If you are wondering why you should get a recommendation from a legitimate medical doctor and clinic read the following article. A Los Alamitos doctor, who was punished last year after a plastic surgery patient died, is facing more California Medical Board discipline stemming from his work at a beach-front medical marijuana clinic in Venice. [...]

Many patients often ask me legal questions about getting involved in the medical marijuana industry.  Although I am obviously not an attorney I have become fairly well versed in cannabis law in the State of California.   The person who I respect the most in this area of law is attorney Anthony Curiale located in [...]

Choosing the right doctor for your medical marijuana recommendation is important.   If you are in the Southern California, specifically Orange County and Long Beach area, there is only one choice.   Dr. Sean Breen, medical director of Medical Cannabis of Southern California, has been the only consistent physician offering recommendations for the past 4 [...]

A lot has changed in the past 3 months for the medical marijuana industry in California.   Local municipalities have asked federal law enforcement to help shut down dispensaries by the dozen. It has worked.   Over the past 14 days Costa Mesa went from having 37 medical marijuana dispensaries to 0.0  Letters to landlords [...]

In the wake of the recent raids on legitimate medical marijuana dispensaries in Costa Mesa, CA this past week, the Feds have sent letters to all land lords who rent to dispensaries notifying them that unless they evict their property will be seized.   This has pretty much sealed the fate for the majority of [...]

Here is a round up of the news for the medical marijuana industry in LA/Orange County this week. 1)Medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach, CA are not going anywhere yet.   At a recent meeting with the city counsel they decided to delay making any decisions until the State Supreme Court decides whether or not [...]

A lot has happened to the medical marijuana industry in 2011.   I expect more of the same for 2012 so hold onto your shorts.   2011 was supposed to be a year of growth for the medical marijuana industry.  More and more patients in California were seeing the benefits of this plant first hand [...]

Since 2008 Doctor Breen has been evaluating patients in Long Beach that qualify to use medical marijuana under California’s proposition 215.    His office is located at the Los Altos Medical Center at 1777 N Bellflower Blvd Suite 212 which is down the street from the VA Hospital and Long Beach State.   His practice [...]

In the past month, Medicann Medical Marijuana Clinics shut down two of their flagship locations: Anaheim and Long Beach, CA.     Medicann has been serving California patients since 2004 and operated over 20 clinics across the state.   However in the past 12 months they have seen profits drop as more and more illegal [...]

It seems like more and more medical marijuana clinics are popping up offering marijuana cards.    For patients who do a simple google search or look the local OC Weekly there are tons of ads advertising doctors recommendations for marijuana.    For many patients this is a very intimidating process and they want to go [...]