Los Angeles County’s cannabis regulation efforts have entered an important new phase with the convening of a diverse advisory group made up of health and policy experts, community leaders, cannabis industry representatives and other key stakeholders. The group will meet eight times between June 29...

For the third time in state history, California voters will be faced with the question of legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The official ballot summary for Proposition 64 says the measure could generate up to $1 billion in new tax revenue annually for state and local governments. Only time will...

(CN) – California is poised to become the largest state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana this November, a move the state’s lieutenant governor says could trigger “a domino effect” across the nation – and voters in four other states may also help tip the dominoes. On...

[CN] – Medicinal marijuana is legal in Nevada, but that doesn’t negate federal guidelines banning drug addicts from owning guns, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday. S. Rowan Wilson had hoped the federal appeals court would revive her constitutional challenge to the federal firearms provision...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is considering extending a ban on the production and sale of medical marijuana in unincorporated territories of the county. The ban would be extending the Interim Ordinance No. 2016-0022U, which was enacted on April 12, 2016. Ordinance No. 2016-0022U temporarily...

The Board of Supervisors is expected to sign an agreement Tuesday that would provide $232,000 in federal funds for the Sheriff’s Department to bust marijuana grows on public lands throughout the county. The agreement would allow the Sheriff’s Department to participate in the federal Drug Enforcement...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to develop a Medical Marijuana Enforcement Dispensary Team that will be tasked with shutting down illegal marijuana dispensaries. The motion was a joint effort between Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Hilda Solis. “A streamlined...

As a follow-up to the City of Santa Clarita’s successful Immature Teen Brain on Pot symposium held in August 2015, the City will host Marijuana: Hidden in Plain Sight on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 6 p.m. in Council Chamber at Santa Clarita City Hall, located at 23920 Valencia Boulevard. As part of...

It started out as an ordinary day. Members of the Community Hiking Club of Santa Clarita were assembling at the Walker Ranch Trailhead on New Yaer’s Day at 10 a.m. for their annual hike up Los Pinetos Trail to Wilson Saddle. Hiker Lise Meyers saw the smoke first. She pointed it out to several other...

More than 300 people turned out for the city of Santa Clarita’s “Immature Teen Brain on Pot” symposium Wednesday evening at the Santa Clarita Activities Center. The symposium provided information to help parents protect and educate their children about the short term and long term mental and...