Supervisors in both counties vote 4 to 1 to ban dispensaries in unincorporated areas, a novel step for O.C. and a reversal for L.A., where the board called for $1,000-a-day fines on unauthorized dispensaries.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county, which would cover territory with a population of 1.5 million people.
In Los Angeles, medical marijuana dispensaries once outnumbered Starbucks. But after months of a major crackdown, the number of pot clinics has plummeted.
A new Los Angeles Police Department team is spearheading an aggressive push to shut down dispensaries that are illegal under a city ordinance that took effect four weeks ago.
Los Angeles police detectives are investigating a robbery at a Northridge marijuana dispensary over the weekend that left an employee in critical condition after he was shot in the face.
LA Police are trying to determine whether there was any connection between two robberies hours apart Thursday at two medical marijuana dispensaries that left two employees dead.