Topic: Oakland

Oakland airport ex-employee pleads guilty to marijuana smuggling

• Across California, cities releasing marijuana prisoners and dropping convictions
• Oakland awards special “equity” dispensary permits in public drawing
• Which Bay Area cities will allow recreational marijuana sales in January? (hint: not many)
• Issues emerge in Oakland’s new marijuana equity biz program for those impacted by Drug War
• New strategies for helping cannabiz owners from communities hit hard by war on drugs
• These states offer incentives to support minority cannabis business owners
• Bay Area company gives free cannabis products to cancer patients
• Oakland city council meeting gets heated over marijuana biz residency requirement
• Oakland reserves marijuana biz permits for people who served time for weed
• Weed chief tours state to tout new California medical marijuana rules
• Summer vacay idea: See the marijuana exhibit at Oakland Museum of California
• America’s largest cannabis business summit lands in Oakland
• Agents raid 10 Oakland marijuana grow houses linked to Mexican cartel
• What are Oakland’s proposed ‘equity permits,’ and will they be a game-changer?
• New Oakland laws to help Latino and black-owned pot businesses
• Denver cannabis industry leader flips car in California amid gunfire
• California city defends dispensary against feds, but next step murky