Pot Dispensary Ban Could Become Reality In San Jose
Councilmembers have been debating how to best approach the estimated 120 dispensaries currently operating within city limits.
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Councilmembers have been debating how to best approach the estimated 120 dispensaries currently operating within city limits.
A new study found indoor medical marijuana growers now account for 3 percent of California's electricity usage, enough to power 1 million homes.
Medical marijuana regulation may still be a long way off for San Jose as the City Council stalled on making decisions on several issues at its meeting Tuesday.
The founder of a Marin County medical marijuana dispensary says the Internal Revenue Service is demanding millions of dollars in back federal taxes.
San Jose may weed out the number of medical marijuana clubs in the city from more than 100 to just 10 by auctioning licenses on eBay, Mayor Chuck Reed said.
Four elementary school students in Vallejo became ill Monday afternoon after they shared two cookies containing marijuana, Vallejo City Unified School District spokeswoman Tish Busselle said.
A 7-percent tax on San Jose marijuana dispensaries takes effect on Tuesday.
Flagship pot dispensaries in Oakland and Berkeley are facing tax troubles that could cost them millions of dollars.
The city council has voted to extend indefinitely its prohibition on medical marijuana clubs.
A fire destroyed an apartment containing a small medical marijuana grow and damaged three adjacent units Monday morning, Santa Rosa Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Basque said.
Santa Clara County law enforcement officials have at least suspended any future raids of medical marijuana dispensaries.
Northern California's top federal prosecutor has warned Oakland officials that large-scale marijuana farms licensed by the city would violate U.S. law and could lead to a crackdown.
Oakland city officials are working on amending the city's ordinance on growing medical marijuana to make sure it is in compliance with state marijuana laws.
Oakland officials were considering new amendments to a city law that licenses large medical marijuana growing operations following a warning from the district attorney.
A California lawmaker wants to prohibit employers from firing qualified medical marijuana users who consume pot when they're not on the job.
A California entrepreneur has plans to market a line of medical marijuana soft drinks.
Firefighters were on the scene of a two-alarm fire that broke out at a San Jose medical marijuana dispensary early Wednesday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
Berkeley city officials are rethinking a voter-approved plan to license and tax six urban medical marijuana farms.
The city of Oakland's plan to license medical marijuana production and processing plants has been put on hold.
The city of Oakland's plan to license four medical marijuana production and processing plants might be snuffed out before it starts.
Authorities were trying to determine if a serires of break-ins and robberies at San Jose pot clubs and growers' homes is the work of a local gang.
The San Jose City Council Monday voted in favor of implementing a 7 percent tax on medical marijuana facilities approved by a ballot measure voters passed last month.
Santa Clara County authorities on Thursday raided a group of medical marijuana clubs operating in the county.
A fire that destroyed a house south of Lake Berryessa in Napa County Tuesday morning is considered suspicious, Napa County Fire Marshal Pete Munoa said.
The operators of what would have been the Peninsula's first licensed marijuana collective have withdrawn their application due to a lack of support from law enforcement.
