With each passing year, more states embrace marijuana as a legitimate medical treatment. Acceptance grows. Tolerance grows. Case law grows. And the ability of legitimate marijuana businesses to defend themselves against the overzealous encroachments of politicians and law enforcement grows stronger. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense lawyers read with…
The New York Times and the Washington Post are among the media outlets to note than Los Angeles marijuana dispensaries are cropping up again in the wake of a judge’s ruling that scratched key pieces of the city’s ordinance. No free gift was this. Our Los Angeles marijuana dispensary attorneys…
M is for Marijuana. No Sue Grafton is not working her way back through the alphabet — her novel was “M is for Malice.” Though our medical marijuana defense lawyers could use that same title in describing the Los Angeles City Council. Having sought to reduce the number of medical…
Oakland has temporarily halted a plan to permit and tax four large marijuana growing operations because of ongoing legal concerns, the Los Angeles Times reported. As our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense attorneys reported on our Marijuana Lawyer Blog, Oakland’s city council overwhelmingly approved the plan this summer, even as…
Our Los Angeles marijuana dispensary lawyers are concerned anytime we hear of violence at a local dispensary or collective. The Los Angeles Times reports that three men shot two others during a robbery at a Northridge marijuana dispensary on Wednesday. There is no question these businesses are frequent targets for…
Double jeopardy laws have long been one of the bedrock rights of a defendant — an assurance that he or she would not have to defend against the same criminal charges more than once. A guarantee that prosecutors could not simply try a defendant over and over again until they…
A month after our Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary lawyers argued the legality of the city’s ordinance before a judge, we await the ruling along with hundreds of legitimate medical marijuana businesses and thousands of patients. We reported on our Marijuana Lawyer Blog that the judge had been scheduled to…
It’s official: The Los Angeles city council is looking to ban its pot and tax it, too. As our Los Angeles medical marijuana defense lawyers continue to fight the misguided and, we believe, illegal ban on marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, we note that the city is also moving to…
Medical marijuana dispensaries will be given six more months to comply with the Los Angeles city ordinance, which is desirable since council keeps changing it. Our Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary attorneys have filed numerous lawsuits against local governments throughout Southern California. We strongly believe that the best defense is…
The unincorporated areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties have both moved to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from operating. the L.A. Times reported. Our Orange County medical marijuana defense lawyers continue to monitor the status of local bans throughout Southern California and are representing more than a dozen dispensaries against…