Pubdate: Fri, 04 Feb 2011
Source: San Bernardino Sun (CA)
Copyright: 2011 Los Angeles Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.sbsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1417
Author: Ryan Hagen
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES NOT BANNED YET

The Planning Commission decided Thursday to push back a proposed ban 
on medical marijuana dispensaries on unincorporated county land for 
at least two weeks, while two commissioners work with county staff to 
develop what they say would be a more balanced presentation of the issue.

Commissioners also said they needed time to digest nearly five hours 
of comments from the public - most of them from medical marijuana 
patients who said using it has dramatically increased their quality 
of life without the side effects of other drugs they had been prescribed.

Other speakers supported the staff conclusion that the county's 
moratorium on new marijuana dispensaries should be upgraded to a ban, 
based on what they said was the immorality of using it and statistics 
suggesting crime increased around dispensaries in other counties.

The Planning Commission will reconsider the issue Feb. 17, then 
choose whether to recommend the ban to the San Bernardino County 
Board of Supervisors.
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