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65B. BALLOT INITIATIVE REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA <br />COLLECTIVES /COOPERATIVES - Planning and Building Agency; City <br />Attorney's Office; and Police Department <br />Acting Planning and Building Executive Director Karen Haluza presented <br />staff report. <br />History <br />• 1970 — Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) <br />• Marijuana designated as a Schedule I controlled substance <br />• 1996 — Compassionate Use Act (Prop. 215) <br />• Prevented State criminal sanctions against qualified patient or <br />the patient's primary caregiver, for possession or cultivation of <br />marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient, upon <br />recommendation of a physician <br />• 2003 — Medical Marijuana Program Act (SB 420) <br />• Uniform application of the Compassionate Use Act <br />• Enhance access to medical marijuana through collective and <br />cooperative cultivation <br />• 2007 — City of Santa Ana Adopts Ban on Medical Marijuana <br />Dispensaries <br />• Access to medical marijuana still permitted through health care <br />facilities <br />• February 2013 - Santa Ana Medical Cannabis Restriction and <br />Limitation Initiative <br />• Obtained enough valid signatures to qualify the initiative for the <br />November 2014 General Election ballot <br />• March 2013 - City Council directed staff to explore placing a competing <br />initiative on the November 2014 ballot <br />• May 2013 — City of Riverside vs. Inland Empire Patient's Health and <br />Wellness Center, Inc. <br />• State Supreme Court decision upheld cities' ability to enact <br />municipal regulations banning medical marijuana collectives <br />Enforcement Efforts <br />• Actively enforcing the City's ban on medical marijuana since adoption <br />in 2007 <br />• As of May 1, 2014 there are an estimated 50 existing illegal Medical <br />Marijuana collectives /cooperatives in the City <br />• Low of 16 in early 2013 <br />• High of 68 in 2012 <br />• Successfully closed 177 collectives /cooperatives <br />• Issued $138,000 in fines <br />Collective - Backed Initiative — Santa Ana Medical Cannabis <br />Restriction and Limitation Initiative <br />Summary — <br />• Repeals the City's prohibition of medical marijuana dispensaries <br />CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 14 JUNE 3, 2014 <br />1 OA -14 <br />