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Lake Elsinore likely to extend moratorium on medical marijuana stores
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Lake Elsinore likely to extend moratorium on medical marijuana stores
Lake Elsinore likely to extend moratorium on medical marijuana stores
The city of Lake Elsinore could extend a moratorium on the establishment of medical marijuana outlets. The city council will take up the issue at a hearing tomorrow night.
The city will likely extend a moratorium through next year. The existing ban expires next week.
The moratorium prohibits anyone from setting up a shop that grows and sells marijuana. Lake Elsinore's city council enacted it about two years ago after a San Diego-area man tried to open what would have been the Inland city's first medical marijuana grow house and dispensary.
The city has no rules on the books to regulate a marijuana manufacturing facility. It says it needs more time to research the issue.
City officials are also reluctant to lift the moratorium because of conflicting state and federal laws regulating medical pot. But it is OK for people to grow and use medical weed for medicinal purposes in Lake Elsinore if they have a doctor’s prescription.
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