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It was two years ago today that the D.C. Council gave approval to a medical marijuana program that had been approved by D.C. voters 12 years prior. Advocates complain that marijuana is still months away from the patients that need it most.

With just over a week before the D.C. Department of Health is scheduled to grant licenses for medical marijuana cultivation centers, the D.C. Council today passed legislation forcing a cultivator to move out of a location along Benning Road NE in Ward 7.

Fourteen years ago, 69 percent of the District’s voters approved an initiative legalizing medical marijuana. Today, medical marijuana is no closer for the patients who may need it because of ongoing opposition in the neighborhoods where it would be grown.

A Ward 5 ANC wasn’t particularly impressed with four applicants for medical marijuana cultivation center licenses yesterday, and even Montel Williams’ emotional pleas seemed to change their minds.

The D.C. Council voted today to limit the number of medical marijuana cultivation centers in Ward 5 to six, possibly throwing another wrench in the works of a program that has already been slow to get off the ground.

Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) has introduced legislation to limit the number of medical marijuana cultivation centers and dispensaries that can locate in any one ward.

Seven applications for licenses to run medical marijuana cultivation centers have been given initial approval by the District and have been sent to ANCs for their input.

Former talk show host Montel Williams is one of medical marijuana’s biggest proponents (he’s also a patient), but his dreams to open a Columbia Road NW dispensary seem to have been dashed by a nervous landlord.

Montel Williams has been many things in his career, and medical marijuana patient, advocate and entrepreneur is one. Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 13 years ago, Williams has used and fought for medical marijuana in eight of the 16 states that currently allow it.