State's high court: Calif cities can ban pot shops
Source: Associated Press
California cities and counties can ban pot shops, the state's highest court ruled Monday in a unanimous opinion likely to further diminish California's once-robust medical marijuana industry.
The California Supreme Court said neither the state's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana nor a companion measure adopted by the Legislature prevent local governments from using their land use and zoning powers to prohibit storefront dispensaries.
The ruling came in a legal challenge to a ban enacted by the city of Riverside in 2010.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/State-s-high-court-Calif-cities-can-ban-pot-shops-4492022.php
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Pharmacies?
This seems very strange, but not surprising. We have a neo con Democrat mentality in this state. People who serve in the state legislature with a "D" after their name can be fine upstanding people like Mark Leno. But people at the top of the Dem ticket, like Kamela Harris and Di Feinstein, are hard line against marijuana use.
musiclawyer
(2,335 posts)The last paragraph of the opinion basically states its up to the legislature or the people to come up with a real statewide system for regulation of collectives etc because existing law was not sufficiently comprehensive to read into it any preemptive effect.
That's where it stands. This opinion officially now makes MMJ am issue in every local election in every city and county in CA .....
But ultimately what matters more is getting a good full blown legalization measure on the 2016 ballot.