RED BLUFF — A legal issue central to the defense has interrupted a preliminary hearing for two Red Bluff men accused of cultivating marijuana and possessing marijuana for sale.
Tehama County Superior Court Judge John Garaventa on Thursday continued until Sept. 23 the case against businessman Joseph Froome, 48, and his son-in-law, 26-year-old Daniel Ludwig. Froome also is charged with eight counts of money laundering.
The hearing to determine whether sufficient evidence exists for the men to stand trial began Wednesday. Defense lawyers maintain their clients had established a legitimate medical marijuana cooperative at a Baker Road [...]
DANA POINT – An Orange County Superior Court judge has firmed up her tentative ruling throwing out a woman’s case against Dana Point in which Malinda Traudt sought to prevent the city from closing Beach Cities Collective, a pot dispensary that her family says is her lifeline.
Her attorney has promised an appeal. Traudt, 29, of San Clemente, who was born with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and blindness, had sued Dana Point in May to keep open the dispensary from which her family obtains marijuana to manage her pain, the Orange County Register reports.
Traudt claimed in legal [...]
Oakland inched toward a plan to allow industrial-scale production of medical marijuana, sparking a lively debate between supporters and opponents who filled the Public Safety Committee meeting Tuesday evening.
The proposal crafted by City Councilmembers Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan would prompt the first major expansion six years after Oakland first authorized the distribution of medical marijuana in dispensaries, the Oakland Tribune reports.
The committee voted 3-1 in favor of the plan to license large-scale indoor cultivation of medical marijuana generally grown by either small growers or in illicit warehouses. Both are poorly regulated, according to a [...]
Is a medical marijuana dispensary a store?
The answer to this question may well determine the fate of the Hummingbird Healing Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Myrtletown, just outside of Eureka city limits, that has been operating since last year without a county-issued conditional use permit.
No decision on second Myrtletown dispensary
Humboldt County — arguing that the center needs a conditional use permit to operate legally — is now seeking a preliminary injunction from a Humboldt County Superior Court judge to force the center to close its doors until it procures a permit or the court [...]
RED BLUFF — California’s medical marijuana law became a theme Wednesday in a Tehama County courtroom as attorneys representing two Red Bluff men tried to discredit a key prosecution witness.
Joseph Froome, 48, and Daniel Ludwig, his 26-year-old son-in-law, have been charged with cultivating marijuana and possessing marijuana for sale, the Redding Record Searchlight reports. In addition, Froome is charged with eight counts of money laundering.
The preliminary hearing, which will determine whether sufficient evidence exists for the men to face trial, is expected to conclude today. Judge John Garaventa is presiding.
While defense attorneys have characterized the [...]
Proponents of the marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot won the endorsement Wednesday of the council that oversees the political work of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in California, as well as one of the union’s major locals, giving proponents a significant boost to their campaign.
They also had hoped to win the endorsement of the California Labor Federation, which met this week in San Diego, but decided not to press for a vote and settled instead on persuading the powerful organization to remain neutral — which it did.
“Obviously, I would have liked [...]
A Redding woman has sued a medical marijuana doctor alleging she allowed a Record Searchlight reporter to surreptitiously interview and videotape her during a consultation in which she sought a recommendation for the drug.
The allegations are denied by both the Redding newspaper, which wasn’t sued, and the doctor’s attorney.
In a lawsuit filed late last month in Shasta County Superior Court, Tawnya McKee alleges that on Sept. 11, 2009, she went in to Dr. Cristal Speller’s Natural Care for Wellness clinic in the Market Street Promenade.
While she was there, a Record Searchlight reporter videotaped the then [...]
Riverside County sheriff’s deputies uprooted about 68,000 marijuana plants Wednesday in a field southwest of Murrieta, about a mile north of the San Diego County line.
No arrests were made, said Deputy Melissa Nieburger, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department.
The operation began just after 5 a.m. and continued for hours near Corona Cala Camino and Avocado Mesa Road, Nieburger said. The field was about a quarter-mile from the nearest homes, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports.
The plants were carted off and will be destroyed, Nieburger said. She had no estimate of the plants’ value.
The ballot arguments submitted for and against legalizing marijuana in California present such starkly different views they seemed penned from different worlds, Peter Hecht writes in his “Weed Wars” blog for the Sacramento Bee.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Mothers Against Drunk Driving president Laura Dean-Mooney signed the ballot argument against legalizing pot.
Retired San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara, former Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray and retired Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Stephen Downing signed the argument in favor.
In statements for Proposition 19, scheduled to be published July 20, proponents claim marijuana “prohibition” [...]
The Sacramento City Council voted Tuesday night to place a marijuana tax on the November ballot.
Under the measure, the Sacramento Bee reports, medical marijuana dispensaries would pay a 2 percent local business tax, on top of sales taxes they already pay. That new tax — in the form of a new category in the city’s Business Operations Tax (BOT) — would generate between $300,000 and $500,000 a year for the city’s battered general fund, which pays for cops, firefighters and parks.
The ballot measure also would tax other marijuana businesses 5 percent, should a statewide [...]
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