Long Beach police seek clues to slaying in Chico

 Crime
Jun 282011
 
Long Beach police seek clues to slaying in Chico

Long Beach detectives investigating the death of a 29-year-old Los Angeles man gunned down in an alley in the downtown area last March are taking their search for the killer to the Northern California town of Chico. That is because the victim, Philip Victor Williamson, was a distributor of marijuana grown in the Chico area and shipped to various medical marijuana collectives throughout Los Angeles County, and that may have played a part in the killer’s motive, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman. LBPD began its investigation into the slaying of Williamson [...]

Petition puts Butte County cultivation law on hold

 Ordinances
Jun 242011
 

OROVILLE — Butte County’s much-discussed and hotly debated marijuana cultivation ordinance is on hold. The ordinance that was supposed to go into effect today was suspended when supporters of a referendum aimed at blocking the measure delivered petitions containing 12,308 signatures to the county Elections Office, Roger H. Aylworth reports in the Chico Enterprise-Record. The submission of the petitions put the ordinance on hold while the county Clerk-Recorder’s Office reviews the petition to determine if they include the minimum 7,605 valid signatures necessary to move the referendum ahead. CalNORML press release Andrew Merkel, president of [...]

3 charged in connection with 2010 Butte County raids

 Law Enforcement
Jun 242011
 

The first charges have been filed against one of the Butte County medical marijuana dispensaries raided in June 2010. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced Wednesday that three Forest Ranch residents have been arrested on three felony counts of sales of marijuana and one count of possession for sale of marijuana, the Chico Enterprise-Record reports. Jason Allen Anderson, 35; Michael Franklin Anderson, 46; and Kaitlin Christine Sanchez, 23, operated the Mountainside Patient Collective at 3330 Highway 32 west of Chico. The Anderson brothers are also charged with cultivation and possession for sale of marijuana, [...]

Chico police chief outlines MMJ enforcement strategy

 Law Enforcement
Jun 172011
 

If approved by the Chico City Council in July, a medical marijuana ordinance will go into effect Aug. 5, allowing pot to be grown and processed in small quantities for personal medicinal use. At a community meeting in south Chico Wednesday night, Police Chief Mike Maloney outlined what the city’s response will be to handling medical marijuana issues, Greg Welter reports in the Chico Enterprise-Record. “First, the Police Department will attempt to assign the enforcement of most marijuana rules to other agencies,” Maloney said. He explained the proposed ordinance is more of a land-use issue [...]

Chico dispensary ordinance passes first reading

 Dispensaries
Jun 102011
 

Somehow the Chico City Council’s discussion Tuesday night of a medical-marijuana ordinance came down to a debate over “baby steps.” At issue was whether the number of dispensaries should be limited to two, as several council members preferred, or be determined by the land-use restrictions governing their location, which could ultimately allow several dispensaries. CN&R editorial: A flawed pot ordinance To Councilwoman Mary Flynn, who preferred the former, it was a matter of taking “baby steps” at first. “This is something we’ve never done before,” she said. “My inclination is to start small.” She said [...]

Butte County to enact strict medipot growing rules

 Pot-pourri
May 202011
 

It was a sunny day in Forest Ranch, perfect for some outdoor gardening, and a crew of eight men was tending to a fenced-in piece of land about a third of an acre in size. A guy in his early 20s named Jack fired up a weed whacker and carefully set to manicuring the grass between several rows of raised-bed planters. “If I didn’t have the co-op to get my medicine, I don’t know how I’d get it. It’s really unsafe trying to get it on the street. You can get busted doing that,” he [...]

Butte County MMJ cultivation hearing draws hundreds

 Ordinances
May 052011
 

CHICO — A preliminary decision on a proposed Butte County marijuana cultivation ordinance was passed on a split vote while members of the audience jeered, booed and shouted “recall.” After an all but unprecedented night meeting in Chico Wednesday, the Butte County Board of Supervisors voted four in favor, with one opposed, on a proposed ordinance that would prohibit the growing on any lot of half-an-acre or smaller, and would also ban any garden on any size parcel within 1,000 feet of a church, school, park, school bus stop, residential drug treatment facility and some [...]

Chico City Council set to hear collective regulations

 Collectives, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Feb 282011
 

The Chico City Council will consider potential regulations Tuesday on the cultivation, processing and distribution of medical marijuana by collectives and cooperatives after passing restrictions on residential medical marijuana grows late last year. The city has been vetting an ordinance that would regulate medical marijuana for more than a year, Toni Scott reports in the Chico Enterprise-Record. In December, the council adopted regulations that limit medical marijuana grows in residential neighborhoods. The council decided to consider restrictions on collectives and cooperatives at a later date. The current language of the proposed ordinance would allow for [...]

Chico OKs cultivation rules for medical cannabis

 Cultivation, Marijuana News, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Dec 222010
 

The Chico City Council approved regulations for residential medical marijuana grows Tuesday night, but took no action on an ordinance that would allow for dispensing collectives to exist in certain areas in Chico. For more than a year, the city has been vetting an ordinance that would restrict medical marijuana grows in residential areas while also allowing cooperatives and collectives to dispense medical marijuana in manufacturing, light industrial and service commercial districts in the city. Tuesday night, city staff suggested that the council separate out the portion of the ordinance that deals with residential restrictions [...]

House resolution aims to curb forest grow sites

 Government, Marijuana News
Dec 092010
 

A resolution authored by U.S. Rep. Wally Herger urging federal agencies to put more effort into ousting pot growers from public lands passed the House overwhelmingly Wednesday. The Chico Republican’s House Resolution 1540 directs Congress to develop a plan to permanently dismantle the Mexican drug traffickers’ pot growing operations on federal lands. Co-sponsored by six House Republicans from California, Texas and Utah, the bill passed on a 400-4 vote, Ryan Sabalow reports in the Redding Record Searchlight. “This resolution is an important step and puts federal agencies on notice that this issue is a priority [...]

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