previti has spent years developing homes...

Temecula's resistance to medical marijuana continued to soften last week, but recreational customers will likely need to look elsewhere when voter-approved legalization takes effect Jan. 1. Although that stance could change in the coming months, the city council followed its established...

Damaris, an employee of a cannabis cultivation business in Los Angeles, told the City Council on Friday she feared for her life when police officers arrested her at gunpoint earlier this month while she was at work. "Being detained in that way was humiliating, and I was scared because I...

Donnie Anderson says it took weeks of driving to count the pot dispensaries in City Council District 8, which covers much of South Central Los Angeles. The team found two shops granted "limited immunity" by the city, but they were vastly outnumbered by 133 of what Anderson calls "rogue shops."...

Hamilton leaders are considering updating their ban on medical marijuana facilities so city ordinances are better synced with state law. Hamilton City Council in February of 2015 approved legislation that prohibited sales of medical marijuana in the city. More than a year later, in May of 2016...

Activist Winfred Blackmon says he continues to fight to keep illegal marijuana centers from springing up in the City of Detroit. "Detroit has an ordinance let's enforce it," he said. Blackmon says he gets numerous calls about these centers, so he was happy to learn the city has started an...