Los Angeles Collective Association (LACA) is a Collective of medical marijuana patient Collectives in Los Angeles. It is our mission to help establish Patient Collectives, in the City of Los Angeles as a legitimate industry. We were formed to deal with the City of Los Angeles illegally trying to extend a moratorium on collectives beyond the two year limit for Interim Control Ordinance (ICO). LACA filed a lawsuit to end the moratorium and after winning a preliminary injunction against the City, we prevented the City from enforcing the moratorium.

Currently we find ourselves facing a city council determined to discriminate against our members and create unacceptable ordinances which would drastically decrease the number of collectives. If the City continues to discriminate against the majority of the collectives we will have no choice than to challenge them again in court.

It has become clear that the City Council will continue to treat us unfairly and with distain. They seem to not have a clear understanding of the industry. Most of them have not entered a collective and those who have, only have a very limited understanding of how a collective operates. They receive wrong information from the city attorneys as to what is legal, in which they completely ignore the Attorney General guidelines. We find that our only recourse is to continue to challenge them in court and to turn to the voters of the City of Los Angeles and to create our own referendum.