Dozens of southwest Riverside County medical marijuana advocates were audibly disappointed Wednesday when the Wildomar Planning Commission put off a vote on a law that would allow marijuana dispensaries.

Wildomar would be the second Riverside County city -- Palm Springs was the first, in 2009 -- to pass a law specifically allowing retail outlets that sell medical marijuana to patients.

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Wildomar could start on a path this week toward becoming the second Riverside County city to allow medical marijuana dispensaries.

The city's Planning Commission on Wednesday will consider a new law that would regulate the dispensaries, lifting a ban in place since Wildomar became a city in 2008.

First, the commission must decide if dispensaries are appropriate for the city. If so, it must decide how and where they can operate.

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The Loma Linda City Council has voted to extend its moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries for another 12 months.

The 4-0 vote last week came without public testimony. Councilman Robert Ziprick did not attend Tuesday's meeting.

Medical marijuana advocates have strongly opposed bans, even temporary moratoriums on dispensaries, arguing that such decisions force patients with legal marijuana prescriptions to turn to the black market.

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Thomas Place, 55, of Rialto, wants more research conducted on the ingestion of marijuana to assist AIDS patients and has helped create an AIDS patient medical marijuana group to further the cause.

"I just want to help other people," Place said, after showing off his concoction of marijuana tincture, a concoction that he says has helped him overcome renal failure. "I've seen people in different clinics struggling."

Place's group, the Inland Empire HIV/AIDS Medical Marijuana ...

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CLAREMONT - Up until recently, Ronald Chavez would drive his vehicle to homes and apartments in the Inland Valley and drop off orders of marijuana.

The owner of Claremont-based Tasty Licks would make the delivery to anyone with a valid medical marijuana identification card.

But the operations of the mobile medical marijuana company were curtailed earlier this month when the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced it would prosecute anyone who performed such a ...

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The medical marijuana mobile that recently rolled out of Norco and into unincorporated Riverside County to sell its wares illustrates the latest in legal entanglements between federal, state and local laws.

Stewart Hauptman said he and his 1985 Pace Arrow motor home are gone for good from Norco after police cited him for possessing drug paraphernalia and operating a dispensary. He has since moved to unincorporated Riverside County, where he says he feels safer because state law ...

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A 19-year-old Redlands man was arrested Wednesday night after assaulting another man and stealing his medical marijuana, police said.
Gregory Lee Brooks was taken into custody on suspicion of robbery and mayhem.

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David G. Dominguez has been chief of the Palm Springs Police Department since February 2008.

Before that, he was a police officer in the Inland Empire for 29 years. He spent 15 years with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department working in corrections, patrol, investigations, training and administration. Dominguez supervised a gang unit, detective bureau and a community policing team before transferring to the Riverside Police Department as a lieutenant in 1994. In Riverside, ...

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Operators of a medical marijuana clinic and collective in Riverside said Friday both facilities will stay open in spite of a lawsuit the city of Riverside filed this week to shut them down.

Riverside City Attorney Greg Priamos said he's seeking an injunction against the clinic, which issues doctor recommendations for marijuana, and the nearby dispensary, a members-only collective where patients can purchase marijuana, because city zoning bans distribution of the drug.

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One of two medical marijuana dispensaries given permits by Palm Springs to operate in the city legally is to open later this month, a spokesman for the dispensary said today.

Desert Organic Solutions, which is at 19486 Newhall St., near Indian Canyon Drive, is expected to open by the end of May, said Tim O'Bayley.

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Prosecutors have dismissed criminal charges against a 51-year-old medical marijuana patient, who lingered in county jail for months after being arrested for growing a dozen of the controversial plants.

Deputy District Attorney Rosa Clark announced the news Friday at an unscheduled hearing for Don Kevin Lawrence in San Bernardino Superior Court, the same day The Sun ran a story featuring Lawrence's case.

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