The first state-licensed adult-use cannabis dispensaries are now open in the city of Los Angeles
An Article from the LA Times:
California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control has issued its first two adult-use temporary retailer licenses within Los Angeles city limits — both of them to MedMen, bringing that dispensary’s total number of fully licensed medical / recreational shops to five (other doors include West Hollywood, Venice and Orange County).
According to the BCC’s cannabis license database (yes, it’s a thing — and a fascinating one at that), Cyon Corporation Inc. at 110 Robertson Blvd. and Advanced Patients’ Collective at 735 Broadway in downtown L.A. were granted state licenses to operate as both medicinal and adult-use retailers of cannabis on January 19.
MedMen spokesman Daniel Yi confirmed to The Times that both locations were MedMen shops and that both began adult-use sales on Saturday following the Jan. 19 issuance of the licenses.
MedMen’s Orange County location opened its doors to adult-use (i.e. non-medical) sales on Jan. 1, with West Hollywood following the next day. Saturday also marked the first day of adult-use sales at MedMen’s Venice shop, which was also granted its temporary state license on Jan. 19.
According to the BCC’s database, as of this writing those are the only two pot shops in Los Angeles proper that have been issued licenses. Expect that to change — and sooner rather than later — since the city of Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation’s list of legal businesses has a list of 65 additional entities that have been granted temporary approval to sell medicinal or adult-use cannabis and cannabis products, the first step in getting a state license. (Because of to the state’s dual-licensing requirement, obtaining a license, permit or other authorization from a local jurisdiction is a prerequisite to being issued one at the state level.)
