A Nevada City woman was arrested after being stopped in Illinois, for allegedly carrying 167 pounds of marijuana. Cara Ringland, 32, was pulled over by officers Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 80 near Peru, Ill., The Union of Grass Valley reports. She has been charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver, with a possible prison term of between six and 30 years with no possibility of probation. A bond hearing was pending Thursday. No further information was available from the La Salle County State’s Attorney.
Nevada County supervisors could shut the door on medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada County at their Tuesday meeting. Supervisors are being asked to approve a June 23 recommendation from the Planning Commission to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from setting up shop in the unincorporated parts of Nevada County. The move would block dispensaries from setting up anywhere in Nevada County, Kyle Magin reports in The Union, as both Nevada City and Grass Valley have permanent bans on the books, and Truckee’s zoning ordinances prohibit dispensaries. That Nevada County’s medical marijuana patients cannot go to a [...]
A Nevada City man arrested last year for allegedly trying to sell 5 pounds of marijuana on Craigslist was sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to maintaining a place for the sale or use of a controlled substance. Gary Lester Feise, 47, allegedly put an ad on the popular Internet marketplace to sell his “extra meds” in December 2010. The advertisement listed different strains of medicinal marijuana, Liz Kellar reports in The Union of Grass Valley, as well as dollar amounts for the product to help cover growing costs and delivery [...]
Nov 242010
A news blog is pretty useless when there’s no news to report, and since Election Day the cannabis headlines have become few and far between. Proposed dispensary bans passed their first vote by Los Angeles and Orange supervisors, but apart from that it’s back to grow house fires, random pot busts and small-town news. Prop. 19 coverage has disappeared, and its 2012 sequel hasn’t been scripted yet. Our focus thus reverts to local issues involving medical cannabis, and it’s a very mixed bag in California. Dispensary bans have gone viral with city councils and boards [...]
Nevada County’s municipalities have taken a hard line on medical marijuana dispensaries this year. City councils in Grass Valley and Nevada City, as well as Nevada County supervisors, all either have passed or extended moratoriums on medical dispensaries in the past year, The Union reports. Officials are now keeping a close eye on Proposition 19, which would allow the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational use, and allows local governments to control the sale of marijuana and tax the revenues. The initiative appears on the Nov. 2 ballot. Grass Valley doesn’t [...]
On a slow news day, we follow two California women whose travel through Missouri was interrupted. This Associated Press article is presented in its entirety as posted by the Kansas City Star. The original headline reads: “Search of car turns up gift-wrapped marijuana” JOPLIN, Mo. — Somebody won’t be getting the Christmas presents that Missouri troopers seized from a car they stopped for speeding on Interstate 44 near Joplin this week. The Highway Patrol says troopers found about 20 pounds of marijuana in the car — some of it in luggage, and some in boxes [...]
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