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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...

Yolo County supervisors will be reviewing a revised ordinance regulating the cultivation of medical marijuana this week. The proposal is already drawing a complaint of being excessively prohibitive. Supervisors will review the plan at their Tuesday meeting in the Erwin Meier Center. The...

A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the hundreds of Sonoma County residents who grow marijuana for a living as the county bureaucracy continues a rapid march toward regulating their well-known but largely invisible industry. More than 200 people attended a Cannabis Community Meeting held by...

The clock has run out on a proposal to allow medical cannabis to be grown in agricultural areas in Frederick County. A bill introduced by Council Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer (D) will die Wednesday under a provision of the county charter that requires bills to be enacted within 90 days of...

The clock has run out on a proposal to allow medical cannabis to be grown in agricultural areas in Frederick County. A bill introduced by Council Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer (D) will die Wednesday under a provision of the county charter that requires bills to be enacted within 90 days of...

Shelby County, Tenn. - It's only been about 24 hours since the marijuana ordinance passed in Memphis, and another one's already being talked about. But this time, it's at the county level. Commissioner Van Turner says he likes the idea of not everyone going to jail for having a small...

Should Proposition 64 pass in November, recreational marijuana use will be as illegal in the unincorporated areas of the county as the Kings County Board of Supervisors could make it. Tuesday, the Kings County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance that would keep existing bans on...

Urgency clashed with caution at a debate Thursday over the upcoming referendum to overhaul the regulatory regime governing the county's marijuana industry. Sarah Bodnar, campaign manager for Measure AF, squared off with county Supervisor John McCowen in a spirited - and at one point testy -...

Sonoma County is putting out a welcome mat for the medical marijuana industry, but it may not be as big as the industry would like as it emerges from the legal shadows. Under California’s new medical marijuana law, cities and counties are allowed to regulate the location of pot-growing sites...

Sonoma County is putting out a welcome mat for the medical marijuana industry, but it may not be as big as the industry would like as it emerges from the legal shadows. Under California’s new medical marijuana law, cities and counties are allowed to regulate the location of pot-growing sites...

A Legalization Rally will take place at the Greene County Courthouse on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 12-3 p.m. The rally is part of a movement trying to reach each of the 92 counties in Indiana and is hosted by The Higher Fellowship, a group who self-describes themselves as "a group of individuals...

A Legalization Rally will take place at the Greene County Courthouse on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 12-3 p.m. The rally is part of a movement trying to reach each of the 92 counties in Indiana and is hosted by The Higher Fellowship, a group who self-describes themselves as "a group of individuals...

Some cannabis growers will harvest their crops this year before county employees are even able to review their applications to register the farms as required by county code, Calaveras County Planning Director Peter Maurer reported Tuesday. That is because the number of applications — 740 just...

The Grant County Court voted today to pass Amended Ordinance 2015-01, which will allow patients to purchase medical marijuana at dispensaries in Grant County. The ordinance was passed as an emergency to take effect immediately. "In the interest of those who need medical marijuana, legal...

The Grant County Court voted today to pass Amended Ordinance 2015-01, which will allow patients to purchase medical marijuana at dispensaries in Grant County. The ordinance was passed as an emergency to take effect immediately. "In the interest of those who need medical marijuana, legal...

A marijuana advocacy organization is claiming Humboldt County has violated its own commercial medical marijuana regulations and a recent legal agreement by allowing existing cultivators to apply for business permits until the end of the year. The Humboldt-Mendocino Marijuana Advocacy Project...

Given the unevenness of Oregonians' vote to make recreational marijuana legal in the state - Measure 91 was defeated in every county east of the Cascades save Deschutes - lawmakers gave local officials a chance to opt out. As a result, the November ballots in the cities of La Pine and Madras and...

Santa Cruz - Ken Wing, a high-tech retiree who founded the Georgiana Bruce Kirby School, and Larkin Valley nurseryman Jon Friesell share the same problem: They want to get a license to grow medical cannabis but under the proposed Santa Cruz County cultivators ordinance, they do not meet all the...

Santa Cruz - Ken Wing, a high-tech retiree who founded the Georgiana Bruce Kirby School, and Larkin Valley nurseryman Jon Friesell share the same problem: They want to get a license to grow medical cannabis but under the proposed Santa Cruz County cultivators ordinance, they do not meet all the...

Hanford — Kings County supervisors took the first step toward regulating recreational marijuana if it becomes legal in November. The supervisors passed the ordinance, which would apply to unincorporated areas of Kings County, with a 5-0 vote at their Tuesday meeting. They are to have a second...