Last pot shop in Valley

While the city mulls an outright ban on all medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, police in the north San Fernando Valley have already essentially enacted a ban of their own, shutting down all pot shops in Northridge, Granada Hills and Chatsworth. CJ. LKin in the Daily News.

As part of a three-year crackdown, narcotics officers with LAPD Devonshire Division on Monday shuttered the last of the dispensaries in the area, arresting three owners of a Chatsworth operation on suspicion of felony possession of marijuana for sale.

Herbal Medicine Care facility in the 10100 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard made more than $600,000 in profit last year, according to LAPD Detective Robert Holcomb. The dispensaries are required by state law to be