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MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. – Two men are threatening to sue Mountlake Terrace after the city rejected their request to open a medical marijuana dispensary.

Todd Madison and Aaron Panagos applied for a business license in September to open the for-profit Botanical Urban Dispensary Service. They say they’ve been using medically authorized marijuana to manage pain for years and have run their business out of their homes since the beginning of the year.

The city maintains that Washington’s medical marijuana law doesn’t allow storefront dispensaries. The law says patients can grow their own or designate someone to grow it for them, but such providers can only supply to one patient at any one time — not the many customers who would be served by a dispensary.