“The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office has filed a complaint asking for a Temporary Restraining Order and Permanent Injunction closing 135 pre-moratorium medical cannabis collectives deemed ineligible to register under the city’s new ordinance. The complaint is City Attorney Carmen Trutanich’s latest escalation in his campaign to roll back safe access to medical cannabis in the city. His aggressive posture has already raised the ire of patients, legal collective operators, and advocates in the state’s largest city – including many who played an instrumental role in developing and promoting regulation in the city…”
The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LABDS) published a bulletin to help the medical cannabis collective operators understand the implementation of the city’s complicated new ordinance. The 32-page document outlines the Byzantine registration process and includes the time-sensitive paperwork needed to comply. Applicants should be careful to understand the process. Any violation or missed deadline will disqualify a collective from registration – leaving them no option but to join a series of lotteries to select candidates at random for vacancies in any of the city’s thirty five Community Plan Areas.
An employee at a medical cannabis collective in Northridge was shot in the face and critically wounded on Saturday – the third violent armed robbery in Los Angeles in less than one week. It is unlikely that the robberies are related, but the sudden outburst of violence has turned up the heat in the debate about medical cannabis state wide. Some elected officials are already using these tragedies as a rationale for rolling back safe access at the state and local level.
“Annoyed by how medical marijuana clinics have abused the law, Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant on Friday denied a flurry of requests for temporary restraining orders to stop Los Angeles from enforcing its new medical marijuana ordinance on Monday…”
The LA Times reports that Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe has denied a request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that would have blocked enforcement of the new medical cannabis ordinance against hundreds of collectives that opened after the Los Angeles city Council adopted a moratorium on new facilities in 2007. The plaintiffs hoped to stop the city from closing the post moratorium collectives when the city’s tough new ordinance takes effect on June 7.
This Senate Joint Resolution urges the federal government to end medical marijuana raids in California and to create a comprehensive federal medical marijuana policy that ensures safe and legal access for any patient that would benefit from it. […]
The US Senate passed S.258, the "Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act of 2010." Without amendments, this act and infringes on the rights of medical marijuana patients by doubling federal penalties and heightens the risk of arrest and prosecution for edible cannabis users. […]
