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KPBS Midday EditionEmergency room visits are up 35% in San Diego County and 49% statewide since voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, data show. But doctors say many patients are simply inexperienced pot users who aren't in significant danger. -
KPBS Midday EditionWhen California voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, they did so with the promise of new social and environmental programs funded by cannabis tax dollars. That promise remains largely unfulfilled in San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego is considering a new program focused on helping communities most impacted by the War on Drugs share in the profits of legalized cannabis. A similar program in Los Angeles has faced criticism. -
More than three years after California voters broadly legalized marijuana, a state panel is considering if its potent, high-inducing chemical — THC — should be declared a risk to pregnant women and require warnings. -
San Diego officials have given initial approval to the fourth and final retail marijuana outlet they will allow in Council District 1. -
The changes that take effect Jan. 1 are expected to boost prices at the retail counter. -
Two marijuana dispensaries have opened in the last month in the city, with more on the way.
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California cannabis regulators last week suspended the licenses of nearly 400 businesses — including nine in San Diego County — for failing to enroll in the state's system for tracking marijuana from where it's grown to where it's sold.
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Authorities say they seized nearly 19,000 marijuana plants at the indoor farms and arrested nine people they believe were tending them. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week he signed the legislation that reverses a current prohibition on cannabis within 1,000 feet of K-12 campuses. School districts will have the final say on whether they will allow it.
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