Tehama County medipot ordinance passes first board vote

 Collectives, Cultivation, Government, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Mar 172010
 

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 [...]

Former Red Bluff dispensary owners convicted, fined for misdemeanors

 Courts, Dispensaries, Government, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Mar 122010
 

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. [...]

Tehama County draws line against pot shops

 Business, Courts, Dispensaries, Government, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Dec 142009
 
Tehama County draws line against pot shops

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 [...]

CN&R tackles medipot issue

 Business, Dispensaries, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana
Dec 032009
 
CN&R tackles medipot issue

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 [...]

Redding council OKs new pot law

 Collectives, Courts, Cultivation, Dispensaries, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana
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. [...]

Redding, Anderson, Red Bluff join pot parade

 Cultivation, Dispensaries, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana
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.

Advocates: Red Bluff growing ban illegal

 Cultivation, Dispensaries, Law Enforcement, Medical marijuana
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.

Red Bluff bans pot co-ops with urgency

 Cultivation, Dispensaries, Medical marijuana
Nov 052009
 

An urgency ordinance has been passed by the Red Bluff City Council to ban medical marijuana cooperatives, collectives and dispensaries effective immediately, the Red Bluff Daily News reports. No word in the article or from council members about why the ordinance was handled as a matter of urgency. That allows the law to take effect immediately instead of going to a second reading as normal. The ordinance will be in effect for the next 45 days, but it does not include a ban on cultivation because the growing and harvesting season is already over, City [...]

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