County Board of Supervisors play catch-up on cannabis regulations

BY BRENNA SWANSTON

Regulations are underway for cultivating marijuana for commercial recreational use in Santa Barbara County, following a few actions by the county Board of Supervisors at its Feb. 14 meet...

County may limit pot cultivation 

By SHELLY CONE, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

February 15, 2017 5:18 AM

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to seek an urgency ordinance banning any new non-medical marijuana cultivation and related activities, and to r...

Santa Maria Times: County temporarily bans recreational marijuana operations

Mike Hodgson

 Feb 14, 2017 

Nonmedical marijuana operations were temporarily banned in Santa Barbara County on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, to allow the staff and board time to adopt...

Recommended Santa Barbara County Cannabis Ordinance

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Prepared by the Cannabis Business Council of Santa Barbara County 

Please direct comments/questions to: info@cannabizcouncilsb.org   www.cannabizcouncilsb.org

The following is proposed lang...

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will discuss the impacts related to legalization of recreational marijuana in California and possibly direct staff to return with an urgency ordinance prohibiting cultivation when the board meets Tuesday in Santa Maria.

If c...

BUSINESS INSIDER - SCIENCE 

KEVIN LORIA

NOV. 9, 2016, 4:06 PM

After November 8, 20% of Americans now live in states that have voted to allow recreational marijuana use.

Massachusetts, Nevada, and California have now joined Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the Dist...

Santa Maria Times

Staff Report

Marijuana farmers and business owners have formed the Cannabis Business Council of Santa Barbara

County as an education and advocacy organization dedicated to the development of fair cannabis regulations.

Organizers announced the council’s la...

Goleta, Calif. – Nov. 9 – The Cannabis Business Council of Santa Barbara County released the

following statement on the passage of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, from interim Chair Paul Kowalski:

“This is an important day for Santa Barbara County, where...

Santa Barbara Independent

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

By R.W. Navis 

The news in recent days has been dominated by the presidential election results. Somewhat unnoticed has been California’s passage of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. While this result...

By PAUL GONZALEZ, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

November 8, 2016 5:15 AM

As voters crowd the polls today, a group of local cannabis sellers are betting on the passage of a recreational marijuana proposition.

On Monday, the newly formed Cannabis Business Council (CBC) of Santa B...