LA City Council repeals medical marijuana ban

The Los Angeles City Council reversed the
medicinal marijuana dispensary ban that was approved in July but never
enacted on Oct. 3.

Before the ban was ever able to be
implemented, multiple organizations including Americans for Safe Access
and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 protested and initiated
signature programs for the ban to be overturned.

This action by the council leaves
the city without any rules and regulations regarding the maintaining of
dispensaries in the city.

By collecting tens of thousands of signatures, 50,000
by ASA