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The City of Calexico becomes the first city in the Imperial Valley to pass an ordinance regarding permits for cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and distributing. The Calexico City Council met on Wednesday, January 25, to discuss the implementation of the first reading of an ordinance that...

Entrepreneurs trying to open a Portland recreational cannabis shop are suing the city over decisions made by the agency responsible for licensing weed stores. The lawsuit, filed Jan. 31 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, accuses the city's Office of Neighborhood Involvement of giving "biased...

Bakersfield, Calif. The Arvin City Council is expected to take up the issue of growing marijuana at its next meeting. California voters approved Proposition 64, which means cities and counties are re-evaluating how they regulate marijuana. The law allows the state to levy a cultivation...

Just a week after repealing a medicinal marijuana moratorium, the city of Richmond Heights has started meeting with medicinal marijuana companies to discuss possible grow operation opportunities in the city. Michigan-based Mr. McGooz Canna Products was one of the companies that met with city...

Bend, Ore. - The city of Bend expects to receive $500,000 a year in revenue from the 3 percent marijuana sales tax voters passed in November. That's higher than the $345,000 the city estimated last year. This good news is coming at a time when overall city revenue was not as high this year as...

San Diego California's city council unanimously voted to allow adult-use cannabis sales at the cities current 15 medical dispensaries once the voter-backed program is fully implemented, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Officials also indicated they would consider regulations later this year...

The city of Sacramento is inviting would-be commercial marijuana producers to agree to pay 1 percent of revenues into a "neighborhood responsibility" fund intended to support community programs and offset impacts of the businesses. Officials say the plan approved by the City Council this...

Proposed rules for establishments that plan to deal in recreational marijuana in San Diego are scheduled to be taken up by the City Council for the first time Tuesday. The regulatory package, which would update the city's Land Development Code and Local Coastal Program, will come before the...

Santa Maria, Calif - An ordinance banning certain marijuana activities in Santa Maria is causing confusion about what you can and cannot do within city limits. The city council passed the ordinance last summer, a few months before voters statewide approved Prop 64 - legalizing recreational use...

San Diego - For the first time, the City Council Tuesday will take up proposed rules for establishments that plan to deal in recreational marijuana in San Diego. The regulatory package, which would update the city's Land Development Code and Local Coastal Program, will come before the council...

Auburn, Maine — Many communities in Maine have adopted, or are considering, moratoriums on marijuana businesses. Some are even looking to ban them completely. In Auburn, when the idea of a moratorium was floated, city leaders took the opposite approach. They took a stance, welcoming in the...

A big vote is coming up on Tuesday for the San Diego City Council and it could change the way people legally buy marijuana. The proposal has two specific points: the first is whether or not to approve recreational use of marijuana. The second would subject marijuana delivery services, which...

Like many others around the city and the state, Lompoc resident Joe Garcia said he was ecstatic when Proposition 64 passed by a wide margin in the 2016 election. The ballot measure, which essentially legalized recreational marijuana cultivation and use within the state, was seen by Garcia and...

The hits just keep coming for City College of San Francisco, which earlier this month retained its accreditation for the next seven years and recently received a $9 million earmark from the Board of Supervisors to fund free tuition for city residents. (Mayor Lee intends to redesignate those...

Santa Ana — A group representing Santa Ana's licensed marijuana dispensaries has filed a lawsuit targeting unsanctioned pot shops in the city, taking aim at a purported black market that some say could put the regulated retailers out of work. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Santa Ana...

Palm Desert appears to be on a path toward lifting a long-existing ban on marijuana dispensaries as a result of California's new law allowing recreational marijuana use by anyone 21 and older. City Council, on Thursday, directed staff to begin working on amendments to Palm Desert's zoning...

A Central Florida medical marijuana grower received a license to open a dispensary in Midtown Tallahassee one week before the City Commission is scheduled to vote on a 120-day moratorium on future permits. Knox Medical of Winter Garden had applied for a building permit to convert an old Super...

News-Miner opinion: It's something of a rarity in Alaska lately for government to find itself with more revenue than expected. But in a roundup of 2016 marijuana retail taxes released this week by the city of Fairbanks, revenue from the the sale of the drug is substantial higher than municipal...

Craig – Craig City Council will take a final vote Tuesday on proposed ordinances that would put retail marijuana on the ballot for the city's April election. The ordinances cleared a first reading at City Council's Jan. 10 meeting by a 3-2 vote. Councilman Kent Nielson – who is also acting as...

Campbell voters on April 25 will be deciding three ballot measures, two of which will decide the fate of dispensing, delivering and cultivating medical marijuana within city limits. On Jan. 12 the city council called for a special election after a ballot initiative was successfully undertaken...