Arrests

A California real estate agent was arrested in Arkansas in February and accused of trafficking 250 pounds of marijuana between the two states. Heidi Hampton, a resident of Redding, Cal., was arrested in Pope County, Ark., after police stopped her for reckless driving, according to local press reports. Officers allegedly found the “high grade” cannabis in a trailer towed behind ...

Back in 2009, California reached the height of its long, misguided campaign against marijuana. That year, more than 7,400 people were arrested on misdemeanor possession charges in Orange County alone. Lawmakers responded the next year, passing a law that effectively decriminalized the drug for simple possession. And now statistics released by the state suggest that move has worked, cutting misdemeanor ...

The Internet was once a pirate’s dream. You could download porn, steal music, and buy illegal drugs, all in your underwear at 4 a.m. Well, actually you can still do all those things, but the drug part got a lot stickier two years ago when the feds shut down the Silk Road, the premier site for cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, and ...

Police in California launched their first-ever raid on the marijuana industry 100 years ago in September. As the San Francisco Weekly observed, Inspector Joy Jones, who worked for the State Board of Pharmacy, busted two small cannabis gardens in Los Angeles in September 1914. It’s believed to be the first marijuana raid in California history – and one of the ...

A onetime marijuana entrepreneur, among the flashiest in California, pleaded guilty to cannabis-related charges in federal court July 1. Yan Ebyam, 37, who was once a major player in MMJ, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. He now faces between six and eight years in prison if the judge accepts his plea deal with prosecutors. ...

Officials have forced a medical marijuana delivery service out of its San Rafael office space. Police raided the Caregiver Compassion Group, a nonprofit collective that closed Jan. 6. The service had been operating quietly on Woodland Avenue since 2011, when it lost its lease in Sausalito. The service was ordered closed under a 1997 ordinance, one of the oldest in ...