Los Angeles’ city attorney wants the council to create a “gentle ban” that would put medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles out of business. According to the Los Angeles Times, the city attorney and staff are asking council members to revoke the ordinance that is currently in place, which creates…
The Associated Press recently reported that many states, including California, have had to deal with conflicts because while voters have sought and lawmakers have approved medical marijuana, the laws have given individual communities the right to lock them out or shut them down. Such has been the case recently in…
Mendocino County officials have suspended a program to distribute medical marijuana cultivation permits based on a Los Angeles court ruling that challenges whether permits should be issued by local governments for activities that federal law says are illegal, the Associated Press reports. This is major news for the Los Angeles…
A Northern California man has been tapped to supervise a new program in Maine to begin opening dispensaries, but has faced political and logistical problems, Mainetoday.com is reporting. Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers have seen that experts in this field have gone on to help officials in other states get…
A recent mobile home fire in Michigan is catching heat after authorities say it was the site of a medical marijuana operation. The fire killed seven pets, the Detroit Free Press is reporting. Bad press like this is the type of thing that hurts the Los Angeles medical marijuana industry…
California music icon Snoop Dogg was recently arrested by border patrol agents in Texas after marijuana was found by a drug-sniffing dog on his tour bus, the New York Daily News is reporting. The 40-year-old, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., told authorities that the marijuana belonged to…
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…
The Blair Witch Project was a ground-breaking type of movie in 1999 when the style of videography shocked moviegoers for its realism despite its low-budget cost — the movie grossed nearly $250 million on a $600,000 budget. Reuters recently caught up with the main actress from the movie, who recently…
The new reality television series “Weed Wars” on the Discovery Channel, which aired its first season finale recently, gives viewers an inside look at the legal operation of marijuana dispensaries in California. The program has depicted the real life workings of a Bay-area marijuana dispensary and the problems that not…
Three men were recently arrested in connection with the armed robbery of a West Hollywood marijuana dispensary recently, the Los Angeles Times reports. Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries are always at risk for a potential robbery because while legitimate businesses are simply trying to adhere to the law and work…