9 Studio City Area Marijuana Dispensaries Permitted to Stay Open

Nine marijuana dispensaries in Studio City and nearby in the Cahuenga Pass are among the 135 listed in Los Angeles that will be permitted to remain open by the city following the voter approved Proposition D. 

Proposition D, passed by voters in May, calls for a drastic reduction in the amount of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles and allows only 135 dispensaries to remain open.

Those 135 selected dispensaries have been permitted to remain open because they registered with the city prior to ordinances passed by the City Council in 2007. Those businesses also had to be registered with the city in 2011 and under Measure M, which began taxing the sale of marijuana.

Proposition D could potentially close down up to 1,000 marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, and the Studio City Neighborhood Council Land Use committee has had community meetings about whether the number of shops concentrated in the area is simply too much. (At one point there was more than 20 along Ventura Boulevard.)

Perennial Holistic Wellness Center owner Sam Humeid, who ran unsuccessfully for a Neighborhood Council seat last year, owns one of the still-allowed dispensaries in Studio City.

Land Use Committee chair Lisa Sarkin pointed out that five of those mentioned in the Studio City boundaries remain opened now.

The list of shops that can remain open and addresses are:

Alternative Medicine Group, 10964 Ventura, 91604

Buds and Roses Collective, 13235 Ventura, 91604

Compassionate Care of Studio City, 11314 Ventura, 91604 

The Green Easy, 3441 Cahuenga,  90068

Holistic Care of Studio, 12406 Ventura,  91604

Studio City Caregivers, 3625 Cahuenga,  90068

Perennial Holistic Wellness Center, Inc.,  11706 Ventura,  91604 

Universal Herbal Center, 3177 Cahuenga,  90068

The Wellness Earth Energy Dispensary, 12021 Ventura,  91604

See the entire list in the PDF attached above.