Word on the street is that the court of appeals is about to rule in an Anaheim Medical Marijuana lawsuit which challenged the City of Anaheim’s outright ban on medical marijuana collectives.   This case has been ongoing for the past three years and should send shock waves throughout the State of California.

The City of Anaheim, like many other cities, created an ordinance that banned collectives (dispensaries) within the city limits.   This ban was challenged as unconstitutional.  How can the city ban something outright that is legal in the State?  The common sense answer is that they shouldn’t be allowed to.  But they did and patients in Anaheim have had to drive further distances to get their medicine.

If the court rules that Anaheim CAN NOT ban collectives then I think we will see another explosion of collectives that open up  across the state.   If the City wins then I think the decision will have a domino effect and other cities will look to BAN collectives as well.    Either way expect the landscape of medical marijuana collectives to start changing fast.

My thought is that Anaheim is going to lose this and it will be appealed to the state supreme court for a final ruling.   The bottom line is that cities need to accept that medical marijuana patients should have safe access to medicine and they just need to coexist peacefully.    CREATE A LOGICAL ORDINANCE AND BE DONE WITH THIS!

Be blessed,

Dr. Breen