Pubdate: Sat, 4 Sep 2010
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Page: AA4
Copyright: 2010 Los Angeles Times
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: John Hoeffel

MARIJUANA DISPENSARY TO STAY OPEN

A medical marijuana dispensary that Los Angeles was seeking to shut 
down under its three-month-old ordinance has won a court order 
allowing it to stay open, the first ruling from a local judge to 
favor one of the hundreds of stores affected by the new law.

On Thursday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr 
granted a temporary restraining order to allow DTPG to stay in 
business pending another hearing.

Alfred Garcia, who started the downtown collective, said DTPG opened 
before the city had medical marijuana laws and has complied with 
every requirement it has adopted.

The decision applies only to DTPG and is unlikely to change the 
situation for most of the hundreds of dispensaries the city has 
ordered to shut down.
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