After a Rancho Cordova woman complained last year about the skunky smell of pot being grown by a medical marijuana-using neighbor, one City Council member suggested a ban on residential pot cultivation. That proposal went nowhere, Peter Hecht reports for the Sacramento Bee. But now Rancho Cordova is asking voters to make the city the first in California to approve a tax on home-grown pot for personal use. Advocates for medical marijuana and a state initiative to legalize pot for recreational use say the proposed tax is so prohibitive that virtually no one could afford [...]
TEHAMA — Tehama County’s medical marijuana approach attracted countless complaints and a lawsuit. But here, in a town of about 500, a stricter policy has met with protest only from a handful of growers, Geoff Johnson reports in the Red Bluff Daily News. Tehama is a city so small some of its own residents are not aware the city can set its own rules, separate from those that apply to the unincorporated county. In March, the City Council unanimously enacted a marijuana policy after complaints of 10 or 11 noticeable gardens in the area. Garden [...]
Eureka officials gear up for September launch of medical marijuana dispensary, cultivation ordinance
Aug 152010
With the Eureka medical marijuana ordinance adopted last week, residents and city staff are looking to Sept. 3, when it goes into effect, to see exactly what it will mean for the city. The ordinance provides guidelines for residential cultivation by qualified patients and for commercial enterprises looking to cultivate, process and dispense the drug, along with limiting the number of commercial facilities in city limits. Before the ordinance was approved, the Eureka City Council had enacted a moratorium on dispensaries and commercial cultivation and processing, effectively suspending the operations until the ordinance was crafted [...]
OAKLAND — Oakland is ready to cash in on the medical marijuana boom — and perhaps recreational pot use — now that the City Council agreed to license and tax four industrial-sized marijuana farms and promised to review policies that exclude small and medium-size farmers who grow the marijuana sold at the city’s four dispensaries. Hundreds of small growers and collectives complained that the new ordinance could drive them out of business, the Oakland Tribune reports, despite having risked arrest to supply $28 million worth of medical marijuana sold at dispensaries last year. The city [...]
Bud’s note: Public officials say the darndest things, don’t they? Good luck to Eureka as its “drug house ordinance” moves forward, banning outdoor cultivation among other things. ======== The Eureka City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to introduce a medical marijuana ordinance governing both the personal cultivation of medical cannabis and distribution facilities located within city limits. But, while the vote was unanimous, the sentiment was not. ”I don’t agree with any of this,” Councilman Frank Jager said shortly before the vote. “I know we need a drug house ordinance, but I don’t think we need [...]
Oakland inched toward a plan to allow industrial-scale production of medical marijuana, sparking a lively debate between supporters and opponents who filled the Public Safety Committee meeting Tuesday evening. The proposal crafted by City Councilmembers Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan would prompt the first major expansion six years after Oakland first authorized the distribution of medical marijuana in dispensaries, the Oakland Tribune reports. The committee voted 3-1 in favor of the plan to license large-scale indoor cultivation of medical marijuana generally grown by either small growers or in illicit warehouses. Both are poorly regulated, according [...]
OROVILLE — A Butte County man who was acquitted in 2003 by a jury in a medical marijuana case is back in court on identical criminal charges — this time with his father. Michael Kelly and his father, Sean Kelly, are both charged with illegal cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale following raids on two Concow properties in October 2008 and June 2009, the Chico Enterprise-Record reports. Their lawyers said the father and son were part of a lawful “collective” of medical marijuana patients. In court Monday, two people whose doctor’s recommendations to use [...]
California’s medical marijuana mess keeps getting more muddled, the Sacramento Bee editorial board opines (See Bud’s brief response at end). Not only are dispensaries popping up everywhere, now the lucrative trade is increasingly going mobile. Sidestepping outright bans or moratoriums on storefront dispensaries in about 225 California cities, purveyors are bringing marijuana products directly to homes, offices and even coffee shop parking lots, or sending shipments by mail or courier. And business is booming, according to California Watch’s report in last Sunday’s Bee (and many other newspapers statewide). The number of delivery services advertising on [...]
RED BLUFF — Tehama County has been hit with a lawsuit challenging an ordinance that regulates cultivation and possession of medical marijuana. The suit, filed this week in Superior Court on behalf of 10 patients, seeks a writ of mandate to strike down the law. California NORML, a marijuana consumers advocacy group, enlisted attorneys J. David Nick of San Francisco and Edie Lerman of Ukiah to represent the Tehama County residents. Nick said Wednesday the ordinance conflicts with Proposition 215, the 1996 voter-approved initiative that allows qualified patients to use and grow marijuana, the Redding [...]
The Eureka Planning Commission reviewed the city’s proposed medical marijuana ordinance and recommended caps for dispensaries and cultivation sites, along with a few other additions. The Eureka City Council and city staff have been working to develop a medical cannabis ordinance, which is a land-use ordinance, to specify and regulate the capability for growing, processing and distributing medical marijuana in residential and industrial areas, according to a city staff report. The council voted on April 7 to send the proposed ordinance to the Planning Commission for review, the Eureka Times-Standard reports, and to ask for [...]
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