The California Appeals Court has refused to reverse a lower court injunction prohibiting a medical marijuana dispensary from operating in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. The case is County of Los Angeles V. Hill. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary lawyers continue to encourage collectives and dispensaries to…
A case of road rage reportedly led authorities to a pot farm in Redondo Beach that contained more than 600 plants, according to the L.A. Times. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense lawyers believe such large-scale farms show the demand for medical marijuana, and, indeed, recreational marijuana, is here to…
Medical News Today reports “soda pot” is entering the California market as producers and patients seek ways to provide the medicinal values of marijuana for those who don’t wish to smoke it. Historically, such efforts have run afoul of the law rather quickly, especially among law enforcement organizations that have…
City council voted unanimously Friday to pass its “draft temporary urgency ordinance,” the latest in a long string of ill-conceived moves that will likely ensure hundreds of thousands of additional tax dollars are wasted in an attempt to defend the indefensible. As our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense attorneys previously…
This is the third blog to look at the city’s new “draft temporary urgency ordinance” meant to regulate medical marijuana collectives and dispensaries in Los Angeles in the wake of an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing a June ordinance. That ordinance would have forced the closure of all but…
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…
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,…
Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries must post a $350,000 bond after winning an injunction blocking the city from enforcing an ordinance seeking their closure, The Los Angeles Times reported. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense lawyers hail the ruling as a major victory for dispensaries fighting the city’s unfair and…
The city has been denied a stay of the injunction issued against enforcement of its marijuana dispensary ordinance, effectively denying it the ability to enforce its unjust and ill-conceived order to shut down the vast majority of the city’s medical marijuana businesses. The Los Angeles marijuana dispensary attorneys at The…
In a detailed analysis of the challenges facing the medical marijuana industry in Southern California as we enter 2011, the Press Enterprise rightly deduces that it will take the courts to decide many of the issues surrounding the rights of medical marijuana growers, collectives, dispensaries and patients. Our Los Angeles…