MORE ON: Republic of Cannabis

At the peak of California’s pot boom in 2009, one of the state’s largest medical marijuana dispensaries recorded more than $15 million in sales to thousands of customers for popular strains like Grand Daddy Purple, OG Kush and Blue Dream. What it didn’t record was much profit.... + read more

A war of words has erupted between state drug officials and a Kentucky prosecutor over the investigation of an NFL player who last year received two pounds of marijuana shipped to his home from Northern California. Officials in the two states are at odds over the amount of marijuana that was... + read more

This week, officials in Mendocino County, Northern California, are expected to pull the plug on an unusual program that put pot growing under supervision of the local sheriff. It was the first effort of its kind in the nation and proved a success, at least in the eyes of many locals. But, as... + read more

Mendocino County’s ambitious effort to regulate marijuana production – the first of its kind in California and the nation – is facing growing uncertainty following new threats of legal action by federal prosecutors. The controversial program, which began two years ago,... + read more

Federal prosecutors are stepping up efforts to seize property from landowners who lease space to medical marijuana operators amid a widening crackdown on California's pot industry. The latest action involves the Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, one of the state’s... + read more

Marijuana is transforming California’s Central Valley as pot has become a more lucrative crop than almonds and grapes in the nation’s most productive farm belt, Fresno County Farm Bureau officials say. Now, federal authorities are sending letters to landowners who lease farmland to... + read more