The council put off a vote on the last contentious issue until Tuesday, when it will decide whether dispensaries can be 500 feet or 1,000 feet from schools, parks and religious institutions.
A former Oxford academic chosen to replace sacked Professor David Nutt as the head of the government's drugs advisory panel once called for the legalization of cannabis.
California lawmakers took a historic first step toward legalizing marijuana when an Assembly committee approved legislation that would put the drug on the open market as a regulated and taxed product.
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