Where’s the weed?
Before a 2007 moratorium, the city of Los Angeles had issued 186 medical marijuana dispensary licenses. Since the moratorium, nearly 800 applications for hardship exemptions have been filed.
Dispensary licenses and applications in the city of Los Angeles
Legally licensed 
Applied for exemption 
Application denied or withdrawn 
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A proposed Los Angeles city ordinance would prohibit dispensaries within 1,000 feet of a school, library or park. A Times analysis found that at least 260 of the addresses on file with the city clerk would be within a restricted zone. Operators contend that applications allow them to conduct business until the city reviews their cases. But many of the applications are no more than paper filed to secure future rights. Among those are the 58 registered at 8619 Reseda Blvd. Meanwhile, the reviews are proceeding so slowly that fewer than 100 cases have been decided.
NOTE: Two locations, the Herbal Cure and Superior Herbal Health, could not be plotted.
Sources: Los Angeles city clerk, Times reporting
Map by: Thomas Suh Lauder, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter, Ken Schwencke, Ben Welsh
