Month: July 2016 (Page 53)

News3LVSuspected marijuana grow house operation site of electrical fireNews3LVWhen the smoke cleared firefighters found the house was vacant and was being used for what appeared to be a marijuana grow operation. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was notified about the situation. Investigators said the fire started on … Read More:Continue Reading

California pot buyers getting shortchanged, regulators stepping inSFGate (blog)The new weights rules also apply to “cannabis cultivators, product manufacturers and other persons that package and label the net quantity of cannabis products; … distributors, transporters.” Effective January 1, 2018, licensed “Weighmasters” will … Read More: California pot buyers getting shortchanged,Continue Reading

Defendants charged in large-scale Sierra National Forest marijuana grow appear in courtU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement NewsroomFRESNO, Calif. — One defendant was sentenced and a second pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiring to cultivate marijuana in the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, following a multiagency probe thatContinue Reading

HempTech (HTCO) Ships grow.droid I, Fully Automated IoT Grow Systems to Colorado & WashingtonMarketwired (press release)OTC PINK : HTCO), a provider of advanced Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) with sophisticated automation and analytical tools for the cultivators of legal industrial hemp and cannabis, announces today that it has shipped two grow.droidContinue Reading

HempTech (HTCO) Ships grow.droid I, Fully Automated IoT Grow Systems to Colorado & WashingtonYahoo Finance(OTC PINK: HTCO), a provider of advanced Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) with sophisticated automation and analytical tools for the cultivators of legal industrial hemp and cannabis, announces today that it has shipped two grow.droid systems …andContinue Reading

Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)Could Hemp Grow Back to Aid Sustainability Efforts?Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)But hemp contains far less of the psychoactive compound, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), found in marijuana. In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Farm Bill, which made it legal for state departments of agriculture and universities to growContinue Reading

Community members off Highway 36 bemoan rapid growth of cannabis industryNorth Coast JournalThe aquifers and streams are inadequate to support commercial agriculture. But, of course, that's now exactly what they're being used for: Under new county medical marijuana laws, permitted grows are not allowed to truck in water from anContinue Reading

Canna-unionize?North Coast JournalThis is the Humboldt Medical Cannabis Union (HMCU), a group working to protect cannabis jobs in Humboldt County and bring farmers and workers out from the underground and into legitimacy. There is a lot of fear in Humboldt about vanishing jobs and a … Read More: Canna-unionize? –Continue Reading

KRON4.comSJPD make arrests in illegal marijuana growKRON4.comSAN JOSE (KRON) — Police made arrests in a major pot bust after a three-month long investigation in San Jose. The San Jose Police Department conducted a raid on a large scale marijuana grow operation on Wednesday afternoon. Officers found …San Jose police: Eight-house marijuanaContinue Reading

KRON4.comVIDEO: San Jose police make arrests in major illegal marijuana grow operationKRON4.comSAN JOSE (KRON) — Police made arrests in a major pot bust after a three-month long investigation in San Jose. The San Jose Police Department conducted a raid on a large scale marijuana grow operation on Wednesday afternoon. OfficersContinue Reading