Planning Commission rebuffs supervisors' call for marijuana dispensary ban

Although the San Diego County Board of Supervisors directed county staff to develop an ordinance banning marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated San Diego County, including cultivation-only facilities and existing facilities which will be given a five-year amortization period, the county's Planning Commission refused to recommend that ban.

A 5-0 Planning Commission vote Feb. 10, with Doug Barnhart and David Pallinger absent, approved a recommendation against the proposed total ban with a statement that a ban would be counterproductive due to the lack of regulation of a black-market alternativ...