Dacono’s three medical marijuana dispensaries are suing to stay open.

On Friday, a lawyer for Dacono Meds, MaryJane’s Medicinal and Green Medicals (formerly The Green Door) asked the Weld County District Court to block the city’s ban of marijuana-related businesses. Without legal protection, all three will have to leave town after Dec. 31.

The Dacono City Council passed the ban in June by a 4-2 vote, but a petition drive by the dispensaries put the ban on the ballot. That means Dacono residents will vote in 2013 on whether the ban lives or dies. But the petition couldn’t change the dispensaries’ deadline, and an attempt to extend the drop-dead date until after the special election failed on a 4-3 City Council vote.

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