A crackdown on local unlicensed marijuana businesses has ended with misdemeanor charges against more than 500 people in Los Angeles.
In 120 criminal cases filed since May, City Attorney Mike Feuer has charged 515 people in connection with 105 illegal marijuana businesses, grow sites, extraction labs and delivery companies located throughout the city.
“If they’re going to go through this process, it just cannot be the case that others that flout the rules are allowed to function,” Feuer said. “It’s bad for those who buy from them, it’s bad for the communities in which they’re located and, again, it threatens to undermine the viability of a system that’s predicated on lawful licensing.”
All of the defendants were charged with unlicensed commercial cannabis activity within the city, which carries a potential sentence of six months in jail and a thousand dollars in fines.
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