Medical Marijuana

The laws regarding Medical Marijuana change very often in California. At the Sigal Law Group we have represented several marijuana collectives and dispensaries over the years and have made a point to keep up with the latest changes in the law. That is why we consider ourselves the premier medical marijuana lawyers in California.

After medical marijuana was decriminalized by the California tax payers in 1996 by Compassionate Use Act (also known as Proposition 215) and more freedoms were granted by the 2003 collective cultivation law. This spurred what is now referred to as the California Green Rush. Hundreds of collectives have opened in recent years by entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity for profit. Many were created as non-profit organizations but in reality reaped a substantial profit for their owners. As the law and the enforcement of the law changed the Sigal Law Group began representing several more clients who needed a Los Angeles Medical marijuana Lawyer to help them get through the legal maze of laws and regulations and operate under the color of law.

Changing Medical Marijuana Policies

As the law kept changing and different state and local regulatory agencies changed their policies regarding medical marijuana, the need for an experienced medical marijuana lawyer became greater and the more experience we obtained working within the field. When the City of Los Angeles created a moratorium on new dispensaries in the Los Angeles Area, things changed completely. In addition to passing a moratorium, the City Council also established something called a "Hardship Exception" that allowed certain dispensaries that can show a hardship need to be open to operate. For over a year, these hardships were never adjudicated and dispensaries that had filed hardship requests were allowed to operate legally. The Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Lawyers at the Sigal Law Group filed several hardship applications for clients at this time.

As more and more hardship applications were filed and more and more medical marijuana dispensaries sprung up in Los Angeles, the City Council and other anti-marijuana activists began to take notice. When word got out that new medical marijuana dispensaries were still opening despite the ban and that the Council was doing nothing about the filed hardships and allowing this to happen, it made news and created a situation where increased scrutiny was given to dispensaries.

Contact The Sigal Law Group To Save Your Business

These hardship dispensaries soon began receiving letters and inspections from local regulatory agencies threatening them with closure and civil and criminal penalties. Many of these dispensaries turned to the Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers at the Sigal Law Group. By keeping abreast of the ever changing laws we were able to keep regulators at bay and allow the dispensaries to continue operating. We have been able to obtain city business licenses for our clients and also to get them to become compliant with current laws and allow them to continue to operate. If you are a medical marijuana dispensary owner in Los Angeles or the surrounding areas, it is in your best interest to contact the Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers at the Sigal Law Group. Don’t jeopardize your business or your freedom contact the Sigal Law Group for a free consultation today.