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Tehachapi is the latest city in Kern County to take action under a new state law that allows local governments to prohibit marijuana cultivation, processing, delivery and medical marijuana dispensaries. However medical marijuana patients have strong objections towards the proposed ordinance...

Detroit has been one of the most lax cities in Michigan regarding the enforcement of medical marijuana dispensaries, which are still illegal under state and federal laws. With names like The Green Mile, House of Dank, Action Medz and Detroit Grass Station. at latest count there were an...

A medical marijuana patient group alleges the Boston City Council violated the state's open meeting law by failing to provide 48 hours' public notice before voting Wednesday on buffer zones for marijuana dispensaries. In a complaint filed Thursday with the Boston city clerk's office, the...

Atascadero is going back to the drawing board to reconsider a recent ban on all medical marijuana cultivation. That drawing board, however, is a bit small. On March 1, the city Planning Commission considered a draft ordinance that would permit limited personal cultivation within the city. The...

Just a week after news surfaced that the voters in Long Beach could potentially have the choice of two ballot measures aimed at legalizing medical marijuana collectives in the city, one group announced it was pulling the plug on its efforts to combine forces to form one non-competing initiative...

One medical marijuana business has already applied for a special permit to operate in Leominster and three others spoke Wednesday night at a meeting held to look at some of the issues related to operating in the city. City officials heard from Middlesex Integrated Medicine Inc. of Boston...

Detroit has a new set of medical marijuana laws that officially went into effect on Thursday that requires owners of dispensaries to have a license to do business. The new laws were put into place after months of back-and-forth and is requiring the proprieters of pot shops to have a license...

Companies like Dank House, Motown Meds and Your Grass Station were among 82 businesses that applied to operate medical marijuana shops in Detroit on Tuesday, when the city's new marijuana regulations went into effect. Of the first 79 businesses that applied for zoning approval, 23 were from...

Kent's only medical marijuana shop has been ordered to shut down. A King County Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction Friday, directing owner Charles Lambert and his West Hill collective garden, South King Holistic, to cease operations. The order, when finalized, would take...

Merced officials this week will revisit their decision to ban all dispensaries, cultivation and sales of medical cannabis. The Merced City Council will hold a study session on medical marijuana at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 678 W. 18th St. The council voted unanimously in January to...

Regulating medical marijuana dispensaries is no easy feat. Council member Carol Wood has been working on it for years. "Sometimes it feels as if you're going two steps forward and three steps back," Wood said. "But the importance is getting it right." The Lansing City Council, especially...

Imperial Beach City Council members recently confirmed an earlier decision to allow certain individuals to grow medicinal marijuana in the city while banning growing for commercial use. An ordinance the council adopted Jan. 20 continues to allow medical marijuana cultivation for up to three...

Springfield, Massachusetts city officials are negotiating with a company that wants to open the first medical marijuana treatment center in the city. Hampden Care Facility Inc. was picked from six bidders who submitted proposals for a medical marijuana dispensary in Springfield. The...

A city review committee has selected a Chicopee-based company as having submitted the "most advantageous" proposal for a medical marijuana treatment center in Springfield. The committee gave Hampden Care Facility Inc., of Chicopee, its top ranking among six submitted proposals, said Theo...

Two different ballot initiatives to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach are working their ways through the city attorney and city clerk's offices, and advocates could be on the streets collecting signatures next month. Initiatives from Bob Kelton and Larry King were filed after...

Long Beach's former city clerk made the right call when he decided that a pro-medical marijuana measure had not qualified for the April 2014 ballot, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals ruled Monday. The court's ruling did not address the merits of medical marijuana policy in Long Beach...

The wording of a draft ordinance governing medical marijuana-related operations evoked confusion and heated discussion at a public hearing Monday, as the Planning Board tried to gather input on where these facilities should be allowed and what restrictions should be placed on them. The public...

In the span of almost a year the city has faced two efforts to overturn the ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, and if that's not enough, four separate efforts were initiated to recall all but one member of the council. The level of activity is highly unusual says a University of La Verne...

Marijuana delivery is efficient. Marijuana delivery is convenient. Marijuana delivery is illegal. At least that's the case in the city of Los Angeles, where voters passed a measure, 2013's Proposition D, that outlaws delivery of otherwise legal medical cannabis except by "primary caregivers"...

Anyone delivering medical marijuana in Goleta city limits will have some new license fees to pay. In order to enforce its new marijuana ordinances, the Goleta City Council this week approved charging $125 for a delivery service license and $125 for each driver who must obtain a special...