LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The City Council gave final approval today to  placing its own proposal on the May 21 ballot to regulate medical marijuana  dispensaries, bringing the total number of ballot measures on the topic to  three.


If approved by voters, the measure would increase a tax on the sale of  medical marijuana and allow only a limited number of dispensaries to remain  open. It would allow roughly 100 dispensaries that opened prior to the city's  imposition of a 2007 moratorium on the facilities.

A loophole caused the number of storefront pot shops to balloon shortly  after the moratorium took effect.

``This is a step in the right direction,'' said Councilman Bill  Rosendahl, who has cancer and uses medical marijuana as a pain reliever.

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