3 Eagle Rock Pot Shops Survive Prop. D Closures

Two Eagle Rock medical marijuana dispensaries that have been closed since 2012 and one dispensary that is still open are among 135 weed shops in Los Angeles that city authorities will permit to remain open in the wake of voter-approved Proposition D in elections this past May.

The three stores are:

• Medical Caregivers Association, located on 4344-G Eagle Rock Blvd.

• Cornerstone Collective, which closed in 2012 at 4623 Eagle Rock Blvd., on the corner of Corliss Street, and whose former premises are currently being remodeled for a doctor’s office, according to workers on the site.

• Southern California Collective Inc., which closed in 2012 and was located at 1121 Colorado Blvd.

Proposition D calls for a drastic reduction in the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles and allows no more than 135 dispensaries that registered with the city before the City Council passed an ordinance in November 2007.

Of the three Eagle Rock dispensaries that are on the list of 135 stores allowed to remain open, only Medical Caregivers Association on Eagle Rock Boulevard is still open. Another dispensary, Colorado Quality Pain Relief, Inc., located at 4740 Eagle Rock Blvd., is also open but is not on the city’s list. 

“I'd personally be happy if just Cornerstone came back and was allowed to operate,” said Michael Larsen, immediate past president of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, who campaigned for tighter regulation of proliferating pot stores in Eagle Rock while he was ERNC president. “I thought they always tried to do it right—I don't think Eagle Rock needs more than one well-run dispensary.”

Almost exactly a year ago, before federal authorities began targeting some of the pot shops in Eagle Rock, the neighborhood as many as 15 medical marijuana dispensaries.

A spokesperson for the city attorney's office told KPCC that to make the list of 135, 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, the Daily News reported.