Oakland council blocks marijuana clubs

[Sitbcknchill]

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Oakland has refused to allow private marijuana clubs, fearing a federal crackdown that would close dispensaries for medical marijuana permitted in California.


City Council members this week said Measure Z, which passed in November 2004, does not allow the commercial sale of marijuana. The referendum makes adult marijuana use the police department's lowest law-enforcement priority in an effort to decriminalize it.

The U.S. Justice Department argues that federal laws supersede referendums approved in California and a few other states allowing people with cancer, AIDS and some other diseases to use marijuana. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal government.

Federal agencies, so far, have avoided strict enforcement of the ban on medical marijuana.


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[polloloco001]

so by private clubs they don't mean medical clubs right? im hoping, cuz i nearly had a heart attack when i read the title. its too bad that private pot clubs didnt get approved, wouldve been a big win, but you cant expect anything like that to get approved at this stage. we've got a republican governor and a republican president. hopefully this can happen within a few years though.