The long-awaited pot legalization initiative from the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, also known as ReformCA , is about to be filed with state officials. Backers of the initiative told the LA Weekly Tuesday that language for circulation will be filed with the attorney general's office in a matter of "days."

A few years ago, with cannabis legalization supposedly around the corner, San Francisco city government tried to engage the local marijuana industry — then more commonly referred to as the medical cannabis "movement." 

A city supervisor created a 15-member "task force" for marijuana, one of dozens of task forces and commissions in San Francisco, and stocked it with dispensary owners, growers, and "patient advocates." 

SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Kush Bottles (www.kushbottles.com), North America's premier supplier of customizable child-resistant packaging solutions and accessories for the legal cannabis industry, announced today it had been ranked by the Orange County Business Journal as the 3rd Fastest Growing Private Company in Orange County.

With its continued strong revenue growth, the compliant packaging solutions provider is 3rd on the list of fastest growing small private companies, and is the top ranking cannabis industry business on the list.

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Northern California are giving patients affected by a hugely destructive wildfire up to $200 in free cannabis per patient for the next week.

The companies produce cannabis oil, sprays and vaporizing cartridges, among other products.Through Oct. 7, two marijuana-related product companies, Care By Design and AbsoluteXtracts, are offering free products at five dispensaries in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and Lake County, the companies said in a joint statement.

My son Wiley suffered from infantile spasms, a type of refractory seizure. Through the use of Cannabidiol (CBD) rich cannabis oil we cured his epilepsy outright. Since that time his energy has doubled, his development has blossomed, and I get to see just how a toddler should be. Wiley is running and playing, tearing up the house faster than I can fix it. 

“There is always a boom somewhere,” said a famous investor long ago. If that sage had been living today, he would be focused on the world of cannabis and would have attended the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo held at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week. The business opportunities in the years to come will equal the California Gold Rush and the real estate boom the state has enjoyed for four decades now.

The Crowd

The Marijuana Investor Summit provided quality educational sessions to more than 200 business owners and investors at the current Marijuana World Congress & & Company Expo held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sept. 16, 2015.

The top covered a variety of subjects on the threats and rewards of investing in the cannabis industry for both public market investing and private financial investments. Sessions were led by professionals in their fields, consisting of licensed broker dealerships, financial investment bankers, venture fund managers, angel investors and leading c-suite executives from leading micro-cap companies on the Marijuana Index.

EUREKA (KPIX) — You can make fast money working on a marijuana farm in California. But with fast money comes risk and, sometimes, death.

Cal Fire’s Kneeland Helitack Base in Humboldt County is pretty close to the middle of nowhere so, when workers from a nearby pot farm showed up, Battalion Chief Kurt Dernedde knew something was amiss.

“To not have some sort of problem like [running] out of gas or anything, to just walk up to the base doesn’t normally happen,” he said.

The workers wanted to use the phone but Dernedde says they wouldn’t say why. The next day one of the men was back. He’d been found bleeding and terrified.

“He was already in rough shape,” said Dernedde.

Late last week, two men were fatally shot in a marijuana dispensary allegedly belonging to Chief Keef that is located in Compton, California. However, according to the Bang 3 Part 2  rapper, he has no affiliation with the dispensary whatsoever despite an Instagram post he created last October that conflicts with his recent statement. The Chicago rapper is now refuting any connection with the Glo Gang Shop, claiming that a fan opened the shop.

Ah, 1996. Clinton was in the White House, “Braveheart” won Best Picture — and California was the first state in the nation to pass a medical marijuana ballot initiative.

For some Californians — whether they were yet unborn, or whether their lives would be cut short in the 19 years of the War on Drugs before California’s lawmakers would get their act together and enact a regulatory regime for the medical marijuana marketplace their constituents had loosed upon the state — it was literally a lifetime ago.