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NORWALK — Those wishing to produce medical marijuana or open a licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Norwalk could be waiting for a while. Following the lead of a number of other communities, the Norwalk Zoning Commission is considering establishing a nine-month moratorium on licensed medical marijuana producers and dispensary facilities. Norwalk’s zoning regulations currently permit neither the production nor dispensing of medical marijuana. “Assuming the moratorium is approved, we will spend the next nine months

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will reclassify marijuana as a “Schedule Two” drug on August 1, 2016, essentially legalizing medicinal cannabis in all 50 states with a doctor’s prescription, said a DEA lawyer with knowledge of the matter. The DEA Lawyer had told the lawyer representing a DEA informant of the DEA’s plan to legalize medicinal cannibis nationwide on August 1, 2016. When questioned by our reporter, the DEA lawyer felt compelled to admit the

Top county and city officials briefly considered the idea this month of putting a countywide marijuana tax on the November ballot. The proposal surfaced on a number of city council agendas this week before Stanislaus County Supervisor Vito Chiesa and Chief Executive Officer Stan Risen told the cities “never mind” for now. The Modesto council skipped over the item at its meeting Tuesday, and let’s be clear, it won’t be on the ballot this fall.

The Fillmore City Council voted 5-0 to place on the November ballot a measure that would allow the City Council to tax marijuana sales at a rate of up to 15 percent, and to assess taxes on commercial cultivation of as much as $30 per square foot of growing area for the first 3,000 square feet, and $15 per square foot thereafter. Those taxes would be on top of the standard sales tax of 7.5