Articles Posted in Los Angeles Marijuana Dispensaries

A case was recently dropped against the longest-serving medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, and the owner publicly vowed to continue to cultivate marijuana in his own backyard for seriously ill HIV/AIDS patents. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped a criminal case against the owner just days before it was due to go…

Many government officials are contemplating new sources of tax revenue as they learn about the cash that could be collected from San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries. Currently, every other major Bay Area city enlists a gross-receipt tax on their medical marijuana dispensaries. Every California medical cannabis company pays 9.5 percent in state sales taxes, and…

San Diego’s medical marijuana advocates collected thousands of signatures to have a say in the fate of new restrictions on pot clinics, according to Mercury News. Citizens for Patient Rights collected 46,000 signatures for the ballot initiative. The city only requires that 31,000 signatures be collected for an issue to proceed. The issue is a…

Less than a week after two medical marijuana dispensaries in Whittier were raided by police, advocates plea to City Council to allow more than one legal facility. Those pleas were unanimously rejected. A new ordinance, recently approved by the council, will only allow one legal dispensary in the area, according to Wittier Daily News. Protesters…

We recently told you about police raids that put two Wittier medical marijuana dispensaries out of business. These raids reportedly used more aggression and force than those of Los Angeles County and the city of Pico Rivera, according to the Wittier Daily News. Instead of issuing a violation notice or any threats to sue the…

The U.S. government is being accused of civil rights violations by two medical marijuana providers in what may be the first lawsuit of its kind, according to the Associated Press. The accusations come after a federal crackdown on marijuana operations in Los Angeles and across the nation. As we previously reported on our Marijuana Lawyer…

A Los Angeles doctor has been recommending the use of marijuana to patients for nearly a decade now, according to India West. She recently launched a book, “A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Marijuana,” published to share her extensive knowledge in the field and about the medicinal treatment. The doctor covers topics pertaining to the last…

If you need any evidence that there is strength in numbers — even if everyone is ill informed and willing to spend millions of tax dollars to prove it — you need look no further than San Diego, where the Union-Tribune reports officials plan to vote on a measure that would force all medical marijuana…

Calling it “high time” for the city to sit down with the dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries suing it over its medical marijuana ordinance, a judge set a May 9 deadline for both sides to schedule the first of a series of mandatory settlement conferences. The Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary attorneys at the CANNABIS…

As our Los Angeles medical marijuana collective attorneys reported recently on our Marijuana Lawyer Blog, council’s “draft temporary urgency ordinance” is well-named. It is certainly a rough-draft. It is temporary in that it has little chance of passing legal muster. And it is urgent, if that means rash. Having been handed a series or legal…