Thursday, August 26th, 2010
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
From the ASA Blog –
“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…”
Read the entire post and download a copy of the complaints at http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=845
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
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.
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ASA Chief Counsel Joe Elford
From Americans for Safe Access:
“Santa Ana, CA — California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a long-awaited ruling today, choosing not to decide whether localities can ban medical marijuana distribution, and remanding the case back to Orange County Superior Court for further factual development. While nearly four-dozen California localities — including some of the most populous cities, such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, and San Francisco — have successfully implemented ordinances regulating medical marijuana dispensaries, more than 130 cities have imposed bans like Anaheim’s…”
Read the entire press release online.
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
In response to an article by John Ellis in the Sacramento Bee, CA NORML Director Dale Gieringer asks, “Could it bode an auspicious shift in federal policy? Are the feds ready to change the law so as to support, rather than undermine local control of marijuana?”
Mr. Ellis quotes ONDCP Chairman Kerlikowske: “Kerlikowske, however, pointed to how state and local jurisdictions have dealt with the state’s legalization of medical marijuana, saying they are ‘doing a really good job of licensing, land use, those kind of regulations’…”
Read the entire article online.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
From Matt Cummingham at BeverlyHills.Patch.com -
“… City Council voted 5-0 in support of an interim ordinance at Thursday’s meeting that prohibits the establishment of marijuana dispensaries in Beverly Hills…. ‘Staff believes that the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries in Beverly Hills has the potential to change the character of Beverly Hills,’ [Director of Community Development] Keene said, noting the recent string of robberies and murders that have occurred at dispensaries in Los Angeles…”
Read the entire story online.
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