Category: illegal cannabis

Costa Mesa to Authorize Tax Liens Against Illegal Marijuana Dispensaries That Refuse to Pay Fines

Costa Mesa city council passed a resolution July 20 that will allow it to place unpaid illegal marijuana dispensary fines onto the California county’s tax roll as a lien against the property. The city has been dealing with a host of illegal dispensaries popping up in the past few years as a result of 2016’s Proposition 64, which allowed recreational marijuana…


LA County Board to Crack Down on Illegal Grows, Reconsider Cannabis Ban

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted July 13 to collaborate with federal, state and local officials to shut down illegal cannabis grow operations in the Antelope Valley, while agreeing to reconsider a longstanding county ban on commercial marijuana. Supervisor Kathryn Barger warned three weeks ago that commercial cannabis and hemp grow…