The Los Angeles City Council unanimously decided to adopt a comprehensive medical marijuana ordinance that clamps strict controls on dispensaries, which have spread with a velocity that stunned city officials and infuriated few residents.

After settling the last controversial issue on its list, the council finally decided to use the stores to locate at least 1,000 feet from so-called sensitive uses, like schools, libraries, parks and other dispensaries.

They had earlier rejected a 500-foot setback which reflected the council’s intent to write the most restrictive rules that would still allow dispensaries.

Council president Eric Garcetti said, “It's going to be a living ordinance," said Council President Eric Garcetti, predicting that the body will have to tinker with the provisions. "I think there is much good in it. I think nobody will know how some of these things play out until we have them in practice, and we made a commitment to make sure that we continue to improve the ordinance.”

Some members of the council also made an attempt to reopen a debate on some contentious aspects and medical marijuana advocates urged a few end-moment alterations, council members pressed for a vote.

Garcetti said he expected there would be lawsuits because state law, on which the ordinance is based, is murky and because L. A., as the state's largest city, is an obvious target.