Yearly Archives: 2016

Rules and restrictions regarding marijuana businesses were up for discussion in Dixon Tuesday. The Dixon City Council approved 5-0 a first reading of an ordinance that would tax marijuana-related businesses. The ordinance discussed Tuesday will take effect if Dixon voters approve Measure K in November. If approved, the measure would impose a business license tax of up to 15 percent of the gross receipts for all marijuana-related businesses. It would repeal the existing prohibition against 
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The Pasadena Health Department will recommend the city in effect undo its ban on the cultivation and delivery of medical marijuana during Thursday’s Economic Development & Technology Committee meeting, but the Department continues to favor restricting dispensaries and marijuana cultivation. According to the Committee’s agenda report, the Health Department is asking the Council to direct the City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the City’s Municipal Code to allow for delivery of medical marijuana in 
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Salinas >> Citing anticipated additional demands on law enforcement and other county staffing, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday decided to delay any consideration of allowing outdoor medical cannabis cultivation in the unincorporated parts of Monterey County. By a unanimous vote, the board agreed with a recommendation from an ad hoc committee that a newly adopted county medical marijuana ordinance should continue to exclude outdoor commercial cannabis grows while the county continues to gain experience 
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With California voters likely to approve a ballot measure regulating recreational marijuana in November, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to evaluate the county’s options should the measure pass. The board took the responsible step of calling for a multi-agency evaluation of the county’s options of the legalization initiative, Proposition 64, as well as the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, which state lawmakers approved last year. Such an evaluation will lay 
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If California passes an initiative to lift statewide bans on marijuana, San Clemente may try to hang onto some local controls enacted earlier this year. City Council members will be asked Tuesday’s council meeting if they want to allow cultivation of up to six marijuana plants inside a home without regulation, if the statewide initiative passes in November, or if they want to require a permit for those six plants. Proposition 64, the Adult Use 
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The Ukiah Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday night on a proposed ordinance establishing a process to allow marijuana dispensaries to operate in all commercial zones, including the downtown core. According to the staff report prepared for the Sept. 14 meeting, the proposed ordinance was created by an ad-hoc committee that included Vice-Mayor Jim Brown, Council member Maureen Mulheren, former Planning Director Charley Stump, City Attorney David Rapport and Ukiah Police Chief Chris 
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Monterey County is holding off on expanding commercial medical marijuana cultivation rules to allow outdoor grows. Currently, only indoor medical marijuana grows are allowed in Monterey County. While no one from the county was immediately available to talk about the decision on Tuesday, the county report states outdoor grows bring up regulation challenges because of space and environmental issues like illegal grading and water diversion. But there are some benefits. “But outdoor growers are generally 
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UPLAND >> After months of deliberating, the City Council has unanimously agreed on a total ban of marijuana-related activity in the city. It will soon be illegal to cultivate, dispense, transport, distribute, process, label and test marijuana in the city. The city’s municipal code currently bans medical marijuana dispensaries and mobile dispensaries. The ordinance helps the city regulate marijuana if voters statewide approve Proposition 64 allowing recreational marijuana. Permanent regulations by the state aren’t expected 
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