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Palm Springs residents approved a new tax on medical marijuana dispensaries early this month, and providers and patients will soon find out just how big a financial hit that will mean. On Nov. 5, voters approved Measure B by more than 66 percent, imposing a tax of up to 15 percent on the proceeds of pot shops in the city. ...

In a case that argues loudly for legalization, three men and one woman are charged with cutting off the penis of a medical marijuana dispensary owner during a robbery and kidnapping in Newport Beach. According to authorities, the attackers thought the dispensary owner had buried cash in the desert outside Palm Springs and tortured him to find it. But he ...

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.  

Napa appears likely to close its doors to medical marijuana dispensaries, but the city planning commission isn’t happy about it. Commission members voted 3-2 Oct. 31 to recommend the Napa City Council not repeal the city’s three-year-old medical pot ordinance. The ordinance, passed unanimously in 2010, has allowed a single dispensary to operate in the city under stringent regulations. If ...

The first fines are coming in under Los Angeles’ effort to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries across the city. A landlord in South L.A. has paid a $500 fine, the first collected under Measure D. He was fined for leasing space to an unregistered dispensary. Measure D was approved by voters earlier this year. It’s an attempt to force ...

17 years ago California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, though there were many warnings of negative consequences. A rise in drug use. A rise in crime. Disorder. Chaos. These were the warnings given about legalization. But nearly two decades later there are no real problems from legalization in California. To the contrary, actually. With MMJ so readily ...

A Vallejo couple is suing the city, alleging their medical marijuana dispensary was targeted with illegal police raids, surveillance and political retaliation. Daniel and Rhonda Chadwick operated Homegrown Holistic Cooperative Inc. in Vallejo until it was shut down by police in August 2012. Theirs was one of several dispensaries raided last year, but like the others, their case fell apart ...

Medical marijuana laws may have prevailed in California, but some counties are doing whatever they can to get around them. In an ironic twist of roles, counties like Riverside are using legal loopholes to keep marijuana out of the area. In Riverside and Orange County new zoning ordinances are keeping dispensaries out. City Attorney Greg Priamos took Riverside’s battle all ...

It started with hippies and was never the same again. Utter the words “Humboldt County” to anyone in the United States under 40 and your meaning will be perfectly clear: weed, and lots of it. Part of the famed Emerald Triangle in Northern California, Humboldt has stronger ties to marijuana in the popular imagination than any other place. But it ...

The crackdown promised by new medical marijuana regulations in Los Angeles has officially begun. As of mid-October, the city announced it will be prosecuting 38 dispensaries that have flouted its order to close shop. Officials estimate there are nearly 800 illegal pot shops in town, while other estimates put the number closer to 1,000. The city has sent letters to ...