Global Ganja Report

For the second time in less than a week, a judge issued a restraining order to prevent officials in California's Tulare County from pulling medicinal cannabis plants from a farm just north of Visalia. The order by Tulare County Superior Court Judge Paul Vortmann will remain in effect at least until Oct. 6, when another hearing on the case is scheduled. The ruling came in response to an application for a restraining order filed by Richard Daleman, who runs a business leasing small plots to about 40 clients to grow medicinal cannabis. All have doctors' recommendations to grow and smoke.

The county Resource Management Agency issued Daleman and his landlord cease-and-desist orders to stop growing and clear the cannabis from the site, charging that the farm violates provisions of the county's medical marijuana ordinance. Those provisions state that the plants have to be grown on commercially zoned land in the unincorporated areas of the county.

This past weekend was the deadline, but on Friday Sept. 9 Judge Melinda Reed issued a temporary restraining order against the county until Vortmann, who wasn't in court that day, could make a ruling. (Visalia Times-Delta, Sept. 15)

Graphic by Herbal Remedies