Well well, in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling that the feds can ban medical marijuana, California’s cannabis clubs seem to be pretty much unaffected so far.

See the news article excerpted below for a rundown on several California communities and how they are being affected. In a nutshell, there might be a delay in approving New Clubs for awhile, but existing cannabis clubs are continuing activities.

I saw a familiar name quoted in the story, someone I went to college with - Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Supervisor.

Fallout follows medical marijuana ruling in California
Fallout follows medical marijuana ruling in California

By LISA LEFF, Associated Press

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

(06-07) 17:30 PDT Oakland, Calif. (AP) –

Alameda County supervisors moved ahead with regulations on Tuesday for creating more medical marijuana dispensaries, but backed away from locating one in a county hospital because they worried it might endanger federal health care funds following a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling on medicinal cannabis use.

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San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who has been developing rules for monitoring the dispensaries that some see as too laid-back even by liberal city standards, said the court’s decision means that local officials will have to dance “a very fine pirouette between federal, state and local legal and policy land mines and the confidentiality of patients themselves.”

“Communities that overwhelmingly support medical marijuana are now becoming host to clubs that operate in a regulation-free environment, and that creates an uneasy tension between everybody involved,” Mirkarimi said.