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Los Angeles City Issues - Did your business miss the Interim Control Ordinance 179027 filing deadline? We have the City Cerk's I.C.O. Hardship Exemption Request. These have to be filled out and filed with the Clerk. The Planning and Land Use Management Committee will review the Exemption Requests and present them to the L.A. City Counsel. The applicant will have to appear before the counsel for a question and answer session before the counsel decides to grant or deny the request for exemption.
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One can only assume the City's next move in all this. My opinion? I believe the businesses that failed to file the documents in time will be visited by the LAPD and shut down for failing to file. The ones that did file should expect a visit from the City Building Inspector to ensure that the establishment is up to code and there are no violations. This includes exit signs, extinguishers, GFI plugs, handicapped facilities and more.
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Hello, my name is Scott Linden and I am a California licensed corporate and business attorney practicing in the City of Pasadena, in Los Angeles, CA.

My family came to California by wagon train many generations ago and settled much of the area. I am a third generation U.C.L.A. Bruin and a stout advocate for the legalization of marijuana for its numerous medicinal and commercial uses as well as its well-documented, historically religious nature.

In 1990, I graduated Santa Monica College earning an Associate in Arts degree in Liberal Arts.
In 1993, I graduated UCLA earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. While at UCLA, I volunteered time with Dr. O. Ivaar Lovaas in the child development department where I was a behavior modification therapist for autistic children under 6 years old.
In 1996, I graduated California Western School of Law earning a Juris Doctor degree.
I am a member of the NORML legal committee

I passed the California Bar in 1997 and was sworn in for the State of California and for the Southern Federal District Court. In 1998 I took and passed the New York State Bar, but I chose not to swear in; I decided to practice in California.

Since then, I have been the general counsel for several large corporations including a nationwide plumbing contractor and supplier and a dental supply company who, at the time, was earning over $100,000,000 annually.

I now work with Schofield, Grossman & Linden, located in Pasadena since 1978, the firm has a strong base in Trusts, Estates, Tax and General Business Law,

I am a licensed numismatist and I avidly collect large, small, colonial and obsolete currency dating to the late 1700's. I also collect coins from the early 1787 Fugio Cent (made from the copper that held the powder keg barrels given to the US by the French during the Revolution) to the modern US gold & Silver bullion.

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Recently, with the creation Proposition 215 and Senate Bill 420, there have been a dramatic increase in the number of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in and around the greater Los Angeles area. As a legal California business entity, a properly formed and designed MMD should receive the complete benefits and protections offered by the State of California under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. I have assisted several of these to become compliant with the state, county and city rules, regulations and zoning ordinances.
(Read the Daily News Article HERE)

Although there is no guarantee regarding what direction the laws may turn regarding Medical Marijuana, there is no better protection then being prepared...remember the best defense is a good offense

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If you are ready to open a
Medicinal Marijuana Co-Op/Collective in

Greater Los Angeles,
Ventura,
Orange,
Riverside or
San Bernardino Areas