3-Alarm Fire Exposes Pot Grow Operation In Oakland Warehouse
Firefighters discovered over 100 marijuana plants when they were called to an early Saturday morning fire at a building on Oakland's old Auto Row.
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Firefighters discovered over 100 marijuana plants when they were called to an early Saturday morning fire at a building on Oakland's old Auto Row.
An electrical fire at a Richmond warehouse Wednesday morning led to the discovery of a large marijuana growing operation inside the building, according to authorities.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is criticizing the Obama administration for its crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries.
Several people were arrested and thousands of marijuana plants were seized in a massive drug raid Wednesday night at a warehouse in East Oakland, authorities said.
Several rappers connected to a Bay Area music label are being charged with taking part in a nationwide Ecstasy ring.
At least four students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill ate marijuana-laced cookies at school Friday, according to school district officials.
The famed marijuana trade school is reopening this weekend following a federal raid earlier this month.
A bill aimed at bringing order to California's medical marijuana economy has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
Oaksterdam University founder Richard Lee said today that he will give up ownership of all of his Oakland-based marijuana businesses after a federal raid on his home, the university and the businesses on Monday.
An enthusiastic crowd of more than 200 medical marijuana patients and supporters rallied at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to hear six city supervisors and an Oaksterdam University official decry a recent federal crackdown on cannabis dispensaries.
Santa Rosa police have arrested ten Bay Area residents and two from the East Coast in connection with an alleged large interstate marijuana sales, cultivation and distribution operation.
Agents from three federal law enforcement departments on Monday raided Oaksterdam, the medical marijuana university in downtown Oakland, as well as other marijuana industry businesses in Oakland.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said a legal brief recently filed recently filed by city prosecutors in a drug case, that argues all medical marijuana dispensaries in California are illegal, no longer represents the views of his office.
A federal crackdown on medical marijuana clinics has been a buzzkill for an Oakland school dubbed the "Princeton of Pot."
A car trunk stuffed with marijuana plants alerted Gilroy police to an elaborate indoor grow operation in the city early Monday morning.
An early Tuesday morning fire is out at a single-story home in Pinole, but now authorities suspect the location may have been used as a pot farm.
An Oakland man has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a man during a botched attempt to steal marijuana from the victim.
10 of the 15 cities within Santa Clara County have signed a resolution urging the legislative bodies to step up in this regard.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a fundraising event by President Barack Obama at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center Thursday to protest a variety of grievances they have with the president, including medical marijuana policies, war, the environment, abortion and birth control.
San Jose is expected to rescind an ordinance Tuesday that was passed last year regulating medical marijuana collectives. The city's hand is being forced by a successful referendum.
San Mateo County authorities on Wednesday seized more than 1,500 marijuana plants, approximately 19 pounds of processed marijuana and several guns from a Half Moon Bay warehouse complex that was being used to conceal an illegal indoor marijuana grow operation and a residence connected to the operation.
A fire that caused heavy damage to a Hayward home Thursday afternoon appears to have been caused by illegal wire splicing, a Hayward fire captain said.
An Antioch man has been sentenced in federal court in Oakland to 10 years in prison for conspiring to cultivate marijuana plants at three grow houses in Contra Costa County.
After a month-long investigation, Napa Special Investigations Bureau agents found an illegal indoor marijuana growing operation in unincorporated Napa on Soda Canyon Road last Thursday, bureau officials said.
Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does.
