Orange County cities with moratoriums or permanent bans on pot dispensaries:

Laguna Woods recently became the first local city to pass an ordinance [...]]]> The Seal Beach City Council passed a ban on medical marijuana stores on Monday night. Seal Beach is no the eighth Orange County to ban or restrict medical marijuana.

Orange County cities with moratoriums or permanent bans on pot dispensaries:

• Buena Park
• Fullerton
• Garden Grove
• Mission Viejo
• Santa Ana
• Tustin
• Huntington Beach
• Placentia

Laguna Woods recently became the first local city to pass an ordinance allowing medical marijuana dispensaries.

The council members said they sympathize with patients who need marijuana to ease their pain, but they’re worried about (a) regulating the dispensaries and (b) how such businesses would affect Garden Grove neighborhoods.

Some Orange County cities with moratoriums or permanent bans [...]]]> The Garden Grove City Council voted to ban pot dispensaries earlier this week (KNX1070)

The council members said they sympathize with patients who need marijuana to ease their pain, but they’re worried about (a) regulating the dispensaries and (b) how such businesses would affect Garden Grove neighborhoods.

Some Orange County cities with moratoriums or permanent bans on pot dispensaries include:

• Buena Park
• Fullerton
• Mission Viejo
• Santa Ana
• Tustin
• Huntington Beach
• Placentia

*** Laguna Woods last week became the first local city to pass an ordinance allowing medical marijuana dispensaries.

More on the City Council decision from The OC Register:

Council members voted 4-1 for the ordinance prohibiting the dispensaries, with Councilman Mark Rosen casting the sole dissenting vote.

Rosen said he would like more information from police about an existing unauthorized medical marijuana clinic in Garden Grove.

“I’d like to find out if this facility has had any negative impacts on the community,” he said.

Police officials said no incidents were reported at or near the dispensary on Brookhurst Street in the seven months it has operated. Several speakers at the meeting also said they have been buying their marijuana from this business popularly known among users as “Unit D.”

Police officials confirmed that the business at that location was licensed as a dance studio but operating as a medical marijuana dispensary. No children were seen there taking dance lessons, officials said.

Joe Byron, the owner of the dispensary in question, told the council that he was not operating covertly and in fact has a general retail license from the city to do business. He said the business at the location before his was a dance studio.

“We weren’t trying to be covert or sneaky,” he said. “In fact, we do quite a bit of Internet marketing.”

But the rest of the council was firmly in support of the ban.