SAN FRANCISCO California cities and counties are free to use their zoning laws to eliminate medical marijuana dispensaries from their boundaries, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The unanimous ruling in City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patient’s Health and Welfare Center is likely to end or at least hamper the business of medical marijuana across large swaths of the state, as the cities of Los Angeles and San Jose and Sacramento County are among the municipalities already developing bans similar to Riverside’s.
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