350_weed_la As more and more entrepreneurs began ignoring federal law regarding medical weed, the City Council in Los Angeles drafted a moratorium in ’07 limiting the amount of new dispensaries. One problem. It lead to a proliferation of them instead thanks to a “hardship exemption” included in the law and now there’s over 600 weed spots: “Some time last year, medical marijuana entrepreneurs discovered that the city attorney’s office was not prosecuting dispensaries that had filed hardship applications, saying the City Council needed to rule on them first.” |LAT|