Plants need water to live. By targeting water trucks, Siskiyou leaders are hope to cut illegal grows off at the source.
You win some, you lose some. And the owners of Nipton, California definitely lost.
“It's been incredible to see the transformation,” Deputy City Manager Doria Wilms told NBC News. “We don't see it slowing down."
Ex-Mayor Pro Tem David Romero and ex-Economic Development Commissioner Bruno Suarez-Soto took $35,000 in what they thought were cash bribes from an undercover FBI agent last year.
The 40-acre site was discovered by park rangers in a secluded area known as Jail Canyon near the California-Nevada border.
Das Williams’ candidacy elicited a swarm of criticism from anti-cannabis activists in the Carpinteria Valley. They have accused him of prioritizing the marijuana industry over local interests. It’s not clear if that contributed to his rejection.
The momentum for cannabis liberalization drums along, but it doesn’t come cheap. In addition to grassroots efforts, millions in lobbying dollars have been spent to affect policy change.
As we get closer to the end of federal marijuana prohibition, our leaders in Washington could learn a lot about cannabis policy from states like California. Bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress last week would ensure that they do.
Siskiyou County is overrun by large cannabis grows — all of them illegal. Commercial marijuana is banned in this ruby red county.
A group of marijuana businesses is suing the City of Sacramento for allegedly overstepping its regulatory authority by slapping an additional fee on their operations.
Shasta County supervisors held a meeting last week to discuss a surge of illegal marijuana grows in the county. Representatives from Congressman Doug LaMafa’s office were in attendance.