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Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted a 45-day moratorium on nonmedical cannabis activities, a week after California voters said they wanted a state system to regulate adult use of nonmedical marijuana. Some local cannabis industry representatives favored a...

Proposition 64, the initiative to legalize recreational marijuana, passed. But you wouldn't believe it in much of Orange County where stiff prohibitions still remain in place. Just days before the election, both Brea and Buena Park doubled down on their bans, imposing 45-day moratoriums to...

Newly re-elected County Commissioner David Moore was sworn in for a second term Tuesday morning, and newly elected commissioners Jeff Gold and Michelle Stone took their first oaths of office. County Judge Jim McCune administered the oath for Moore. County Judge Sarah Ritterhoff Williams...

Newly re-elected County Commissioner David Moore was sworn in for a second term Tuesday morning, and newly elected commissioners Jeff Gold and Michelle Stone took their first oaths of office. County Judge Jim McCune administered the oath for Moore. County Judge Sarah Ritterhoff Williams...

Detroit - Michigan sheriffs are paying for overtime and buying vests, guns, Tasers and vehicles with a little-known pot of state money that was set aside for medical marijuana enforcement. They're also leaving a lot of cash on the table, as only 18 of 83 counties this year applied for a slice...

With the passing of Prop 64, marijuana is legal. But for the city of Bakersfield and Kern County, the work is just being to answer some of the questions legalization presents. The city will begin discussing issues the city faces, like allowing medical marijuana dispensaries, at the start...

Sonora, CA - The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors discussed how to proceed with marijuana regulations after the passage of marijuana for recreational use by California voters last week. The consensus after much debate was to request an ordinance be drafted immediately to ban all...

A moratorium on marijuana businesses in the unincorporated areas of the county was extended by the Board of Lewis County Commissioners at a Monday meeting, marking the seventh time the ban on such operations has been renewed since it was implemented around three years ago. The extension adds...

Detroit - Michigan sheriffs are paying for overtime and buying vests, guns, Tasers and vehicles with a little-known pot of state money that was set aside for medical marijuana enforcement. They're also leaving a lot of cash on the table, as only 18 of 83 counties this year applied for a slice...

Detroit - Michigan sheriffs are paying for overtime and buying vests, guns, Tasers and vehicles with a little-known pot of state money that was set aside for medical marijuana enforcement. They're also leaving a lot of cash on the table, as only 18 of 83 counties this year applied for a slice...

Bakersfield, Calif. With last week's passage of Proposition 64, the recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California. Today, Kern County Supervisors will take up the issues that now arise between recreational and medical marijuana law. They will be looking at amending the county...

Bakersfield, Calif. With last week's passage of Proposition 64, the recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California. Today, Kern County Supervisors will take up the issues that now arise between recreational and medical marijuana law. They will be looking at amending the county...

Twin Falls - Vice has never been too far out of reach for Magic Valley residents. Want to try your luck gambling? Jackpot, Nev., is less than an hours' drive south of Twin Falls. And legal prostitution isn't much farther. And beginning the first of next year, the Magic Valley will be a short...

Sonora, CA - With California voters this week approving the use of marijuana for recreational use, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors will have a discussion about how to proceed forward. On the agenda for Tuesday's meeting is a presentation on what the ballot measure means for counties...

Local governments across the Treasure Coast are considering whether and how to regulate medical marijuana now that voters on Tuesday said they want it legal in Florida. Two counties already have laws and one city is expected to approve requirements, but another county and some cities are letting...

Local governments across the Treasure Coast are considering whether and how to regulate medical marijuana now that voters on Tuesday said they want it legal in Florida. Two counties already have laws and one city is expected to approve requirements, but another county and some cities are letting...

When most of us think of Sonoma County agriculture, cannabis is not the first crop that comes to mind. Instead, we think of the visible agriculture that shapes our landscape with neatly landscaped rows of vineyards, grazing cows dotting fields of green, fruit orchards shading dirt lanes. What we...

With the passage of Proposition 64 removing prohibitions on marijuana in California, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors will be asked to provide direction on possible local regulations related to growing and distributing the newly legalized drug. The County Counsel's Office is scheduled...

Marijuana is serious business. It's not just that sketchy brown bag handed off under a high school lunch table (à la every '90s after-school special ever) anymore - it's a legitimate market, and local businesspeople are ready to start treating it that way. On Nov. 7, cannabis farmers and...

The potential impact of Proposition 64 and legalized recreational marijuana in California was driven home by more than 50 city and county measures that set rules for taxing, regulating and governing the pot trade at a community level. Voters in diverse regions across California overwhelmingly...