Editor’s note: As California navigates the transition to a regulated cannabis industry, several cities and counties stand out as best-practice examples.
Beset by budget issues, Desert Hot Springs has jumped ahead on Marijuana cultivation and may be a new boom town, so sayeth the LA Times.
It’s not everyday you see state bureaucrats run circles around their colleagues in California’s counties and cities. But that’s what’s happened in the arena of medical marijuana.
The mobile medical marijuana industry was dealt a severe blow last week when a state appeals court upheld a preliminary injunction against NestDrop, a smartphone app that facilitated medical pot de
Cities, counties and the State of California can regulate and license every corner of the medical marijuana industry. But they can’t help cannabis cultivators open a bank account.
The high times are over for Los Angeles County’s illegal pot shops.
Cities and counties across California would be wise to focus on Sacramento this June – not for the city’s legislative authority as the State Capital, but for the cleverness of its municipal governm
California’s medical marijuana industry has many enemies, from members of Congress to hundreds of city councils rushing to write cultivation bans in recent months.
Wholesale weed prices have plummeted since California legalized recreational marijuana, and it’s a problem for growers that is only getting worse.
It would have been unimaginable just 10 years ago, but most employers in the state of California soon won’t be able to discriminate against employees who use marijuana off the job.
National City will soon welcome the first cannabis consumption lounge in San Diego County.