Isleton officials ordered to testify about pot-farm plan

 Cultivation
Jul 282011
 

A judge Monday rejected an effort by attorneys for the city of Isleton to stop prosecutors from questioning officials in the tiny Delta town about their arrangement with a private pot-cultivation outfit. The District Attorney’s Office this month subpoenaed current and former Isleton City Council members and other officials to answer questions in front of the Sacramento County grand jury about the city’s medicinal marijuana deal with Delta Allied Growers. Related SacBee story: Isleton issues 52-page response to grand jury Isleton officials have said the agreement could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in new [...]

Grand jury slams Isleton medical cannabis project

 Cultivation
Jun 272011
 

Even after Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully made it clear she was investigating the planned medical marijuana farm in Isleton last February, operators of the project quietly brought in more than 1,000 marijuana plants and began growing them inside the garages of three vacant homes on the property, a new grand jury report states. But when federal authorities warned the city and project planners that they could face prosecution, a worker from Delta Allied Growers supposedly used a backhoe to bury the plants 10 to 15 feet underground on the site and all work stopped. [...]

Sacramento County supes delay MMJ ordinance

 Dispensaries
Jun 232011
 

Outside county offices Tuesday, advocates for medical marijuana waved signs proclaiming, “Honk if you love cannabis,” and protested closing dispensaries and banning outdoor pot cultivation. Indoors, in an emotionally charged hearing before the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, cerebral palsy patient Jesse Wilson, 28, grasped a microphone with shaking hands. From his wheelchair, he told how marijuana eases his anxiety and searing pain, adding: “Without it, I’d be crying more.” After hours of testimony, supervisors decided Tuesday they needed to know more about medical marijuana and what steps they should take to regulate – and [...]

Sacramento County weighs urgency cannabis rules

 Marijuana News
Jun 182011
 

UPDATE: Sacramento County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to delay consideration of a medical cannabis ordinance until July 28. More info and pix to be posted on this story later … Bud First Sacramento Bee coverage First KCRA coverage ==================== The battle continues over where pot dispensaries can go up and where medical marijuana plants can be grown in Sacramento County. One week before a temporary urgency ordinance goes before the Board of Supervisors, several dispensaries met for an informal outreach meeting with the county. Some Sacramento County pot dispensaries call the proposed ordinance unfair, drastic [...]

South Sacramento dispensary raided; 2 arrested

 Dispensaries
Jun 172011
 

Authorities raided a south Sacramento marijuana dispensary Thursday and arrested its operator and his father, alleging the pot shop has been operating illegally as a for-profit organization. Elk Grove police, along with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, served a search warrant at the R&R Wellness Center on Quinta Court at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, said Elk Grove police spokesman Officer Chris Trim. Search warrants were also served at a Sacramento storage facility and two residences in Elk Grove occupied by Bryan Smith, 27, who operates the dispensary, and his father Kelly Smith, 54, Trim said. [...]

Sacramento County dispensaries flourish despite ban

 Dispensaries, Marijuana News
Jan 262011
 
Sacramento County dispensaries flourish despite ban

In early 2010, former building contractor David Spradlin and about a dozen fellow medical marijuana patients opened the Magnolia Wellness Center in Orangevale. They sought to be unobtrusive as possible, initially operating only a private dispensary with a handful of “gardeners” sharing their product amongst themselves. These days, the Wellness Center underscores the rapid evolution of the medical marijuana market in Sacramento County, Peter Hecht reports in the Sac Bee’s “Weed Wars” blog. Last spring, county officials announced there was no county ordinance to permit an influx of marijuana stores. Since that time, the county’s [...]

Unlicensed dispensaries growing in Sacramento County

 Dispensaries, Marijuana News
Jan 242011
 
Unlicensed dispensaries growing in Sacramento County

Ryan Hudson, manager of a newly opened business on bustling Fulton Avenue, has a background in marketing and auto sales. His personal art – growing pot for his back pain and sleeplessness – is now part of his new occupation. The medical marijuana store Hudson and partners opened Dec. 1 is adding to the restlessness of Sacramento County code enforcement officials, Peter Hecht reports in the Sacramento Bee. Nine months after the county issued notices to shutter or ban a dozen medical cannabis stores, declaring they were not permitted under current zoning laws, at least [...]

Rancho Cordova puts marijuana grow tax on ballot

 Legalization, Medical marijuana, Ordinances
Aug 292010
 

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 [...]

Two-barreled pot-growing tax goes on Rancho Cordova ballot

 Initiatives, Legalization, Medical marijuana
Aug 062010
 

Bud’s note: File this under “Are you fucking kidding me?” Love or hate cannabis, this is one mangy dog of a ballot measure that proposes to tax growers based on garden size. Good luck with that concept, even if it passes. Which it won’t. ============= Voters in Rancho Cordova will decide in November whether to tax residents who grow their own pot. The city measure, put on the Nov. 2 ballot by the City Council this week, would impose taxes on all local residential cultivation if California voters approve Proposition 19 to legalize recreational use. [...]

City will serve papers on Galt marijuana dispensary

 Dispensaries, Medical marijuana
Aug 032010
 

The well-being of the Galt Wellness Center has been dealt a blow in court — and now the city of Galt is moving swiftly to shut down its lone marijuana dispensary as a “public nuisance.” Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang issued a preliminary injunction, giving the city permission to close the establishment under an anti-dispensary ordinance passed in 2009. Galt City Attorney Steve Rudolph said the city expects to formally serve papers on the dispensary next week, Peter Hecht writes in “Weed Wars,” ordering the pot shop to immediately close its doors. “It’s [...]

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