Aug 252010
 

As many as three medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Stockton under regulations approved Tuesday by the City Council. City leaders for months have reviewed and revised proposed rules for pot shops, Daniel Thigpen reports in the Stockton Record. On Tuesday, attorneys and other medical marijuana advocates mostly spoke favorably of Stockton’s proposed rules before the council took action. Councilman Elbert Holman Jr. cast the lone dissenting vote after expressing concerns about possible increases in marijuana-related crime and violence. Though much language was revised in recent weeks at the request of dispensary supporters, the [...]

Jul 132010
 
Home pot grower runs out the back, right into Stockton SWAT team

STOCKTON — Police searched a Weston Ranch home Monday morning, seizing hundreds of marijuana plants and arresting a 25-year-old man suspected of cultivating the crop, the Stockton Record reports. Special Investigations Lt. Eric Ingersoll said the search could have turned fatal. When police knocked on the front door of the home in the 1800 block of Bess Place, Ingersoll said, 25-year-old Michael Gomez tried to sneak out the back door. There was a group of SWAT officers waiting in the backyard. “He turned to face them, and he had a gun in his hand,” Ingersoll [...]