city council

so I attended the long beach city council meeting yesterday. there the public was allowed to speak about the medical marijuana ban within the city. there were about 6 speakers who all brought up very valid points to the council many of which the council had obviously heard because they were kinda spacing and not paying much attention at one point. the mayor decided to remove himself from the meeting before this particular part of it which was very disheartening. the people put up a voter initiative together and got many many signatures to over ride the ban. yesterday the council was informed that they were being slapped with a federal law suit, to which they all sat up wide eyed asking the attorney if he had any comments and of course he had none. we'll see what happens here. hopefully the will of the people will prevail.