San Jose Passes Ban on Sale of Recreational Marijuana
A ban on the sale of marijuana passed in San Jose, California on Tuesday. The actions come as election-day voting on Proposition 64 approaches.
The city’s urgency ordinance “would prohibit commercial use of non-medical marijuana in the city, including commercial cultivating processing, manufacturing, distributing, testing and selling of recreational weed,” according to the Mercury News.
San Jose is only the latest in a run of California cities quickly passing restrictive marijuana laws. Bans are also in place in Berkeley, Palo Alto, Campbell, Foster City, Hayward, Davis, Martinez and more.
Officials argue that passing this law allows them more time to reach out to the community and assess the effects of a recreational marijuana market. Most of these bans are considered temporary.
Proposition 64 legalizes recreational marijuana throughout the state of California, yet requires recreational shops to obtain a local license before being issued a state one – keeping...
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