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.