State Court Upholds LA’s Dispensary Ban
the420times | Sep 30, 2009 | Comments 0
Sept 28, 2009 — It’s a classic battle between good and evil. A state court last week ruled that the city of Claremont could ban medical marijuana dispensaries without violating previously approved state laws permitting the use of medical marijuana and the collective growing of medical marijuana.
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In a legal blow to medical marijuana advocates, a state court ruled last week that local governments can ban medical marijuana dispensaries from setting up shop in their jurisdictions.
The state’s Second District Court of Appeal said in its decision that the city of Claremont in Los Angeles County could ban dispensaries without violating the state’s medical marijuana laws. Those laws include the 1996 Compassionate Use Act, which legalized marijuana for medical use, and the 2004 Medical Marijuana Program Act, which lets people cultivate marijuana collectively.
That is because neither law “compels the establishment of local regulations to accommodate medical marijuana dispensaries,” according to the court’s ruling.
Read the full story at North County Times.
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