The LA City Prosecutors have, at least for now, successfully won the fight to close 439 Medical Marijuana dispensaries in the City of LA, and several of them were located in Mar Vista. 
According to the list published in the LA Times, the 420 Collective, The Rainforest Collective, Centinela Green House Collective, CLINIC, Federal Medicinal Support, The Organic Pharmacy, and Venice Collective have all been ordered to shut down in our 90066 zip code. (I had no idea we had so many pot shops in the neighborhood, did you?) 
Some have signs up explaining why they’re closed and at least one is waiting to see which way the legal winds blow. 
And, to make it perfectly clear, again, my concern here is not about keeping marijuana out of the hands of those who use it for medicinal purposes, but rather the explosion of so many green cross shops in our neighborhood, and for that matter, all over LA.
By the way, can anyone explain to me why the symbol for a medical marijuana dispensary seems to be a Green Cross?
Don’t celebrate yet. All their customers will end up at another shop, which means one part of the neighborhood will have no parking.
November will fix all of this. Trust me Sarah, you WANT it to be legal, this is not what you want.
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No, I agree with you about legalizing — I just still won’t want it on every street corner.
What is the difference in liquor stores on every corner (much more harmful) versus marijuana? Liquor stores bring much more harmful influences to town than anyone I know who smokes Marijuana. I say this, and I myself do not use Marijuana. What are your thoughts?
I wouldn’t want a liquor store on every corner, either. I can’t speak to the relative harmfulness between the two substances or types of stores — I’m no expert on that. All I know is that one is legal and one isn’t.
I personally hope that gets changed, and there is a ballot measure that intends to do just that in this Fall’s election.