Scott Shackford on Farmers Market Marijuana

The West Coast
Collective in East L.A. launched the Los Angeles California
Heritage Market at its dispensary, allowing medical marijuana users
to purchase wares directly from vendors. Customers, all with
medical marijuana cards, lined the block waiting to make their
purchases.

Although an August hearing scheduled to determine the market’s
fate ultimately went against the operation, writes Scott Shackford,
for one lovely Los Angeles weekend—Independence Day weekend to be
exact—legal medical marijuana users shopped for cannabis the way
they might shop for fresh strawberries, avocados, and flowers: at a
local farmers market.

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