INTERACTIVE MAP

Where’s the weed?

Before a 2007 moratorium, the city of Los Angeles had issued 186 medical marijuana dispensary licenses. Since the moratorium, nearly 800 applications for hardship exemptions have been filed. Many of the applications are no more than paper filed to secure future rights. Among those are the 58 registered at 8619 Reseda Blvd.

Dispensary licenses and applications in the city of Los Angeles

Legally licensed

Applied for exemption

Application denied or withdrawn

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Sources: Los Angeles city clerk, Times reporting
Map by: Thomas Suh Lauder, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter, Ken Schwencke, Ben Welsh

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jeremefishel at 2:39 AM December 22, 2010

From what I understand, the dispensaries that recently pre-registered were required to file a hardship exemption if they moved once due to a DEA letter. I read the original ordinance and it does not address having to file a hardship exemption if moving, nor do I know of any dispensary owners who were sent information from the city or found anything online on it being a requirement to be eligible, then. Unfair and unconstitutional. Did the MMJ lawyers and Judge Anthony Mohr overlook this; shouldnt that provision be thrown out along with the management change?? The hardship exemption was only used for one thing and that was for late comer dispensaries, who didnt file legitimately, to get in after the moratorium. Right???

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