San Jose leaders eye changes to medical marijuana rules

SAN JOSE -- With just weeks to go before a December deadline for compliance, medical marijuana providers are still balking at some of San Jose's rules and city officials are offering to ease them.

Nineteen pot providers have been seeking to meet San Jose's regulatory requirements by December 18. The rules, adopted in June 2014, restrict pot stores to select industrial and commercial areas away from schools and parks and impose a host of security, tax payment and other requirements. Dispensaries that fail to meet the requirements by the deadline face closure.

Some of the medical marijuana sold at A2C2 The All American Cannabis Club in Campbell was photographed on Oct. 2, 2015. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) ( Dai Sugano )

But one rule in particular requiring pot stores to demonstrate that their marijuana is cultivated locally and not from collectives around the state remains a sticking point. City...

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