Although Martinez has had an ordinance allowing medical marijuana dispensaries on the books for 10 years, it has never approved one.
In the past few months, several groups seeking to open dispensaries have approached Martinez. In response to Police Chief Tom Simonetti’s call for a ban on the facilities, the city’s Public Safety Subcommittee has been [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The Morro Bay City Council voted Monday to move ahead with drafting regulations that would allow medical marijuana to be sold in the city.
The council voted 4-1 to form a subcommittee, which would bring an ordinance back to the council in 60 to 90 days. City Attorney Rob Schultz has drafted a preliminary set of [...]

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” [...]

Last fall, when dozens of medicinal marijuana users went to the Ventura City Council to urge it to show compassion and give them a legal place to get their medicine, the council responded just as every other community in Ventura County had in the past: It said no.
But then the council did something unexpected, the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]