California Supreme Court’s medical marijuana ruling could trigger ‘green rush’

Right now nearly 200 cities and counties in California ban medical marijuana dispensaries, but all those markets could be set to open later this year thanks to a case the California Supreme Court began hearing on Tuesday.

When lawmakers crafted the medical marijuana provision, they did not specifically say whether towns and counties may ban shops from selling marijuana, but it did give them broad authority to regulate sales.

The difference between regulation and prohibition is precisely what the state’s supreme court is weighing right now, and if justices decide the difference is irreconcilable with the law and dispensaries must be allowed, hundreds of new pot shops could soon be springing up across the state.

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