RED BLUFF – The short history of the city’s only medical marijuana collective ended this week with the sentencing of a mother-daughter team that operated Blue Toad Inc.
Lana Aguiar and Ashley Arnold were each fined $90 in Tehama County Superior Court on misdemeanor violations of land use and occupancy ordinances, a court clerk said. They [...]

An employee of a Los Angeles cannabis club was robbed of a backpack containing some cash and a jar of marijuana Wednesday night as he returned to his home in Thousand Oaks, according to Ventura County authorities.
The robbery was reported about 8:45 p.m. in the area of Sunset Drive and Los Robles Road in Thousand [...]

In a test of how much marijuana reasonably can be carried for personal medical needs, a Sacramento jury Tuesday convicted a man of felony transportation for attempting to take 3 pounds of pot through Sacramento International Airport.
The case of Matthew Zugsberger, 34, a deep sea diver injured in an oil rig accident, left jurors saying [...]

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, [...]

Costa Mesa government officials on Thursday ordered three medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the city to stop selling pot, according to the Costa Mesa Police Department.
Costa Mesa police and code enforcement officials delivered cease-and-desist orders to three dispensaries believed to be violating the city’s ban on medical marijuana sales, a police press release said.
The press [...]

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 [...]

Let’s not get too smug about polls that suggest California voters are poised to legalize marijuana. Even if the Tax Cannabis initiative passes by a landslide, you can bet cops, prosecutors and elected officials will undermine the law in every way possible. After all, they’ve had plenty of practice with medipot.
While it’s too soon for [...]

Nearly all medical cannabis clubs operating in Redding comply with the city’s new regulations, according to officials.
Police Chief Peter Hansen has inspected all but one of the city’s 20 clubs, the Redding Record-Searchlight reports. The inspections are the first step in a permitting process intended to weed out profit-driven marijuana dealers from legitimate nonprofit collectives.
“From [...]

The doors apparently have shut – at least temporarily – at Yorba Linda’s first marijuana collective after the city determined it was operating in violation of the city’s Municipal Code.
Salubrious RX was sent a letter by the city notifying the business of the alleged violation, the Orange County Register reports. The collective opened for business [...]

The Sacramento Bee has added a new online feature: a marijuana blog called “Weed Wars.”
Go ahead and giggle (that’s been a common reaction). You can even supply your own joke, Bee editor Melanie Sill writes here.
But this blog is driven by news, not whimsy – news about California’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry and our [...]