Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to extend by one year a temporary ban on medical marijuana cultivation and distribution in unincorporated areas. The vote came ahead of a possible statewide vote to legalize recreational marijuana and over the objections of medical marijuana patients and growers. Medical marijuana advocates and patients urged the board not to extend the ban and instead to focus on regulating the industry. The new moratorium also bars growing and testing of medical marijuana, and mobile delivery services. It was not immediately clear how a statewide vote to legalize marijuana would affect the county’s ban.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 28, 2016 21:53 UTC