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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Most Ventura County cities move to ban personal cultivation of medical marijuana 🌿Most Ventura County cities move to ban personal cultivation of medical marijuana
Commercial medical marijuana dispensaries are prohibited throughout Ventura County.
Now, to meet a March 1 deadline under a new state law, six of the county's 10 cities — Camarillo, Fillmore, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Thousand Oaks and Santa Paula — are rushing to go a step further by formally banning small-scale, personal cultivation of medical marijuana. The Ojai City Council will take up the issue in February, but currently forbids personal cultivation.
Officials argue that they want to retain control over marijuana in their communities, while opponents contend that heavy-handed ordinances reduce patients' access to medicinal pot.
Geoff Ware, Thousand Oaks' code compliance manager, said city officials believe the new prohibition is consistent with the city's character.
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"I would say that when we looked at this as a whole, we just took into consideration what we believe to be the characteristics of what Thousand Oaks is," he said. "We felt...
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