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An ordinance designed to stop the sudden blossoming of private marijuana grows in unincorporated areas of San Luis Obispo County was extended another 10 1/2 months Tuesday. The extension passed the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors unanimously, with board members agreeing the...

Three marijuana ballot measures will determine if Pueblo continues as a national hotspot for pot production and sales, or whether it tells the rest of the country to avoid the headache. Only Pueblo and Pueblo County residents can make these decisions, but other Coloradans miss the grand old...

Growing Pueblo's Future continued to urge citizens Monday to vote against Proposition 200, a ballot measure that would ban the sale and production of commercial marijuana in Pueblo County. The group gathered at Angelo's Pizza for a press conference and small rally where local business owners...

Pueblo - It's one of the most heated issues on the Pueblo Ballot. Issue 200 asks voters whether or not to continue to allow retail marijuana sales in the county. Some say it's a black eye for the community, others an economic boost, but the final word on the issue is being left up to Pueblo...

Strong opinions and loud accusations have made the battle over cannabis cultivation the most contentious debate in Calaveras County since the start of the year. The dispute has evolved in recent months. What was an argument regarding cultivation legality is now a fight to regulate an industry...

Indian River County - The County Commission has approved restrictions medical marijuana treatment centers, limiting them to only a few locations in the unincorporated county. The areas are zoned general industrial, and are adjacent to the railroad right-of-way north of 12th Street and to two...

Indian River County - The County Commission has approved restrictions medical marijuana treatment centers, limiting them to only a few locations in the unincorporated county. The areas are zoned general industrial, and are adjacent to the railroad right-of-way north of 12th Street and to two...

Shangri La Care Cooperative, a medical marijuana club based in Ojai, has been raided three times since October 2015 and is seeking restitution for the value of property lost or destroyed during the raid, a lawsuit filed against the Sheriff's Department and the County of Ventura this month says...

Shangri La Care Cooperative, a medical marijuana club based in Ojai, has been raided three times since October 2015 and is seeking restitution for the value of property lost or destroyed during the raid, a lawsuit filed against the Sheriff's Department and the County of Ventura this month says...

Calaveras County - This marijuana grow on a hilltop near Mountain Ranch is nothing like the nasty ones you've heard about on the news, those garbage-strewn plantations hidden deep in the forest, guarded by armed cartels. Here there are no piles of trash, no chemicals dribbling into creeks, no...

There's little independent data to guide voters as the sparring continues over the retail marijuana industry's claim of 1,300 local jobs, and how many of them might go away if only medical marijuana sales are allowed. Local, state and federal governments say they do not know how many marijuana...

For Matt Kurth, the essentials of life have come through his love of the outdoors and organic gardening. And cannabis. When he tried to blend two of these passions and grow marijuana one year, he found that he had his work cut out for him. "I wanted to be a grower and then I tried it and...

Last year, Golden Leaf Holdings, a leading cannabis company, paid $3.3 million for almost 100 acres of land in Oregon to build a marijuana growing, processing and research site. The future looked bright: Oregon voters had legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. But Measure 91 gave counties...

Yolo County — The green rush is on in parts of California. Hundreds of people from across the country are looking to set up marijuana cultivation shops in the state. The number of applicants are so high and happening so fast that Yolo County decided to put a stop to new applicants for the time...

The Monterey County Deputy Sheriffs Association officially endorsed Measure Y. Measure Y is the county's commercial cannabis tax on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election. Measure Y is a general tax on commercial cannabis businesses in the county's unincorporated areas. If passed it would...

County leaders earlier this month let expire a bill that would have allowed medical cannabis to be grown in the county's agricultural zones, the idea drying up in the face of opposition from Frederick's farming community. We think that was a mistake. When the law to allow medical cannabis...

County leaders earlier this month let expire a bill that would have allowed medical cannabis to be grown in the county's agricultural zones, the idea drying up in the face of opposition from Frederick's farming community. We think that was a mistake. When the law to allow medical cannabis...

Cities and counties across Colorado have ballot measures related to marijuana regulation. Many of them involve adding additional sales taxes or excise taxes, which are paid when unprocessed marijuana is sold or transferred from a cultivation facility or site to a retail store, manufacturing...

In response to an unexpected flood of prospective medicinal marijuana cultivators, Yolo's Board of Supervisors has hit the pause button on new applicants to give county staff a chance to fine tune regulations and vet pending applicants. While some counties have opted out of dealing with...

Indian River County - If Florida voters approve Amendment 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot - changing the state constitution to allow medical marijuana - the County Commission wants to restrict where the dispensaries or treatment centers would be allowed. The county is preparing changes to land...