Could the Lathrop City Council soon revisit its newly approved policy that effectively bans the growth of all marijuana within city limits?Last month the council voted 4-1 to enact an ordinance that would make it a crime to cultivate any marijuana – medical or otherwise – anywhere within the city, but did so with only the opposition input of councilman Omar Ornelas who voted against the measure. The only person in the audience who actually had a medical marijuana card issued by the State of California – which was made legal in the state when voters approved the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 but is not recognized by the Federal government – said that she was perfectly fine driving to Stockton to pick up the medication that she uses for a variety of ailments, and actually requested that the council ban indoor and outdoor growing operations because of the variety of problems that they cause. But what about the person who can’t afford to pay store prices for a medication that may very well end up working better than traditional methods?That’s exactly the plight that one local man pitched to the three-member council Monday night – Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal and Ornelas were not present – in an effort to get him to revisit the matter.
Lathrop will revisit ban on pot growing