Summary
Los Angeles' booming cottage industry of medical marijuana vendors is mobilizing to fight the city's three-month crackdown that threatens to shutter hundreds of dispensaries.
Vendors say they're prepared to take their battle to court to fulfill the promise of Proposition 215 - the 1996 voter-approved measure that legalized marijuana for medicinal use. Attorney Stewart Richlin, who represents more than 100 dispensaries, said he believes dispensaries that have been or are about to be closed are entitled to monetary damages. An alternative would be a court injunction allowing them to reopen or stay open.See the full content of this document
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The City's Crackdown On Pot Shops
"State law (permits), without equivocation, the cultivation, transportation and distribution of medical marijuana," Richlin said, "and these cities now need to be forced by a judge and court to comply with the law.
"These are not criminals. They are patients and centers treating patients."But city officials say ...See the full content of this document
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