Title: Medical Cannabis Cup – L.A. Location: Los Angeles Center Studios, 1201 W. Fifth St., Los AngelesLink out: Click hereDescription: The world’s premier medical-marijuana competition arrives in Los Angeles for the first time. Panels and seminars with leaders of the medical-marijuana movement, including doctors, patients, researchers, growers, dispensary owners, activists and HIGH TIMES magazine’s own cultivation editors. A Saturday-night VIP party featuring performances by very special musical guests. A closing-night Medical Cannabis Cup awards ceremony honoring the top indicas, sativas, hybrids, concentrates and edibles entered by California’s legally operating cannabis dispensaries and collectives.Start Date: 2012-02-11End [...]
Jan 122012
City Councilman Jose Huizar is asking his colleagues to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. It’s a great idea. Or rather, it would have been a great idea three or four years ago — before the city purported to regulate the storefront cannabis-selling shops. The idea would not be to ban dispensaries forever but to track court rulings, determine what regulations are and are not allowable, and then construct a smart and enforceable ordinance. But it’s too late for that now, this Los Angeles Times editorial concludes. L.A. city government took its seat on [...]
Los Angeles has sued nine medical marijuana dispensaries to force them to close immediately and permanently, even as more boldly open throughout the city, often in prominent locations. With hundreds of dispensaries in L.A., City Atty. Carmen Trutanich decided to target those within 600 feet of a school, a violation of state law. The city is seeking civil penalties of up to $5,000 a day if the dispensaries defy the lawsuits and remain open, John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times. “These are the ones that have been brought to our attention. There could [...]
Los Angeles is home to more medical marijuana shops than any other city. That much is certain. And more are still opening. But how many there are is usually a guessing game. Now, however, the city has a new number: 372. That’s how many filed forms with the city’s office of finance by the Oct. 31 deadline in preparation for paying the new pot tax, the Los Angeles Times reports. But that’s probably not the total number of marijuana businesses in the city. That’s just the number that want to be seen as playing by [...]
Title: ASA holiday fundraiser — L.A.Location: Discreet Hollywood location revealed with ticket purchaseLink out: Click hereDescription: Make plans to join us at an upscale, roof-top venue in Hollywood for ASA’s annual holiday fundraiser. This is going to be our best holiday fundraiser ever! We will have great live music, delicious food and drinks, and more. Everyone 21 and older is welcome to attend. Food, drink, hash bar, Prop. 215 area. Music by DJ Ill Media, Luchadoors and Most CHill Slack Mob, Bar, Hash-Bar, Raffle’s and much more. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at [...]
In 2009, as Los Angeles’ booming medical marijuana economy inspired an emerald city of weed, Vanessa Sahagun found a business opportunity as “Chacha Vavoom,” maven of the 420 Nurses. Chacha and her “nurses” became a pot culture phenomenon. They savored bong hits on YouTube, modeled skimpy outfits to promote marijuana dispensaries – and stirred young men at medical pot shows teeming with sexual imagery. “I was proud I was opening up a market creating ‘green jobs’ for these ladies,” said Sahagun, 25. But now, the sexual marketing of medical marijuana – with racy promotions that [...]
This advisory comes from Sarah Armstrong, legal liaison for the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance. ============================================= Several members of the Los Angeles City Council have submitted motions to ban all collectives in the City of Los Angeles. We are desperately trying to head off a ban, and a key part of this is letting Los Angeles patients know how they can contact their council members. Americans For Safe Access has established a web page where patients can easily send an email to all 14 members on the Los Angeles City Council protesting the ban. Can [...]
Medical marijuana advocates have filed lawsuits in California’s four federal judicial districts aimed at quickly winning court orders to halt the U.S. attorneys from closing dispensaries. The lawsuits are the second legal challenge to the stepped-up enforcement efforts that the four prosecutors announced last month at a high-profile joint news conference in Sacramento, John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times. Matt Kumin, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuits, said that Tuesday the plaintiffs plan to ask the judges assigned to the cases for temporary restraining orders halting the crackdown. “The government has [...]
Pot suppliers went to federal court Monday to try to halt the Obama administration’s campaign to close down their dispensaries, saying the survival of California’s medical marijuana law is at stake. In lawsuits filed in each of the state’s four federal districts, medical marijuana cooperatives, joined by patients and property owners, accused the Justice Department of violating an agreement to leave them alone if they complied with state law, Bob Egelko reports in the San Francisco Chronicle. The department had pledged to the courts, and to patients and their suppliers, that “those who possess, grow [...]
Title: Protest against federal attack on medical cannabisLocation: Federal Building, 255 E. Temple St., Los AngelesLink out: Click hereDescription: Join Californians in a peaceful and legal protest against the federal offensive against medical cannabis cooperatives and collectives. Sponsored by the Greater Los Angeles Caregivers Alliance and Americans for Safe Access. Details: 888-929-4367Start Time: 12:00Date: 2011-10-24
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