The first of a couple assignments I recently shot for the London-based Financial Times Weekend Magazine just published. The story was a first-person account by L.A. writer Adam Baer addressing his experience with medical marijuana following neuromuscular complications that arose several years after a bout with Hodgkin’s disease. His story’s an interesting read and can be found here.
Medical marijuana collectives have sprung up throughout Los Angeles in the past couple of years, growing from around 200 establishments when I moved here a couple years ago, to nearly 1000 citywide. Within 2 blocks of my door I can think of 4 or 5 places to were I to shell out the dough for an easy-to-obtain prescription. They’re about to get a little harder to find, however, as the L.A. City Council just passed an ordinance that will shut down all but 200 or so. Basically, it’ll be going back to the way it was before a 2007 moratorium that was supposed to curb the proliferation, but was pretty much ignored.