US - 411 on the 420 (in Santa Rosa)

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Santa Rosa, CA- Council members may want to think twice if they're contemplating a total ban on the city's three medical cannabis dispensaries. On Monday, Oakland-based medical marijuana advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed suit against the city of Fresno for doing just that. "The permanent ban on dispensing, enacted by Fresno and a handful of other cities in California is an unlawful barrier to medical marijuana," says ASA legal campaign director Kris Hermes. "Without the means of growing it themselves or finding a caregiver to do it for them, dispensing collectives may be a patient's only legal option for obtaining medical marijuana." The lawsuit states that in enacting the ban, Fresno is violating SB 420, which the California Legislature passed in 2003 in order to clarify the Compassionate Use Act passed by voters in 1997. The ASA warns that other cities that have enacted bans on cannabis clubs, including San Rafael, may face similar litigation.




Source: North Bay Bohemian.
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