Well the Kern County Board of Supervisors voted its conscience on Tuesday, passing an ordinance that will ban storefront medical marijuana collectives in unincorporated Kern County and outlaw the sale of edible marijuana products.
Now medical cannabis advocates will have their turn.
Attorneys for cooperatives have promised a two-pronged attack on the supervisors' ordinance.
They plan to file a lawsuit blocking its enactment. And they say they will also launch a referendum drive that could stop the ordinance in its tracks.
Kern County Elections Division Chief Karen Rhea said opponents of the ordinance to ban medical marijuana collectives would need to collect 17,350 signatures from registered Kern County voters before the ordinance goes into effect Sept. 8 to block enactment of the law.
If medical marijuana advocates succeed in collecting the signatures, Rhea said, the ordinance would be sent back to supervisors and -- if supervisors did not repeal it -- the question would proceed to an election at which voters could approve the ban or overturn it.
Deputy County Counsel Devin Brown said the medical marijuana ban law would remain off the books until the election is decided.
That is exactly what happened in Butte County.
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