Authorities bust $36.9 million illegal marijuana warehouse in Oakland October 3, 2023 AggregatedNews Black Market, California 1 Comment Law enforcement busted a massive illegal cannabis grow in Oakland last week, finding an estimated $36.9 million worth of cannabis in an unlicensed facility. In total, an operation led by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife found 41,082 cannabis plants and 1,841 pounds… Read More→
Oakland Cannabis Sellers, Once Full of Hope, Face a Harsh Reality March 15, 2022 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments The cannabis industry, designed in part to help communities upended by the war on drugs, is being threatened by theft, racism and a market that is stacked against small operators. OAKLAND, Calif. — Across from where the Athletics play baseball… Read More→
Oakland decriminalizes ‘magic mushrooms’ and other natural psychedelics June 5, 2019 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments Oakland’s city council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that decriminalizes the use of entheogenic plants, a category that includes flora such as “magic mushrooms,” cactuses, and iboga that can induce a psychedelic experience. Oakland is the second city in the… Read More→
California Company Creates First Marijuana Breathalyzer Test August 6, 2018 AggregatedNews Science and Technology 0 Comments A California company said it has created the first marijuana breathalyzer test, which has the potential to be used by police to detect whether drivers have used the drug. As more states legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use, law enforcement officials have grown increasingly… Read More→
Oakland Embraces Marijuana Sales. Compton Bans Them. How Is Justice Best Served? March 19, 2018 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments OAKLAND, Calif. — When officers burst into Rickey McCullough’s two-story home in Oakland a decade ago they noted a “strong fresh odor of marijuana.” Mr. McCullough had been growing large amounts of marijuana illegally, the police said. He was arrested… Read More→
Oakland Approves Plan to Make Cannabis Industry More Minority Inclusive May 18, 2016 AggregatedNews California, Policy & Legal 0 Comments To repair what they say was damage done to minorities targeted in the war on drugs, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved laws to make the city's pot industry more inclusive of black and Latino residents. The consensus vote… Read More→
Oakland Wants to Bring Cannabis Industry Out of the Shadows May 4, 2016 AggregatedNews California, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Oakland’s medical marijuana industry may be big and proud and pioneering, but much of it still operates in the shadows — with growers, manufacturers, delivery drivers and unsanctioned dispensaries operating outside the bounds of city oversight, inspections and taxation. But… Read More→
After 4 Years, U.S. Attorney Drops Case Against California Medical Dispensary May 4, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Retail 0 Comments OAKLAND, Calif. - The attorney for a California medical marijuana dispensary billed as the nation's largest says federal prosecutors are stopping a nearly four-year effort to seize the dispensary's property. Henry Wykowski, the attorney for Harborside Health Center in Oakland,… Read More→