The Sebastopol City Council on Tuesday approved the county’s first ordinance that sets rules for medical marijuana patients who want to grow their own pot. “We were trying to strike a balance of the objective of allowing the cultivation of medicinal cannabis and public safety,” said planning director Kenyon Webster. When voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, it allowed the cultivation and use of medical marijuana, but it didn’t set standards, Bob Norberg reports in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. “We are not enlarging or creating new rights. We are enabling [...]
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Oct 172010
In his white cowboy hat, bluejeans and boots, John Pinches might seem an unlikely champion for the legalization of marijuana. Pinches, a Mendocino County rancher, businessman, grandfather and two-term county supervisor who once called himself an “old hillbilly,” has no personal taste for the intoxicating weed. “To me, it’s overrated, kind of like warm beer,” he said, sitting in his Ukiah office with family photos and maps plastered on the walls. But with Proposition 19 on the Nov. 2 ballot — and California a majority vote away from the most sweeping embrace of marijuana in [...]
A Sonoma County judge’s ruling invalidating the county’s medical marijuana dispensary ordinance has given rise to a bumper crop of new pot clubs, renewing debate about public safety and health risks. Since Superior Court Judge Robert Boyd’s injunction Dec. 7 in the case of a Guerneville club, at least six dispensaries have opened on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, Cotati, Forestville and elsewhere in unincorporated Sonoma County. In addition, a number of more transient clubs are appearing, taking advantage of the lack of county regulations prescribing where and when dispensaries can operate and what security [...]
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