Issue: LA Has Too Many Pot Shops

Solution: City Attorney says he’s closed 500

Date: Apr 10, 2015 

A Los Angeles city crackdown has prompted more than 500 medical marijuana shops to close down in less than two years, City Atty. Mike Feuer is scheduled to announce Thursday. 

That represents a jump from a year ago, when Feuer reported that about a hundred pot shops had been shuttered. The city attorney has also targeted other ways medical marijuana has been distributed, securing court injunctions against a Boyle Heights pot farmers market and a smartphone app used to arrange pot deliveries. 

"There are a whole bunch of different vehicles that we pursued to close them," including civil and criminal cases and warning letters, Feuer said. "We've made tremendous progress."  (Read the rest.) 

-cw

CityWatch

Vol 13 Issue 30

Pub: Apr 10, 2015