This weeks Safety and Communities Committee meeting saw parents of children with seizure disorders stand up to talk of their experiences. The Modesto City Council was regaled for three hours with stories of heartbreaking seizures and hospital visits. And then each spoke of medical marijuana helping in ways that prescription drugs never could. “I didn’t pick medical marijuana; medical marijuana ...

A school in Modesto is denying a young boy the medical marijuana he needs to do well in school, claims the boy’s father. Watch the video below to see why.  

Most of the time, when you hear a dire warning issued by police about marijuana, you know it’s going to be a farce. Maybe not this time. In a typical effort to scare stoners away from their favorite drug, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department issued a warning in May that might actually make some sense: Wash your weed. We all ...

It has been a long time since Ricardo Montes and Luke Scarmazzo opened their medical marijuana dispensary in Modesto. But they are still paying the price. Montes and Scarmazzo are serving mandatory 20-year prison sentences for doing something that is now widely accepted: selling medicinal pot out of a retail store. Times have changed around them, but their circumstances have ...

It’s no secret California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to see his state legalize marijuana in November. He has been arguing for reform for many years, and he has used his office to push the campaign further. But for the first time, he has offered a detailed, cogent public explanation of why he backs legalization. In an op-ed column published ...

Sick children who need medical marijuana to survive are going without because of a series of police raids up and down the Pacific Coast in California. In mid October a local task force of drug warriors raided a dispensary in the San Diego area and destroyed farms in Modesto and Mendocino County in Northern California. The operations were all providing ...

A Modesto father listened to his doctor; his son was severely epileptic so the dad gave him medical marijuana. More below.

Stanislaus County is located in California’s Central Valley. According to the census of 2010, the population was an estimated 514,453, which is a significant increase from up from the 446,997 estimate during the 2000 census. The seat of the county is Modesto. Possession, Cultivation, and Sale of Marijuana in Stanislaus County Possession of marijuana in Stanislaus County is a non-criminal offense ...