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Hayward approves 11 commercial cannabis businesses
Jun 29, 2018, 10:45 am By Alison Berg, The Cannifornian
HAYWARD — Eleven commercial cannabis businesses have been given the OK to open in Hayward, including businesses specializing in cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, delivery or testing. None are dispensaries. The majority of Hayward City Council members…

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California’s cannabis industry is at a ‘reckoning’
Jun 29, 2018, 10:00 am By Daniel M. Jimenez, The Cannifornian
California’s move to open up its cannabis market to recreational users has had an unexpected result: A growing segment of the industry may be moving back into the shadows. Thousands of manufacturers, growers and retailers have lost their licenses amid…

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This is not a cannabis story: Cheech Marin’s art museum gets millions from state
Jun 28, 2018, 4:19 pm By John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum $9.7 million. It must be kismet. The money was rolled up in the $139 billion California budget for…

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California couple plead guilty to possessing 60 pounds of marijuana for “gifts”
Jun 28, 2018, 10:45 am By The Associated Press
YORK, Neb. (AP) — A California couple have pleaded no contest to reduced charges for hauling marijuana through Nebraska that they said was intended for Christmas gifts. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 80-year-old Patrick Jiron and his wife, 70-year-old…

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Desperation ‘you can smell’ as California dispensaries rush to clear inventories of untested cannabis
Jun 28, 2018, 10:00 am By Brian Melley, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed. Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict…

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Ice Cube’s BIG3 basketball league allows players to use CBD for pain relief, recovery
Jun 27, 2018, 7:45 pm By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The BIG3 says players in the 3-on-3 league of former NBA players are allowed to use cannabidiol, or CBD, for pain management and recovery. Under the change announced Wednesday, the BIG3 becomes what’s believed to be the first professional…

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La Palma City Council drops idea of allowing some marijuana-related businesses
Jun 27, 2018, 7:00 pm By Lilly Nguyen, The Cannifornian
La Palma might be small, but its citizens were loud and clear Tuesday night: They don’t want their city to become what one resident described as “the pot capital of northwest Orange County.” Citizens overflowed the City Council Chambers, some having to…

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Lagunitas Brewing unveils cannabis-infused sparkling water
Jun 27, 2018, 5:45 pm By Bill Swindell, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Lagunitas Brewing Co. of Petaluma is delving deeper into the cannabis industry, announcing the launch of a new THC-infused sparkling beverage. The drink, named Hi-Fi Hops, only will be available at licensed cannabis dispensaries in California starting July 30.…

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Kern County maintains medical marijuana dispensary ban
Jun 27, 2018, 4:19 pm By Sam Morgen, Bakersfield Californian
The current ban on medicinal marijuana dispensaries will remain in place in Kern County for the time being after the Kern County Board of Supervisors took no action on a proposal that could have led to the establishment of seven legal medicinal dispensaries…

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#PermitPatty update: Embattled CEO resigns from San Francisco cannabis company
Jun 26, 2018, 8:07 pm By Jason Green, The Cannifornian
SAN FRANCISCO — Following widespread public outcry, Alison Ettel, the San Francisco woman known as “Permit Patty” for reportedly calling police on an 8-year-old girl selling water outside AT&T Park, has stepped down as CEO of Treatwell Health, a company…

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As Pawnee Fire rages in Northern California, police find man with loaded gun, 2 pounds of marijuana in evacuation zone
Jun 26, 2018, 5:07 pm By Christi Warren, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
A Ukiah man was arrested Monday after police found him driving through an area of Spring Valley under mandatory evacuations, his car packed with two pounds of marijuana and a loaded handgun, authorities said. Helicopters work to extinguish the Pawnee fire…

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L.A. considering ballot initiative to fund public bank for cannabis businesses
Jun 26, 2018, 4:05 pm By James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times
The fate of a nascent effort to create a bank owned by the city of Los Angeles and meant to help legally-permitted cannabis businesses could be decided by voters this fall. The City Council on Tuesday will vote on whether to start the process of placing a…

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Moreno Valley puts marijuana tax measure on November ballot
Jun 26, 2018, 1:15 pm By David Downey, The Cannifornian
Moreno Valley voters will be asked to tax commercial marijuana sales and production in Riverside County’s second-largest city when they go to the polls in November to elect a new California governor. The Moreno Valley City Council recently voted to place…

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‘It’s not a free-for-all’: High Desert marijuana raids continue to net high targets
Jun 26, 2018, 12:00 pm By Paola Baker, Victorville Daily Press
PHELAN — It was already in the mid-80s early Thursday morning when detectives arrived to the first illegal marijuana grow raid of the day, and the heat only grew more searing by the hour. Yet none of this seemed to deter the six-man San Bernardino County…

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Cannabis activist submits more than 11,000 signatures to San Bernardino for ballot measure
Jun 26, 2018, 10:00 am By Brian Whitehead, The Cannifornian
A political action committee supporting a citizen-backed measure to regulate and tax commercial marijuana in San Bernardino delivered more than 11,000 signatures from registered voters to the City Clerk’s Office on Monday, June 25, city officials confirmed.…

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Pedestrian hit, killed in Buena Park by driver possibly under influence of marijuana
Jun 25, 2018, 5:30 pm By Alma Fausto, The Cannifornian
Buena Park police arrested a man believed to be under the influence of marijuana when he hit a pedestrian while driving on Saturday, June 23, police said. Officers found the 51-year-old victim unresponsive where he’d been hit while crossing the street with…

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Bay Area dispensaries dump Treatwell tinctures as #PermitPatty backlash spreads
Jun 25, 2018, 5:11 pm By Kristin Lam, The Cannifornian
At least three Bay Area marijuana dispensaries have announced they will no longer carry TreatWellHealth products after TreatWell founder Alison Ettel appeared in a viral video threatening to call the police on an 8-year-old black girl selling water in San…

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Three people wounded during Inland Empire marijuana dispensary robbery; 2 suspects at large
Jun 25, 2018, 4:45 pm By Richard K. DeAtley, The Cannifornian
Three people were wounded during a late-night robbery at a Banning marijuana dispensary and two suspects are at large and being sought by police, authorities said on Sunday, June 24. Two of the victims were stabbed and one was shot during the holdup at the…

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Yes, you can become addicted to marijuana. And the problem is growing.
Jun 25, 2018, 4:00 pm By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — For as long as most residents can remember, smoking marijuana has been a part of life here. The fact that California legalized the practice in January went practically unnoticed in this quiet town a half-hour’s drive north of San…

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Medical milestone: US OKs marijuana-based drug for seizures
Jun 25, 2018, 3:15 pm By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Monday approved the first prescription drug made from marijuana, a milestone that could spur more research into a drug that remains illegal under federal law, despite growing legalization for recreational and…

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