Solano and San Diego County Joining Medical Marijuana Card Club

Welcome friends! Solano and San Diego Counties will soon be joining the majority of California counties by adopting a medical marijuana card system after years of hold-out.

In 1996 Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, passed in California allowing seriously ill people access to medical marijuana. In 2005 medical marijuana cards started to be issued throughout the state but in 2006 Solano and San Diego counties challenged the law, claiming federal law superseded state law. Since this court action ten other counties have held out on issuing ID cards while they waited for the ruiling to come back.

Solano and San Diego counties lost the appeal in the California courts, and in May 2009 the case was thrown out of the Supreme Court. This means that there is now a statewide minimum guideline of 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND up to 8 ounces of processed cannabis flowers. Cities and counties have been given the power to set guidelines that are greater than those amounts, but not less.

Check out city & country specific medical marijuana guidelines.