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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 WHY IS L.A. SPENDING YOUR MONEY TO SHUT A DISPENSARY FOR IMPERFECT PAPERWORK? 🌿WHY IS L.A. SPENDING YOUR MONEY TO SHUT A DISPENSARY FOR IMPERFECT PAPERWORK?
A downtown marijuana dispensary is fighting City Hall's efforts to shut it down. Toluca Lake Collective opened in 2006 and registered with the city in 2007 before a December deadline to do so, says owner and well-known weed activist Frank Sheftel. The problem with the city arose, he said, because he filed to obtain a Business Tax Registration Certificate at City Hall's Van Nuys annex instead of at City Halldowntown.
At issue is whether Toluca Lake Collective, which Sheftel originally opened on Riverside Drive but moved downtown to comply with city regulations, is one of Los Angeles' original pot shops. In 2007 the city enacted a moratorium on collectives, allowing only about 188 that existed to stay open.
Then in 2013, voters approved Proposition D, which granted limited legal immunity from prosecution for the 135 pre-moratorium shops still operating.
Those stores are known as pre-ICO, named for the "interim control ordinance," the City Council's moratorium....
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