Tonight the Sacramento City Council voted to halt issuance of any new medical marijuana dispensary permits until the dust settles from the federal crackdown. But don’t take this to mean that the city will be surrendering to the bullying of the feds, not as long as there is revenue to be collected from the pot shops. In fact, tonight’s vote actually extended the deadline to submit new permit applications until May 2012 and it extended the final day that dispensaries can operate without a permit from January 2012 to August 2012. Read full story here.