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On Monday, the Drug Policy Alliance and Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the City of Fontana, California on behalf of a hopeful cannabis cultivator.
Mike Harris, a retiree and longtime resident of Fontana, wished to grow cannabis in his home after the November passing of California’s Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), also known as Proposition 64. California residents with a doctor’s recommendations for medical marijuana have the right to cultivate in their homes, but Prop 64 afforded some of the same rights, with limitations, for all adults over the age of 21. The language of AUMA states that individual municipalities can vote to institute their own regulations on cultivation, but prohibits them from banning cultivation outright.
“The ACLU of California supported Prop. 64, in large part because of our longstanding policy that possessing or cultivating marijuana for personal use should not be a crime,” explained Jess Farris, Southern California ACLU’s Director of Criminal Justice. “The Fontana ordinance – and other similar ordinances around the state – would criminalize the very conduct Prop. 64…
