Jim Finnel
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex News Moderator
An ordinance that sets rules for how medical marijuana patients can grow their own received final approval Tuesday by the Sebastopol City Council.
When voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, it allowed the cultivation and use of medical marijuana, but it didn't set standards.
Under Sebastopol's ordinance, patients and caregivers can grow marijuana at their homes with the maximum number of plants limited to 100 square feet of leaf canopy.
The city also will allow the creation of up to two gardens in town by medical marijuana dispensaries, with a maximum of 750 feet of leaf canopy, and two additional gardens of the same size by collectives of patients and caregivers for their own use, not for sale.
The gardens must be inside a house or outbuilding or in a yard with solid or opaque walls six feet high and with a locked gate.
It also provides that police will investigate home medical marijauna gardens only upon complaints about such things as odor or public safety issues.
The ordinance was read for the second time and approved in a 5-0 vote. It takes effect in early January.
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Source: Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA)
Copyright: 2010 The Press Democrat
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Author: Bob Norberg
When voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, it allowed the cultivation and use of medical marijuana, but it didn't set standards.
Under Sebastopol's ordinance, patients and caregivers can grow marijuana at their homes with the maximum number of plants limited to 100 square feet of leaf canopy.
The city also will allow the creation of up to two gardens in town by medical marijuana dispensaries, with a maximum of 750 feet of leaf canopy, and two additional gardens of the same size by collectives of patients and caregivers for their own use, not for sale.
The gardens must be inside a house or outbuilding or in a yard with solid or opaque walls six feet high and with a locked gate.
It also provides that police will investigate home medical marijauna gardens only upon complaints about such things as odor or public safety issues.
The ordinance was read for the second time and approved in a 5-0 vote. It takes effect in early January.
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA)
Copyright: 2010 The Press Democrat
Contact: letters@pressdemocrat.com
Website: Santa Rosa News, Weather, Sports and Business | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat
Details: MapInc
Author: Bob Norberg
