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(Source:Visalia Times-Delta)20 Sep 2010
California
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Visalia City Council members earlier tonight voted, 5-0, to extend for a year a moratorium on medical-marijuana dispensaries in the city. The moratorium also prohibits "collective or cooperative cultivation and distribution enterprises."
The extension starts Oct. 19 and ends Oct. 18, 2011. Visalia officials have stopped short of completely shutting down medical-marijuana consumption or private "grows," but has outlawed dispensaries themselves within the city limits of Visalia.
Proponents of medical marijuana and council members agreed that a vote must be first taken in November on a state ballot measure, Prop. 19, which conditionally legalizes marijuana, before any substantive ordinance on medical marijuana can realistically be crafted for Visalia.
Terrill Brown, M.D., physician director of Medical Cannabis of Visalia, is a proponent of medical marijuana, but opposes Prop. 19 because there is no provision in the legislation which protects the rights of medicinal marijuana users.
Brown also said that current city code-enforcement actions in Visalia which have effectively shut down private gardens have prevented medical-marijuana users from growing their own medicine. Instead, patients are forced to pay high prices, up to $70 for every eighth of an ounce, to dispensaries located outside the Visalia city limits.
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