Cities and counties across California would be wise to focus on Sacramento this June – not for the city’s legislative authority as the State Capital, but for the cleverness of its municipal governm
California’s medical marijuana industry has many enemies, from members of Congress to hundreds of city councils rushing to write cultivation bans in recent months.
Twenty-one new medical cannabis bills were introduced by California legislators under the February deadline.
Cannabis has many names, but people who rely on it to ease pain and alleviate ailments deploy an evocative label. They call it medicine.
Cannabis products have been legally sold as medicine in California for two decades. But newly proposed legislation would tax marijuana like a sin, just like spirits, beer, wine and cigarettes.
It’s not easy to love a tax collector. But the cannabis industry and its supporters should be hugging the California State Board of Equalization.
Tracking and tracing commercial cannabis from seed to retail sale received a three-hour examination at a panel discussion organized by State Board of Equalization member Fiona Ma.
Gov. Brown signed emergency legislation to repeal the erroneous March 1 deadline for local authorities to lose jurisdiction over medical marijuana cultivation.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Siskiyou County and its sheriff on behalf of members of the Hmong community.
Several Senate bills related to cannabis or psychedelics will be taken up by the Assembly Appropriations Committee this week. If the approved, they’ll head to the Assembly floor.
