San Mateo County

Police in Northern California said they found about 1,000 pounds of weed that someone left while unloading it from a boat beached in San Mateo County. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department said federal and local investigators found the marijuana May 12 in a panga boat and a sport utility vehicle parked on the Pescadero State Beach. There were 42 ...

A group hoping to establish a nationwide certification for medical marijuana dispensaries gave its first-ever stamp of approval to two California pot shops Feb. 20. Americans for Safe Access, a pro-marijuana group, certified two dispensaries in the Bay Area: the Berkeley Patients Group and the San Francisco Patient and Resource Center. The group uses a certification process known as Patient ...