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Live Oak - For a final time, roughly 60 U.S. military veterans gathered in the parking lot behind the Santa Cruz Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7263 on Monday to receive support - and free medicinal cannabis. The Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance, which provides a community-oriented cannabis...

North Pole, Alaska - Communities across Alaska have been struggling with the state's recreational marijuana program, and some are voting to ban sales of legalized marijuana. One of those is North Pole, Alaska. Voters approved Proposition 7, which bans the sale of marijuana within city...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a temporary ban on growing recreational marijuana commercially Tuesday afternoon in response to Prop 64. Supervisors approved an emergency 45-day moratorium that makes growing marijuana to be sold commercially...

Marijuana farmers and business owners have formed the Cannabis Business Council of Santa Barbara County as an education and advocacy organization dedicated to the development of fair cannabis regulations. Organizers announced the council's launch Nov. 7, one day before California voters...

A Santa Ana, California, marijuana dispensary will receive $100,000 from the city to settle a federal lawsuit filed in response to a 2015 raid that led to the suspension of three local police officers, the Orange County Register reported Wednesday. The dispensary, Sky High Holistic, sued the...

Santa Ana's city attorney office has dropped all charges against a dozen employees of Sky High Holistic, the Santa Ana medical marijuana dispensary that police raided on May 26, 2015, during which officers were recorded on surveillance footage eating what appeared to be pot edibles, throwing...

Santa Ana's city attorney office has dropped all charges against a dozen employees of Sky High Holistic, the Santa Ana medical marijuana dispensary that police raided on May 26, 2015, during which officers were recorded on surveillance footage eating what appeared to be pot edibles, throwing...

Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County has its first cannabis czar. Daniel Peterson, 55, who has spent his career as a water resources engineer for Yuba and Sutter counties, started Monday as the Santa Cruz cannabis licensing official, overseeing an industry operating in the shadows that now has an...

Santa Rosa's budding above-board marijuana industry continued its growth Thursday when planning officials sanctioned the city's first commercial growing operation. Planning commissioners voted 5-0 - with two commissioners absent - to allow Aim High Cultivation to establish a medical marijuana...

Santa Rosa's budding above-board marijuana industry continued its growth Thursday when planning officials sanctioned the city's first commercial growing operation. Planning commissioners voted 5-0 - with two commissioners absent - to allow Aim High Cultivation to establish a medical marijuana...

The Santa Maria City Council voted Tuesday night to extend a current ban on marijuana-related activities and to snuff out smoking in public areas in Santa Maria. The council unanimously voted to extend a ban on manufacturing, processing, laboratory testing, labeling, storing and the wholesale...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - A Santa Cruz nonprofit group that provides free medical marijuana to veterans says plants beat pills. Every first and third Monday of the month, hundreds of U.S. veterans line up at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building to pick up a brown bag full of free cannabis. "We...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - A Santa Cruz nonprofit group that provides free medical marijuana to veterans says plants beat pills. Every first and third Monday of the month, hundreds of U.S. veterans line up at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building to pick up a brown bag full of free cannabis. "We...

Live Oak - By 6 p.m. Monday, more than 100 U.S. veterans had lined up in the back parking lot of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7263. The group consisted of men and women from all branches and eras of the military. They chatted amiably or rested in folding camping chairs, waiting for an...

Live Oak - By 6 p.m. Monday, more than 100 U.S. veterans had lined up in the back parking lot of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7263. The group consisted of men and women from all branches and eras of the military. They chatted amiably or rested in folding camping chairs, waiting for an...

Should Santa Rosa aspire to be the "New Age Amsterdam," a Wine Country cousin to the Dutch city known for its permissive attitude about marijuana? OK, that vision comes from a Penngrove pot farmer quoted in Staff Writer Kevin McCallum's report on the city's efforts to create a regulatory...

Should Santa Rosa aspire to be the “New Age Amsterdam,” a Wine Country cousin to the Dutch city known for its permissive attitude about marijuana? OK, that vision comes from a Penngrove pot farmer quoted in Staff Writer Kevin McCallum’s report on the city’s efforts to create a regulatory...

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...

A squad of hungry, destructive police officers in Southern California are looking for new jobs after security camera footage caught them unlawfully raiding a dispensary's stash. Three Santa Ana police officers who've pled not guilty to charges of petty theft and vandalism in connection with...