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 [...]
What’s in a name? More specifically, when does a bunch of medical marijuana growers turn into a collective? The question arises because Tulare County has filed suit against “five people in a medical marijuana collective” who are accused of violating the county’s 2009 cultivation law. Under that medical marijuana ordinance, collectives and cooperatives must operate in a commercial or manufacturing zone, [...]
Two brothers were killed and another man was injured in a shooting at a medical marijuana grow site in Pixley on Saturday night, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department said. Deputies were dispatched to a home on the 2500 block of East Sierra Avenue around 9:15 p.m. for calls of shots fired. When they arrived, deputies found two men dead of apparent [...]
A man in his mid-20s was shot to death Wednesday morning in a marijuana grove near Strathmore, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department said. The victim, who lived in Los Angeles and was visiting here, was asleep in a home when he heard a noise outside and went to investigate. He was shot about 5 a.m. by someone trying to steal marijuana, [...]
A man shot and killed south of Dinuba on Monday was tending to a marijuana garden, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday. The victim – Cesar Ramirez, 39, of Hayward – was staying on the property on the 38600 block of Road 64. He was found in the garden about 3:45 p.m. with a gunshot wound. He died at the [...]
Tulare County Sheriff’s Department officials have served four medical marijuana operations near Visalia, Ivanhoe and Seville with notices of violation requiring they shut down within the next 10 days. If the owners and operators refuse to comply, the county will file for a preliminary and permanent injunction to enforce compliance, Tulare County officials announced Thursday. The move comes nearly four weeks [...]
Pot may be a huge cash crop in California – but don’t call it an agricultural crop. In what is believed to be the first such finding in the state, a Tulare County Superior Court judge has ruled that a marijuana collective can’t operate on land zoned for agriculture, Lewis Griswold reports in the Fresno Bee. In his ruling that was [...]
