SpeedWeed Marijuana Delivery Could Come to a Halt

Marijuana delivery is efficient. Marijuana delivery is convenient. Marijuana delivery is illegal.

At least that's the case in the city of Los Angeles, where voters passed a measure, 2013's Proposition D, that outlaws delivery of otherwise legal medical cannabis except by "primary caregivers" such as home nurses.

"There is no lawful delivery service under Prop. D," L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer has said.

Yet delivery services have, er, mushroomed, and SpeedWeed is the local big daddy of them all. Prosecutors say it has 25,000 customers.

Today the City Attorney's Office announced that it's asking a judge to shut it down. It's the second major delivery service targeted by city prosecutors. In late 2014 a judge ordered that Nestdrop stop delivering weed in L.A. after a similar filing by the office.

Prosecutors say that Proposition D does not allow for commercial delivery of cannabis, that a vehicle out of which marijuana...

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