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The San Diego City Council voted 6-3 Monday on an option for regulating marijuana use in San Diego, now that it is legal. Council members chose between two options. The first would have allowed testing of marijuana and marijuana products in labs in industrial and commercial zones that...

The city council in San Diego is considering whether to OK marijuana cultivation locally once new state laws allowing recreational use take effect next year. The Los Angeles Times reports that the nine-member council is expected to weigh the issue Monday. The proposal would allow the...

Commercial marijuana is months away from legality in California, but the future of marijuana delivery services remains in flux in San Diego. An analysis by NBC 7 Investigates found hundreds of unlicensed medical marijuana delivery services have flooded into city and county limits...

San Bernardino's first licensed marijuana dispensary may share an address with its only strip club. More than nine months after residents voted to allow medical cannabis businesses in town, city officials have approved a dispensary permit for the location now occupied by Flesh Showgirls...

Looking around our city, you would hardly know that marijuana will be legally sold here starting in January. Due to delays and inaction by city government, San Diego could be the California city least prepared for legal cannabis retail. This is mainly because there are still around 300...

We are proud San Franciscans and community activists in the South of Market. We have had the privilege of watching San Francisco grow and change over time. And one area that has changed tremendously is cannabis policy, both medical and soon adult use. In 1996, more than three quarters of San...

Even by the standards of San Francisco's famously fractious land use fights, last month's Planning Commission hearing on a plan to open a cannabis dispensary in the Sunset District was extreme. The hearing lasted nearly seven hours. It included testimony from more than 150 members of the...

San Joaquin County plans to allow commercial cultivation of cannabis and dispensaries. The Board split 3-2 in the vote on the controversial issue. The hearing included a report from the staff, public comment, and after five hours the vote finally came. Dozens of people spoke both for and...

San Diego’s plan to allow local cultivation, manufacturing and testing of marijuana took a key step forward with the recent unveiling of proposed regulations for those activities. Leaders of the local marijuana industry are praising San Diego for being among a small group of California cities...

When it comes to cannabis, local investors and entrepreneurs are seeing green. A new business accelerator called Canopy San Diego is investing time and money in technology startups that offer ancillary services–renewable energy, back-office software, and mobile phone apps–to the billion-dollar...

I grow cannabis as much for learning as for product in San Diego's benign climate. It's a benefit of retirement. This year the variables are (1) planting from peat pots directly in the soil v transplanting to a bigger pot until the seedling is bigger; (2) strain - hk v ogk; (3) growing in the...

The Del Mar Fairgrounds has approved a contract for its first cannabis festival – and the largest in San Diego County. As many as 6,000 people are expected for the Sept. 23 event, which organizers are calling the Goodlife Festival. Attendance will be limited to those 21 and older. No sale...

Where the turf meets the surf meets a toke. The Del Mar Fairgrounds has inked a contract for its first-ever cannabis festival — and the largest by far ever in San Diego County. As many as 6,000 people are expected for the Sept. 23 event, which organizers are calling the Goodlife Festival...

San Bernadino - Two separate groups filed lawsuits last week challenging Measure O, the initiative citizens approved in November to allow marijuana dispensaries in the city. The city hasn't yet implemented the measure, and City Attorney Gary Saenz said the lawsuits' existence will likely...

San Diego California's city council unanimously voted to allow adult-use cannabis sales at the cities current 15 medical dispensaries once the voter-backed program is fully implemented, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Officials also indicated they would consider regulations later this year...

A big vote is coming up on Tuesday for the San Diego City Council and it could change the way people legally buy marijuana. The proposal has two specific points: the first is whether or not to approve recreational use of marijuana. The second would subject marijuana delivery services, which...

After being forced out of its home of a decade, a Bernal Heights medical marijuana dispensary was approved Thursday to open nearby in what was – up until 2015 – San Francisco's last remaining gun shop. The Planning Commission voted 7-0 Thursday night to grant a permit to the Bernal Heights...

San Diego County, CA — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to consider a ban on all marijuana businesses in unincorporated county areas, with plans to vote on the proposal before a moratorium expires in March. The board met to consider a package of regulations for...

The site of San Francisco's last gun shop that shuttered two years ago may turn into a medical marijuana dispensary. The Bernal Heights Cooperative's permit application to open for business as a medical marijuana dispensary is set to go before the Planning Commission today. The proposed...

A legal cannabis economy could bring jobs and increased economic activity to San Rafael, the city's economic development director said in a presentation to the City Council. Proposition 64 has made recreational marijuana legal throughout California, and cannabis businesses will need...