by Fred Gardner
Occasionally the iron heel comes down on people who are widely respected and/or have the resources and will to fight back effectively. “The feds have overreached,” says Steve DeAngelo, who runs Harborside Health Center in Oakland and has been presented by the IRS with a $2.4 million bill for back taxes. He was referring to [...]
by Fred Gardner
For many years the relationship between the federal government and the jurisdictions that decided to tax and regulate cannabis was essentially “don’t ask, don’t tell.” This discreet arrangement ended in the winter of 2010-11 when Oakland’s plan to license four huge indoor grows became national news.
by The AVA
THE BALLOON GUY is back, and there are more than a few people in the Navarro area not particularly happy to see him. Last Thursday, Balloon Guy apparently launched himself aloft in his battered basket and patchwork balloon from somewhere on Gschwend Road, drifting up The Valley toward Philo while his rasta dude assistant followed [...]
by The AVA
This Week: North of Cloverdale, “0 percent” political courage; A math error in Ukiah; Strange times in Point Arena; and much more
by Bruce McEwen
Here in Mendocino County, intoxicant capitol of the United States, there’s a grape glut and there’s a marijuana glut, both caused by too many people on the production end of the product. There’s also a dummy glut at the Mendocino County Courthouse. We’ll get to it.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 [...]
by Ellen Komp
In a Sept. 22 preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa, judge Andria K. Richey ruled that should Northstone Organics be in compliance with state law and Attorney General guidelines governing collectives, they can do more than cultivate marijuana (i.e., sell and transport). Attorney Bill Panzer, who is defending two couriers for Northstone nabbed in Sonoma county [...]
by Hank Sims
So apparently it’s back to Prohibition now. Or that’s at least what the four California US Attorneys, gathered in Sacramento, wished to convey in a joint press conference in Sacramento this last Friday morning. While saying that they had not yet come up with a unified strategy, the prosecutors made clear that their offices would [...]
by The AVA
THE JACKALS of the local media, especially at the big-toothed Press Democrat, are always happy to see pot raids on the locally prominent, especially the locally prominent they politically oppose. But one would think the children of the politically prominent would be of no interest to the bold boys of the Rose City daily, but [...]
Dozens filled a Ukiah conference room to discuss if–and how–to regulate cannabis dispensaries.
Most of the items on the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors agenda last week were mundane — garbage contract details, redistricting, redevelopment, a couple of routine rezones to rubberstamp, and so on. But there was one subject that, by coincidence, is a hot topic in Anderson Valley these days: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Regulation. Subscribe now [...]
