Medical Marijuana Loophole Has LA Fuming

After letting marijuana dispensaries multiply across the city, Los Angeles is getting tough on them, telling some to shut down while the city council works to close a loophole that allowed many to open. The city issued a moratorium on new dispensaries in 2007, but many people filed “hardship exemptions” to get past the rule. Now LA has some 800 shops; 28 were told to close or face fines last week, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“They were like a rash,” said a councilman. The crowds at a dispensary near a high school made the place look “like an ice cream shop from the 1950s."
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