Los Angeles has declared that just 41 out of 169 medipot-shops in the city are eligible to remain in business. This will likely mean more law suits (30 have already been filed) in the wake of the Jan. 26 ordinance banning most of L.A.'s dispensaries.

Businesses that registered before Nov. 13, 2007 were allowed to apply for eligibility. In order to qualify, management and ownership must have stayed the same since then and have no criminal records, and the stores couldn't have moved (unless they were booted by landlords who were warned by the DEA).

Since the ordinance calls for a total of 70 dispensaries, there will be a lottery to fill the remaining 29 slots.

The flagship Farmacy in Venice (above) is not on the eligible list.

Here are the eligible dispensaries:

420 for the People Cooperative, Inc. (L.A.)
Advanced Patient Collective (L.A.)
After Care (Northridge)
Buds and Rose Collective (Studio City)
California Organic Treatment Center (L.A.)
Canna Health Caregiver (L.A.)
Canto Diem (Hollywood)
City Compassionate Caregivers (L.A.)
Downtown Collective (L.A.)
Euphoric Caregivers (L.A.)
Greenhouse Herbal Center LLC (L.A.)
Hazelwood Patients Collective (L.A.)
Healthy Herbal Care Plus (L.A.)
Heaven on Earth Healing (L.A.)
Highland Park Patient Collective, Inc. (Highland Park)
Hollywood Holistic II (L.A.)
Ironworks Collective, Inc. (Venice)
KB Center for Compassionate Care (Chatsworth)
Kind 4 Less (Granada Hills)
La Brea Collective (L.A.)
L.A. Organic Pharmacy (L.A.)
L.A. Wonderland Caregivers (L.A.)
Los Angeles Valley Caregivers, Inc. (Reseda)
Marina Caregivers Cooperative, Inc. (Marina del Rey)
Mother Nature Remedy (Van Nuys)
Natural Remedies (L.A.)
Nature's Cure, Inc. (L.A.)
Organic Century Farmacy (L.A.)
Patients Against Pain, Inc. (North Hollywood)
Red Moon, Inc. (Van Nuys)
Robertson Caregivers (L.A.)
Sherman Oaks Collective Care (Sherman Oaks)
Southern California Collective (L.A.)
Studio City Caregivers (L.A.)
Sunrise Caregivers Foundation (L.A.)
The Foundation of Well Being (L.A.)
The Natural Way of Los Angeles (L.A.)
The Relief Co. (L.A.)
Valley Health Center (Van Nuys)
Wellness Caregivers (Tarzana)
West Valley Patients Group (Woodland Hills)

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