SANTA ANA, Calif.—Three appellate judges in Santa Ana say cities cannot use nuisance ordinances to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, just regulate them. SANTA ANA, Calif.—Three appellate judges in Santa Ana say cities cannot use nuisance ordinances to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, just regulate them.

City News Service says the Fourth Appellate justices issued their ruling Wednesday, striking down a preliminary injunction issued by an Orange County judge in May of 2010.

The ruling would have shut down the Evergreen Holistic Collective in Lake Forest but a stay was granted until the higher court could review it.

The justices also said nonprofit collectives can only dispense marijuana from where it is cultivated. It can't be brought from somewhere else and dispensed in a storefront.

Evergreen attorney David Welch says his client is satisfied.