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Fontana police, DEA join forces on dispensary raid

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:46:14 +0000

FONTANA – Local and federal law enforcement agencies raided and shut down a medical marijuana clinic Tuesday morning in what police say was the first of eight dispensaries they plan to bust in the city. With guns drawn, Fontana police, sheriff’s deputies and agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration approached Holistic Meds RX in the [...]

Fresno planners green-light outdoor growing ban

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:43 +0000

The Fresno Planning Commission voted 4-2 on Wednesday to recommend passage of a permanent ban on growing medical marijuana outdoors anywhere in the city of Fresno. I was one of three people to speak against the ban and also submitted written comments regarding the proposed ban and some of the underlying legal issues. The hyperlinked [...]

Tracy grow shop focus of DEA probe; 19 arrested

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:49:50 +0000

SACRAMENTO — Two men from Tracy and one from Mountain House face federal charges after their arrests on suspicion of participating in a massive marijuana growing operation. Mountain House resident Shawn Thompson, 43, and Tracy men Todd Becerra, 38, and Joseph Mirante, 40, were three of 19 men taken into custody this week during Operation [...]

Bakersfield Californian: Measure G hurts Prop. 215 patients

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:29:11 +0000

California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, giving “seriously ill Californians … the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes” as recommended by a physician. The practical implementation of Prop. 215 has been messy, contradictory and confusing, and it conflicts with federal law. Subsequent state regulations on the issue have tempered one problem [...]

Closed Fresno County collective reopens in city

Bud — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:42:13 +0000

A new medical marijuana dispensary is open in Fresno, but police say they plan to move quickly to shut it down. The California Herbal Relief Center near Ashlan and Willow avenues doesn’t have a sign and relies on a doorman to allow entrance to the business, Jim Guy reports in the Fresno Bee. Once inside, [...]

Kern County measure takes aim at dispensaries

Bud — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:22:12 +0000

Measure G is not, technically, a ban on medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives in unincorporated Kern County. Practically, it comes very close to being one. If ratified by voters in June, the ordinance drafted by the Kern County Counsel’s office would ban nearly every existing medical marijuana storefront in county jurisdictions — leaving whatever is [...]

No marijuana growing permits in Fresno County

Bud — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:12:46 +0000

Brian Doyle recently tossed out a Dumpster’s worth of marijuana plants for fear of being raided by the Fresno County sheriff. He calls it a loss of good medicine. Now he worries about losing his investment of tens of thousands of dollars in grow lights, a security system and a lease on a Malaga warehouse [...]

ASA sets Unity Conference in Sacramento

Bud — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:15:36 +0000

Americans for Safe Access sponsors its Unity Conference next weekend in Sacramento. Here’s the latest: Dear Friend, I am happy to announce that the price of the California Unity Conference in Sacramento May 19-21 has just gone down! Thanks to our friends at UFCW Local 8 and the Sacramento Central Labor Council, we have been [...]

Growing medical marijuana outdoors? Not in Fresno

Bud — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:18:35 +0000

Starting Wednesday, patient-growers who live inside the Fresno city limits will have a chance — however slight — to ease the ban on outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana. More important, they’ll have the right to ask the police to stand down from their effort to open a new front in the Drug War. Read the [...]

Market crashes for Emerald Triangle pot growers

Bud — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:32:20 +0000

ARCATA – The pot market is crashing in California’s legendary Emerald Triangle. The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many can’t sell. Some pot cultivators who sought legitimacy through the medical [...]