California county tries to ban pot farms as medical weed business thrives

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California county tries to ban pot farms as medical weed business thrives

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/california-bill-curb-medical-marijuana-passes-key-hurdle-040535623--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tT06Y5QxhmAosx5afshDOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-23T215750Z_2_CBREA3M0BDI00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A volunteer displays cannabis buds at the La Brea Collective medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles" align="left" title="A volunteer displays cannabis buds at the La Brea Collective medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles" border="0" /></a>By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Citing marijuana fields springing up next to high schools and in abandoned barns, Sacramento County supervisors are set to declare pot gardens a public nuisance in the latest move by a local government to rein in California's cannabis industry. U.S. states are increasingly moving to drop curbs on marijuana following landmark voter initiatives in Colorado and Washington state in 2012 that legalized the drug for recreational use. But in California, where medical marijuana is legal but recreational use is not, state laws are hazy on who is allowed to grow and sell the drug, leading to a chaotic and largely unregulated marketplace of street-corner pot dispensaries, illegal cannabis farms and inappropriate prescribing by unethical doctors. Cities and counties have struggled to impose order on an piecemeal basis as the state wrestles with developing a regulatory framework for the thriving if messy medical marijuana industry.</p><br clear="all"/>

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