The site of the proposed warehouse is vacant land at Jason Street and Cassandra Drive. A Cleveland-based company that has applied for a state license to grow medical marijuana won approval Thursday from the Toledo Plan Commission to build a 60,000-square-foot cultivation warehouse near Alexis Road and Suder Avenue. Les Hollis, a consultant for Lake Erie Compassion Care, said the proposed facility would employ as many as 60 people, generating a $2.5 million to $3 million annual payroll. [continues 372 words]
Change Follows Moratorium on Growing Facilities TEMPERANCE -- Bedford Township has amended its zoning laws to regulate medical marijuana use, becoming the first government entity in Monroe County to address the voter-approved state law. The zoning ordinance, which was approved 7-0 last week by the township board, amended the "home occupations" section of the township's zoning law to comply with the voter-approved Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, allowing individual qualifying registered patients and registered care providers to possess and grow medical marijuana in their homes. [continues 361 words]
Lawyers Question Dogs' Reliability It started as a routine traffic stop on chilly New Year's day when Ohio Highway Patrol Trooper Stacey L. Arnold saw a minivan stray outside the lanes on the Ohio Turnpike. When the driver, Can T. Nguyen, appeared overly nervous, his hands trembling as he handed over his driver's license, Trooper Arnold headed over to her car to get her drug-detecting dog, Ringo. The black and tan Belgian Malinois alerted to drugs, giving the trooper the probable cause she needed to search the minivan. She found what she was looking for - 113 pounds of suspected marijuana in a cargo area. [continues 838 words]
Ex-Guard Faced 40 Years For Drug Case Convicted of felony drug charges in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, Edward L. Turner was looking at going to prison, probably for the rest of his life. Instead, Mr. Turner, 58, boarded a Greyhound bus in downtown Toledo yesterday and went home to Chicago. An out-of-work security guard, Mr. Turner, who had spent nearly seven months in the county jail, was freed after prosecutors dismissed the felony drug charges that a jury found him guilty of last month. [continues 750 words]
