Jason Browne is a medical cannabis advocate who lives in Red Bluff. His “guest view” column appears in the Red Bluff Daily News. The column does not specify when the “newspaper’s statements” regarding the lawsuit appeared, and whether they were contained in a story and/or editorial. ======= In response to the newspaper’s statements about our lawsuit against Tehama County, several corrections must be made in order for local residents to understand the facts and to have an informed, intelligent discussion about the merits of this case. We identify ourselves accurately as qualified patients in this [...]
May 242010
RED BLUFF — Permit or not, Donna Will said the stage for a Memorial Day weekend marijuana festival will go up today. “Everything is going forward,” said Will, organizer of the World Hemp Expo Extravaganja. After an update last month of a 40-year-old law designed to regulate outdoor rock festivals akin to Woodstock, leaders from several Tehama County departments turned in comments to the Tehama County Planning Department on Friday. “The agencies are getting together on Monday,” said Bob Haplin, senior planner for the Planning Department. He declined to say whether that meant they would [...]
As Red Bluff gears up for its money maker, the Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo, local medical marijuana advocates hope to create another. Medical marijuana user and patient advocate Donna Will is planning the three-day World Hemp Expo Extravaganja 2010 for Memorial Day weekend on Riverside Avenue, the Red Bluff Daily News reports. Will said she hopes the event will both ease local tensions over in medical marijuana use and bring in tourist dollars lost from the cancellation of the Red Bluff Nitro Nationals Boat Drag Race. “Last year, when I came home in the middle [...]
Tehama County supervisors made a minor concession to medical marijuana advocates Tuesday, but the nod is unlikely to settle debate as the board moves toward an April 6 vote on medical marijuana regulation. In its weekly meeting, the board gave the first reading to a medical marijuana ordinance that would link medical marijuana growth to property size, the Red Bluff Daily News reports. Redding Record-Searchlight coverage Corning Observer coverage At one end, owners of 20 acres or fewer would be limited to growing 12 mature or 24 immature plants. At the other end, someone with [...]
RED BLUFF – The short history of the city’s only medical marijuana collective ended this week with the sentencing of a mother-daughter team that operated Blue Toad Inc. Lana Aguiar and Ashley Arnold were each fined $90 in Tehama County Superior Court on misdemeanor violations of land use and occupancy ordinances, a court clerk said. They were found guilty after a court trial Wednesday before Judge John Garaventa, the Redding Record-Searchlight’s Janet O’Neill reports. The charges stem from citations issued Nov. 3 at the shop’s Hickory Street location, said Red Bluff police Detective Kevin Hale. [...]
Dec 142009
The Redding Record-Searchlight has consistently provided some of the best news coverage on medical marijuana issues in Northern California. Here’s a snippet from a Sunday feature on efforts in Tehama County to bar medipot dispensaries altogether: “Californians voted to allow the medicinal use of marijuana 13 years ago through Proposition 215, but conflicting federal laws – and the U.S. Justice Department’s eagerness to enforce them – kept patients and especially their suppliers mostly in the shadows. This spring, though, the Obama administration announced that federal authorities would not pursue drug charges in medical-marijuana cases so [...]
Chico News & Review editor Robert Speer offers this in-depth look at the explosion of pot dispensaries in California, using Dawn and Mike Jenkins of Red Bluff as one example. The couple receives regular visits from the Tehama County sheriff, who issues them citations for code violations, and they remain fearful of arrest. “The Jenkinses’ situation is unique, of course, but it’s also fairly typical of the challenges facing parties on both sides of the medi-pot issue, those who wish to grow and sell it and the public agencies seeking either to keep dispensaries and [...]
Nov 182009
The Redding City Council on Tuesday approved sweeping regulations “designed to winnow out profit-driven marijuana dealers from legitimate medicinal cannabis collectives.” So reads the lead of this story in the Redding Record-Searchlight The new regulations give police the power to regulate collectives, including inspecting their records for compliance with state laws. Among the more unique provisions is a requirement that collectives sell only dried products, effectively eliminating the sale of live clones. The Record-Searchlight also reported that Red Bluff officials backed down Tuesday night from adopting a permanent ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation. [...]
Nov 172009
Redding likely will adopt some of the tightest regulations in the state to block marijuana growing collectives, according to this Redding Record-Searchlight article, but the city is unlikely to ban dispensaries entirely. Not so Red Bluff, which is considering a ban on all pot dispensaries and marijuana cultivation within the Tehama County seat’s city limits. Anderson, in Shasta County, is considering an extension of its moratorium on pot shops. All three city councils meet Tuesday.
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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