A Riverside County couple who leased a San Ysidro storefront to an illegal marijuana dispensary was ordered to pay $388,000 in civil penalties to the city of San Diego this week, city officials said. Quirino and Bertha Gutierrez, who live in Menifee, were ordered to pay the equivalent of... Read more
MILPITAS — Milpitas residents likely will be asked to consider approving a November ballot measure that would levy a tax on marijuana sales. The Milpitas City Council last week directed staff to prepare the ballot measure as a way to raise more money. The measure’s wording will need to... Read more
HAYWARD — Eleven commercial cannabis businesses have been given the OK to open in Hayward, including businesses specializing in cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, delivery or testing. None are dispensaries. The majority of Hayward City Council members expressed excitement over the new businesses at their Tuesday meeting where they approved the... Read more
California’s move to open up its cannabis market to recreational users has had an unexpected result: A growing segment of the industry may be moving back into the shadows. Thousands of manufacturers, growers and retailers have lost their licenses amid tighter regulations on marijuana and more oversight from local... Read more
La Palma might be small, but its citizens were loud and clear Tuesday night: They don’t want their city to become what one resident described as “the pot capital of northwest Orange County.” Citizens overflowed the City Council Chambers, some having to sit in an adjoining room, to oppose... Read more
The current ban on medicinal marijuana dispensaries will remain in place in Kern County for the time being after the Kern County Board of Supervisors took no action on a proposal that could have led to the establishment of seven legal medicinal dispensaries throughout the county at a meeting... Read more
Moreno Valley voters will be asked to tax commercial marijuana sales and production in Riverside County’s second-largest city when they go to the polls in November to elect a new California governor. The Moreno Valley City Council recently voted to place such a tax measure on the ballot. The... Read more
PHELAN — It was already in the mid-80s early Thursday morning when detectives arrived to the first illegal marijuana grow raid of the day, and the heat only grew more searing by the hour. Yet none of this seemed to deter the six-man San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Marijuana... Read more
A political action committee supporting a citizen-backed measure to regulate and tax commercial marijuana in San Bernardino delivered more than 11,000 signatures from registered voters to the City Clerk’s Office on Monday, June 25, city officials confirmed. If the signatures are certified by the Registrar of Voters, the measure... Read more
