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Meet L.A.'s dopest attorney

By Richard Binder

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Margolin_allison Allison Margolin, a 2002 Harvard Law School graduate has built a solo practice on defending criminal cases of marijuana possession. She says about 70% of her practice focuses on people who have run afoul of California's medical marijuana laws.

Fourteen states now allow the cultivation and use of marijuana for medical reasons. Besides California, they include Michigan, New Jersey and Colorado. Last month, the District of Columbia Council approved a law to allow people with HIV, glaucoma, cancer and other chronic diseases to buy medical marijuana from a small number of dispensaries in the city. Also last month, a group of about 100 medical-marijuana workers in California voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. The group includes growers and sellers.

Amid the changes in the laws across the country, medical marijuana dispensaries have flourished, with the number of dispensaries in Los Angeles alone estimated at 1,000.

Full story on NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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