San Diego Accelerating Shutdown of Illegal Marijuana Dispensaries

July 27, 2015
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San Diego — San Diego’s efforts to shut down illegal pot shops have become significantly more successful just as several of the city’s first wave of legal medical marijuana dispensaries are expected to open this summer and fall.

Fifteen illegal dispensaries are somewhere in the long and complicated process of being shuttered by the city, down from 69 one year ago.

Community leaders have lobbied the city to shut down illegal shops quickly because they face much less regulation than legal dispensaries, are sometimes magnets for crime and often operate in inappropriate locations near schools and other businesses that attract children. [Read more at the San Diego Union-Tribune]

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