A 39-year-old Lassen County man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison after he was convicted last month of felony driving under the influence of marijuana and causing great bodily injury in connection with a 2008 traffic accident that seriously injured three Palo Cedro teenagers and also injured a Redding girl.

Saying federal agencies aren’t doing enough to stop Mexican drug cartels from growing marijuana illegally on public lands, U.S. Rep. Wally Herger has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a long-term solution to permanently dismantle the traffickers’ operations.

Police have arrested a Redding man suspected of stabbing another man Tuesday afternoon in a fight over medicinal cannabis growing at an Enterprise home.

With a little care, you can grow just about any crop you want in temperate Redding. Outside. Using no electricity. Yet our town boasts enough retail establishments selling hydroponic gardening gear to serve a colony on the moon. You can even see them advertising on billboards in town. Why is that? Of course

Hey, you can watch Congressman Herger, introducing his resolution calling for a better strategy to fight backwoods marijuana growing, on WallyVision. Interesting that he says federal agencies need to cooperate and coordinate their efforts. Are they not, at this point?...

After months of complaints from residents that their rural wooded neighborhood near Hayfork is being clear cut into messy marijuana camps, local officials this week conducted a multi-agency sweep geared toward cleaning up the Trinity Pines area.

After months of complaints from residents that their rural wooded neighborhood near Hayfork is being clear cut into messy marijuana camps, local officials this week conducted a multi-agency sweep geared toward cleaning up the Trinity Pines area.

Our congressman wants an end to these displaced foreign travelers growing marijuana in our national forests. He's even gone so far as to introduce a resolution. H. RES. 1540 Supporting the goal of eradicating illicit marijuana cultivation on Federal lands...

Redding will not join a small but growing group of California cities looking to shore up faltering budgets by taxing marijuana.

In the Forest Service's news release about the recent string of marijuana busts, I discovered a term of art I'd never encountered before: During the raid, a U.S. Forest Service K-9 team located Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, a displaced foreign traveler from...

It’s been a busy month so far in the efforts to eradicate illegal marijuana gardens in the north state's backcountry.

Last week I sat down with Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen to discuss the June flare-up in gang-related crimes. In last Tuesday’s

UCLA professor (and blogger) Mark Kleiman explains why -- for both legal and practical reasons -- an initiative to legalize marijuana in California just won't work. Here's a string of consequences I hadn't thought through. The federal government can ignore...

The Record Searchlight’s call for further scientific study on the safety and efficacy of marijuana (editorial, Tuesday) as a medicine is commendable, but hardly goes far enough. The real challenge is demanding that pundits, politicians, and the media actually pay attention to the research that is presently availabl

Redding could join a host of California cities considering a tax on marijuana.

Q: Hello, Monty, I am a Proposition 215 medical marijuana patient, and I have a question for you that I think will apply to many people in our area. What is the law about driving with my marijuana? I have heard all different kinds of answers from many people but would like to know the actual law. I drive a Dodge pickup so

A dozen rifle-bearing marijuana growers were hiding out in the canyons just below hillside homes near Platina.

RED BLUFF — A legal issue central to the defense has interrupted a preliminary hearing for two Red Bluff men accused of cultivating marijuana and possessing marijuana for sale.

According to the agenda for Tuesday's city council meeting...to discuss the idea of taxing medical marijuana sales inside the city of Redding and her idea of moving the annual State of the City speech from the beginning of the year...

So it sounds from Ryan Sabalow's story on the Redding woman who's sued her pot doc and medical marijuana clinic for allowing an RS reporter to videotape her during a consultation last fall. HIPPA, of course, is the federal medical...

A Redding woman has sued a medical marijuana doctor alleging she allowed a Record Searchlight reporter to surreptitiously interview and videotape her during a consultation in which she sought a recommendation for the drug.

RED BLUFF — California’s medical marijuana law became a theme Wednesday in a Tehama County courtroom as attorneys representing two Red Bluff men tried to discredit a key prosecution witness.

From CourtHouseNews.com: REDDING, Calif. (CN) - A patient claims her doctor allowed a newspaper reporter to surreptitiously videotape her while she discussed with the doctor the medical use of marijuana for chronic pain. The patient claims Dr. Cristal Speller and...

