Victorville City Council agrees to special meeting on Chalice marijuana festival
4:17pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
Victorville City Council will hold a special meeting next week to discuss whether they will sign off on letting people buy and consume marijuana at the Chalice festival, coming July 13-15 to the San Bernardino County fairgrounds. Councilman Jim Kennedy pushed…NYPD will start using summonses, not arrests, for marijuana
3:42pm By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Lighting up a joint in the Big Apple could lighten some wallets, but won’t lead to handcuffs in most cases once New York City’s revamped marijuana enforcement policy goes into effect on Labor Day weekend. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday…Canadian senate passes marijuana bill, but legalization is delayed
Tue 9:46pm By Rob Gillies, Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Senate gave final passage Tuesday to the federal government’s bill to legalize cannabis, though Canadians will have to wait at least a couple of months to legally buy marijuana as their country becomes the second in the world to…Backers of the Chalice festival sue California cannabis chief, Victorville over event permit
Tue 8:54pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
Organizers of one of the most popular marijuana festivals in California are suing the Bureau of Cannabis Control and the city of Victorville after both entities refused to issue permits for an upcoming event in San Bernardino County — a suit that could set…You can now find marijuana laws for every California city using your Amazon Alexa
Tue 7:11pm By Philip Lawrence, The Cannifornian, Brooke Edwards Staggs, The CannifornianNavigating California’s confusing patchwork of marijuana laws just got easier. If you own an Amazon Echo product, you can now ask Alexa – the brain behind Amazon’s smart-speaker platform – to tell you the rules for any city or county in California.…Commercial cannabis in Oroville on council agenda today
Tue 6:00pm By Cannifornian staff
OROVILLE — The question of whether commercial cannabis operations will be allowed in Oroville is on the agenda for the City Council meeting Tuesday night. The question before the council is of two parts. The first is whether to allow marijuana businesses in…Editorial: Federal marijuana bill is a buzz-killing compromise
Tue 5:15pm By San Gabriel Valley Tribune Editorial BoardPresident Trump will “probably” support bipartisan legislation introduced June 7th to significantly curtail federal marijuana prohibition. Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, announced the Strengthening the Tenth…Some fear changes to state laws as US weighs marijuana medicine
Tue 4:30pm By Kathleen Foody and P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Some American parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory as U.S. regulators near a decision on whether to approve the first drug…New cannabis beer promises no alcohol — just THC
Tue 3:45pm By Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg NewsThere’s a new craft beer in town, and this one offers a different kind of buzz. San Diego-based Cannabiniers will introduce what it says are the first line of de-alcholized craft beers infused with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana’s psychoactive…DEA chief steps down, citing increasing challenges of temporary role
Tue 10:45am By Devlin Barrett, Washington Post
WASHINGTON – The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told staff Monday he is retiring, saying that running the agency as a temporary fill-in had become “increasingly challenging.” Robert W. Patterson, who has worked at the DEA for 30…Editorial: Thank you, Jeff Sessions, for inadvertently kickstarting Congress’ effort to legalize marijuana
Tue 10:00am By Los Angeles Times Editorial Board
Good job, Jeff Sessions! It seems the attorney general’s misguided attempts to revive the unpopular and unjust federal war on marijuana may be having the exact opposite effect — prompting a new bipartisan effort in Congress to allow states to legalize…A proposed law opens a wide door for marijuana business in unincorporated Riverside County
Jun 18, 2018, 7:16 pm By Jeff Horseman, The Cannifornian, Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
Riverside County is considering a cannabis ordinance that would be among the most permissive in California, allowing just about every type of marijuana business permitted by state law to operate in unincorporated areas. A draft of the ordinance is set to come…Former Mexico President Vicente Fox joins High Times
Jun 18, 2018, 3:31 pm By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Former Mexico President Vicente Fox, who calls himself a soldier in the global campaign to legalize marijuana, is joining the board of directors of cannabis publication High Times to advance his agenda. Fox foresees a day when a robust legal…Q&A: Actor Christopher Plummer on playing a marijuana dealer at 88
Jun 18, 2018, 1:00 pm By Jake Coyle, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Regal and commanding even in his youth, Christopher Plummer has turned into an even mightier force in old age. The 88-year-old Plummer earlier this year became the oldest actor ever nominated for an Oscar (for his J. Paul Getty in “All the…Opinion: Bank cannabis for a safer, more responsible Los Angeles
Jun 18, 2018, 12:15 pm By Fiona Ma & Robert Hertzberg, Special to the Cannifornian
California voters — probably the least receptive in the nation to policy edicts from the Donald Trump administration — got an unusual and unexpected bit of good news last week, when the president announced that he “probably will end up supporting”…State, Los Angeles County and local officials converge on Long Beach to discuss marijuana regulations
Jun 18, 2018, 11:30 am By Chris Haire, The Cannifornian
State, county and local officials still have work to do in refining recreational pot laws and ensure public safety, those same officials said during a marijuana seminar in Long Beach on Thursday. Officials from across California converged on The Grand Long…Editorial: Chalice Festival deserves to have its day before city council
Jun 18, 2018, 10:45 am By Victorville Daily Press
Whatever your personal views on marijuana, there is no disputing that a majority of California voters decided both medicinal and recreational use of the drug should be legal. That is the law of the Golden State now and it is very unlikely that will change…San Diego police raid illegal pot dispensaries, arresting eight and seizing cash, products
Jun 18, 2018, 10:00 am By Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego police serving search warrants at marijuana dispensaries arrested eight people and seized more than 30 pounds of marijuana and cash during raids this week, according to a news release. On Wednesday police served a search warrant at a business called…Fate of Chalice cannabis festival uncertain after Victorville denies approval
Jun 15, 2018, 12:43 pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The CannifornianThe fate of the massive Chalice California festival is uncertain after Victorville city officials have so far refused to sign off on letting attendees buy and smoke marijuana at the event, illustrating questions about the future mix of publicly-owned venues…Baldwin Park backs off ‘lifetime’ deal for single cannabis distributor — it’s only 20 years long
Jun 14, 2018, 5:00 pm By Christopher Yee, The Cannifornian
The Baldwin Park Planning Commission approved a 20-year development agreement, which was initially billed as a lifetime deal, for the city’s lone marijuana distributor, Rukli Inc. The agreement was first described in a city staff report as a lifetime…
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