LA's South Bay Has Become One of California's Last Pockets of Marijuana Prohibition

As most of California is making it easier to get marijuana, the cities of Los Angeles's South Bay are moving fast to shut down even legal weed sales and use. In anticipation of state legislators' plans to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, several South Bay cities—which seem to be in deep opposition to weed in all its forms—are mounting an offensive of "sweeping bans on every kind of marijuana dispensary and delivery service, cultivation and manufacturing process," reports the Daily Breeze.

Although sales were already banned years ago "across the South Bay," new weed prohibitions are sweeping the area like wildfire: five cities in the region have already put strict anti-marijuana laws in place (Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale and Gardena) and three more (Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, and Rancho Palos Verdes) are on the verge of doing the same. In passing their ban, Torrance officials cited "offensive odors,...

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