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The federal Food and Drug Administration is tightening its oversight of the hemp oil industry and that prompted City Council to approve a four-month "timeout" in its agreement with CBD Biosciences, the new hemp oil venture that is occupying the old Boeing building at Pueblo Memorial Airport...

The possibility of expanding the scope of Oshawa's medical marijuana working group was back on the table at the latest regular meeting of council and the topic became one of the first major divisions seen inside the chambers in 2016. Following a recommendation from the Oshawa Accessibility...

Tehachapi city staff members are heading to the drawing board after the City Council decided to put aside a contentious ordinance that would have banned medical marijuana dispensaries in city limits and instead voted to look at regulation possibilities. "We don't want to put the cart before the...

The Milpitas City Council has extended a temporary ordinance that bans the manufacturing, cultivation or delivery of marijuana within the city's boundaries for an additional 10 months. The extra time will give city and police officials more time to study the potential risks and benefits of...

Medical marijuana cultivation is expected to be legal again soon in Atascadero. On Tuesday, the City Council unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance that would allow a qualified medical marijuana patient to cultivate no more than six mature and 12 immature marijuana plants...

Colorado Springs officials have suggested extending the city's ban on medical marijuana businesses for another year. The Gazette reports that the City Council passed a six-month ban last November with the promise that it wouldn't be extended. A task force that has studied the issue made some...

In a move that surprised and pleased advocates of medical marijuana, the Tehachapi City Council decided Monday night to table a proposed ordinance that would prohibit medical marijuana use. Instead, the city council asked staff to look for a way to regulate the drug. Advocates of medical...

Following a well-attended public hearing in Bret Harte High Theater, the City of Angels City Council continues to move towards imposing an outright ban on growing medical marijuana within city limits. As previously reported here, city officials, who remain torn over the subject, still have...

Emeryville is set to fully legalize medical marijuana deliveries in thirty days and could see its first dispensary, as well as cannabis labs in the coming year. In a special study session on Tuesday evening, Emeryville city councilmembers called for an urgency ordinance to immediately...

After tabling efforts to enact its own local rules for medical marijuana cultivation the City of Angels City Council plans another go at it during tonight's meeting. As previously reported here, the council members held a workshop last month to weigh a range of jurisdictional options. After...

A divided Simi Valley City Council on Monday night adopted an ordinance that bans the personal cultivation of medical marijuana. The vote was 3-2, with Mayor Bob Huber and council members Keith Mashburn and Glen Beccera favoring the ban. Council members Mike Judge and Steve Sojka voted against...

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...

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...

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...

Despite impassioned, sometimes angry pleas from medical marijuana advocates to allow personal cultivation of the plant, a divided Simi Valley City Council this week took the first step to ban it. The council introduced an ordinance after about 25 speakers implored it in a sometimes raucous...

The Florence City Council approved lifting the ban on marijuana and hemp testing facilities in Florence during its meeting Tuesday. The moratorium would remain on all other marijuana establishments except for testing facilities, the ordinance said. Marijuana testing facilities would be...

Last week, two days after Sacramento City Council voted to allow cultivation of medical marijuana, Brad Wasson's phone wouldn't stop ringing. The revenue manager for the city laid out the potential benefits of regulating cannabis cultivation before council on February 2. And while it's going to...

Growing medical marijuana sounded a little like agriculture and a little like the pharmaceutical industry Wednesday when the Frederick County Planning Commission decided not to make a recommendation to the County Council about allowing pot growing in farming districts. Growing cannabis for...