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More than 100 pot shops have shut down since Los Angeles started enforcing new rules restricting <"http:www.drwelchlaw">medical marijuana dispensaries Cyrus Jones Patriots Jersey , City Atty. Mike Feuer announced Monday.

In addition to the rules prompting scores of closures, Feuer said city lawyers had successfully fended off a host of legal challenges. In one closely watched case, they prevented a dispensary from opening in Mar Vista, securing a permanent injunction before it could set up shop.

“We have a long way to go, but we have a great start Geneo Grissom Jersey ,” said Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, who joined Feuer at a press conference.

The new law, passed by voters last year, taxes such businesses and gives limited immunity to pot shops registered under a string of city ordinances that began in 2007.

Feuer said he recently hired two more prosecutors to exclusively handle Proposition D cases. It is also focusing added attention on landlords and real estate professionals, releasing a new brochure to explain the rules to those renting space to pot shops.

“We don’t want our Realtor members to get in trouble with the law Jordan Richards Jersey ,” said Mel Wilson of the Southland Regional Assn. of Realtors, which supports the new push. “Nor do we want our clients to be in trouble with the law.”

Beck also said that 165 LAPD senior lead officers in charge of neighborhood policing, newly trained on the rules, would help identify new and existing shops that were illegal in their areas.

The city attorney said he couldn’t say how many marijuana dispensaries are now open in Los Angeles, since there is no permitting process for the shops. Before the measure passed last spring Malcom Brown Jersey , police estimated roughly 700 dispensaries were operating, though others pegged the number far higher.