SHASTA LAKE OK'S MORATORIUM ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES

SHASTA LAKE - A 45-day moratorium on the establishment of medical
marijuana dispensaries here was unanimously approved Tuesday night by
the Shasta Lake City Council.

Their emergency action came after two such operations, one which
opened its doors Monday afternoon, were approved at the staff level
earlier this month.

The 45-day moratorium will allow city officials to develop rules and
guidelines designed to, among other things, regulate the use,
operating hours and locations, of any new medical marijuana
dispensaries that are proposed for here.

"With a lack of guidelines, it is feasible that several dispensaries
could locate to existing buildings along Shasta Dam Boulevard,"
Development Services Director Carla L. Thompson wrote in a report to
City Manager Carol Martin. "With an absence of adopted guidelines, and
without the authority to impose conditions, it is possible that a
proliferation of dispensaries could operate 24 hours per day, seven
days per week."

Thompson said the moratorium would allow the establishment of
guidelines that could, among other things, limit where they are
located, designate hours of operation and impose other restrictions,
such as their distances from schools and public parks.