Wall Street Journal, 03 Oct 2012 – LOS ANGELES-The City Council voted to repeal its own recent ban on storefront medical-marijuana dispensaries, an about-face that left as many as 1,000 pot shops all but unregulated as officials try to get a handle on a massive legal gray area. Faced with a rapidly growing number of storefront "collectives" distributing the drug for ostensibly medicinal uses-and ensuing complaints from neighbors-the council this past July unanimously modified the municipal code to effectively outlaw such dispensaries. But medical-marijuana activists quickly forced a referendum seeking to overturn the ordinance by collecting signatures from 50,000 residents opposed to the ban.
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