Los Angeles: Advocates Push Dueling Medical Marijuana Measures
In Los Angeles, where pot dispensaries have proliferated despite city lawmakers’ efforts to regulate or ban them, advocates for medical marijuana have taken the initiative to rein them in — with two groups putting forward rival ballot initiatives to manage the budding industry. Los Angeles City Council in October reversed a ban on the pot shops — which they had passed less than three months earlier after activists mounted lawsuits and gathered tens of thousands of signatures opposing it. The [...]