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Statewide ‘Operation Sticky Fingers’ cannabis retail theft case lands in...
LIVE OAK — Law enforcement authorities announced details Thursday of a sprawling cannabis dispensary retail theft crime ring bust, a case they said spanned nine counties over nine months. Santa Cruz...
View ArticleNearly two dozen arrested in Bay Area during statewide sting aimed at alleged...
Nearly two dozen people — the majority of them Alameda County residents — were recently arrested as part of a wide-ranging sting to root out a statewide burglary ring that targeted marijuana...
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Report on illegal marijuana grow operations highlights Antioch home linked to...
ANTIOCH — An Oakland police officer is on administrative leave after a home he owned was raided by the state’s Department of Cannabis Control earlier this year, one of at least 58 raids in Antioch...
View ArticleCannabis Research Institute opens in Chicago, looking to dig deep into marijuana
CHICAGO — Nearly a year and a half after it was announced, the Cannabis Research Institute is getting operations underway in Chicago, with the goal of studying, among other things, how marijuana could...
View Article2 men arrested after $1.5 million of marijuana found in during California...
Two men were arrested after deputies found they were in possession of more than $1.5 million of marijuana while the deputies patrolled an evacuated area of Pinon Hills on Friday, Sept. 13, amid the...
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Wildfire risk upends California’s marijuana heartland as insurance vanishes
By Nadia Lopez | Bloomberg Hannah Whyte is one of thousands of Californians who have struggled to insure their property in the event of wildfire. Her 77-acre farm nestled deep in a wildfire-vulnerable...
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Trials for 2019 kidnapping, killing of Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur divided...
The four defendants who pleaded not guilty in the kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre, a tech entrepreneur who lived in Pleasure Point. (Contributed) SANTA CRUZ — The start of a murder trial took a...
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Operation Sticky Fingers: Early plea deals net 3-month jail sentences in...
SANTA CRUZ — A fraction of the two dozen men implicated in a statewide cannabis dispensary crime ring concentrated in Santa Cruz County pleaded guilty last week to charges. The state Attorney General’s...
View ArticleCannabis on the mind: Study finds connection between sleep, memory and...
Miriam Fauzia, The Dallas Morning News DALLAS — As public support for marijuana decriminalization grows, new research is shedding light on the drug’s impact on sleep and memory. In a recent study...
View ArticleMore guilty pleas in California-wide ‘Operation Sticky Fingers’ retail...
SANTA CRUZ — An additional three men implicated in the statewide “Operation Sticky Fingers” retail cannabis theft case pleaded guilty to charges Thursday. In deals coordinated by the state Attorney...
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