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Marathon City Council members on Tuesday approved an ordinance to pass a three-month moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city while the state Department of Health writes rules to regulate them. Councilman Mark Senmartin brought it up in response to state constitutional...

The city needs to take a stand against a medical marijuana dispensary operating without a business licence, according to Mayor Andrew Jakubeit. Jukka Laurio, operator of the Herbal Green Apothecary, told Castanet he felt "blindsided" by a city council decision not to approve his application...

A new medical marijuana proposal is heading to the Troy City Council for consideration after the city Planning Commission voted Wednesday to recommend the city ban medical marijuana cultivation and processing but allow up to three dispensaries in the city highway business zoning district. The...

In a white-walled room deep inside a southwest Santa Rosa building once used to manufacture heart stents, 11 specialized machines to extract concentrated cannabis rumbled, hummed and popped in production for California's largest legal marijuana manufacturing operation. Five months ago, law...

Manatee Co., Fla. — A six month moratorium on medical marijuana has been approved by the City of Bradenton. This morning, the city council voted unanimously on the proposal. Many other cities throughout the state have also approved similar proposals. The Moratorium gives the city time to...

Members of the Ceres City Council signaled on Monday that they want an outright ban on the outdoor growing of marijuana in the city limits following the passage of Proposition 64 that legalizes recreational marijuana for adults. The council was presented with a number of policy decisions now...

Last week a core group of quasi-legal marijuana dispensaries in L.A. threw its weight behind Proposition M, the City Council—sponsored measure that would fully legalize the city's current medical pot collectives and likely would provide permitting for future recreational ones. The measure also...

The Cañon City Planning Commission on Tuesday agreed to recommend to the Cañon City Council an ordinance that would allow community marijuana cultivation facilities as a use by special review. The recommendation would add a new chapter to the Municipal Code. A city council-appointed marijuana...

San Diego, CA — The City Council today slapped a 45-day moratorium on recreational marijuana activities in San Diego, such as commercial cultivation or sales. The temporary ban will buy time for city officials to set up land use and public safety regulations. San Diego began permitting...

"We will continue to stay open," said Cody Bass, founder and executive director of the Tahoe Wellness Cooperative after being told by the City Council Tuesday that he no longer has a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Permit to operate in South Lake Tahoe. "We are going to take this to the end."...

How the passage of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act affects the City of Turlock's current bans on the cultivation and sale of marijuana will be the focus of a special workshop in January. Turlock has had a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city limits since 2007, and the City...

Taunton - The City Council paved the way Tuesday night for a medical-marijuana, plant-growing and sales-dispensary facility on Mozzone Boulevard. The green light for the hybrid dispensary and cultivation facility came by way of an 8-1 vote granting a special permit to Commonwealth Alternative...

Juneau – The Juneau-Douglas City Museum accepted a donation of one gram of marijuana purchased from Rainforest Farms, the first smoke shop to open in Juneau. The donation was made by former Capital City Weekly editor and current Juneau Empire state reporter James Brooks. Brooks purchased the...

Cleveland Heights, Ohio -- While the prospect of any medical marijuana farms in the city appears unlikely, there has been interest from at least one investor in opening a dispensary here. It's all very preliminary at this point, including the scope of state regulations still being developed...

San Diego - The City Council Tuesday slapped a 45-day moratorium on recreational marijuana activities in San Diego, such as commercial cultivation or sales. The temporary ban will buy time for city officials to set up land use and public safety regulations. San Diego began permitting...

Bradenton - Bradenton's proposed six-month moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries will go to a final vote at Wednesday's city council meeting. Officials have made it clear that the moratorium would not reverse voter approval Nov. 8 of Amendment 2, but rather give the city a chance to...

Blue Ash is looking to restrict medical marijuana businesses, but city council members have differing opinions on the issue. "From a local land use perspective, it is more like a liquor license. They are given a permit by someone else, we can just determine where they do or don't operate,"...

Panama City, Fla. - Panama City is tapping the brakes on medical marijuana, for now. At Tuesday morning's meeting, Panama City Commissioners approved the first reading to adopt an eight-month moratorium, or temporary ban, concerning medical marijuana. The second reading and final vote will...

A group representing a number of quasi-legal pot shops in the city of L.A. will throw its considerable weight behind a City Hall—sponsored effort to make those dispensaries fully legal. The organization, the United Cannabis Business Alliance, is scrapping its own measure, which already had...

Sacramento Councilman Jay Schenirer's approach to recreational marijuana regulation ("Marijuana regulation is most responsible course for Sacramento," Viewpoints, Dec. 3) may be fine for the city of Sacramento, but it is infeasible for the rest of the county. Schenirer advocates strong...