VALLEJO (KRON) -- The Solano County Board of Supervisors is set to meet in closed session later this month to review the county's policy on medical marijuana.

The meeting will come days after an advocacy group files a lawsuit against the county for failing to create an identification program which would shield people with a doctor's recommendation from arrest on pot possession charges.

"Solano County cannot simply flaunt its obligation under the law," Joe Elford with Americans for Safe Access said in a prepared statement. "This lawsuit is aimed at forcing  counties like Solano to fully implement state law and to stop denying medical marijuana patients their legal rights and protections."

Elford says Solano is one of about twelve counties that have failed to create medical marijuana identification cards after state lawmakers mandated the programs in 2003.  Solano Supervisors voted against establishing the card system in 2006.

The plaintiffs in the suit include a woman who has a doctor's recommendation that she use cannabis for headaches and joint pain and a man who needs the medication for back problems.  The anonymous man says he was detained and his drugs confiscated in Solano County in 2006.  He says he would have applied for an ID card if one was available.

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