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Palo Alto's ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation likely will be extended through 2018, or at least until city leaders sort out some policies. If Palo Alto does not prohibit commercial cultivation by Jan. 1, marijuana businesses can get a state-issued license and open here, according to deputy...

Marijuana cultivation for medical use has been prohibited in several Warren County townships, including two where permits were being sought for this use. Since late May, trustees in Harlan, Union and Turtlecreek townships voted to prohibit cultivation, as well as the processing and dispensing...

A string of northwest Ohio communities are considering or have passed resolutions in support of medical marijuana operations while other elected officials are rescinding past votes that prohibited such businesses. At least four village, township, and city councils voted Monday regarding...

Earlier in his work life, Prapanna Randall Smith earned a doctorate in educational leadership and founded a nonprofit elementary and preschool in San Diego County. Soon after retiring in 2011, he moved to forested Calaveras County to pursue another intellectual passion: growing marijuana. The...

A lawyer at a Rootstown meeting recently described the new regulations on medical marijuana as "The Wild West." Here in Portage County, three would-be cultivators of the plant are hoping the state will put a quarter of its limited permits right here. Cultivation facilities have been...

California's Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act ("MCRSA") has left stakeholders with many questions regarding how cannabis cultivation regulations will play out. But now that the California Department of Food and Agriculture ("DFA"), through its CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing...

The Saratoga City Council will consider adopting an ordinance June 7 to ban outdoor cannabis cultivation within city limits, regulate indoor cultivation for personal use and prohibit commercial marijuana activity. The ordinance would extend an interim one that prohibits the outdoor...

The Saratoga City Council will consider adopting an ordinance June 7 to ban outdoor cannabis cultivation within city limits, regulate indoor cultivation for personal use and prohibit commercial marijuana activity. The ordinance would extend an interim one that prohibits the outdoor...

Adelanto, California, is what's known as a "drive-through town." It's a dusty plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and dilapidated factories. Few outsiders stay long. Now, the sleepy city in San Bernardino County wants to establish itself as a hotbed for large-scale cultivation and...

In a plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and aging factories, developer James Previti – in a suit coat and Louis Vuitton shades – watches as construction workers build the roof of a concrete building that from afar looks like a future Costco. Previti has spent years developing homes...

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors will hold a workshop Tuesday morning to discuss how local businesses providing both medical and recreational marijuana can operate. In the report prepared for the May 2 meeting, staff notes that it made several changes to the Cannabis Facilities Code...

A group of Dutch entrepreneurs, united under the name Legal Cannabis Coalition (LCC), wants to cultivate cannabis in the former Breda prison known in Dutch as the Koepelgevangenis, television program Brandpunt reports. The entrepreneurs and their companies have no experience in cannabis...

Sonoma County — Voters in unincorporated Sonoma County on Tuesday will consider approving a business tax on cultivation and sales of medical and non-medical cannabis to fund essential services including roads, public safety, fire services and housing. Measure A was placed on the special...

LUSAKA - Zambia could be on its path to start cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes following revelation by the government that the country's laws allow this. Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo said cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purpose was allowed but those...

A medical cannabis dispensary in Calaveras County is suing the County Board of Supervisors to try to block a ballot initiative giving voters a chance to ban commercial cannabis cultivation. The lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Calaveras Naturals asks a judge to take Measure B off the...

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Hemp growers must obtain a licence from Health Canada each year to grow industrial hemp, but recent changes to the regulations have made the process slightly easier and more efficient. As of November 21, 2016 growers can apply for their industrial hemp cultivation licence electronically via...

The city of Elk Grove was threatened with a lawsuit pertaining to the City Council's Jan. 25 approval of extending a restriction on marijuana cultivation in the city. This ordinance imposes a moratorium on all commercial marijuana land uses and all marijuana cultivation within the city. This...

The Chamorro Land Trust Commission on Thursday discussed ways to provide safeguards and establish a policy for agricultural land leases to be used for commercial cannabis cultivation for medicinal purposes. Applications for such purpose should be reviewed on a per application basis, and the...

In Colorado it's now common to see several cannabis medical or recreational retailers within a relatively small radius. What most people don't see, however, are fields of cannabis plants growing in rows like the commercial production of other crops like corn or wheat. Some Coloradans choose...