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Judge Halts Medical Marijuana Delivery App in Los Angeles

An attorney representing the app says its operation simply connects legitimate patients with legitimate dispensaries

Want your medical marijuana delivered? There might not be an app for that.

A judge on Tuesday grounded a smartphone-based service that arranges deliveries of medical marijuana in Los Angeles after the city attorney argued it was illegal.

In the complaint filed Dec. 2, LA City Attorney Mike Feuer requested a preliminary injunction against the app Nestdrop, also seeking civil penalties for violations of voter-approved Proposition D and unfair business practices.

Prop D, which regulates dispensaries, prohibits medical marijuana delivery services in LA and allows only caregivers to transport marijuana to patients.

A judge on Tuesday OK'd the injunction, which will prohibit the app's operators from facilitating medical marijuana deliveries It also directs them remove any of the app's references to marijuana deliveries in Los Angeles.

An attorney for Nestdrop, which also delivers alcohol, said it would appeal the judge's decision, saying its operation simply connected legitimate patients with legitimate medical marijuana dispensaries.

But Feuer said Nestdrop "is a flagrant attempt to circumvent the will of the voters who passed Prop D."

Nestdrop co-founder Michael Pycher contends the service does operate legally.

"The patients who need medical cannabis the most are the ones who might not be able to drive and therefore need it brought to them, and we can help them with that," Pycher said.

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