Marijuana field ripped in Cosumnes River Preserve

By Joe Goldeen

Record Staff Writer

August 07, 2012 12:00 AM

THORNTON - Wardens with the California Department of Fish and Game spent the weekend cleaning up a major illegal marijuana field in a wildlife refuge along the Sacramento/San Joaquin county line.

The pot bust netted thousands of mature plants, tons of garbage and one arrest.

Fifteen game wardens from throughout the region spent 12 hours Sunday cutting down 2,000 marijuana plants in the Cosumnes River Preserve near New Hope Road and Bear Slough, roughly three miles northeast of Thornton and just inside Sacramento County.

Is it legal to sell pot on Craigslist?

Santa Rosa detectives were surfing Craigslist one day when they came across a “for sale” posting that caught their attention.

Someone was offering top-shelf marijuana — described as “crystal-laden” and “very distinctly scented” — for $2,700 a pound.

The post came under a banner citing Prop. 215, the voter-approved initiative allowing Californians with a doctor's recommendation to possess and use pot.

Petaluma drops bid to regulate indoor grow sites

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Despite indoor marijuana-growing operations having been the source of numerous local fires in recent years, city efforts to create an ordinance regulating these gardens have died due to the ongoing conflict between state and federal law.

While the state of California allows the use of medicinal marijuana and the cultivation of the plant, the federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug. Because of this, public safety officials have realized that regulating marijuana cultivation is not currently possible, Janelle Wetzstein reports in the Argus-Courier.

Berkeley Patients Group finds new home on San Pablo Ave

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Three months after the federal government forced it from its long-term home on San Pablo Avenue, the Berkeley Patients Group has found a new location just a few blocks away.
Construction crews have been working to transform a small, dilapidated one-story building at 2366 San Pablo Avenue near Channing Way into BPG’s new dispensary. On Wednesday, a bulldozer was breaking up an asphalt parking lot and workers were hauling away debris.