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After a three-and-a-half hour hearing Tuesday on cannabis regulations, San Luis Obispo county officials voted to continue the conversation to Oct. 17. Dozens of county residents attended the meeting to provide input on the regulations now before the board of supervisors. Wayne Moody is a...

The Orange County Sheriff's Office says it has arrested two women after finding the trunk of their car jammed full of marijuana. Monday evening just before 10 p.m., a deputy pulled the women from California over on I-40 East near Mebane for a routine traffic violation. During the course of...

The leader of a Rastafarian church that operated a marijuana garden that figured in the Aug. 1 shooting of two Yuba County sheriff's deputies was among 18 people arrested Tuesday when the Sheriff's Office served search warrants at 12 alleged illegal marijuana growing sites in Yuba and Sacramento...

he first crop in Maryland's long-delayed medical cannabis program is mature and waiting for testing, but it is still unclear when patients might be able to buy it. And industry officials caution that when it is ready for sale, there will not be nearly enough to meet market demand. "This...

Authorities seized more than 800 marijuana plants and 500 pounds of recently harvested marijuana in a major illegal grow bust in Pueblo County on Monday. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office, alongside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested nine people, including one juvenile...

Nearly 500 marijuana plants were uprooted and removed from a plot of land in Henry County, Iowa. According to a post on the county sheriff's Facebook page, "a concerned citizen" reported the plants. Four photos posted Tuesday, October 3rd showed a marijuana patch and the plants piled up on a...

The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office recently released the latest statistical data on illicit drug seizures made during 2017. Operating primarily on private property using search warrants, the Siskiyou Interagency Marijuana Investigation Team conducted a series of counter-drug operations in...

Just as grape growers keep watch for the moment of peak ripeness, cannabis farmers have for generations monitored the color of the bud's trichomes, an aromatic crystal resin that transforms from clear to milky white, then gold to amber. For many, the signs are there. It's time to bring the...

A series of Tulare County Sheriff Department's early morning raids Wednesday led to the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants and the discovery of a 2-year-old child in one of the suspected drug dens. On Wednesday morning, detectives with Tulare County Sheriff Department's Tulare Area Gang...

Bexar County will implement a program that treats certain misdemeanors crimes, including low-level marijuana possession, similarly to traffic offenses and diverts offenders from jail. Flanked by Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and County Judge Nelson Wolff, District Attorney Nico LaHood...

Yolo County officials say they have confiscated more than $5 million worth of illegally grown marijuana in a case that has similarities to other recent suburban pot busts. Sheriff's deputies removed 2,227 plants and 41 harvested pounds of marijuana during a raid Sept. 19 on a property in the...

Stanislaus County supervisors could approve what officials are calling a conservative strategy for permitting marijuana dispensaries and other commercial cannabis activities. The Board of Supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday for allowing no more than seven retail dispensaries in the...

Police spent three days searching for marijuana plants around Saratoga County last week, seizing 450 plants around the county. The Saratogas County Sheriff's Office was assisted by a State Police helicopter and state forest rangers as they pulled up mature plants found to be growing outside...

The Kern County Planning Commission is scheduled to meet on Thursday and the agenda could include one of the toughest debates facing county leaders this year. Cannabis - Marijuana - Pot Should the county ban or regulate the cultivation, processing and distribution of the stuff in...

Oregon's Douglas County attempted to restrict hemp production under rules for growing marijuana before being warned the policy violated the state's "right to farm" law. Hemp is considered a crop under Oregon's land use law, which means it can be grown outright in farm zones. Medical and...

A piece of lab equipment found outside a cannabis lab was identified as the projectile that shot through the building's roof just outside of Willits city limits on September 12, according to Captain Gregory L. Van Patten. The lid of a cylinder used to extract cannabis oil failed, after...

Officials with the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office are investigating incidents in which people have been trying to steal hemp plants growing in the county. Industrial hemp is not marijuana, and it contains less than 1 percent of the drug THC, which is found in higher levels in marijuana...

Marijuana lounges won’t be opening in Clark County any time soon, as commissioners decided unanimously today to put off addressing the issue until at least December. “I’m very concerned and I want to protect the industry,” Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said after an 80-minute...

Marijuana may be legal in Nevada, but don't expect dispensaries to join casinos among Jackpot's illegal-in-Idaho tourist draws. A majority of voters in Elko County, as in most of the state's more Republican counties, voted against the legalization initiative that passed with 54 percent of the...

Mendocino County authorities discovered a marijuana extraction laboratory in a Willits industrial building where an explosion blew a large hole in the roof, the Sheriff's Office said Friday. Firefighters with the Little Lake Fire Protection District responded to an explosion about 1:40 p.m...