Op-ed: California cities shouldn't hide from legal marijuana
Orange County cities need to get their acts together on medical marijuana and the potential legalization of recreational pot. So far, only Santa Ana has been trying to sensibly grapple with the situation. If other cities have any doubt about what needs to be done, they should look at all the billboards sprouting up about California marijuana like tall cannabis plants alongside county freeways.
It took 20 years after voters passed Proposition 215, which legalized medical marijuana, for the California Legislature to follow that measure’s instructions to establish sensible statewide regulations. This editorial page backed Prop. 215 and continually has urged the Legislature to enact the will of the voters. But as the Register reported, the state “only now is confronting the full complexity of regulating consumer safety and business practices in an industry that’s ballooned to an estimated $2.7 billion annually.”
Regulation involves “a dozen...
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