Indopedia All Things Marijuana
California has had legal medical marijuana for over 20 years now, but in those two decades the state has neglected to add any concrete regulations to the industry – until now. With with brand new medical marijuana regulations and recreational sales both jumping off in 2018, change is finally coming to weed’s wild west. In Los Angeles County, though, the new regulations are leading local officials to push for a shutdown of the county’s currently operating unregulated pot shops.
According to L.A. Weekly, dispensaries have been banned in the unincorporated areas of L.A. County since 2011, but that hasn’t stopped unregulated retailers from setting up shop throughout the Southland. In East L.A. alone there are more than a dozen unregulated dispensaries.
With recreational legalization and medical regulations on the horizon, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has been trying to fund a sweeping shutdown of those pot shops, but to no avail.
So instead of raiding the illegal dispensaries, county sheriffs have instead just started showing up at the unregulated stores, asking for paperwork and generally making customers and employees feel uncomfortable.
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