The finger-pointing at the marijuana industry continues -- this time from those who worry that indoor farms use too much electricity.

We're less than three weeks away from the calendar ticking over to a new year -- a year that very well could be the most important for the marijuana industry to date.

Benicia >> Benicia’s planning commission is recommending the city to allow the delivery of medical marijuana within city limits.

All commissioners, except for George Oakes who was absent, voiced their support on the issue during Thursday night planning commission meeting.

“I wouldn’t want to see access to a legal product be prohibited by the fact that people can’t deliver,” Commissioner Steve Young said. “I don’t think that’s compassionate.”

Currently, Benicia doesn’t allow dispensaries, deliveries and the public use of marijuana. Cultivation is also limited to indoors only if there is no “visual or olfactory evidence of cultivation detectable from the public right of way or from adjoining properties.”

Sean Parker was at the forefront of marijuana legalization in California.

(Photo : Sean Gallup/Getty Images News) Former Facebook President Sean Parker Backs Marijuana Legalization Proposal In California

Sean Parker, former Facebook president, once developed a reputation for his advocacy in pushing for change. Now, he is at the forefront of marijuana legalization movement in California.

Two California initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana in the Golden State, one backed by billionaire and former Facebook president Sean Parker, came together this week to amplify their shot at landing a spot on the 2016 ballot. 

The collaboration comes after the two groups negotiated for weeks behind the scenes and came to the conclusion that competing against each other would weaken the possibility that either initiative would be on the ballot in California on Election Day. The state's Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform both support the initiative, Reuters reported.

This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will help guide the city's policies and plans surrounding the inevitable statewide legalization of recreational marijuana. As the Examiner reports, "Cancer survivors, those living with HIV, business owners and medical marijuana dispensary operators were among the 48 applicants" for the seats, of which there will be a total of 14 — the committee left three open to be filled at a later date.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) --

Santa Ana police detectives with the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force seized almost $5.7 million worth of marijuana from an illegal grow.

On Wednesday, authorities served a search warrant in the city at a suspected illegal marijuana grow in the 400 block of North Sullivan Street. The location was a large, warehouse-type of building in an industrial area.

Authorities received a tip about illegal activity in the warehouse from a concerned citizen.

After serving the search warrant, task force officers found a large, highly sophisticated marijuana grow inside the location. No one was found inside, police said.

In the wake of monumental state legislation passed earlier this year to regulate the medical marijuana industry, local cities and San Luis Obispo County are rushing to pass cultivation regulations before a March 1, 2016, deadline.

Both the city of SLO and SLO County will be considering the issue at their respective Dec. 15 meetings. At those meetings, decision makers will discuss whether or not to consider bans on the cultivation of medical marijuana.

forts to legalize marijuana in California got a boost this week after competing ballot measures joined forces behind the stronger of the two, backed by billionaire Sean Parker, a former president of Facebook Inc.

The initiative has the support of Democratic Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform. Coalition board member Antonio Gonzalez, who is also president of the Latino Voters League, said the coalition withdrew its rival initiative after Parker’s measure was modified to protect children, workers and small businesses.

Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster Inc., photographed on Jan. 27, 2012. 

Whether it's founding Napster, guiding Facebook or investing in Spotify, Sean Parker has developed a reputation for pushing change forward, and now he's at the forefront of California's marijuana legalization movement. This week a competing proposal from the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform (CCPR) was folded into Parker's, making his the leading ballot measure, by default, for 2016 in a state with the largest medical marijuana market in the country.