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Eugene

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:09 PM Jul 2012

LA City Council votes to ban marijuana shops

Source: Associated Press

LA City Council votes to ban marijuana shops

GREG RISLING, Associated Press
Updated 03:49 p.m., Tuesday, July 24, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up across the city.

The council in the nation's second-largest city acted after some residents said the pot shops have been a blight on neighborhoods. City officials estimate there could be more than 900 collectives open currently.

Many cities have struggled with medical marijuana ordinances but none has had a bigger problem than Los Angeles, where pot shops have proliferated. At one point, the city ordered closure of the shops — a process that failed amid lawsuits and conflicting rulings by appellate courts.

The so-called "gentle ban" eliminates storefronts but allows patients and caregivers to grow medical marijuana.

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