COUNTIES AND CITIES NOT LISTED BELOW ADHERE TO CA STATE DEFAULT GUIDELINES OF 6 MATURE OR 12 IMMATURE PLANTS AND 8 OZ. OF DRIED PROCESSED MARIJUANA.
ARCATA: City council passed an ordinance on 11/08 allowing no more than 50 square feet for cultivation. In addition, dispensaries will be prohibited from using more than 25% of their property for cultivation when the ordinance takes effect December 19th. The council may revisit the issue during the land use code revision process in six months. Those with special needs may request more grow space. The new standards apply only to areas of Arcata outside the Coastal Zone, which rings Humboldt Bay. A separate but identical ordinance covers those areas, but will not go into effect until approved by the Coastal Commission, which will take at least a year and probably longer.
BERKELEY: Ordinance allows 10 plants and 2.5lbs per patient, or up to 50 plants, 12.5lbs for collectives.
BUTTE CO.: County guidelines: 6 mature or 12 immature plants, 1 pound processed material. Official Butte County policy regarding caregivers, collectives, and co-ops.
CALAVERAS CO.: Board of supervisors approved: 6 plants and 2 pounds.
DEL NORTE CO.: County adopted Sonoma cultivation guidelines with maximum 100 square feet cultivation area and 99 plants or fewer; one pound possession limit (approved by Board of Supervisors 4/22/02). However, as of August 8th, 2008 those limits were thrown out, per People v. Kelly and a BOS action that began with the intent of reverting to state default guidelines.
EL DORADO CO.: Sheriff and DA policy: Indoors: 10 flowering plants + 10 vegging + 1 mother; Outdoors: 20 starters or 10 mature plants, 1-2lb processed marijuana depending on season of year.
HUMBOLDT CO.: County guidelines allow patients 100 square feet and 3lbs with no plant number limit. Cities of Eureka and Fortuna PDs and CHP enforce SB 420 limits (6 mature/12 immature plants; 1⁄2 lb).
MENDOCINO CO.: On December 30, 2008, Mendocino County Superior Court Judge John Behnke ruled Measure B’s limits of eight ounces of dried marijuana and 6 mature or 12 immature plants per qualified patient (unless a doctor allows more) were now the legal limits in Mendocino County, reversing his August ruling throwing out the limits.
NEVADA CO.: Cultivation: 6 mature female plants or 75 square feet of plant canopy (previously 10 plants not to yield more than 2 lbs). Possession: 2 lbs. processed marijuana- consistent with patient’s recommendation.
OAKLAND: Indoors - 72 plants in maximum 32sq. ft. growing area. Outdoors- 20 plants, no area limit. Weight limit 3 lbs dried marijuana per patient. Collective gardens limited to 3 patients. Dispensaries serving 4 or more patients are allowed max. 6 mature and 12 immature plants and 1⁄2 pound per patient.
SAN DIEGO (also CHULA VISTA): City council guidelines allow up to 1 lb. of marijuana, 24 plants in 64 square feet indoors; no outdoors growing allowed except in enclosed greenhouses.
SAN FRANCISCO: Patients allowed up to 24 plants or 25 square feet of canopy; dispensary gardens capped at 99 plants in 100 square feet. Possession limit 8 oz. dried cannabis per patient.
SANTA CRUZ: 100 sq. ft. of canopy and up to 99 plants is allowable under county guidelines, for a patient or a bonafide caregiver. The City of Santa Cruz to adopt guidelines based on People v. Kelly.
SONOMA CO.: Guidelines permit 3 lbs. for possession; maximum 100 sq feet cultivation area with 30 plants or fewer (approved September 2006).
TRINITY CO.: On October 28, 2008, the Trinity Board of Supervisors repealed their medical marijuana ordinance, reverting them to the state guidelines (see below).
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