City counsel to act on dispensaries

remove the hardship provision from the Interim Control Ordinance (ICO),
which established a moratorium on new medical cannabis collectives in Los
Angeles in 2007. The hardship provision allowed collectives that did not
register with the City Clerk¹s office before November 13, 2007, to ask the
City Council for a special exemption from the moratorium. If adopted as
drafted, Councilmember Huizar¹s motion will prevent any new hardship
applications, but have no effect on the previously registered collectives ­
including 287 collectives with pending hardship applications.²