Are traveling doctors who specialize in the lucrative niche of writing marijuana recommendations — licenses to smoke coveted both by genuinely afflicted patients and casual users who just want to avoid trouble with the police — running afoul of the canons of medical ethics? Maybe, but that’s between the

Tehama County sheriff's deputies were unable to locate a suspected marijuana grower who ran off after they had handcuffed him.

One of the most common arguments in favor of legalizing marijuana, as November’s Proposition 19 will ask California’s voters to do, is that the drug is already easily available. Well, the Rand Corp. isn't so sure.

Allegations of profiteering pot doctors aren’t unique to California.

In between Jay-Z and Lady Gaga songs on Redding’s hip-hop and pop music station, an advertisement proclaims that for just $149, a new doctor in town will evaluate a patient for medical marijuana.

Redding police arrested a man and two women at a north side motel Friday night on suspicion of weapons possession and drug intoxication, according to a press statement.

Is Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko a mercenary, taking federal cash to pursue marijuana growers while his department’s budget cuts leave more serious crimes unaddressed?

Mike Meno of the Marijuana Policy Project reads this weekend's Wall St. Journal story about how Shasta County is continuing -- using federal money -- its campaign against marijuana growing to mean that the county is only doing it for...

Ten percent of Tehama County is estimated to have a script for medical marijuana and Corning's THC collective is thriving, despite police pushback. It even won a medal, in SF, for its product. Excerpt from a blog by a pseudonymous...

From the WSJ: In a July 3 front-page article about pursuing marijuana growers, the second sentence of the first paragraph was omitted. The paragraph, datelined Igo, Calif., should have read: Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, his budget under pressure in...

It's summer. CAMP time. From the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: Since state CAMP officers arrived in Mendocino County on Monday, 145,000 pot plants have been seized, said spokeswoman Michelle Gregory. Statewide, 705,000 plants have been eradicated, 500,000 of them in Shasta...

So went my brief conversation this evening at the gym with a local federal land-management type, who said that last year, Shasta County set a record for the amount of marijuana pulled up from illegal backcountry gardens, but this year...

Now, most of the noise about the 10 propositions that will grace November's ballot will surely be about the initiative to legalize marijuana, to suspend the "Global Warming Solutions Act," and the giant water bond. However, a pair of related...

A 39-year-old Lassen County man is facing up to 13 years in prison after he was convicted today in Shasta County Superior Court of felony driving under the influence of marijuana and causing great bodily injury in connection with a 2008 traffic accident that seriously injured three Palo Cedro teenagers and also injured a Re

A 19-year-old Mexican man drug agents arrested Monday in a raid on an illegal marijuana plantation in the Oak Run area was armed with a 9 mm handgun, Shasta County Sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.

A 19-year-old Mexican man whom drug agents arrested Monday in a raid on an illegal marijuana plantation in the Oak Run area was armed with a 9 mm handgun, Shasta County Sheriff's officials said today.

OAK RUN - A marijuana eradication effort is being undertaken today in the Oak Run region by a Shasta County sheriff's marijuana eradication team, an office spokeswoman said.

Tehama County Sheriff’s deputies pulled more than 9,500 from an illicit marijuana garden near Paynes Creek.

It was a great trade off!I smoked cigarettes for 30+ years!I started suffering from bouts of chronic joint pain and swelling when I was in my mid to late 20's.  The doctors diagnosed me with early onset Arthritis and slapped me with a barrage of meds which included Steroids, Massive do

Tehama County has been hit with a lawsuit challenging an ordinance that regulates cultivation and possession of medical marijuana.

Here's an intriguing use of online mapping software. It's a digital guide to the closest medical-marijuana delivery services near any location in the state. Because -- why wait an extra 10 minutes for your medicine? California Watch offers a teaser...

Dunsmuir — The planning commission Wednesday night unanimously rejected a proposal by the city’s mayor to build three marijuana greenhouses in the downtown historical district.

Dunsmuir’s planning commission Wednesday night unanimously rejected a proposal by the city’s mayor to build three marijuana greenhouses in the downtown historic district.

Family Tree Care Center will be the first cannabis club in Redding to face a penalty under the city’s recently adopted medical marijuana regulations.

Redding officials will suspend the Family Tree Care Center cannabis club's permit for a single day in June after determining the business had violated city medical marijuana collective regulations.

Permit or not, Donna Will said the stage for a Memorial Day weekend marijuana festival will go up today.

For the first time under the city’s new medical marijuana ordinance, Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen is recommending the suspension of a cannabis club’s operating permit because he says it’s been a nuisance.