If you haven’t been convicted of a crime, a bipartisan pair of California state senators think the police shouldn’t be able to take your stuff.

Ollie A. Garrett, CEO of Bellevue-based debt-collection company PMT Solutions, will fill the seat vacated in March by Russ Hauge.

State Attorney General Marty Jackley announced charges against leaders of the Colorado-based cannabis company Monarch America, which a Native American tribe had asked to help launch a cannabis project on tribal land.

Much of the money is expected to be funneled to opponents of California’s Prop. 64, an adult-use measure that could be pivotal to the nation’s legalization movement.

As the legal market matures and more consumers start sniffing out “craft cannabis,” where and how a plant is grown will become ever more important.

Less than two weeks after L.A. County supervisors agreed to move forward with a 10 percent tax on cannabis businesses in order to fund homeless services, the proposal’s author wants to shelve the plan.

Regulators in both Oregon and Washington warn that any use of banned products could result in cannabis failing state-mandated lab tests.

Three police officers who were caught ridiculing an amputee and noshing snacks during a dispensary raid are no longer working for the Santa Ana Police Department.

While few in the region deny the severity of L.A.’s homelessness problem, patient advocates are up in arms over the proposal.

Police in jurisdictions across the country rely on the tests despite findings that they often lead to wrongful convictions.