Palm Desert tightens its ban on medical marijuana

Palm Desert has tightened its reins on medical marijuana, adopting an ordinance that strengthens its current ban on dispensaries while adding a moratorium on cultivation and delivery.

Palm Desert has tightened its reins on medical marijuana, adopting an ordinance that strengthens its current ban on dispensaries while adding a moratorium on cultivation and delivery.

The city already has a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in place, but tightened its regulations ahead of California’s Senate Bill 643, the “Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act” of 2015 – or MMRSA – which goes into effect Jan. 1.

The California legislation would require all marijuana cultivators, processors, testers, distributors and delivery services to be licensed by the state as well as local jurisdictions that have ordinances in place.

To avoid the state having sole control, cities and counties have until March 1 to adopt their own ordinances, getting tough laws on the books now...

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