Placer County is encompassed by California’s Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions. The county is located in what is known as the Gold Country. Placer County stretches from the Sacramento suburbs to Lake Tahoe and continues on the border of Nevada. One of the fastest growing counties in the state in terms of population, Placer County was estimated to have about ...

El Dorado County is located in the California’s legendary Gold Country in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. El Dorado County’s population was estimated at just more than 181,000 in the 2010 census, and the seat of the county is located in Placerville. Like many other communities in California, El Dorado County has a sizeable population of medical marijuana patients as ...

Calaveras County is located in California’s “Gold Country”. With a population of just over 45,500 as estimated by a 2010 census, Calaveras County has as its county seat the town of San Andreas, with Angels Camp as the only incorporated city within its limits. Calaveras County Laws on Marijuana Calaveras County residents are governed by a Board of Supervisors ordinance ...

Marijuana policy reformers in California say they weren’t in the least surprised by the DEA’s decision to leave the drug in schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, a category of substances deemed more dangerous, more addictive, and less medically useful than cocaine and methamphetamine. “We’re not shocked at this,” said Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry ...

So far, at least, the numbers are stark: Activists pushing to legalize marijuana for recreation in California have raised more than $9 million to fund their ballot campaign. Opponents, meanwhile, haven’t come close to that number. But now a national anti-cannabis group says that’s about to change. Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) is a national lobbying group run by longtime ...

A California woman was sentenced to federal prison in July for her role in shipping marijuana to Upstate New York. Simona Borissova, a 31-year-old resident of Danville, Cal., was sentenced in July to two years in prison, three years of probation, and $274,000 in fines. She was convicted in February on charges of conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to ...

Prop. 64. That is now the official name and number of a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in the November election. California elections officials announced in June that backers of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) had gathered enough signatures to put legalization before voters Nov. 8. If Prop. 64 passes, it would make it legal for adults over ...

California Democrats threw their support behind a public referendum that would legalize marijuana for recreational use. The state’s Democratic Party voted in June to endorse the ballot initiative, which would make it legal for adults over 21 to buy, possess, and use up to an ounce of marijuana per person. They could also grow up to four plants at home, ...

When it comes to legal marijuana, California is the prize to beat all prizes. Four states (Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska) plus the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis for recreational use within the last four years. But the Golden State could leave them all in the dust. Reform groups are pushing to put the legalization question on the statewide ...

A California sheriff’s deputy, a local postal worker, and two other Golden State residents face federal felony charges for allegedly trafficking large amounts of marijuana to Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney Peter Smith of Pennsylvania said in March that the four defendants have been indicted by a grand duty on charges they shipped cannabis from Yuba County in Northern California to York ...