Pubdate: Sat, 14 Jan 2012
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: Kate Linthicum

CURBS URGED ON POT DISPENSARIES

The Los Angeles city attorney is calling on the City Council to 
implement a "gentle ban" on marijuana dispensaries that would forbid 
businesses from selling the drug - but still allow patients who are 
seriously ill and their caregivers to cultivate it.

At a council committee meeting on Friday, City Atty. Carmen Trutanich 
and several of his top lawyers recommended that officials revoke the 
current ordinance regulating marijuana dispensaries, which calls for 
a lottery to choose which dispensaries to allow.

Under Trutanich's proposal, the city would not prosecute ill patients 
or their caregivers who were growing marijuana, as long as there was 
no third party involved and no money was changing hands.
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