Cannabis Law Group’s Medical Marijuana Legal Blog

Medical-marijuana companys’ pipe-dreams may have come true as they look to private investors and planning public stock sales to help expand their companies. A seed supplier, in Colorado, is raising $500,000 in a private financing round. A California company, GrowOp Technology Ltd. raised $1 million privately, with plans to launch an initial public offering this…

The Cannabis Doctors Network is currently streamlining efficacy, security, convenience and legality for patients who are qualified and are seeking to obtain a medical cannabis card in California. Our state currently hosts the most proactive laws to protect doctor recommended patients who are approved for the medical marijuana program, which currently allows for more than…

It’s about that time for another round of the costly, drawn-out legal brawl over how to control medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. Two new lawsuits are stepping up to join the fight and continue to challenge the city’s latest ordinance. Both filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in attempt to hinder the…

Early last week, a divided City Council tentatively approved sharper limits on where medical marijuana shops in San Jose can operate, restricting them largely to certain industrial and commercial zones, according to Mercury News. The council, that has been struggling with the issue for more than a year now, didn’t rally behind the efforts of…

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…

Call them late to this ill-conceived party at taxpayer’s expense, but don’t call them absent: San Jose city officials are seeking to crack down on pot clubs. Our San Jose medical marijuana collective attorneys urge marijuana businesses and patients to stand up for their rights. The CANNABIS LAW GROUP is representing more than a dozen…

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…

Planning commission documents from San Bernardino outline the fight for medical marijuana rights dating back more than a decade. As our San Bernardino marijuana dispensary lawyers frequently report, it is those businesses and patients that stand and fight for their rights against the unlawful encroachment of the government who have the best chance of prevailing…

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…

Having spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in an effort to thwart state law and prevent patients from obtaining medical marijuana, the city’s ordinance is now on what could prove to be a failing course in the court system. So, without waiting for a full finding of the facts, the city has drafted a…