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City officials in Carlsbad voted 4-1 Tuesday to prohibit commercial marijuana activity including pot shops. The proposed ordinance would have changed the language in the Carlsbad Municipal Code to ban commercial outdoor cannabis growing as well. The new city ordinance matches state law...

A subcommittee has directed the city manager to present four businesses with coveted medical marijuana dispensary licenses as early as Monday, according to Mayor Rich Kerr, and the successful applicants are a list of familiar names. The Cannabis Permit Committee –which consists of Kerr, Mayor...

People eager to start buying recreational marijuana from shops in San Francisco when sales become legal throughout the state in January are going to have to wait a little longer. The city won't issue permits to sell recreational marijuana until it passes new laws to regulate the industry and...

After a vote Tuesday afternoon, the Atlanta City Council is one vote away from decriminalizing possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana. The City Council's public safety committee decided to send the plan to the full council. The committee voted three votes for, one against and one no...

Recreational marijuana users may be looking forward to Jan. 1, the day the drug becomes legal in California, but for Los Angeles-based cannabis businesses that date is nothing to celebrate. That's because the LA City Council's latest draft of cannabis regulations requires current marijuana...

Since the passage last November of a measure that opened the door for medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in La Mesa, some residents have become increasingly anxious about their presence. No dispensaries have received a permit to operate, but the city acknowledges that shops selling...

Los Angeles lawmakers tentatively backed a sweeping set of proposed regulations for businesses that grow, sell, process and distribute marijuana Monday, the next step toward giving cannabis the stamp of local legitimacy. But industry groups said that recent changes to the proposed rules would...

Los Angeles lawmakers are laying the groundwork for what is widely expected to be one of the hottest markets for marijuana in the country, one that could bring more than $50 million in taxes to city coffers next year. The city is drafting rules to allow greenhouses that grow cannabis...

There seems to be some misunderstanding regarding the two Oct. 3 ballot measures about the legalized commercial marijuana industry in the Fairbanks area. Several readers have submitted letters to the editor and opinion columns to the Daily News-Miner declaring "I'm voting yes on both" or "I'm...

Legal marijuana is on its way back to Long Beach. LB Green Room, is on pace to open some time in the coming week, manager Adam Hijazi said. The business is in the same location, on Seventh Street near Rose Avenue, where it operated during an earlier period when city government regulated...

The Department of City Planning drew up the maps based on proposed buffer-zone rules that prescribe an 800-foot distance between most pot retailers and schools, parks, libraries, churches and other dispensaries. That's larger than the average city block. Earlier this month, the Los Angeles...

The owners of a medical marijuana provider business, as well as one of their patients, is suing the city of Billings over its ban on dispensaries within city limits. Rich Abromeit, co-owner of Montana Advanced Caregivers, and Nancy Moore are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed in...

People 21 and older could legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Stevens Point under a proposal expected to come before city officials. The city has already changed its rules twice recently to reduce the penalties some people face when police find them with marijuana. -In October...

City Council President Clint Olivier mounted the charge to put off a decision on imposing a ban on recreational marijuana dispensaries, brushing off one accusation he was the king of promoting drug use in Fresno. "If I am going to be the king of anything, it's of personal responsibility and...

A piece of lab equipment found outside a cannabis lab was identified as the projectile that shot through the building's roof just outside of Willits city limits on September 12, according to Captain Gregory L. Van Patten. The lid of a cylinder used to extract cannabis oil failed, after...

The often rancorous battle over recreational marijuana sales in Brownsville will continue, at least for a while. On a 4-3 vote Tuesday evening, members of the City Council upheld a Planning Commission decision to deny the sale of recreational marijuana at the Green Cross medical marijuana...

Kalamazoo will postpone a decision on how it plans to react to new state laws governing medical marijuana facilities. Monday, City Attorney Clyde Robinson relayed news to the City Commission that the state's process for licensing medical marijuana facilities will not be ready by Dec. 15. That...

Closing time at your favorite dispensary in town probably consists of a common industry routine: Complete the bud audit, get the drawers in order and wipe the glass clean of eager fingerprints. That and always expect some last-minute patients. In Colorado Springs, medical marijuana centers are...

The Bakersfield City Council will discuss the first reading of the commercial cannabis ordinance during the Wednesday night meeting. Over the last several years, California has seen a move towards legalizing the sale of adult-use cannabis throughout the State through the adoption of the...

Bay City will proceed with the process of adopting ordinance language authorizing medical marijuana facilities inside city limits under state rules. That followed a 5-3 city commission vote Monday. Mayor Kathleen Newsham said putting everything together will take time, including input from the...