Over the passionate objections of a neighboring church congregation, the Cotati City Council said Wednesday that a medical marijuana dispensary can open on the city’s west side.
(Where the hell is Cotati? Click here for map.)
The Mercy Medical Dispensary Collective will be the first such business in Cotati, where last year a dispensary’s application was rejected [...]

At the Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, the incoming product must get past Don Davies and his microscope.
Davies, 23, who is closing in on a degree in biochemistry from UC Santa Cruz, inspects the weed Canna Care purchases from its patient growers, Sacramento Bee reporter Peter Hecht writes in his informative “Weed Wars” [...]

No medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Mountain View, at least not until April 18 of next year.
At their meeting Tuesday night, Mountain View City Council members voted to ban pot clubs for now, but they made it clear they intend to eventually allow them after city officials develop some restrictions.
“There is an interest [...]

The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat urges tighter regulation of medipot in this editorial, but its proposed solutions are every bit as vague as the law itself. Strangely absent is any mention of legalization, perhaps the most useful tool available to cure what ails the medipot industry. Guess I’ll have to write my own editorial…
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Anecdotal evidence of [...]

LOS ANGELES – Three decades ago, Bruce Perlowin was smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds of Colombian marijuana to California in fishing boats passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. His childhood friend, David Tobias, was trafficking dope across turquoise Caribbean waters to Florida and Georgia, the Sacramento Bee’s Peter Hecht writes here.
On Saturday, at a [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle offers this in-depth article about the Bay Area debut of “Cannabis Planet” following the TV show’s July launch in Los Angeles. Writer Trey Bundy adds some interesting political background to the story.
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Anyone who doubts the mainstreaming of the cannabis industry might want to skip “Letterman” and check out “Cannabis Planet.” The [...]

The Record-Searchlight continues to impress with this in-depth look at medical marijuana ordinances in Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties in Northern California.
Carla Thompson, Shasta Lake’s top planner, recalled that she felt a sense of urgency last summer when interest in opening medical marijuana dispensaries started growing in her city.
The nonprofit clinics had already taken root [...]

Monterey has sued the proprietor of a medical marijuana dispensary alleging that the business violated the city’s zoning codes by setting up shop in town last fall.
City officials filed the complaint against MyCaregiver Inc. and director Jhonrico Carrnshimba on Monday, after the City Council voted 4-1 in closed session Feb. 2 to authorize legal action [...]

After listening to hours of public comments that included threats of lawsuits, Shasta County supervisors Tuesday put off voting on proposed new medical marijuana laws for at least two weeks.
The comments will continue at the board’s Feb. 23 meeting, the Record-Searchlight’s Amanda Winters reports. Supervisors also will discuss a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries [...]

Thursday’s low-key police raid on a Costa Mesa marijuana dispensary operating illegally is a sign of things to come, Police Chief Chris Shawkey said Friday.
Police served a search warrant on West Coast Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary at 1260 Logan Ave. Four people were arrested on marijuana-related charges, officials said in a news release.
“This should [...]