| Los Angeles City Council Schedules 18 Medical Marijuana Hardship Hearings For ... |
| IndyBay - November 28th, 2009 |
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The Los Angeles City Council will vote on 18 medical marijuana hardship exemption applications when it returns from its summer vacation break on Tuesday September 1, 2009.
These are the applications heard on August 6, 2009 in front of the Los Angeles City Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee. PLUM denied all the ... Read More |
| City Council OKs Plan To Close Most Pot Clinics |
| Channel 2 KCAL 9 - January 26th, 2010 |
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The day feared by medical marijuana advocates arrived Tuesday when the City Council finally approved an ordinance intended to close hundreds of pot shops and banish those that remain to industrial areas.
The new law, which passed 9-3, caps the eventual number of dispensaries in the city at 70. But at this point, 137 shops that registered ... Read More |
| L.A. Faces First Court Challenge Over Crackdown On Medical Marijuana ... |
| Los Angeles Times - March 2nd, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Los Angeles' crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, claiming it would force nearly all of them to close.
The suit by the nation's largest medical marijuana advocacy group accuses the city of violating the state constitutional rights of pot clinic operators and claims the city ... Read More |
| Los Angeles Marijuana Sellers Limited |
| The New York Times Style Magazine - January 27th, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES — The City Council approved an ordinance on Tuesday that would shutter the majority of the nearly 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles and make the use of marijuana in the remaining outlets illegal. Read More |
| Los Angeles City Prosecutor Targets Medical Marijuana Dispensaries |
| L.A. Now Southern California - February 19th, 2010 |
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The Los Angeles city attorney today escalated his bid to regain control over the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries, filing suit against three and sending letters to 18 to try to force them to stop selling the drug, alleging the outlets have repeatedly violated state law. Read More |
| Commerce Online Inc. Announces Official Name and Symbol Change To "Cannabis ... |
| CNN Money.com - February 20th, 2010 |
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a leading company specializing in both brick-and-mortar and online merchant payment solutions for medical marijuana dispensaries and high-risk merchant accounts and services, today announced that the Company has officially been granted its name change on the OTCBB to "Cannabis Medical Solutions, Inc." (www.cannabismedsolutions.com) with a new ... Read More |
| L.A.-Based Medical Marijuana Company Bought For $15 Million |
| LA Weekly - March 3rd, 2010 |
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Even as a city ordinance cracking down on medical marijuana dispensaries looms, a strange announcement was made today: A company called International Merchant Advisors has agreed in principal to purchase a Los Angeles-based medical-marijuana concern called Organic Science, Inc. for $15 million in restricted common stock.
Organic ... Read More |
| L.A. Marijuana Dispensary Law Challenged In Court |
| Reuters - March 3rd, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Medical marijuana activists filed suit on Tuesday seeking to block a new Los Angeles ordinance they say is overly restrictive and would force virtually every pot dispensary in the city to close.
Provisions largely banning dispensaries from residential and commercial areas and giving them a week to find a new ... Read More |
| L.A. Sued Over New Medical Marijuana Law |
| Google News - March 3rd, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Los Angeles' crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, claiming it would force nearly all of them to close.
The suit by the nation's largest medical marijuana advocacy group accuses the city of violating the state constitutional rights of pot clinic operators and claims the city ... Read More |
| Marijuana Cards Being Sold Without Doctors' 'OK' |
| CBS 2 News - March 2nd, 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES ― A CBS 2 undercover investigation found medical marijuana clinics selling doctor-recommended medical marijuana certificates without doctors present.
Los Angeles is about to implement some of the toughest restrictions in the state on medical marijuana dispensaries. But in an exclusive CBS 2 News hidden-camera ... Read More |
| State’s Medical Marijuana Law Is Complicated |
| Thousand Oaks Acorn - February 26th, 2010 |
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Californians voted in favor of Proposition 215—the Compassionate Use Act of 1996—which decriminalized the cultivation and use of marijuana by seriously ill people.
Seriously ill people—including those with cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, arthritis and migraines—and their primary caregivers are allowed to possess ... Read More |
| South Coast Dispensaries Raided, Operators Arrested, Will Charges Stick? |
| The Santa Barbara Independent - February 26th, 2010 |
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Early last Wednesday, on an otherwise beautiful late winter morning in Santa Barbara, Charles Jeffrey Restivo and his wife didn’t need an alarm clock to wake up — they were stirred from slumber by a Santa Barbara Police Department SWAT team banging on their front door. With guns drawn and armed with a search warrant, the cops pulled the ... Read More |
| City Council Unable To Reach Agreement On Possible Medical Marijuana Measure |
| The Santa Barbara Independent - February 26th, 2010 |
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After working hammer and tongs for nine months to create a tightly restrictive medical marijuana ordinance, consensus on anything resembling a passable measure eluded the Santa Barbara City Council once again. This Tuesday the council — after spending four hours locked in passionate, procedurally intricate debate — found itself unable ... Read More |
| Cracking Down On Pot Shops Proves Difficult |
| The Daily Sound - February 26th, 2010 |
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Despite being raided a week ago, several local medical marijuana dispensaries are apparently back open for business, further muddying the waters around what has become a hot-button political issue in Santa Barbara. Read More |
| Council Takes More Time On Medical Marijuana Regulations |
| The Daily Sound - February 25th, 2010 |
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Inching ever closer to a final decision on how to tackle the convoluted issue of medical marijuana, Santa Barbara city leaders decided yesterday to spend two more months hashing out changes to local laws that regulate storefront pot collectives. Read More |
