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Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries
#21529992 - 04/10/15 07:36 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Authorities in Los Angeles have shuttered 500 medical marijuana dispensaries since residents voted two years ago to cap the number of pot shops in the city at about 130, officials said on Thursday.
City Attorney Mike Feuer told reporters hundreds of the illegal businesses still operate, highlighting the challenges of reining in the dispensaries in Los Angeles, which is widely believed to have more pot shops than any U.S. metropolis.
To achieve the closures, Los Angeles officials have filed criminal and civil cases against some dispensary owners, and have sent letters threatening legal action against landlords who lease space to dispensaries, officials said.
The medical cannabis shops opened in the years after a vote by California residents in 1996 to permit medicinal use of the drug, which remains banned under federal law.
Twenty-three U.S. states allow medical pot, while four states and the District of Columbia have approved recreational marijuana use by adults.
Efforts to control the number of dispensaries in Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city, have at times been compared with a game of whack-a-mole, as the owners of some shops move their businesses to escape enforcement.
The dispensaries, which are usually identified by a green medical cross posted on a storefront, have long drawn complaints from neighbors upset about the pungent smell and the risk of minors getting marijuana from dispensary customers.
But Feuer said the number of complaints has fallen over the last two years, in what he said was a sign the crackdown by his office is working. He declined to give an exact estimate of how many dispensaries still exist.
"While we have succeeded in a remarkable way up to this point, we are far from through," Feuer told a news conference.
Los Angeles residents voted in 2013 to cap the number of dispensaries at about 130, or roughly as many as registered with the city in 2007 when city leaders first tried to limit their numbers.
Under California's rules, the dispensaries cannot be located near schools, and must follow other regulations such as not having illuminated signs visible at night.
Estimates for the number of dispensaries currently operating in the city have varied widely.
A survey last September by the University of California, Los Angeles, found at least 410 in operation, said Bridget Freisthler, a professor of social welfare at the school.
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: mpd] 1
#21530033 - 04/10/15 07:44 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think its pretty reasonable.
130 dipensaries is more than enough for LA alone. they may have trouble with stock the first month or so, but after that, i expect that the remaining dispensaries will be more professional and offer a wider variety of marijuana
theres no need to have a dispensary on every block. theres no reason for dispensaries to outnumber all other pharmacies
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: Adolin] 1
#21530255 - 04/10/15 08:17 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gresh said: i think its pretty reasonable.
130 dipensaries is more than enough for LA alone. they may have trouble with stock the first month or so, but after that, i expect that the remaining dispensaries will be more professional and offer a wider variety of marijuana
theres no need to have a dispensary on every block. theres no reason for dispensaries to outnumber all other pharmacies
What are you talkin about? You live in an area where some places there's a bar every other building.
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: r00tuuu123]
#21530270 - 04/10/15 08:22 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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thats a good point i guess, but its not like you go to a dispensary to socialize and chief up right? do people actually just go and chill and smoke in them?
im all for bars that incorperate weed, but i think bars and dispensaries are kind of unrelated.
liquor stores would be a more apt comparison, and there aren't nearly as many of those as there are bars around me (like 3 liquor stores and 6 beer stores compaired to 25 bars around me)
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: Adolin]
#21530303 - 04/10/15 08:30 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't know my numbers but I bet there is more than half a million medical patients in Los Angeles County alone, is 415 dispensaries really a lot?
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: Sham87]
#21530316 - 04/10/15 08:34 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sham87 said: I don't know my numbers but I bet there is more than half a million medical patients in Los Angeles County alone, is 415 dispensaries really a lot?
when you put it that way i guess it makes a little less sense... maybe they should just let the market even itself out and find a sweet spot for supply and demand 
they dont limit the number of fast food restauraunts as far as i know....

yall changed my opinion. i can still understand why people would vote for limits though
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: Adolin]
#21530330 - 04/10/15 08:36 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gresh said: i think its pretty reasonable.
130 dipensaries is more than enough for LA alone. they may have trouble with stock the first month or so, but after that, i expect that the remaining dispensaries will be more professional and offer a wider variety of marijuana
theres no need to have a dispensary on every block. theres no reason for dispensaries to outnumber all other pharmacies
You should take a walk around some parts of colorado haha. Any time I go into town there is literally a pot shop every block.
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: Adolin]
#21530331 - 04/10/15 08:36 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gresh said: i think its pretty reasonable.
130 dipensaries is more than enough for LA alone. they may have trouble with stock the first month or so, but after that, i expect that the remaining dispensaries will be more professional and offer a wider variety of marijuana
theres no need to have a dispensary on every block. theres no reason for dispensaries to outnumber all other pharmacies
No way bro, LA is too big for just 130 dispensaries. That's bs actually, and I second the notion about it being fucked up that there's like a liquor store in every corner but god forbid it's marijuana "oh noes will somebody think of the poor anti marijuana supporters!", I say we drown all the conservative marijuana prohibitionists in a bucket of alcohol, or better yet put them on a road with nothing but drunk drivers, then after put them on another road with weed smokers only and let them analyze the differences between the two.
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Re: Los Angeles Shutters a Slew of Pot Dispensaries [Re: mpd]
#21530356 - 04/10/15 08:36 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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