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Legal pot shops could come to Fullerton after the City Council decided to study the issue and revisit it in March to decide if they want to move forward on it. Meanwhile, the city is struggling to address the illegal shops operating in the city.
Officer Brandon Sontag still faces criminal charges in connection with the raid of Sky High Holistic.
Starting next year, it will be legal to sell recreational marijuana in California. But local governments will have a lot of say in where the shops can operate, and the majority on the county Board of Supervisors seem to favor heavy restrictions.
A video of a 2015 raid by Santa Ana police on the Sky High Holistic dispensary showed officers entering with guns drawn, and then later appearing to joke around and eat marijuana edibles while also destroying a surveillance camera system.
The officers had been charged with misdemeanors related to a now-infamous pot shop raid that went viral last year.
Garden Grove City Council members Tuesday approved an ordinance banning local cultivation and delivery of marijuana, but signaled they would reconsider the city’s ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the near future.
Superior Court Judge Ronald Bauer has tentatively ruled that a video of officers misbehaving during a pot shop raid can’t be used as evidence in a Santa Ana Police Department internal investigation, according to court documents.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge David R. Chafee allows the city to issue operating permits for 20 medical marijuana dispensaries.
Miguel Pulido asked a pot shop entrepreneur for contributions to a political action committee that opposed his city council adversaries in exchange for a seat on a marijuana policy task force, according to an eyewitness to the conversation.
A federal lawsuit claims that since the passage last fall of Measure BB, which instituted a new regulatory regime over medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, Pulido and other officials with financial ties to certain shops have directed police to shut down their competitors