Topic: Los Angeles
L.A. faces first court challenge over crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Los Angeles' crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, claiming it would force nearly all of them to close.The suit by the nation's largest medical marijuana advocacy group ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Cheech Marin, one-half of the most famous pot-smoking duo of the 1970s, lent his celebrity to a medical marijuana convention that opens on Friday in Los Angeles, and used the occasion to plug a new movie.The documentary ...
Los Angeles authorities have gone after 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, arresting one owner and filing lawsuits and eviction orders against outlets.The actions Thursday involved alleged violations of state and federal marijuana laws.Assistant City Attorney Asha Greenberg says prosecutors acted on complaints from ...
Colorado lawmakers have an unlikely ally in their first attempt to curb the state's booming medical marijuana industry: owners of the some of the shops that sell pot.Many dispensary owners say they're on board with regulations if they give them uniform guidelines ...
Los Angeles Tuesday gave final approval to an ordinance slashing the number of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have grown to almost 1,000 since sale of the drug for medicinal use was approved in 1996.By a 9-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance on Tuesday that will shut down hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that recently opened in America's second-largest city.The statute, passed on a 9-3 vote, ultimately would limit the number of ...
LA City Council gives first OK to law that would close most medical marijuana dispensariesThe Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively approved an ordinance to close most of the city's medical marijuana dispensaries, winding down months of debate on how to ...
LA City Council postpones pot ordinance vote that could close hundreds of dispensariesThe Los Angeles City Council delayed a vote Wednesday on a medical marijuana ordinance that could close hundreds of pot dispensaries across the city.The council asked planning officials to return ...
The Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries cropping up across the city.The draft ordinance would provide guidelines for the nation's second-largest city that would greatly ...
Los Angeles City Council prepares to vote on medical marijuana ordinanceThe Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries cropping up across the city.The draft ordinance would ...