Elusive Mammal Threatened By Illegal Pot Farms
Illegal marijuana farms may be to blame for the dwindling population of an elusive mammal many have never seen—the Pacific fisher.
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Illegal marijuana farms may be to blame for the dwindling population of an elusive mammal many have never seen—the Pacific fisher.
Police confiscated 277 marijuana plants and nearly $70,000 in cash during the bust of a marijuana grow house and butane honey oil extraction lab in a Fremont home last month.
Firefighters attempting to extinguish a fire inside a burning building in Vallejo Thursday night soon discovered the structure, used as medical marijuana grow was booby-trapped, authorities said.
They call it the green rush: People from all over the world are flocking to Northern California's Humboldt County to grow marijuana. The law says it has to be for medicine, but it's all too easy to game the system with hardly any legal consequences.
State drug agents told KPIX 5 the number of pot plants growing in California has doubled in the past five years. Marijuana is by far the state's number one cash crop.
Pot clubs not following San Jose's new cannabis club regulations could soon be handed a massive fine.
Deep in Humboldt County's Six Rivers National Forest, a team of law enforcement agents deploys choppers filled with agents to battle illegal marijuana grows and combat the environmental damage from massive pot farms.
Firefighters have contained a fire that broke out at a marijuana grow house in Antioch Tuesday afternoon, a fire captain said.
It's harvest season for the massive California marijuana industry but the quasi-legal status of the drug means the safety of those who grow and process it is always in question.
A medical marijuana entrepreneur is promoting his method of developing thriving cannabis gardens amid California's drought as a way to radically cut water waste.
There's been some mysterious activity in the skies over Mendocino County lately. Folks who live there want to know: Who are the armed men dropping out of helicopters to chop down their marijuana grows?
Marijuana sales nationwide are estimated to hit $104 billion this year, and a lot of it is coming from California's Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties.
Santa Rosa police arrested a suspect in a marijuana-related home invasion robbery and shooting early Thursday morning.
An event organized to show that people who smoke marijuana are athletic and responsible members of society - not just stoners and slackers - is being held this weekend in San Francisco.
A Windsor couple will be arraigned Monday on child endangerment charges after Sonoma County sheriff's deputies found evidence on Wednesday of a hash laboratory and marijuana grow in their home, a sheriff's sergeant said.
Authorities say five students got sick -- including two who were rushed to the hospital unconscious -- after eating marijuana brownies that were sold at a Richmond high school.
It seems we've jumped into the pool of relativism since we got wind of Josh Gordon's season-long suspension for marijuana use. You have the indignant faction that can't believe someone who smokes weed gets a year while Ray Rice skates with a two-game suspension
A Tuesday traffic stop in Oakland led to a drug arrest and the confiscation of more than $17,000 in drugs and cash.
El Cerrito is going from zero to 100 in a move that would ban smoking from most public, residential and commercial areas.
The growing legal-cannabis industry is attracting Bay Area investors who want to take advantage of what they think will be a growing business.
A man and a woman were arrested Thursday on suspicion of growing marijuana, running a butane hash oil lab and trafficking narcotics out of a home in San Francisco's Miraloma Park neighborhood.
Dublin police conducted a three-week investigation and surveillance operation on a residence in the 5400 block of Aspen Street that led to the discovery and seizure of 1,000 plants, 82 pounds of processed marijuana and more than $10,000, police said.
Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies last week arrested two men and seized more than 200 marijuana plants and a hash oil extraction lab in a three-unit an apartment building near Capitola.
A mother from Sacramento County has been arrested and her child has been taken into protective custody for allegedly selling drugs out of her bra.
