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Kern County banned commercial cannabis Tuesday. Four of the five county supervisors said they did not want to be party to the permitting and regulation of an industry that wields such a destructive impact on the communities they represent. "The vast majority of the pot shops in the greater...

Lake County authorities seized another $500,000 in marijuana Monday stemming an ongoing investigation into a cartel-affiliated drug ring that already had netted an estimated $3 million of the drug, authorities said. Officers from the Round Lake Park Police Department, the Northern Illinois...

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors discussed changes to marijuana regulations Tuesday. The talks came after a 300-page environmental impact report was released, detailing the possible future of pot operations in the county. The Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program...

In a drastic change from previously proposed commercial marijuana policy, three of five San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted in a straw poll to ban medical and recreational dispensaries and prohibit manufacturing of edible goods in unincorporated areas of the county...

Illinois State Police said they arrested three people and seized 62 pounds of cannabis worth $150,000 during an Interstate 70 traffic stop west of Vandalia on Oct. 11. Police said a trooper made the stop at 4:37 p.m. because the car was following too closely in traffic. The trooper found the...

The possible future of cannabis operations in Santa Barbara County is detailed in a 308-page Environment Impact Report (EIR) released by county officials. In Nov. 2016, the majority of California voters agreed to allow recreational cannabis across the state. State officials created...

People caught with small amounts of marijuana in Dallas won't be taken straight to jail now, after Dallas County commissioners on Tuesday passed a "cite and release" program aimed at freeing cops to focus on violent crimes. After a heated debate, commissioners voted 4-1 to allow Dallas...

The Kern County Planning Commission voted Thursday night to permit and regulate commercial marijuana in Kern County. Now it sends that recommendation to the Kern County Board of Supervisors for its consideration on Oct. 24. Commissioner Melissa Poole said the county doesn't have the...

California's $21 billion cannabis economy is reeling from likely more than a billion dollars in crop losses related to the deadly wildfires sweeping through the cultivation heartlands of Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties this week. Compounding the losses is the cannabis industry's legal...

The narcotics officer stood on a windswept ridge near the Oregon border and surveyed the fields cut into the hills below, a landscape resembling a lost piece of wine country. The terraces of Siskiyou County, however, were planted in cannabis. More than 1,500 Hmong farmers in the past two...

With a giant wall-sized black-and-white photo mural of Bixby Bridge, polished concrete floors, dark wood paneling and leather furniture, the waiting room at Big Sur Canna+Botanicals looks more like a trendy wine bar or chic art gallery. Several ethereal contemporary artworks by a local artist...

Yvonne DeLaRosa Green was awarded the first cannabis business license for Los Angeles County for her dispensary 99 High Tide Collective in Malibu. The city and county of Los Angeles are expected to become the capital of cannabis once the state of California's regulated adult-use market is up and...

Malibu's 99 High Tide Collective this week celebrated being recognized as a cannabis business by Los Angeles County government, which has long been opposed to marijuana dispensaries in areas it oversees. In June, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors extended its 2011 ban on marijuana...

California officials have ordered an entire city to evacuate as "conditions have worsened" in the wildfires that have killed 23 people. All residents of Calistoga were directed to leave the area on Wednesday evening, Napa County officials said. About 60 prison inmates have joined...

The Northern California wildfires this week have destroyed at least seven marijuana farms just months before the state begins licensing legal sales of cannabis, making it the "worst year on record" for loss of crops, an industry leader said Tuesday. Many growers lost their homes and farms in...

Medical marijuana is on the minds of county leaders as they gather in Bismarck for their annual conference. Local government representatives gathered for their first session on Monday to discuss the impacts of the legalization of medical marijuana on counties. Association of Counties...

More than 365 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $1 million, were seized in Pueblo County on Monday as evidence in illegal grow investigations. Four people, "all with ties to Cuba," were arrested. Five weapons and other equipment were seized at two properties in eastern and...

California marijuana growers north of San Francisco were facing mandatory evacuation orders as well as potentially millions of dollars in crop damage and loss amid widespread wildfires in the region. Erich Pearson, director of SPARC Farms in Glen Ellen south of the Tubbs Fire reported on...

Four people were arrested and an estimated $778,000 worth of marijuana plants were seized when Yolo County sheriff's deputies served search warrants at three properties this week. Although marijuana cultivation in allowed in the county under certain circumstances, it requires a county...

Nearly 3,000 growing marijuana plants and thousands of pounds of drying and processed marijuana was seized from a remote Calaveras County location near Copperopolis this week. The plants were located on several parcels that were under review by the county's planning department as commercial...