MARIJUANA BAN CONTINUES IN BUENA PARK

Officials Are Researching Whether to Allow Medicinal Marijuana.

BUENA PARK - City officials have extended a moratorium banning medical
marijuana dispensaries from operating inside the city.

Last week, City Council members voted for the ban on selling medical
cannabis for 10 months and 15 days. The original ban was 45 days long.

Officials can spend up to one year at a time researching the best
possible solution for allowing or not allowing medical marijuana sales.

After 12 months, officials can request to extend the
ban.

The moratorium follows a written request to open a dispensary,
submitted in October by Mira Knott, who listed a Buena Park business
address.

In the letter, addressed to the Police Department, Knott included
ordinances explaining restrictions in other cities like West
Hollywood, which allow medical marijuana.

City and police officials are concerned that allowing medical
marijuana sales would be contradictory to federal law.

In 1996, Californians voted to allow such sales for medicinal
purposes.