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Ten years ago, the land would sell for $5,000 an acre. Now, an acre of land could go for more than $50,000. “This is one of the sites where the city of California City has issued permits to medical marijuana cultivators to grow cannabis,” Josh Meister, a local real estate agent, said...

Seven months after Californians voted to legalize and tax recreational marijuana, state leaders are moving full speed ahead with a system to oversee the cultivation, distribution and sales of cannabis – rules that have to be in place, under law, by January. Many key details of how California...

California would set standards for organic marijuana, allow pot samples at county fairs and permit home deliveries under legislation set to be considered by lawmakers Thursday as the state prepares for next year's start of legal marijuana sales. Lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown's administration...

As early as January 2018, California will become the latest — and by far the biggest — state to allow the sale of legal adult-use marijuana. At 39 million people, one-in-eight Americans lives in California. If separated from the United States, the Golden State has the sixth largest economy in...

Communities across California are still working out how to regulate legal marijuana, but one major group is worried it will be pushed out of the market its worked so hard to get access to. In 2016, more than 750,000 people in the state of California were registered medical marijuana users...

A lawsuit filed against a California city claims an ordinance makes it unreasonably difficult and expensive for adult residents to grow up to six marijuana plants for personal use under the state's voter-approved Proposition 64. The American Civil Liberties Union of California and the Drug...

With several states expanding marijuana legalization this year, many eyes are firmly fixed on California. Between the famed cannabis strains of the north, the rapidly moving edibles scene and the growing marijuana tech industry blazing in Silicon Valley, there's a lot at stake. Heather Azzi of...

Six months have passed since California voted in favor of Proposition 64, the recreational marijuana initiative that allows adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants indoors. And in another six months, state-licensed marijuana stores will begin...

Residents of the Golden State voted to legalize recreational marijuana in November 2016, but full legalization could face delays as lawmakers fight to rework marijuana laws in California. Some California lawmakers want to ban cannabis edibles (candies, brownies, cookies), because they believe...

California lawmakers are talking about doing for their state's new marijuana industry what they are also trying to do for illegal immigrants: create a sanctuary state where local police are ordered not to cooperate with federal authorities. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the man who has...

Alarmed by several explosions in residential areas caused by drug processing labs, the state Assembly on Thursday voted to ban home manufacturing of marijuana concentrates using volatile solvents. The action comes ahead of plans by the state to begin issuing licenses in January to firms for...

Sen. Kamala Harris of California used the year's first big 2020 presidential spotlight Tuesday to rail against Trump administration drug policies and call for easing laws governing marijuana. "Let me tell you what California needs, Jeff Sessions. We need support in dealing with transnational...

Yes. Use of weed or Cannabis is legal in California. Weed can be grown, stored or consumed by any adult in the state of California. Cannabis, or Marijuana, is a plant with psychoactive properties and has been used for medicinal purposes for the last 20 years. The medical use of weed in...

Police in three California counties are testing what amounts to a breathalyzer for drug users – a device that some authorities and lawmakers said Wednesday is desperately needed now that voters have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. When legalization takes full effect next year...

Police in three California counties are testing what amounts to a breathalyzer for drug users — a device that some authorities and lawmakers said Wednesday is desperately needed now that voters have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. When legalization takes full effect next year...

Hi, expat from UK now living in the USA. I have smoked weed for 40+ years and just started to grow my own and completed my first batch of THC bomb and Northern Lights. Relocated from California to Florida as too expensive to retire in California. I chose this site as the threads are very...

Objective: Secure the correct "light setup" to maximize production of a 6x6 area. I currently have (2) plants in half the area, DWC utilizing a "Veloya B100" from Finland. (cost me $2k USD in Indonesia); I am currently battling PH issues, however, I have been told by some "smart people" with...

Here it is the middle of March and the weather is lovely. This is why I came to California 50 years ago. I love it here but I feel no love for our goofy Governor. I heard he sleeps naked in front of the fire place in a blanket. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

With recent measures approved to legalize recreational marijuana in California, Nevada, and Massachusetts, the cannabis industry has been preparing for life under new regulations. PSFK talked to Flow Kana co-founder and head of business development Adam Steinberg, whose company produces small...

As one of the first states in the U.S. to legalize recreational use of marijuana, Colorado is considered by many to be a public-sector pioneer in governing the cannabis market. Now looking to make some similar moves, the state of California is reaching out to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to...