LA Judge Stubs Out Marijuana App
Correction appended Dec. 24, 2014. A Los Angeles-based smartphone application aimed at becoming the city's first mobile medical marijuana logistics service was ordered to stop business by a judge on Tuesday. Judge Robert O'Brien, of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, said Nestdrop, a mobile app hoping to connect the city's medical marijuana patients with dispensaries, was in violation of a voter-approved law called Proposition D that explicitly bans medical marijuana delivery, according to the Associated Press. Nestdrop claimed that they were not in violation of the law because they only connect distributors with patients and do not handle the marijuana themselves, according to the Los Angeles Times. On Dec. 2, L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer filed an official complaint about the company's supposed violation of Proposition D. "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," Nestdrop co-founder Michael Pycher told the Los Angeles Times earlier this month. Launched earlier this year, the company said that it will maintain its alcohol logistics service within Los Angeles while evaluating future options to operate there in the medical marijuana industry as well. Correction The original version of this story misstated the timing of Feuer's lawsuit. It was filed on Dec. 2, 2014. The original version of this story also incorrectly described when Nestdrop first launched. The app first became available in the summer of 2014.