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  1. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Cannabis Industry Shines At Desert Hot Springs Business Summit

    The future of the Desert Hot Springs business community is bright, at least according to residents and business owners who attended the city's business summit. While the event Wednesday didn't focus exclusively on the cannabis industry, it certainly stood out as cultivators talked about the...
  2. Katelyn Baker

    BC: Kamloops Council Will Not Take Action Against Proposed Pot Shop In Aberdeen

    The city will butt out of attempting to regulate where pot shops locate, Mayor Peter Milobar told a group of concerned Mount Dufferin residents Tuesday. A number of residents of Hillside Lofts, a condominium building on Hillside Drive across from Aberdeen Village shopping centre, asked council...
  3. Katelyn Baker

    CO: Florence Marijuana Ballot Measure Confusing Voters

    Florence - Voters in Florence will decide this election if they will allow or not allow a marijuana grow operations facility to be constructed in city limits. However, some Florence City Council members are concerned the ballot question could confuse voters, as a missing word from the ballot...
  4. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Cities Prepare To Take The Driver's Seat In Marijuana Trade

    In the dusty, wind-swept city of Adelanto, officials are predicting big changes on the horizon. City Councilman Johnny "Bug" Woodard Jr. recently stood in front of a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant lot in the city's Green Zone, the industrial area where Adelanto allows medical marijuana...
  5. Katelyn Baker

    OR: Measure 17-73 Would Uphold City's Ban On Dispensaries

    Since the Grants Pass City Council banned medical marijuana dispensaries and all other forms of cannabis commerce in the city last year, a lot has changed. The use of marijuana, whether it be for medical purposes or for recreation, is now legal in the state - as long as you're at least 21...
  6. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Pot Entrepreneurs Get Business Advice In Oakland

    Business experts shared investment advice with a crowd of mostly African American cannabis entrepreneurs Monday at a conference in Oakland set up to help people of color succeed as state law forces California's multibillion-dollar industry above ground. The conference's organizers - former...
  7. Katelyn Baker

    WA: Prosser To Conduct Hearing On Marijuana Moratorium

    Prosser, Wash. — The city will be taking public comments on its moratorium on marijuana businesses at Tuesday night's council meeting. City Council members approved a six-month moratorium in September on issuing business licenses for new marijuana businesses after learning that the state was...
  8. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Marijuana Facility Surge Troubles Some Cathedral City Businesses

    In June, people started to arrive at Stonehouse tile store in Cathedral City, armed with cameras and measuring tapes, taking pictures of the building and measuring the interior space. The problem was, owner Tami Monica and her employees didn't invite them. "They walk in with their...
  9. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Stockton Voters Weigh Two Pot Measures

    Stockton - There are only two medicinal marijuana dispensaries inside Stockton city limits but that could change if Measure P passes this November. Supporter and Stockton attorney Zach Drivon said this could be a good change. "Regulation and licensing of the cannabis industry is actually...
  10. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Stockton Voters Weigh Two Pot Measures

    Stockton - There are only two medicinal marijuana dispensaries inside Stockton city limits but that could change if Measure P passes this November. Supporter and Stockton attorney Zach Drivon said this could be a good change. "Regulation and licensing of the cannabis industry is actually...
  11. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Santa Ana Drops Charges Against Dispensary Workers Arrested During Infamous Raid

    Santa Ana's city attorney office has dropped all charges against a dozen employees of Sky High Holistic, the Santa Ana medical marijuana dispensary that police raided on May 26, 2015, during which officers were recorded on surveillance footage eating what appeared to be pot edibles, throwing...
  12. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Santa Ana Drops Charges Against Dispensary Workers Arrested During Infamous Raid

    Santa Ana's city attorney office has dropped all charges against a dozen employees of Sky High Holistic, the Santa Ana medical marijuana dispensary that police raided on May 26, 2015, during which officers were recorded on surveillance footage eating what appeared to be pot edibles, throwing...
  13. Katelyn Baker

    CA: A Tale Of 2 Farm Towns - How The Central Valley Is Torn Over Marijuana

    Part I: Huron Loud music and the smell of roasted corn on the cob fill the air at the Friday night street festival in the small Fresno County town of Huron. Kids play on a bounce house slide, while adults sell everything from used bikes and shoes to melons and tomatoes. Jazmin Vargas, 22...
  14. Katelyn Baker

    Editorial - Marijuana Initiatives All Deserve Yes Votes

    It is time that our laws regarding marijuana reflect reality. The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has been legal in California since 1996, when voters approved Proposition 215. Granted, there were many fits and starts to find ways to make that usage viable through regulation. But in...
  15. Katelyn Baker

    PA: At City Hall, Activists Tout Fiscal Benefits Of Marijuana Decriminalization

    Clutching an enlarged check to the citizens of the City of Philadelphia in the amount of $9 million - an amount the city is said to have saved in public safety costs since decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana - signed "Mary Jane," marijuana activists gathered Thursday at City...
  16. Katelyn Baker

    Prop 64 Could Allow Recreational Marijuana Use But Limit Dispensaries In Bakersfield

    Those headed to the polls in November will have the option of voting for or against The Adult Use of Marijuana Act. If passed, Prop 64 would allow anyone over the age of 21 to possess, transport, purchase, consume and share up to one ounce of marijuana and eight grams of marijuana...
  17. Katelyn Baker

    NM: Moriarty Delays Decision On Medical Marijuana

    Moriarty is getting closer to limiting where medical marijuana companies can set up shop, but stopped short on Oct. 12 of making a final decision to give more time for researching what restrictions should be put in place. That's when the City Council continued its public hearing on adding...
  18. Katelyn Baker

    NM: Moriarty Delays Decision On Medical Marijuana

    Moriarty is getting closer to limiting where medical marijuana companies can set up shop, but stopped short on Oct. 12 of making a final decision to give more time for researching what restrictions should be put in place. That's when the City Council continued its public hearing on adding...
  19. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Yes On MA - Costs Of Pot Should Be Covered - Endorsement

    If there is one thing supporters and opponents of medical marijuana agree on in Long Beach, it's that the sale of medical pot should be taxed. But that agreement ends when the amount of the tax is discussed. To clear away the confusion, the editorial board is endorsing Measure MA on the...
  20. Katelyn Baker

    OR: Cannabis Regulations May Get Stricter In City

    Changes to the Klamath Falls city code were approved Monday night by the city council, narrowing the areas where cannabis can be processed and manufactured within city limits. The changes limits processing and manufacturers to industrial and light industrial zones and requires recreational and...
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