Medical Pot Curb Backed
by Tony Bizjak

October 07, 1998 - Sacramento Bee

A City Council committee agreed Tuesday to recommend to the full council that smoking of medicinal marijuana in public be severely restricted, but the panel forwarded the matter with more questions than answers.

Under Proposition 215, passed by voters in 1996, it is legal to use marijuana as medicine with a doctor's approval.

The council's law and legislation committee members tentatively supported a ban on smoking pot within 100 feet of another person or public access building, and within 1,000 feet of a school, park or other open or recreational space.

Committee members, however, asked for more information for the council about the effects of secondhand marijuana smoke at shorter distances.

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