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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...

California law now says every resident 21 or older has a right to grow up to six marijuana plants for personal use. The law also says cities or counties can "reasonably regulate" homegrown pot. Those two rules are turning the state's recently passed marijuana law, Proposition 64, into...

San Diego has never legalized commercial cultivation of marijuana, manufacturing of marijuana byproducts or the testing of either, but 27 businesses engaged in such activities are operating in the city. There is significant debate about whether this was an unintended consequence of the city's...

Coachella's second marijuana manufacturing and cultivation facility is expected to begin operations as soon as this summer, bringing in between $2 million and $5.5 million for the city every year in tax revenue, after the City Council unanimously approved a development agreement for the Del-Gro...

Costa Mesa — A temporary citywide ban on marijuana uses authorized under a state voter-approved recreational marijuana measure was extended for another 101/2 months to give city staffers time look for ways to implement the law. Without much discussion Tuesday, the City Council approved the...

A facility to grow medical marijuana within city limits has the support of New Castle City Council. Council members on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution supporting plans of Holistic Industries of Washington, D.C., to locate in New Castle. On Jan. 27, several officials including...

In a 6-3 vote, the Cambridge City Council modified the zoning ordinances to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in business and industrial districts. Prior to this vote, there were only some places in Harvard Square where such establishments can be built, at the North Point Area and in the...

There's a very important measure pertaining to marijuana legalization on the March 7 city ballot, but you might not be familiar with it. The election season instead has been dominated by Measure S, which if approved would curb most major development in Los Angeles for two years. That initiative...

Carson City - The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday listened to arguments from the Reno Gazette-Journal and city of Sparks in a lawsuit that could determine whether the names of medical marijuana business licensees will be public record. The RGJ has requested copies of current business licenses...

As the number of medical marijuana caregivers and patients in Macomb County and across Michigan continues to increase, more changes are in the works for the 2008 voter-approved law that legalized medical marijuana in Michigan. New laws passed last fall regulate the growing and distribution of...

Troy, Ohio – The City of Troy is saying no to medical marijuana. The city council on Monday night voted 4-3 against an ordinance to allow up to three medical marijuana dispensaries inside the city limits. The council held it's third and final reading of the ordinance during Monday's meeting...

New Bedford - A lawyer representing a medical marijuana dispensary says Beacon Compassion has forged an agreement with the city to locate a store on Hathaway Road. Mayor Jon Mitchell, however, says that while the two sides have made progress in their discussions, there is not yet an agreement in...

The city of Elk Grove was threatened with a lawsuit pertaining to the City Council's Jan. 25 approval of extending a restriction on marijuana cultivation in the city. This ordinance imposes a moratorium on all commercial marijuana land uses and all marijuana cultivation within the city. This...

Council members in Hazleton are divided over whether the city should open its doors to the medical marijuana industry. The governing body will vote today on first reading of ordinances that would incorporate regulations for medical marijuana facilities into the city's zoning ordinance and...

A group including several well-known Yorkers has formed a benefit corporation that's seeking permits to open a medical marijuana growing and processing facility in York City and three dispensaries in York County. Five-Leaf Remedies Inc. incorporated in late 2016 and is based at 135 N. George...

The city of Atwater will take a harder look at allowing large indoor marijuana cultivation, manufacturing and other cannabis-related industries as a means of generating additional tax revenue, according to members of the council. Cultivation is banned in Atwater, as are dispensaries and...

A cannabis industry trade organization Friday hailed as "comprehensive and inclusive" a proposition on the Los Angeles March 7 election ballot that would restore the city's ability to develop regulations for marijuana businesses. Proposition M, which was placed on the ballot by the City...

Although voters across the state voted to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes in November, cities are still debating what to allow beyond California Proposition 64, which among other things lets anyone older than 21 smoke marijuana and grow up to six marijuana plants inside a residence...

Sacramento officials are offering a preview of how much it will cost to regulate a locally permitted marijuana industry and just how big the pot trade may become in the capital city. A staff report prepared for next Tuesday's session of the City Council's Budget and Audit Committee estimates...

Seattle, Wa - Inside this retail marijuana shop in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, an unlikely union unfolds between lovers of cannabis and canines from Emerald City Pet Rescue. "If I didn't already have two at home, he would be coming home with me. He's so sweet, he's so calm and gentle!"...