For five years, Nevada County filmmakers Charlie and Bevin Hall have been documenting the trials and tribulations of California’s first medical marijuana collective.
With the help of Nevada City music promoter Mikail Graham as their sound man, the Halls expect to premiere their first feature length documentary, “La Vie en Verte: The WAMM Movie,” at the [...]

Gotta break out this quote from a would-be dispensary operator: “Limiting it to two (dispensaries in Santa Cruz) is a slap in face to the medical marijuana community. I see it as Jim Crow and nothing else. We’ve gone from being criminals to second-class citizens.” Read on…
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The Santa Cruz City Council preliminarily approved a new [...]

Medical marijuana advocates told the city of Eureka Tuesday night that its ordinance regulating medical marijuana was a good start, but they still had plenty of suggestions.
The city, spearheaded by council members Jeff Leonard and Linda Atkins, held a public workshop to gather input from the public about its new draft ordinance aimed at regulating [...]

If you haven’t checked out the Sac Bee’s “Weed Wars” blog, take a look. Bee reporter Peter Hecht offers this snippet about Californians’ mass consumption of the green stuff. By my math, 16 million ounces equals 1 million pounds, a small fraction of the estimated 8.6 million pounds grown here last year. We’re a major [...]

Two bodies found Thursday down an embankment in Lake County have been identified as the remains of a Maine couple who disappeared in January from Clearlake, where they had been hired to work in a marijuana growing operation, law authorities said Monday.
Frank and Yvette Maddox, 32 and 40, disappeared after agreeing to give their employer, [...]

Eureka has unveiled its draft medical marijuana ordinance, meant to regulate the cultivation, possession and distribution of cannabis, and is asking residents to provide their input Tuesday night.
City Manager David Tyson said this meeting, which will be led by City Council members Jeff Leonard and Linda Atkins, allows the city to gather more input on [...]

A 49-year-old Redding man is becoming an old hand in winning medical marijuana cases, the Record-Searchlight’s Jim Schultz reports.
James Bradley Hall was arraigned Friday morning in Shasta County Superior Court on felony marijuana cultivation and for having a shotgun in his house while in the commission of a crime only to later learn that the [...]

The Associated Press was aggregating news for newspapers before news aggregates were cool, but it also does some original coverage. The Sacramento Bee offers this excellent “AP Impact” article about Mexican drug cartels, which have set up massive pot-growing operations on public lands in California and across the U.S.
This is hardly a new problem, [...]

RED BLUFF – Eight months after it first waded into the choppy waters of medical marijuana regulation, Tehama County has released the draft of a new ordinance that will be up for discussion next month.
“The idea was to give everyone ample opportunity to review the document,” county Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Warner said Wednesday, [...]

Anderson Planning Commission members narrowly approved an ordinance with numerous restrictions on the cultivation of medical marijuana within city limits Monday.
While allowing for cultivation only under certain guidelines, Anderson residents with a verified doctor’s recommendation will no longer be allowed to grow medical marijuana inside a residence or outdoors, should the City Council approve what [...]