Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2013 – Lawsuits and Other Challenges Await Measure Reducing Number of Shops. Los Angeles voters took regulation of the city’s medical marijuana shops into their own hands Tuesday, embracing a ballot measure to sharply reduce the number of dispensaries in the city.

Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2013 – Proposition D, Which Would Cut the Number of Dispensaries to About 130, Was Leading. After years of futile attempts by lawmakers to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles, a ballot measure to sharply limit the number of pot dispensaries in the city was leading in early returns Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 2013 – Two of the Items Are Backed by Marijuana Activists, and the Council Will Decide This Week If the Third Should Go on Ballot. Even in the complicated world of pot politics, it’s a confusing prospect: In the May municipal election, Los Angeles voters could face not one but three ballot measures geared toward regulating medical marijuana dispensaries.

Los Angeles Times, 05 Jan 2013 – Measure would allow any dispensary that meets certain guidelines to remain. Los Angeles voters will get a chance to choose whether to keep pot shops open in the city when they go to the polls in May, thanks to a second medical marijuana initiative that qualified for the L.A. ballot Friday.

Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 2013 – The Development Is Likely to Make Such Facilities an Issue in the Mayoral Race. Prospects that the emotional debate over medical marijuana dispensaries will bleed into the Los Angeles’ mayoral race increased sharply this week when an initiative to keep some pot shops open qualified for the ballot.

Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct 2012 – Dispensary backers, foes vie for control of Eagle Rock panel. Tensions between neighborhood leaders fighting a surge in medical marijuana dispensaries and the industry’s increasingly assertive supporters spilled into neighborhood politics over the weekend in a bitter contest for control of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council.

Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct 2012 – The 11-2 Vote Leaves the City With No Law Regulating About 1,000 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries. After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles City Council retreated Tuesday, voting to repeal the carefully crafted ban on medical marijuana dispensaries it approved a few months ago.

Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep 2012 – Officials Give a Two-Week Deadline for 67 Stores to Comply With Federal Law. Federal officials brought their war on medical marijuana dispensaries to Los Angeles on Tuesday, raiding several shops and issuing warning letters to dozens more.

Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug 2012 – A referendum to repeal a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles appears to be headed for the ballot, with pot shop supporters saying Wednesday that they have collected nearly twice the signatures required to force a citywide vote and key City Council members signaling that they won’t try to stop it. On Thursday, medical cannabis supporters plan to turn in the names of 50,000 voters who want the referendum included on the March ballot. If the signatures prove valid, officials will be required to temporarily suspend the ban, which was approved with much fanfare last month and was due to go into effect Sept. 6.

Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug 2012 – Foes Hoping to Repeal L.A.’S Prohibition Are Gathering Signatures to Put a Referendum on the March Ballot. Outside a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, a man in sunglasses and flip-flops called out questions to bag-toting shoppers.