Revisiting the Rules for Medical Marijuana
When Sonoma County supervisors unexpectedly considered sharp reductions in how much medical marijuana patients could legally possess, they re-ignited a debate that continues to simmer up and down the...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Study Gets Federal Green Light
In a quiet but significant breakthrough, the US Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to allow the tiny supply of federally grown Marijuana be used in a University of Arizona study to test...
View ArticleInside The Medical Cannabis Business
Medicinal cannabis has become big business in California over the past 17 years. Today, the North Bay Report takes you inside one local dispensary operation to see how it runs like other...
View ArticleInside a Cannabis Dispensary
As medical marijuana use his migrated from the shadows to the sunlight, the patient experience has also become increasingly normalized. On today’s report, we walk through that process.
View ArticleSanta Rosa Advances Cannabis Cultivation Regulations
Santa Rosa is taking its first detailed steps toward regulating the cultivation of medical marijuana within the city. The city’s planning commission will hold a public hearing on the issue Thursday...
View ArticleRevisiting the Rules for Medical Marijuana
When Sonoma County supervisors unexpectedly considered sharp reductions in how much medical marijuana patients could legally possess, they re-ignited a debate that continues to simmer up and down the...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Study Gets Federal Green Light
In a quiet but significant breakthrough, the US Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to allow the tiny supply of federally grown Marijuana be used in a University of Arizona study to test...
View ArticleInside The Medical Cannabis Business
Medicinal cannabis has become big business in California over the past 17 years. Today, the North Bay Report takes you inside one local dispensary operation to see how it runs like other retailers—and...
View ArticleInside a Cannabis Dispensary
As medical marijuana use his migrated from the shadows to the sunlight, the patient experience has also become increasingly normalized. On today’s report, we walk through that process. In addition to...
View ArticleSanta Rosa Advances Cannabis Cultivation Regulations
Santa Rosa is taking its first detailed steps toward regulating the cultivation of medical marijuana within the city. The city’s planning commission will hold a public hearing on the issue Thursday...
View ArticleBest Practices for Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation
Legal or not, there are right ways and wrong ways to grow cannabis outdoors A new document from Mendocino County covers them in detail. Reporter Valerie Kim has details. Available in both English and...
View ArticleHow to Address the Impacts of Cannabis
With new legislation at last providing uniform statewide guidelines for medical marijuana in California, and the possibility of legalizing recreational use on the November ballot, cannabis is...
View ArticlePatents or Trademarks for Cannabis
As cannabis transitions into a full-fledged industry, some of the big challenges that producers and purveyors face lie in the legal realm of intellectual property, such as trademarks and patents. One...
View ArticleMarin General Considers Medical Marijuana Use
Earlier this week, Marin General Hospital took a first tentative step toward becoming California’s first public medical center to openly allow patients to use medicinal cannabis. KRCB’s Tiffany Camhi...
View ArticlePublic Bank Seen as A Boost for Regional Cannabis Industry
A municipal public bank wouldn’t pay bonuses and dividends, and could have a more flexible relationship with federal regulators. All good reasons, says a local supporter of the alternative fiscal...
View ArticleCannabis and Cabernet: Collaborators or Competitors?
The 2016 Wine Industry Expo at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds yesterday included workshops on marketing to Millennials, legislative issues, and harvest methodologies. But the panel discussion on...
View ArticleSome Old Pot Convictions Reversed by Prop 64
Thanks to the passage of Proposition 64, it is now legal to grow, possess or transport small amounts of marijuana. But the measure also can roll back the convictions of people who were jailed for doing...
View ArticleCounty’s Pot Tax Measure Draws Criticism
Sonoma County is grappling with the many complexities of legalizing cannabis, bringing a fast-growing, largely free-wheeling industry under governmental control. Opponents of Measure A, which would tax...
View ArticleCannabis Industry Cautiously Prepares for New Costs
With new tax rates approved by Sonoma County voters on Tuesday, the local cannabis industry is gearing up to enter—and pay for—their new era of legitimacy.
View ArticleCannabis Industry Trade Show Hits Santa Rosa
Yet another indication that the cannabis industry is already large and diverse in and around Santa Rosa: a business-oriented trade shows now underway at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
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