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The City of Bandon is proposing to adopt an ordinance regarding the siting of recreational marijuana facilities within the light industrial and general commercial zones inside city limits. A public hearing on the issue will be held tonight at 7 during the regular City Council meeting in...

On Monday night, City Council - concerned about a potential increase in crime - unanimously passed an ordinance that will ban the growing, processing and selling of medical marijuana in town. Council passed the ordinance 11 days before a medical marijuana moratorium, which temporarily banned...

The Ridgecrest City Council at its meeting Wednesday waived a reading in full and approved a first reading of an ordinance restricting cannabis cultivation and sales within city limits. If it is approved upon a second reading, the ordinance will amend the city's municipal code to prohibit...

The city of Morro Bay is just one of 482 cities in the state frantically working on local cannabis regulations before a January 2018 deadline. California voters approved Proposition 64 last November, making the use of recreational marijuana legal for adults 21 and older, and jurisdictions...

Martinez City Council will decide tonight whether to impose a temporary moratorium on all commercial cannabis activities. Should the ordinance be adopted, exceptions would be made for pending applications for medicinal marijuana dispensaries, said City Attorney Jeffrey A. Walter in his report...

When the Planning Commission meets tonight, they will be talking about marijuana. On the agenda is an ordinance amending the Ridgecrest municipal code as it relates to commercial cannabis activities. The proposed municipal code amendment would prohibit, restrict, and regulate medical...

Members of the La Verne City Council recently approved an ordinance banning all commercial marijuana activities in the city along with setting regulations for the personal cultivation of pot. Council members gave unanimous final approval to the ordinance, which was part of the Oct. 16 consent...

The city of Ann Arbor is taking steps to ensure its process for licensing medical marijuana facilities complies with the state's new Medical Marihuana Licensing Facilities Act. The state law, which took effect in December 2016, outlines different types of commercial medical marijuana...

Ever since the approval of Proposition 215–the Compassionate Use Act, which permits the use of medical cannabis in California–activists, advocates and users have collectively fantasized about a day when procuring herbal refreshments was as easy as picking up produce from the market or allergy...

The Village of Ubly wasted little time rescinding its medical marijuana ordinance, following a discussion at its original monthly meeting last week. Medical marijuana has been at the forefront in recent months, with the latest version of the Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act going...

Effective immediately medical marijuana dispensaries can set up shop within the town limits provided they comply with restrictions imposed by Town Council, which in a split vote approved an ordinance allowing the establishments. The council voting 3-2 Oct. 3 enacted an ordinance allowing the...

City Council is expected to consider tonight at City Hall new amendments to a medical marijuana ordinance that's been on the books for six years. Two council members and Mayor Virg Bernero said in a news release today the amendments are needed to "align city policies with the new state law."...

Medical marijuana advocates and patients may soon find safe harbor in Muskegon as city commissioners mull over an ordinance allowing growers and dispensaries to operate in a special district off Seaway Drive. The proposed ordinance would allow growers, processors, safety compliance...

A group called Let Lansing Vote filed petitions Friday afternoon seeking a referendum on the city's a new medical marijuana ordinance. The ordinance for commercial properties was approved by City Council last month and was supposed to go into effect on Saturday. If the group turned in enough...

A new Atlanta ordinance eliminating jail time and reducing penalties for having small amounts of marijuana will allow officers to focus on eliminating violent crimes instead of petty ones, the city's police chief said. Marijuana remains illegal in Georgia, and the ordinance addresses only the...

The Atlanta City Council voted to decriminalize marijuana in a unanimous decision on Monday. This is what to know about the vote and how it impacts weed-related arrests moving forward. HERE IS WHAT'S NEXT After the 15-0 vote from the City Council, the proposed ordinance goes to Atlanta...

Following one final round of discussion over wording and logistics, the Willits City Council approved the medical cannabis ordinance at its regular meeting Wednesday by a 4-1 vote, opening the door to various aspects of the industry within allowed zoning in the city. The ordinance is set to...

Smithfield can't restrict the rights of state-licensed medical cannabis growers through its zoning ordinance, said Superior Court Judge Richard Licht in putting a temporary injunction on the town's new zoning ordinance that restricted caregivers from 12 to 2 plants, among other reductions in...

The members of the Cannabis Working Group met in front of a full room at the group's special meeting Sept. 14 in the Board of Supervisors' room in the courthouse in Quincy. The CWG and droves of community members flipped through a new draft ordinance and reviewed the changes. Who is on the...

They covered a lot of ground at the Sept. 12 meeting of the Cloverdale City Council, but the most significant moment was when the council voted unanimously for the long awaited cannabis ordinance to take a big step forward into the final phase. Citing business and property interests...