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This Rural County In California Legalized Marijuana Farms Then Banned Them After Taking Their Tax Money

Dennis Mills peered over his shoulder at the green hills below, where marijuana farms dotted the Calaveras County landscape. “There’s another one!” he told the pilot with a laugh. The Cessna doubled back so Mills, a county supervisor, could steal…

Marijuana Industry In California Is Poised To Be A Leader In Job Creation

California is poised to become the largest recreational cannabis market in the world. It’s also a great place to get a job helping marijuana growers, processors, and sellers or work in adjacent services including legal advice, marketing and security for…

In Response To Sessions, Berkeley Votes To Become First Marijuana Sanctuary City

February 14, 2018
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As California continues to function in a new era of legal marijuana, Berkeley has declared it is now a "sanctuary city" for cannabis users. CBS San Francisco reports that the Berkeley City Council voted in favor of a resolution that would designate…

San Francisco To Clear Marijuana Convictions From Past 40 Years

Thousands of people with misdemeanor convictions for marijuana possession dating back 40 years will have their criminal records cleared, the San Francisco district attorney’s office said Wednesday. San Diego is also forgiving old convictions. Recreational marijuana became legal in California this year,…

Cannabis Company Donates 1 Million Meals In California

Bloom Farms, a California cannabis company, has donated 1 million meals as part of its corporate social responsibility program. For every product purchased, Bloom Farms gives the equivalent of one meal to a state food bank. “Donating our one-millionth meal…

Northern California County Turns Back On Growers – Votes To Ban Marijuana

A previously pot friendly rural Northern California county has reversed course and banned commercial marijuana farms, paving the way for lawsuits from growers who previously received permits and paid taxes. A newly constituted Calaveras County board of supervisors last week…

California Bill Would Expunge Prior Marijuana Convictions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Democratic lawmaker wants to make it easier for Californians with marijuana convictions to reduce or erase their records as the state moves into the next phase of legalized pot. Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, introduced legislation on…

Mike Tyson Enters Cannabis Realm With 40-Acre Ranch In California

Mike Tyson is on the verge of becoming a heavyweight in California’s burgeoning marijuana industry. The former boxer and some business partners have broken ground on a 40-acre ranch in the state that they envision as a destination for growers…

California Lawmakers Say New Marijuana Cultivation Laws Favor Large Corporate Farms

December 19, 2017
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California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be protected, according to a group of state lawmakers and marijuana industry leaders who called Monday for the policy to be…

California Looks To Solve Banking Issues As Legal Marijuana Nears

December 18, 2017
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California has a possible solution to the problem of banks being unwilling to handle money from the state’s multibillion-dollar legal marijuana industry, one that officials say would be the first system of its kind in the nation. Talks are underway…

California Issues First Legal Marijuana Business Licenses

December 16, 2017
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California's legal marijuana market is finally, fitfully, taking shape. The state on Thursday issued the first batch of business licenses to sell and transport recreational-use pot, just 18 days before legal sales will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. The 20…

How Has Legalization Altered The Way Kids Learn About Marijuana?

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana. The 14-year-old took the class again…

California Marijuana Taxes Expected to Reach 45%

Buying legal marijuana in California could be pricey enough to keep the black market healthy. Between customers, retailers and growers, taxes on cannabis may reach as high as 45% in parts of the state, according to a Fitch Ratings report.…

California Wildfires Are Hitting Marijuana Farms

Fatal fires that have consumed nearly 200,000 acres in Northern California, devastating the region’s vineyards particularly in Napa and Sonoma Counties, are also taking a toll on a fledgling industry just months before its debut: recreational marijuana. Many of the…

In California, Recreational Marijuana Means Lots of New Government Jobs

Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and leafy, it’s government jobs. The state is on…