Maura Kennedy 8/26/2010 Town trustees voted 6-1 to issue a conditional-use permit to Palisade’s only medical marijuana center allowing them to grow and store pot in their town-center zone building.

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Paul Shockley 6/25/2010 A Mesa County grand jury declined to bring charges against three people investigated for a medical marijuana grow operation that was targeted by authorities in March, according to court files made public Friday.

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Gary Harmon 3/17/2010 An industrial hygienist conducted air-quality tests in the Grand Junction census office, and the census is asking the building owner to make changes to the building’s ventilation system. The census also is bringing in workers from outside the office to complete distribution of census forms in rural areas and small communities such as Collbran and Mesa.

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Maura Kennedy 3/13/2010 NewsChannel 5 was the first to break the story. Sources tell News Channel Five two employees with the local US Census Bureau were treated and released from Community Hospital this afternoon. Sources say the acting manager of Grand Junction’s office was treated for a swollen tongue, and the assistant manager was treated for confusion and fatigue.

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3/11/2010 Grand Junction, Colo. Tenants of 573 Building One were told Suite 101 was a “nursery” and “agricultural supply business.” A police search revealed that their realtor, Sid Squirrel of Bray Commercial Realty, wasn’t telling the entire truth.

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BY SARA GOLDENBERG 3/10/2010 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT)- An odor leaking into the Grand Junction U.S. Census office led police to a forest of marijuana plants growing next door. Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at an industrial complex off of Patterson Road. A tip led police to a suite in that building, where they found more than one thousand marijuana plants.

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