Los Angeles City Council Adopts First Reading of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Law

Los Angeles, CA — After more than two years of deliberation, the Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 this afternoon to adopt the first reading of an ordinance regulating the sale of medical marijuana and establishing rules for the operation of dispensing collectives and cooperatives, otherwise known as dispensaries. Patients and advocates worked tirelessly throughout this process to improve several versions of an ordinance they considered to be flawed. While advocates take credit for improvements to the ordinance, they claim that the arbitrary cap on the number of facilities and the proximity restrictions from a laundry list of so-called “sensitive uses” will undermine effective implementation of the law. A second reading and final vote on the ordinance will occur next week…

Read the entire press release on the ASA web site.
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