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Los Angeles will become the nation's largest city with recreational pot after the City Council voted Wednesday to license sales next year. After months of debate and political snags, the council approved rules to usher in commercial sales and cultivation set to begin in less than a month...

City staff is recommending the council approve what would be the fourth and final conditional use permit for establishing a medical cannabis dispensary in Stockton, at Hammer Lane and Holman Road. But a competing cannabis dispenser has filed suit in San Joaquin County Superior Court seeking a...

The Planning Board hopes to wrap up its discussion and debate on zoning for recreational marijuana Tuesday night, and send its final proposal to the City Council. The board has been discussing how best to accommodate and regulate marijuana businesses for months, following Massachusetts'...

The City of Vancouver isn't happy with a group of unlicensed vendors who have been selling cannabis products and edibles at Robson Square. According to an officer with the VPD, an employee with the City of Vancouver had requested the help of officers this morning (Saturday, December 2) at the...

Sebastopol could become the first place in Sonoma County to establish local rules governing the recreational cannabis trade, allowing adults without prescriptions to buy marijuana by next year. City Council members Tuesday will consider putting draft rules for the non-medical marketplace on a...

City councilors had a sharply divided reaction Thursday to a proposal to enact a local six-month moratorium banning the sale of recreational marijuana, with some councilors saying the city and the state already have had more than a year to come up with regulations but failed to do so. Other...

With just over a month to go before recreational cannabis becomes legal in California, the City of Los Angeles is preparing to establish new rules for regulating sellers, growers and users. Marijuana businesses could not be too close to schools or parks, and existing medical marijuana...

The city of West Hollywood will start accepting applications in January from businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs looking to open weed shops, pot delivery services, and smoking lounges, WeHoville reports. Under an ordinance adopted last week, the city will dole out eight licenses each for...

City Council has approved four out five people who will serve on an appellate board for medical marijuana licenses. The city will issue licenses to 25 medical marijuana dispensaries. The unpaid members of the Lansing medical marijuana commission will hear appeals from applicants who are...

Tuesday the Sacramento City Council is expected to officially make Sacramento a legal place to buy and sell recreational marijuana in 2018. The city will recommend allowing some existing medical marijuana dispensaries to sell recreational pot starting Jan. 1. Sacramento has been on this track...

As the city of Lompoc moves toward full implementation of its recently approved cannabis ordinance, there is a faction of residents within the city working to put the fate of the new law into the hands of the voters, while a separate group is looking to potentially force out the city's top...

William Haas has his eye on three machine factory buildings in Buchanan that could be retrofitted to grow and process medical marijuana. Ed Graveline can look around an empty old Clark Equipment industrial site on River Street in Buchanan and envision 11 different rooms, each with its own...

The same area of north Boulder that one year ago was the site of some neighborhood frustration over marijuana odor is now host to a near repeat of that drama. A cultivation facility that, according to state records, is licensed to local pot shop Boulder Botanics was fined $2,000 for a...

A medical marijuana extraction facility could be a step closer Monday to opening in Costa Mesa. The Planning Commission will review an application for a conditional use permit to open the facility in a 7,315-square-foot tenant space at 3590 Cadillac Ave.in the northwest area of the city...

The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday approved funding sources for increased law enforcement against illegal indoor pot grows, following a two-month pilot program that led to the closure of 614 pot houses. The city expects to spend between $700,000 and $1.1 million on police efforts to stop...

Ohio has received 370 applications for license to dispense medical marijuana, including dozens in the Dayton area. The state's list will be narrowed to 60 and 15 will be licensed for southwest Ohio The next step will be to narrow the list to the 60 that will be licensed to sell medical...

Businesses will have to pay an extra fee be in the medical marijuana business within Newark. Monday night Newark City Council approved requiring any medical marijuana cultivator, processor or dispensary within the city of Newark to have a license from the city and pay a $500 fee each January...

Two Kern County cities took on marijuana regulation Tuesday night, each with a different outcome. Arvin could soon see new revenue next year after approving the cultivation of marijuana within city limits. Arvin City Council voted Tuesday night to pass the ordinance unanimously. The...

Orange County residents could be able to buy recreational marijuana in Santa Ana as soon as New Year's Day, after the city became the first and only jurisdiction in the county to allow commercial pot shops. The Santa Ana City Council voted Nov. 9 to begin the process of licensing up to 30...

It's very likely the Bay City Commission approves an ordinance next month that regulates medical marijuana and allows them to start welcoming the industry to town. That much is apparent based on the conversations in City Hall on Monday, Nov. 20, when the commission heard a presentation on the...