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California Supreme Court

Feb. 5, 2013

State Supreme Court to consider whether California cities, counties can ban pot dispensaries

The state Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether California cities and counties are allowed to ban marijuana dispensaries, a chance for the high court to weigh in on the hot-button issue.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In Oakland, city officials are so supportive of medical marijuana that they went to bat against the federal government for a medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the planet's largest pot shop. For a while, that dispensary had a reality television show on the Discovery Channel.


A day's drive south, in San Diego, city officials have routinely prosecuted the owners and operators of m...

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