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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5560</guid> <description><![CDATA[Has your medical cannabis business been targeted with an IRS notice or tax audit? If you haven&#8217;t been hit yet, YOU WILL! Harborside Health Center&#8217;s Stephen DeAngelo and the country’s leading tax experts on 280E will present effective strategies for dealing with current tax audits and for minimizing your 2012 tax liabilities. OAKLAND Saturday, February <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5535</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to extend a temporary moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries for an additional 10 months and 15 days. The supervisors also added language to the ordinance that is meant to protect existing dispensaries from closure. Assistant County Counsel Carolyn Ruth said there are currently three <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5527</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new state law intended to clarify local governments&#8217; role in regulating medical cannabis dispensaries seems to support Redding&#8217;s and Shasta County&#8217;s recent bans on the storefronts, local officials claim. But a lobbyist for local dispensaries, who differs from state and nationwide advocacy groups worried that the law does just that, believes the new law <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5505</guid> <description><![CDATA[San Francisco has begun issuing medical marijuana dispensary licenses again, following a recent state Supreme court decision that will allow local pot dispensaries to do business &#8212; for now. The city&#8217;s Medical Cannabis Act permitting process had been on hold for several months, following a state appeals court ruling in Pack vs. Long Beach, Chris <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5479</guid> <description><![CDATA[SHASTA LAKE — The planning commission will take public input Thursday on proposed changes to the city&#8217;s rules on medical marijuana dispensaries. Shasta Lake is the only place in Shasta County where dispensaries can legally operate. Anderson, Redding and the unincorporated county all have banned dispensaries, Sean Longoria reports in the Record Searchlight. Commissioners will <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5474</guid> <description><![CDATA[San Francisco, the hotbed of marijuana law reform, has frozen medical cannabis dispensary permitting this winter as the City — and dozens of others across the state — nervously await a decision by the California Supreme Court on the very legality of such permits. Nine groups that are seeking permits to open new San Francisco <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5466</guid> <description><![CDATA[U.S. authorities filed suit Thursday seeking to seize the building of a Sacramento dispensary, charging the marijuana store violated federal laws against drug transactions near schools. The forfeiture complaint filed over the Sacramento Holistic Healing Center – a Southside Park dispensary also known as &#8220;Grass on 10th&#8221; – marks the first formal federal seizure action <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5462</guid> <description><![CDATA[LONG BEACH &#8212; The Avalon Wellness Center sits in an industrial neighborhood on Long Beach&#8217;s Westside. Surrounded by welding and industrial supply businesses, the gray block building almost disappears in the bleak backdrop, but for the green medical cross painted on the wall. Avalon may have to close its doors if the City Council on <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5432</guid> <description><![CDATA[OROVILLE &#8212; The Butte County Board of Supervisors Tuesday repealed an ordinance banning marijuana dispensaries in the county, but the ban still remains in effect. The unanimous vote came in response to a petition drive seeking to rescind the ordinance passed in October that banned all medical marijuana dispensaries within Butte County jurisdiction. After the <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5407</guid> <description><![CDATA[Confusion took center stage Wednesday night at the Arcata City Council meeting with the council ultimately voting to move forward with a medical marijuana dispensary moratorium that would not affect any existing dispensaries. The meeting ended with new clarity over the city&#8217;s proposed temporary hold on processing applications for new medical marijuana cooperatives and collectives, <a
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