Los Angeles authorities have gone after 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, arresting one owner and filing lawsuits and eviction orders against outlets.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The state-funded California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research announced that its studies have shown marijuana to have therapeutic value in a report released on February 17.
DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin first said "the time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody." Now he says the DEA is “not declaring war on dispensaries.”
CANNABIS CULTURE - A new California state-sponsored study has found that medical cannabis can reduce pain for patients suffering from HIV/Aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer.