Craigslist is convenient for more than just would-be buyers and sellers. In Santa Barbara County, detectives are using the popular website to track down alleged illegal drug sales, reports the Los Angeles Times. On Thursday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department announced that it had arrested two men on suspicion of pitching high-grade marijuana “clones” for sale. Though ads for medical marijuana collectives abound on the website, most are targeted at consumers who have a doctor’s recommendation and an identification card, as required under state laws. The men taken into custody in Santa Barbara County [...]
Lea Ananda and life partner Shar Ananda settled in Mendocino County for a leisurely retirement growing pot. Lea, 61, a former insurance examiner and Shar, 65, a retired hospital lab worker, bought a 26-foot geodesic dome and invested Shar’s pension to fill it with seedlings. Their medical cannabis venture took off, SacBee reporter Peter Hecht writes in his “Weed Wars” blog. They became growers for dispensaries, including three in Sacramento. But the pot trade can have unexpected events. Lea Ananda complained the P Street Health Center in Sacramento never paid $14,500 it owed them for [...]
Mendocino County supervisors on Tuesday narrowly voted to quadruple the number of medical marijuana plants that can be grown legally on a parcel of land, but only with a permit that requires law enforcement scrutiny. The ordinance amendment, which allows up to 99 plants per parcel if growers apply for a variance to the county’s 25 plant limit, split both the Board of Supervisors and medical marijuana advocates. “What you guys have come up with here is excellent,” said Matthew Cohen, executive director of Northstone Organics Cooperative, a Ukiah medical marijuana cooperative. Other marijuana advocates [...]
The trial for a Mendocino County man accused of murder in the slaying of his marijuana cultivation helper was set Monday for May 17. Phillip Frase, 62, is charged with killing Steven Richard Schmidt, 49, who had been living in a motor home on Frase’s Laytonville property, reports the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. Testimony at a preliminary hearing indicated Schmidt died from being struck in the head with a lead pipe, said Deputy District Attorney Dan McConnell. His body was dragged by the neck to a wooded area on Frase’s property, where it was found tied [...]
Nov 092009
The Red Bluff City Council’s vote to ban indoor and outdoor marijuana cultivation could expose the city to lawsuits, medical marijuana advocates said in this Redding Record-Searchlight article. In the article, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access said only three other California cities have banned outdoor cultivation – Willits and Ukiah in Mendocino County and Cloverdale in Sonoma County. No legal challenges to those bans have been filed, the spokesman said.
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