Mountain View council members had a wide range of views Tuesday on how the city should regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, though most appeared inclined to relax restrictions on where they can be located.
The city passed a temporary ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries in February, while they work to develop rules allowing them. At a study session Tuesday night, council members considered how to shape a potential ordinance, including questions about whether the city should regulate how many dispensaries there can be, where they can be located, and how they can operate.
The city’s libertarian-minded council members, [...]
The Sacramento City Council voted Tuesday night to extend a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries while city officials finalize the details of permanent regulations for the facilities.
A moratorium in place since last July that had already been extended was set to expire next month, the Sacramento Bee reports. City officials said they would now come back to the City Council with more details of an ordinance by the end of July, with an ordinance expected to be in place by the end of the year.
Among the areas being explored by city staff are how [...]
A San Diego County man facing federal drug charges for running a medical marijuana storefront has asked a judge to let him argue to the jury that, essentially, President Barack Obama and his administration said it was OK to do so.
U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz, the federal judge overseeing the proceedings against the man, James Stacy, will hear from attorneys June 9 before he decides whether it would be OK for the jury to hear the Obama-said-I-could argument.
Stacy’s attorney, Kasha Castillo, said the ruling will be “the biggest decision of this case,” the North [...]
The city of Mountain View is poised to take a hard line in its governance of medical marijuana dispensaries.
At a study session tonight, the City Council will discuss lifting a citywide ban on pot clubs and replacing it with rules that are strict in comparison to other jurisdictions, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Coincidentally, the session comes a day before city officials are scheduled to go to court to try and shut down Buddy’s Cannabis Patient Collective, a dispensary that opened in April despite the ban.
Deputy City Attorney Nicole Clemens wrote in a report [...]
California voters, by a modest margin, think they should be allowed to grow and consume marijuana, according to a new poll that also found more than 1 in 3 voters had tried pot and more than 1 in 10 had lit up in the past year.
The Los Angeles Times/USC poll found that voters back the marijuana legalization measure on the November ballot, 49% to 41%, with 10% uncertain about it. But support for the initiative is unstable, the Times’ John Hoeffel reports, with one-third of the supporters saying they favor it only “somewhat.”
“The good news [...]
The sale and distribution of medical marijuana in unincorporated Yolo County is an issue never formally addressed by the Board of Supervisors, but the subject is gaining popularity.
“We are rural; the trendy stuff that hits San Francisco and L.A. will eventually trickle to Yolo County, it’s just a matter of time,” said Yolo County Counsel Robyn Drivon.
During the public comment portion of (last) Tuesday’s board meeting, President of North Country Comfort Club Joseph Funes presented his idea to start a ‘patient-to-patient cannabis farmer’s markets’ in Sacramento and surrounding counties such as Yolo.
Funes said the farmer’s [...]
St. Helena residents will have to go out of town to legally buy their medical marijuana.
In the face of strong public opposition, the St. Helena City Council voted 4-1 (last) week to abandon an ordinance that would have allowed up to two marijuana dispensaries in the industrial and service commercial zoning districts.
“I don’t think having a dispensary here will enhance St. Helena,” said Councilwoman Sharon Crull, adding that she personally supports medical marijuana. “I just don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s good for our town, and I don’t think the people here want [...]
May 292010
A medical marijuana dispensary will remain open in Galt after a Superior Court of Sacramento County judge refused Thursday to issue a temporary restraining order.
At the hearing in Judge Rudolph Loncke’s chambers, the city argued that the dispensary was in violation of zoning codes, and could be a health and safety issue.
The bulletproof glass and security guards indicate that members of the dispensary are worried about crime, said Jonathon Hobbes, who is a private attorney working with City Attorney Steve Rudolph.
“You shouldn’t wait for something horrible to happen before enforcing city ordinances,” Hobbes said.
The Galt [...]
The Sunnyvale City Council passed a moratorium temporarily prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the city, in the process asking city staff to begin studying the issue immediately to allow for a possible permanent municipal code change in the near future.
Numerous representatives from local medical cannabis collectives were in attendance on May 25 to address the urgency interim zoning ordinance, but even proponents of medical marijuana supported the moratorium as it will force the city to immediately begin studying the effects of pot clubs in the city. Members of the Medicinal Cannabis Collective Coalition, [...]
A major California labor union is organizing medical cannabis workers in Oakland, a move that analysts say will help efforts to legalize marijuana and open the door for the union to organize thousands more workers if state voters pass a measure in November to allow recreational marijuana use by adults.
The 26,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 in San Jose is believed to be the first union in the country to organize workers in a marijuana-related business, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It is considering new job classifications including “bud tender” – a sommelier [...]
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