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CALIFORNIA: Less than two weeks after voting to pursue a tax on marijuana businesses to help pay for housing and health services for the homeless, Los Angeles County supervisors appear poised to pull the measure from the November ballot. County officials debated several potential tax measures...

Medical and recreational marijuana business owners may be able to start applying for land use approval from Deschutes County in early September. The Deschutes County Commission, however, must first decide whether to lift a ban on the businesses before owners can apply. Commissioners are...

Willow Creek, Calif. - The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of a marijuana excise tax measure on July 21. The tax will charge a fee between $1 to $3 per square foot. Since the proposed excise tax passed the board, people are threatening to move to a different county for...

Nevada County officials on Thursday released the interim marijuana grow ordinance that supervisors will vote on next week, a document calling for no residential grows, a maximum of 25 plants in approved zones and a fee structure calling for a per-day, per-plant fine. Supervisors will hear...

Yreka On Thursday, July 7, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with other county departments, including the Siskiyou County Planning Department, began enforcement of the county's two medical marijuana ordinance amendments (Siskiyou County Ordinances 15-18 and 15-19), after...

Salinas, California Monterey County Supervisors moved forward Tuesday with plans to place a tax on commercial cannabis operations in unincorporated areas of the county on the November 8 ballot. Supervisors also adopted changes to county code that would require an annual permit for commercial...

The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors adopted a set of ordinances on Tuesday that will place a medical marijuana cultivation tax proposal before voters this November and will lift the ban on new medical cannabis dispensaries. The ordinances will need to go back before the board once more...

As medical marijuana prepares to hit Florida in a big way, the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners is moving to implement a year-long moratorium on dispensaries opening here. County commissioners took the first of two votes on Tuesday to implement the moratorium, which would be put...

As medical marijuana prepares to hit Florida in a big way, the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners is moving to implement a year-long moratorium on dispensaries opening here. County commissioners took the first of two votes on Tuesday to implement the moratorium, which would be put...

On Friday, the County of Humboldt announced that beginning August 1 and concluding in November, they will operate a pilot program designed to track the movement of medical cannabis through each step of the supply chain, as well as trace the product back to its origin, a technology known as...

On Friday, the County of Humboldt announced that beginning August 1 and concluding in November, they will operate a pilot program designed to track the movement of medical cannabis through each step of the supply chain, as well as trace the product back to its origin, a technology known as...

There are five key elements — some separate, some similar and all intertwined — that could determine how commercial cannabis is regulated and cultivated in Calaveras County. One factor is now a temporary county law, three more will be on the Nov. 8 ballot and the fifth potential factor could be...

There are five key elements — some separate, some similar and all intertwined — that could determine how commercial cannabis is regulated and cultivated in Calaveras County. One factor is now a temporary county law, three more will be on the Nov. 8 ballot and the fifth potential factor could be...

You've seen fire sales. They happen when goods or real estate are discounted sharply after fire damages a store or a building. But the term has new meaning in rural Calaveras County, where the devastating Butte Fire swept through thousands of acres last year, the seventh-worst wildfire in...

He ran twice for state representative - unsuccessfully - but also led triumphant petition campaigns in five Oakland County towns to decriminalize the possession of marijuana. Last week, 28-year-old Andrew Cissell of Oak Park began serving a 90-day sentence in the Oakland County Jail for...

This summer, Humboldt County has shown that its commercial medical marijuana market is ready to open to operations large and small if they can play by the rules. Two commercial medical cannabis farms - a quarter-acre mixed-light farm in Carlotta and a 7-acre outdoor farm and processing center...

While medical marijuana, now being called medical cannabis, has been legalized in the state, Carroll County commissioners indicated Thursday that they have no intention of making it easy to distribute the product within county limits. "I want to make it as hard as possible [to sell medical...

Calaveras County, California - The Calaveras County Democrats moved to a larger venue for what they billed as the "Great Calaveras Cannabis Debate," but it wasn't large enough, by half. More than 100 people eager to learn about the cannabis laws up for votes in November and possibly beyond on...

Hoping to become a permitted, commercial medical cannabis business operator in Humboldt County? If so, state and local regulatory experts are holding a free informational workshop in Briceland on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Beginnings Inc., 5 Cemetery Road, to provide information on...

An ordinance being considered by the Douglas County Board of Commissioners would limit the number of marijuana plants being grown at a primary residence. The three commissioners voted unanimously July 12 to put regulations on growing, cultivating and processing marijuana in unincorporated...