WALNUT CREEK — The City Council here held a public hearing Nov. 14 at which significant issues related to marijuana, both medical and recreational, were being discussed. Renee Lee was there, choosing that meeting over another public meeting at which significant issues related to marijuana — at this meeting, mostly medical marijuana — were being discussed.

Clearly, the right to buy and use marijuana is an important current events topic. And Lee, president of the Rossmoor Medical Marijuana Education and Support Club, scolded the council for scheduling this hearing on the same night her club meets at the Walnut Creek retirement community.

“You shouldn’t have this meeting right in the middle of our medical marijuana club meeting … you’ve really divided us,” said Lee, who came to the council meeting to say seniors not only want to be able to buy medical marijuana locally but to be able to buy it in various forms that each help address specific maladies.

In addressing the council, Lee said she was supposed to be at the Rossmoor meeting, too, and that that night’s club meeting was the first she had ever missed.

“I did tell people here we meet on the second Tuesday of every month,” she told them. “It isn’t like it wasn’t known.”

Mayor Rich Carlston didn’t dwell on what could have been. “We appreciate you being here, ma’am,” he said.

The council, by the way, chose to delay creation of any local medical or recreational rules until this spring, after new Proposition 64-based state regulations come down.