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As the Marijuana Lawyer Blog reported earlier in January, Los Angeles officials are planning on implementing a “gentle ban” on medical marijuana citywide. And The Weed Blog reports that city officials are planning a January 31 meeting to take a final vote on the ban. Bloggers are urging medical marijuana businesses, patients and others to…

As our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers have said from the beginning, the recent explosion of interest by federal prosecutors in California’s medical marijuana industry has to be a political issue. Most medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles are operating legitimately and following the law. And despite the perception that local political leaders and law…

The Press-Enterprise is reporting that the California Supreme Court will review a case out of Riverside after an appeals court ruled that cities and counties have the right to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. This is huge news because if justices rule that cities and counties don’t have the right to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in…

To say the fight in support and against medical marijuana in Los Angeles is heating up would be inaccurate because that would imply it ever cooled down. But watching the news both in California and in other states shows that supporters of this legitimate business industry, including our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers, are making…

For the second straight year, medical marijuana supporters in Florida are attempting to get legislators to push through legislation that would allow for the legalization of medical marijuana in that state, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting says. As our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers well know, simply legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t end all of…

Our California medical marijuana attorneys have long supported patients who legally are able to purchase, carry and smoke marijuana for personal use. And while California’s voters 15 years ago approved marijuana for legal use, there have been no shortage of controversies and problems. As a recent article out of Canada shows, legal marijuana users there,…

Advocates of medical marijuana hope to create a system that licenses, regulates and taxes California medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives as a way of making peace with federal authorities, who seek to shut them down, The Associated Press reports. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers think it’s unfortunate that small business owners who are simply…

The Eagle Rock Patch was able to sit down recently with Los Angeles City Council member Jose Huizar and tackle a bevy of topics, including medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. Huizar has been in the news recently because he proposed a ban on all marijuana dispensaries in the city. That has led to much…

A recent article out of Washington reports that California’s marijuana growers have shifted plots from national forests to farmland, according to the Fresno County sheriff, who testified to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Admittedly, medical marijuana in California is a difficult industry because while many small businesses sell marijuana solely for medicinal purposes,…

A San Jose suburb recently had a debate about whether the city should allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the city limits. It’s amazing that 16 years since medical marijuana was legalized in California, cities are still having debates about whether or not to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Riverside and elsewhere to operate. One reason…