Mention medicinal marijuana dispensaries and people tend to think of either the giant operations in Oakland or the hippie-tinged forests of the Emerald Triangle up north.
But sprayed throughout the state, in little towns where you wouldn’t expect such a thing, are hundreds of cannabis dispensaries that have a special challenge.
In burgs like Galt in the [...]

By Christopher Palmeri
Bloomberg — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an ordinance that will shut hundreds of marijuana dispensaries in the city and impose stricter regulations on the 186 remaining stores.
The ordinance signed on April 30 caps a four-year effort by the city to address the proliferation [...]

Centennial, Colo. — Medical marijuana patients have a constitutional right to buy pot, not just use it, according to ruling Wednesday by a judge. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross sided with the CannaMart dispensary, which sued the city of Centennial after it was shut down in October.
Cross granted the dispensary’s request for [...]