Incensed by the city’s determination that just a quarter of the registered Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries are qualified to remain open, about 80 operators and advocates held a subdued rally Tuesday and then trooped into City Hall to demand that the council intervene. The protest’s only speaker was Don Duncan, a Los Angeles resident who is the state director for Americans for Safe Access, John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times. Standing on a planter next to placards that went unused and donuts that went uneaten, he exhorted those in the small assembly [...]
Prompted by roughly 35 medical marijuana advocates — including one who used the public comment period to play a Native American tune on a flute made of bone — the Marysville City Council voted 3-1 Tuesday night to change future meetings so public comment will be near the end, rather than at the beginning. Tuesday’s public comment was allowed at the beginning and the end of the meeting as a one-time measure to accommodate the agenda and the crowd. Mayor Bill Harris voted against the proposed change, the Appeal-Democrat reports. Councilman Ben Wirtschafter was absent. [...]
Tehama County narcotic task force agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary operated by a Corning City Council candidate at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Search warrants were served at Tehama Herbal Collective, 1317 Solano St., and at Ken Prather’s home on the 700 block of Walnut Street, the Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force reported. A third warrant was served at a house on the 17000 block of Elder Creek Circle, Julie R. Johnson reports in the Corning Observer, a property TIDE officials said was owned by Prather in Rancho Tehama. Chico Enterprise-Record coverage Department of Justice [...]
NEWARK — A man charged and later released in a shooting at a San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary two years ago was found dead near the site of a pool party in Newark where shots were fired, police said. The body of Julius Hughes, 26, of Brentwood was found in some bushes near Jarvis Avenue shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, authorities said. On Sunday night, there had been a pool party at the adjoining W Hotel at 8200 Gateway Blvd., the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The event was billed as the second annual Labor Day [...]
Our view: An empty warehouse filled with marijuana? Sounds like a nightmare Chico shouldn’t encourage. At first it sounded like a joke, the Chico Enterprise-Record opines in this editorial. Somebody wants to take a huge vacant building near the Chico Municipal Airport and fill it with 600,000 square feet of marijuana plants, an indoor grow the size of five Chico Wal-Marts. Only it wasn’t a joke. The proposal came from a serious businessman, who is kicking tires in an attempt to expand his Los Angeles-based venture, Plant Properties Management, LLC. Jason Oh, 36, learned of [...]
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Wednesday took aim at the medical marijuana industry, citing last week’s triple murder in West Hollywood as an example of how enterprising criminals have infiltrated some of the dispensaries. Baca said the dispensaries have strayed from their original mission — to aid the seriously ill — and are now the target of criminals who see an easy way to make money and get drugs, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The medicinal marijuana program that voters authorized years ago has been hijacked by underground drug-dealing criminals who are resorting [...]
A ban on marijuana dispensaries in the city of Pacific Grove was adopted 5-2 Wednesday by the City Council, the Monterey County Herald reports. The ordinance, prepared at the council’s direction by City Attorney David Laredo, prohibits “growing, selling, distributing or operating marijuana dispensaries” medical or otherwise. There are exclusions, Laredo said, for health care, residential care or hospice facilities to provide marijuana to patients who hold doctors’ prescriptions for cannabis, and residents can grow plants “in strict compliance with the (state) compassionate use act.” State law allows those with a doctor’s “marijuana card” to [...]
Looser medical marijuana dispensary regulations may be coming to Tehama County next year but not nearly fast enough for local cannabis advocates. In a 4-1 vote Tuesday, county supervisors voted to renew a temporary ban on dispensaries, collectives and other marijuana exchanges for another year, again citing uncertainty about state laws and a fear of crime tied to large medical marijuana collectives. Only Supervisor Charles Willard, who has consistently voted against medical marijuana regulations, dissented, the Red Bluff Daily News reports. “The findings that we have here, I find hard to deal with,” he said. [...]
When the Los Angeles City Council adopted its medical marijuana ordinance, it aimed to rout unscrupulous dispensary operators whose unruly customers irritated residents and operators who opened up willy-nilly across the city, ignoring a ban on new stores. But the ordinance has snared operators who appear to have tried hard to adhere to state law and the city’s rules, John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times. Among them are some of the most politically active operators whose dispensaries are considered model operations. Last week, the city sued these dispensaries and dozens of others and [...]
After a Rancho Cordova woman complained last year about the skunky smell of pot being grown by a medical marijuana-using neighbor, one City Council member suggested a ban on residential pot cultivation. That proposal went nowhere, Peter Hecht reports for the Sacramento Bee. But now Rancho Cordova is asking voters to make the city the first in California to approve a tax on home-grown pot for personal use. Advocates for medical marijuana and a state initiative to legalize pot for recreational use say the proposed tax is so prohibitive that virtually no one could afford [...]
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