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  • Corte Madera extends marijuana moratorium for one year

    Sep 6, 2018, 5:15 pm By Adrian Rodriguez, The Cannifornian
    The Corte Madera Town Council agreed this week to keep the cannabis industry out of town — at least for now. The council on Tuesday voted 4-0, with Councilman Sloan Bailey absent, to extend a moratorium on cannabis business activity in town for up to one…
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  • Editorial: High taxes help protect the black market for marijuana

    Sep 6, 2018, 4:30 pm By Riverside Press-Enterprise
    About one out of every five of California’s marijuana consumers is still sticking with the black market, a report published by the San Francisco-based marijuana company Eaze recently noted. One of the major reasons they cite is California’s high rate of…
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  • Butte County’s medical marijuana rules upheld by appeals court

    Sep 6, 2018, 1:45 pm By Steve Schoonover, The Cannifornian
      SACRAMENTO — A challenge to Butte County’s medical marijuana growing laws has been rejected by a state appellate court. A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento issued the ruling Friday that the county law does not violate…
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  • Oregon pot growers now must notify officials about harvests

    Sep 6, 2018, 1:00 pm By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press
    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Before Matthew Miller harvests marijuana this fall from his fields in southern Oregon, he’ll have to notify the state for the first time ever — a process that could bring inspectors to make sure none of his pot is being illegally…
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  • Longtime marijuana fugitive pleads to using dead California kid’s name to create alias

    Sep 6, 2018, 12:15 pm By The Associated Press
    SAN FRANCISCO — A man who skipped bail and eluded federal authorities for nearly 25 years after he was allegedly caught unloading a shipment of marijuana in Santa Barbara took a plea deal last month, records show. Robert Solakian pleaded guilty to identity…
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  • Petaluma area cannabis farm agrees to shut down after threat of rackateering lawsuit

    Sep 6, 2018, 11:30 am By Julie Johnson, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
    A Petaluma-area cannabis cultivation company whose neighbors filed a lawsuit alleging noxious odors and noise will cease operations after harvest, following a deal with Sonoma County’s code enforcement unit. The tentative agreement includes a provision that…
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  • Parent alert! Your kid may be vaping more than tobacco

    Sep 6, 2018, 10:45 am By Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News
    By now, many parents know kids are vaping sweet-smelling tobacco — often using devices that look deceptively like pens or flash drives. And most parents are hip to the prevalence of underage marijuana use. Now comes a combo of the two: vaping pot. Experts…
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  • Cannabis industry wants to see ‘stoner’ stereotype go up in smoke

    Sep 6, 2018, 10:00 am By John Rogers and Krysta Fauria, Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation “trying to act so friendly and…
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  • Why synthetic “marijuana” is so risky

    Sep 5, 2018, 7:45 pm By C. Michael White, The Conversation
    (Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Green, a gathering place in New Haven, Connecticut, near Yale University looked like a mass casualty zone, with 70 serious…
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  • New warning to pregnant women, nursing mothers: Stay off marijuana

    Sep 5, 2018, 7:00 pm By Rita Giordano, Philadelphia Inquirer
    A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is cautioning pregnant women and nursing mothers to avoid marijuana due to possible adverse developmental affects in children. The report, published recently in the journal Pediatrics, is also a call…
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  • Recreational pot sales in unincorporated Sonoma County could start in November

    Sep 5, 2018, 6:15 pm By J.D. Morris, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
    The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors moved closer to allowing recreational cannabis sales in the unincorporated areas Tuesday, amending some of its pot regulations to better align with state law. Supervisors signed off on a series of amendments to county…
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  • Scotts Miracle-Gro is testing whether it can make cannabis grow

    Sep 5, 2018, 5:30 pm By Kristine Owram, Bloomberg News
    Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is betting its fertilizer can help cultivate a different kind of grass. Hawthorne Gardening Co., a subsidiary of the Marysville, Ohio-based company best known for its garden products, has teamed up with Canadian pot producer Flowr Corp.…
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  • Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds approved to host cannabis events

    Sep 5, 2018, 4:45 pm By Nicholas Ibarra, The Cannifornian
    WATSONVILLE >> Getting elevated at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds could mean more than a Ferris wheel ride after officials approved up to four cannabis events at the site per year. The events – which would not coincide with the annual Santa Cruz County…
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  • Future of commercial cannabis in West Covina takes shape

    Sep 5, 2018, 4:00 pm By Christopher Yee, The Cannifornian
    The rules and requirements for potential commercial marijuana cultivation businesses in West Covina are beginning to take shape. While the city had ruled out marijuana cultivation in West Covina in 2017, the City Council changed course in April and in a split…
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  • CBD industry grows in California even as confusion swirls over local, state laws

    Sep 4, 2018, 2:32 pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
    Kim Sisson and her brother were walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, helping their 78-year-old father get some sun, when they spotted a store called Topikal Everything Hemp. Their dad lives in an assisted living facility in Porter Ranch, suffering from…
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  • California police, cities fight statewide marijuana deliveries

    Sep 4, 2018, 1:28 pm By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A growing dispute over where legal marijuana can be delivered in California is unsettling the nation’s largest pot market. Police chiefs on Friday lined up against a proposed state rule that critics say would allow unchecked home…
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  • Meet ‘Bongzilla’: 24-foot bong in Las Vegas celebrates cannabis culture

    Sep 1, 2018, 12:00 pm By The Cannifornian
    There are two flights of stairs curling around the head-turning glass bong, all 24 feet of it. There also will be an elevator to ferry people from the ground floor — where the pipe’s 100-gallon reservoir sits — to the mouthpiece high above. It weighs…
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  • Toxic pesticides found at most illegal California pot farms

    Aug 31, 2018, 8:00 pm By Don Thompson, Associated Press
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nine of every 10 illegal marijuana farms raided in California this year contained traces of powerful and potentially lethal pesticides that are poisoning wildlife and could endanger water supplies, researchers and federal…
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  • Recreational marijuana sales kick off in Long Beach

    Aug 31, 2018, 6:38 pm By Chris Haire, The Cannifornian, Hayley Munguia, The Cannifornian
    Adam Hijazi, the general manager at Long Beach Green Room, woke up bright and early Friday morning, Aug. 31, to pick up his permit allowing his shop to finally sell recreational weed. His shop at 1735 E. 7th St. was one of four cannabis dispensaries in Long…
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  • Former L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa joins board of local cannabis firm MedMen

    Aug 30, 2018, 12:13 pm By James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times
    Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is joining the board of publicly traded cannabis company MedMen, marking his return to the business world following a resounding defeat in June’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. MedMen, a Culver City company that…
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