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Medical marijuana is getting closer to the light of day in San Diego. MMJ providers and patients won’t have an easy time under the city’s new dispensary law, but it’s a big step up from the months during which they were banned and the years during which the city has struggled over how to deal with them. In February, the ...

A boat carrying roughly a ton of bundled weed washed ashore in Southern California April 7. There was no one there to do anything useful with it. A person was detained at the beach, put police didn’t say whether he was connected to the boat. A helicopter search by the U.S. Coast Guard didn’t turn up anyone else. The boat ...

Sheriff’s deputies in Merced County destroyed about 400 marijuana plants they found in an elaborate commercial garden carefully hidden beneath a house on an almond ranch. Victor Arreola Barajas, 40, was arrested in the Hilmar area in connection with the raid. He was booked in lieu of $20,000 bail on charges of marijuana cultivation and utilities theft. Officers arrested Barajas ...

A California couple were arrested in Arizona on suspicion they tried to drive a marijuana grow-op through the state in a rental truck. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Department in northern Arizona arrested Le Nguyen, 46, and his girlfriend, Kathy Nguyen, 42, along Interstate 40 near the small high-desert town of Seligman. The Nguyens live in San Jose. They were being ...

A California man has pleaded guilty to selling a large quantity of marijuana in Pennsylvania in 2012. Benjamin Choi, 26, pleaded guilty to a single charge of possession with intent to deliver in the courtroom of Philadelphia common pleas Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy. Choi, a San Jose resident, entered the plea without making a sentencing deal with prosecutors. That means the ...

An Inland Empire dispensary owner who is serving a 10-year federal prison sentence lost his bid to win a new trial. Aaron Sandusky, who ran the shuttered G3 Holistic Inc. and its dispensaries in Moreno Valley, Upland and Colton, sought to overturn his 2013 conviction. But in March the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his arguments. The court ...

All stoners have moments, deep in the grip of a good bake, when they dream of marijuana falling from the sky. But what happened outside San Diego was a little more serious than that. An ultralight aircraft carrying about 250 pounds of cannabis crashed in the mountains east of San Diego, federal agents said. The pilot apparently escaped unhurt and ...

Police raided an alleged grow house next to an elementary school in Manteca in March. Officers served a search warrant on the house, located less than 150 feet from Stella Brockman Elementary School, on March 19, said Manteca Police Lt. Tony Souza. They left with more than 300 marijuana plants and a pound of dried plant from the home. An ...

Officials in Los Angeles have closed more than 100 medical marijuana dispensaries in the months since the city started regulating the shops, City Attorney Mike Feuer said March 10. Even so, the city may not be keeping pace with new shops opening every day. Feuer joined Police Chief Charlie Beck at a news conference, where they said the city has ...

The raid on a Mendocino County medical marijuana dispensary earlier this month was triggered by an investigation in Colorado, police said. On March 4, a team of investigators from the DEA and Mendocino County law enforcement served search warrants on four addresses. The raid was centered on the Love In It Cooperative on the coast in Mendocino, but warrants were ...