Tulare County supervisors, early adopters that they are, have passed an urgency ordinance prohibiting Tulare County dispensaries and medical cannabis collectives involving two or more people. Meaning just about everyone. A Fresno Bee story on the Tulare County marijuana ordinance says it only applies to expansion of existing dispensaries or the creation of new ones. Regardless of what county officials may [...]
Fresno’s ban on outdoor cannabis gardens faces a new legal challenge, this time on environmental grounds. In December 2011, the Fresno City Council passed a so-called urgency ordinance prohibiting outdoor cannabis gardens anywhere in the city. The ordinance passed after police cited concerns about a handful of large-scale gardens, some of them within residential neighborhoods. A 2010 shooting death during an [...]
The deal is done and the ink has dried on Fresno’s permanent ban on growing marijuana outdoors. Technically speaking, it doesn’t take effect until Aug. 3, but there’s a temporary ban that’s still in place. Mayor Ashley Swearengin signed off on the law July 3, which followed approval June 28 by the Fresno City Council. Outdoor marijuana cultivation ban – City [...]
The Fresno City Council voted Thursday to approve a permanent ban on growing medical marijuana outdoors. The measure now goes to Mayor Ashley Swearengin for her signature, and it takes effect 30 days after that. The permanent ordinance allows no outdoor marijuana cultivation of any kind within the city limits, just like the temporary bans that were passed in December and [...]
The Fresno City Council voted 5-0 today to approve a permanent ban on growing medical marijuana outdoors. (It’s on the June 28 council agenda for second reading and final passage.) The ordinance allows no outdoor marijuana cultivation of any kind within the city limits, just like the temporary bans that were passed in December and January. Enforcement will be handled through [...]
The Fresno Planning Commission voted 4-2 on May 16 to recommend passage of a permanent ban on growing medical marijuana outdoors anywhere in the city of Fresno. The marijuana ordinance is set for hearing and adoption by the Fresno City Council at 9:30 a.m. this Thursday, June 21. I was one of three people to speak against the ban — many [...]
Brian Doyle recently tossed out a Dumpster’s worth of marijuana plants for fear of being raided by the Fresno County sheriff. He calls it a loss of good medicine. Now he worries about losing his investment of tens of thousands of dollars in grow lights, a security system and a lease on a Malaga warehouse where he intended to run the [...]
