Only last month an app company in Los Angeles announced that it’d be expanding its liquor delivery service to include greener pastures, as it were, with a new medical marijuana delivery option. But the city’s attorney isn’t a fan of that plan, and is suing to stop the company from going green.
In the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior court, City Attorney Mike Feuer alleges that Nestdrop is a “flagrant attempt” to circumvent restrictions in Proposition D, the law that made medical marijuana legal last year, reports the Associated Press.
The Nestdrop app links customers with delivery services, and requires proof of a medical marijuana prescription before the drugs can be picked up from certain dispensaries and brought to the customer’s home.
But the lawsuit argues that Proposition D only allows for medical marijuana users to pick up the drug themselves, or assign a caregiver who’s allowed to do so on their behalf.
The city wants a judge to ban Nestdrop from setting up pot deliveries and fine its parent company $2,500 every day since Nov. 12, at the least.
The company’s co-founder said in a statement that they’ll be fighting the lawsuit, as patients who have a tough time getting around could use the help.
“Nestdrop is the technology platform that connects law-abiding medical marijuana patients with local dispensaries to receive the medication that they need in a safe and secure manner,” Michael Pycher said.
Though other apps in the L.A.-area also offer medical pot delivery, Nestdrop is the first the city has turned its beady eye on.
“This is the first (case), and those others are operating at their own peril,” said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office.
LA city attorney sues to block pot delivery app [Associated Press]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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