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Posts Tagged ‘cannabis’

Council votes to fund contract for new police body cams and tasers

By Jacob Shea | October 20, 2016
Richmond City Council members question police department officials on Taser International contract. Photo by Jacob Shea.

The Richmond City Council clashed over funding for body cameras and tasers at Tuesday’s meeting. Other initiatives related to cannabis, carbon tax and school budget were approved with little conflict.

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Richmond dispensary sues over alleged monopoly on medical marijuana

By Reis Thebault | September 26, 2016 | 6

After more than six years spent trying to open up shop, Richmond Compassionate Care Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary, has filed a lawsuit alleging that Richmond’s three existing dispensaries conspired with community organizers and a city council candidate to monopolize the local medical marijuana trade.

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Tales of Two Cities #4: Changes

By Matt Beagle | March 24, 2016

This week on Tales of Two Cities, we talk about change: people and places going through powerful transformations.

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The ‘Ben and Jerry’s’ of cannabis ice cream

By Martin Totland | November 30, 2014 | 5
Isaac Lappert

Isaac Lappert, 24, has been making and serving ice cream since he was six. In the last year, he has been making and selling medicated ice cream from his business Cannabis Creamery.

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Council to weigh Oakland-like tax on big pot growers

By Ian Stewart | July 26, 2010 | 1

On Tuesday, Richmond’s City Council will weigh whether to follow Oakland’s lead in allowing, regulating and taxing large-scale medical marijuana growers within city limits.

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