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The next Napa Countywide Cannabis Roundtable is scheduled for 1-3 p.m., Friday in the board meeting chambers on the third floor of the Administration Building, 1195 Third St., in Napa. The discussion will include report outs from a recent trip to Oakland to tour manufacturing, cultivation...

Adults in California can smoke weed everyday now if they choose, but in Placer County it can still be tough for even medical patients to access the drug. Following an update from its newly created Medical Cannabis Policy Workgroup on Aug. 15, the Placer County Board of Supervisors directed...

Placer County will explore a change to its cannabis regulations that could allow for a scientific research facility to study the medical efficacy of cannabis. Direction to county staff to determine what changes to the rules might be necessary to allow such a facility was provided by the...

Sonoma County's rules for how and where cannabis businesses can operate were codified earlier this year, but the book on local marijuana regulations is far from finished. Helping the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors adjust its local rules is the main job of a 20-person citizen advisory...

Around 6,000 marijuana plants were discovered by drug agents in an outside growing area in Jefferson Davis County Thursday. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents say it is the largest outdoor marijuana grow found in the state since the 1980s. MBN is in in the process of removing the...

Several local dispensaries were raided, and at least 11 people were arrested for operating illegally under the county laws. "For some people, it's the only type of medication they can actually take," said Linda Blanco who is extremely upset the dispensaries were shut down. Blanco is a...

A Schaller, Iowa, man was placed on probation Wednesday for growing marijuana in his home. District Associate Judge Adria Kester suspended a five-year prison sentence and placed Keegan Cross on probation for three years. Cross, 35, pleaded guilty last month in Sac County District Court to...

A traffic stop near Council Bluffs led to the arrest of a South Carolina man and the seizure of nearly 20 pounds of marijuana. According to the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a 2017 Kia Forte for excessive speed on Interstate 80 near Council...

A California man is facing felony drug-trafficking charges after Lake County authorities say they found him with nearly 50 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Friday. Eusvaldo Valenzuela-Gaxiola, 39, of Tulare, California, is charged with cannabis trafficking, delivery of cannabis...

Marijuana stores want to be part of Sin City's 24/7 life. Cannabis dispensaries in Clark County are permitted to be open from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m., but the county's Green Ribbon Panel on Friday said it wants to advise commissioners to extend marijuana store hours. Crime is one of the biggest...

The San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission has only one item on its Aug. 10 meeting agenda, but it's a humdinger: cannabis regulations. The commission will take the full day to review the proposed land-use ordinances that will govern both the medical and recreational marijuana industry...

With Manatee County’s temporary moratorium on medical marijuana dispensing facilities set to expire next month, county staff presented how such facilities will be treated in county codes. During Thursday’s Manatee County Planning Commission meeting, county staff presented a proposed Land...

Chelan County Commissioners tabled a vote after a contentious hearing Tuesday on the proposed new rules regarding growing marijuana throughout the county. The Wenatchee World reports about 100 growers attended the meeting and those that commented told commissioners about the devastating impact...

"There are people in this room that have been waiting 20, 30 years for this." Mike Lewis with the Inland Cannabis Farmers' Association presented his case for commercial cannabis to the Butte County Board of Supervisors, but his pleas, along with those of more than a dozen other marijuana...

In Feb. 2017, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors tasked the County Counsel's office with collecting information and compiling a report advising the board on whether to maintain the existing ban on commercial cannabis activity in unincorporated county areas or to develop a new ordinance...

A Friendship man recently submitted a proposition to legalize marijuana, a change that he said would benefit taxpayers, local government and school districts. Ryan M. Cross said he submitted the proposition, called Proposition 585, to Allegany County Clerk of the Board Brenda Rigby Riehle last...

Don't call it Weedland. A publicly traded marijuana firm called American Green says that it has purchased what it describes as an entire town in the California desert en route to Las Vegas. However, the company's vision of a pot-friendly town full of weed businesses could run into the law. The...

After the Calaveras Board of Supervisors decided to regulate medical cannabis in 2016, they took in $3.7 million in fees from people who wanted to grow medical cannabis. Now, the County Auditor says the Sheriff's Department has misspent some of those funds. Calaveras' journey to a...

At a candidate forum in Sandy on Thursday, the six law enforcement officers in the race to become the next Salt Lake County sheriff said they support the legalization of medical marijuana, but that Utah might not be ready for recreational use of the drug. Activists launched an effort in June...

Jackson County has the second-most acres registered for hemp production of the 36 counties in the state, according to the Oregon Department of Agriculture. At 462 acres, Jackson is behind only Polk County, to the west of Salem, with 639 acres. In third place is Clackamas County with 370 acres...