Topic: Los Angeles
Los Angeles city authorities passed an ordinance restricting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have grown to almost 1,000 since the drug was authorized for sale for medicinal purposes in 1996.The city council said on Tuesday 137 dispensaries would remain open ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like ...
Medical marijuana shops abound in California as cities scramble to regulate themA surge in medical marijuana in California has left communities trying to regulate or ban the drug. Final regulations are still not in place.The struggle has been linked to the vagueness ...
Voters approved a referendum making Maine the fifth state to allow retail pot dispensaries, but medical marijuana advocates say it won't become like California, where hundreds of marijuana shops have popped up and come under critical scrutiny.California, Colorado, New Mexico and Rhode ...
LA speeds up push for law against new marijuana clinics after judge bars moratoriumLos Angeles officials are speeding up consideration of a new law to outlaw most new medical marijuana outlets after a judge barred a moratorium.The city attorney's office on Tuesday ...
Loosening of federal guidelines on medical marijuana does not dispel decades of mistrustA new Obama administration policy loosening guidelines on federal prosecution of medical marijuana on Monday signaled to users that they had less to fear from federal agents but still left ...
Masked gunmen rob Los Angeles medical marijuana store of pot, $15,000 cashRobbers in ski masks got away with pot and cash in a stickup at a Los Angeles medical marijuana store.Police spokesman Richard French says three gunmen held up the Gourmet Green ...
Medical marijuana users and dispensary owners in California have held their breath for years fearful they would be targeted for prosecution by the federal government.They finally exhaled this past week when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said federal agents will now target ...
Attorney General Eric Holder signals a change on medical marijuana policy, specifically raidsAttorney General Eric Holder signaled a change on medical marijuana policy Wednesday, saying federal agents will target marijuana distributors only when they violate both federal and state law.That would be ...
Obama may end raids on California medical marijuana dispensaries as policy undergoes reviewThe White House won't say it explicitly. "Anyone possessing, distributing or cultivating marijuana for any reason is in violation of federal law," Sarah Pullen, a DEA spokeswoman in Los Angeles, ...
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