California Lawmakers Scramble to Fix Marijuana Law Mistake

The California legislature scrambled this week to correct a serious error that had been written into the state’s new medical marijuana regulations.

The State Assembly passed AB 21, a bill that fixes what may have been a fatal problem with the language of last year’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, by a unanimous vote of 65-0 on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The bill had cleared the state Senate on Monday, and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.

AB 21 removes a March 1 deadline for cities to implement their own medical marijuana regulations. The tight deadline reportedly caused many cities to ban the cultivation of medical marijuana outright, but lawmakers had not intended to set a deadline when drafting the legislation late last year.

In September, Brown signed into law a trio of bills that set up California’s first statewide system for...

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