Immigration Officials: Marijuana Involvement Can Imperil Citizenship
Immigration authorities: Anyone with any involvement with marijuana, regardless of whether it's legal in the state where they live, can be denied citizenship.
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Immigration authorities: Anyone with any involvement with marijuana, regardless of whether it's legal in the state where they live, can be denied citizenship.
Police in Hollister on Thursday helped California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers and narcotics enforcement bust a household where an illegally kept alligator and ferret were seized along with an indoor marijuana grow, according to authorities.
New state legislation authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, could make cannabis more accessible throughout the state, Ting's office announced Thursday.
A group of Santa Rosa preschoolers was caught in the middle of a battle over a pot dispensary that wants to set up shop next door.
Sonoma County's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a ban on growing industrial hemp in the unincorporated areas of the county for at least a year.
The Concord City Council expressed strong support Tuesday night for crafting an ordinance that would permit a marijuana delivery business to set up shop within city limits, but was less enthusiastic about the possibility of a dispensary selling cannabis for recreational use.
Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized the drug.
More 3,000 pot plants and thousands of dollars in currency were seized and two people arrested in a series of raids in San Francisco's Sunset district targeting an illegal marijuana grow operation.
A truck filled with garbage bags stuffed with marijuana trimmings dumped part of its load along a mile stretch of Highway 880 in Oakland, the California Highway Patrol reported Friday.
The Napa Vape and Smoke Shop was shut down Thursday when two store employees were arrested on suspicion of selling cannabis to a minor and conspiracy.
Scientists have found a way to produce the mind-altering cannabis chemical known as THC, and its therapeutic cousin CBD, with genetically modified beer yeast.
San Francisco's district attorney's office will dismiss some 9,000 marijuana convictions with the use of technology to identify cases made eligible through the passage of California's law allowing use of recreational marijuana.
Sen. Kamala Harris said Monday she has smoked marijuana and supports the legalization of the drug.
California lawmakers are looking to reduce state marijuana taxes in an effort to get more producers and consumers to leave the black market.
The University of California at Berkeley has launched the Cannabis Research Center that will explore the impacts of cannabis production on the environment and society.
A Bay Area member of the Assembly is among a group of Democratic state lawmakers seeking major tax cuts for the marijuana industry to jump-start's California's sluggish legal marketplace.
Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana has made a big bet on California's new legalized marijuana market.
A church in Antioch which offers cannabis as part of its healing rites has been issued a cease-and-desist letter by the city.
In a nation increasingly embracing legal cannabis, California stands out as the country's biggest pot shop. Some companies are doing well but many are not.
Just one year ago, the arrival of legalized, recreational marijuana came with a good bit of celebration in California's cannabis industry. One year later, that same industry is licking its wounds after a long, tough year.
California would likely lose money and face insurmountable federal hurdles if it tried to create a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry, according to a report.
Cannabis distributors may have to destroy millions of dollars worth of marijuana due to a recall over falsified test results at a Northern California lab.
The owner of a Concord home shot an intruder Tuesday night who authorities think may have been targeting the homeowner's pot-growing operation, police said Wednesday.
A Fremont man has been arrested and charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old San Ramon high school student in a marijuana deal gone wrong in Fremont two weeks ago, police announced Wednesday.
California marijuana producers are seeing a higher percentage of buds, oils and other products clear strict safety tests.
