State's high court: Calif cities can ban pot shops

[Newsjock]

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]

1. So does that mean that Calif. cities could ban hospitals, dialysis centers,

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. The court said its hands are tied

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.

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3. This was already posted

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014475756