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Lake County supervisors Tuesday voted 3-1 to place a cannabis tax on the November ballot, joining a growing number of California cities and counties seeking financial compensation for overseeing pot production. If approved by voters, Lake County's ballot measure would impose an annual license...

Lake County supervisors Tuesday voted 3-1 to place a cannabis tax on the November ballot, joining a growing number of California cities and counties seeking financial compensation for overseeing pot production. If approved by voters, Lake County's ballot measure would impose an annual license...

Ending on a high note Tuesday, Solano County supervisors unanimously opted to send a potentially controversial matter to voters. Come November, voters will get to decide whether future commercial marijuana businesses in Solano County will be subject to a 15 percent business license tax...

Alachua County sheriff's deputies now have the option of handing out a civil citation instead of making an arrest when they catch someone possessing 20 grams or less of marijuana. The Alachua County commission unanimously passed an ordinance allowing that on Tuesday night. Despite the...

Douglas County residents can no longer legally grow 99 marijuana plants in each household. The Douglas County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday, August 9, to reduce that number to twelve. The new ordinance regulates the growth, cultivation and processing of marijuana in private...

On July 25 the King County Council passed an Ordinance re-regulating Marijuana businesses in the Unincorporated Areas and at the same time lifting its 4-mo Moratorium on such businesses. Over the past two years the Area Council has hosted several standing-room-only meetings, which provided...

When Deborah Young of Ferndale sent her $60 fee to Lansing this year to register as a medical-marijuana user, she assumed the state would use her money to review her paperwork and print her ID card. The fees are "for the operation and oversight of the Michigan medical marihuana program," says...

When Deborah Young of Ferndale sent her $60 fee to Lansing this year to register as a medical-marijuana user, she assumed the state would use her money to review her paperwork and print her ID card. The fees are "for the operation and oversight of the Michigan medical marihuana program," says...

Deschutes County expects a wave of marijuana businesses will apply for licenses from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to grow, process and sell recreational marijuana, once the county ban on marijuana businesses is lifted Sept. 1. "My best ballpark guess is 25 to 50 applications over the...

There's no reason someone would know the vehicle across the street is delivering medical marijuana. Such deliveries, which happen in Nevada County, produce no strong odor like marijuana grows. They draw no increased traffic and lead to no formal complaints. And then, once the transaction...

There's no reason someone would know the vehicle across the street is delivering medical marijuana. Such deliveries, which happen in Nevada County, produce no strong odor like marijuana grows. They draw no increased traffic and lead to no formal complaints. And then, once the transaction...

Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County will debut a new medical cannabis website Monday to accept online registration from cannabis cultivators operating in the county's unincorporated areas. For those without computer access, a kiosk will be available at the county Governmental Center, 701 Ocean St...

Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County will debut a new medical cannabis website Monday to accept online registration from cannabis cultivators operating in the county's unincorporated areas. For those without computer access, a kiosk will be available at the county Governmental Center, 701 Ocean St...

Sean Stamm left Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as a newly minted mechanical engineer not too many years ago, but today he's growing marijuana on a family homestead atop a mountain in Honeydew. Stamm, 28, is following in his father's footsteps, but he is representative of a newer generation of...

Steamboat Springs - The Routt County Board of Commissioners will conduct the second in a series of public hearings Aug. 8 regarding the possibility of lifting a moratorium and allowing marijuana growing operations in rural areas of the county. The BOC has no intention of lifting the ban on...

Will unincorporated Marion County turn their nose up at tax revenue? Salem, Oregon - In 2014, Oregon voters passed Measure 91 by approximately 56% to 44%. The measure allows for possession and sale of recreational marijuana (cannabis) by adults, state licensing, regulation, and taxation...

The Pueblo County commissioners have asked department heads to create two budget scenarios for 2017 - one showing projected revenue from marijuana sales and excise tax and another without. The county is preparing for the results of the November ballot measure that could eliminate the sale and...

The board of supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt a resolution establishing procedures for administrative hearings related to the enforcement of the county's marijuana cultivation ordinances. The resolution states that anyone who receives a notice to abate a violation of the...

The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners has delayed decision on whether to impose a year-long moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. County commissioners approved the first of two votes to impose the moratorium last month, and had been set to take up the second vote at their...

The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners has delayed decision on whether to impose a year-long moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. County commissioners approved the first of two votes to impose the moratorium last month, and had been set to take up the second vote at their...