From Fresno, no stranger to strangeness, comes this story of a dispensary owner whose legal problems are self-inflicted in part. Sadly, there is no shortage of dispensary operators who try to skirt zoning regs by flying under the radar or pin their hopes on dubious legal advice in claiming those regs are unconstitutional. If you [...]

BOULDER CREEK — Last month, Marc Whitehill opened a small shop just off the main drag of this quiet Santa Cruz Mountains town to sell medicinal marijuana, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports here.
The budding entrepreneur, who offers a selection of marijuana topical creams, pot cookies and green, leafy plants, envisions a thriving collaborative where local [...]

“It has become increasingly clear that the use of cannabis for medical purposes has gained legitimacy in our culture,” San Jose City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio writes in a memo to his colleagues. “It’s important that San Jose establish its own set of guidelines for medical cannabis collectives, since the state and federal governments have already [...]